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3 suivi
suivi, e [syivi]1. adjectivea. [travail] steady ; [correspondance] regular ; ( = constant) [qualité, effort, politique] consistent ; [conversation, histoire, raisonnement] coherentb. ( = apprécié) très suivi [cours] well-attended ; [mode, recommandation] widely adopted ; [exemple] widely followed2. masculine noun* * *
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1) ( maintenu) [travail, demande] steady; [effort] sustained; [correspondance] regular; [habitudes] regular; [qualité] consistent; [relations] close2) Commerce [article] in general production (après n), that is always in stock (épith, après n)3) ( apprécié)quelle est l'émission la plus suivie? — which is the most popular programme [BrE]?
4) ( cohérent) [politique] consistent; [argumentation] coherent
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assurer le suivi d'un produit — Commerce to ensure the continued supply of a product
* * *sɥivi suivi, -e1. ppSee:2. adj1) (= régulier) regular3) (= cohérent) (politique) consistent, joined-up4)très suivi (cours) — well attended, (mode) widely adopted, (feuilleton) widely followed
peu suivi (cours) — poorly attended, (mode) not widely adopted, (feuilleton) not widely followed
3. nm* * *A pp ⇒ suivre.B pp adj1 ( maintenu) [travail, demande] steady; [effort] sustained; [correspondance] regular; [habitudes] regular; [qualité] consistent; [relations] close;3 (apprécié, adopté) la boxe est le sport le plus suivi boxing is the most popular sport; quelle est l'émission la plus/moins suivie? which is the most/least popular programmeGB?; très/peu suivi [feuilleton] with a (very) large/small audience ( épith, après n); [cours] well/poorly attended; [exemple, consigne] widely/not widely followed; c'est une mode très/peu suivie it's a fashion which has/hasn't really caught on; le match a été très/peu suivi TV the match drew a large/poor number of viewers; au cours d'un procès très/peu suivi during a trial that attracted considerable/very little public interest;C nm ( de procédure) monitoring; Comm ( de commande) follow-up; le suivi des malades/ex-prisonniers follow-up care for patients/ex-prisoners; le suivi budgétaire monitoring of the budget; travail de suivi follow-up work; assurer le suivi des jeunes délinquants to follow up (on) young delinquents; assurer le suivi d'un produit Comm to ensure the continued supply of a product.→ link=suivre suivre————————1. [ininterrompu - effort] sustained, consistent ; [ - correspondance] regular ; [ - qualité] consistent ; [ - activité] steadynous avons eu une correspondance très suivie pendant des années we wrote to each other very regularly for years2. [logique - propos, raisonnement] coherent ; [ - politique] consistent3. [qui a la faveur du public]conférence peu/très suivie poorly attended/well-attended conferencela grève a été peu/très suivie there was little/a lot of support for the strike————————nom masculin[d'un cas, d'un dossier] follow-upa. [cas, dossier] to follow through (separable)b. [commande] to deal with (inseparable)c. COMMERCE [article] to continue to stockle travail en petits groupes assure un meilleur suivi working in small groups means that individual participants can be monitored more successfully -
4 Dinamarca
f.Denmark.* * *1 Denmark* * *noun m.* * *SF Denmark* * *femenino Denmark* * *= Denmark.Ex. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *femenino Denmark* * *= Denmark.Ex: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
* * *Denmark* * *
Dinamarca sustantivo femenino
Denmark
Dinamarca sustantivo femenino Denmark
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costearse
English:
Denmark
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5 Holanda
f.Holland.* * *1 Holland* * *noun f.* * *SF Holland* * *femenino Holland* * *= Holland.Ex. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *femenino Holland* * *= Holland.Ex: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
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Holanda sustantivo femenino
Holland
Holanda sustantivo femenino Holland
' Holanda' also found in these entries:
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floricultura
English:
Holland
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6 Hungría
f.Hungary.* * *1 Hungary* * *noun f.* * *SF Hungary* * *femenino Hungary* * *= Hungary.Ex. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *femenino Hungary* * *= Hungary.Ex: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
* * *Hungary* * *
Hungría sustantivo femenino
Hungary
Hungría sustantivo femenino Hungary
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Hungary
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7 Noruega
f.Norway.* * *1 Norway* * *noun f.* * *SF Norway* * *femenino Norway* * *= Norway.Ex. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *femenino Norway* * *= Norway.Ex: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
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Multiple Entries:
Noruega
noruega
Noruega sustantivo femenino
Norway
noruego,-a
I adjetivo Norwegian
II sustantivo masculino y femenino Norwegian
III m (idioma) Norwegian
' noruega' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
corona
- Noruega
English:
Norway
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8 Suecia
f.Sweden.* * *1 Sweden* * *noun f.* * *SF Sweden* * *femenino Sweden* * *= Sweden.Ex. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *femenino Sweden* * *= Sweden.Ex: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
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Suecia sustantivo femenino
Sweden
Suecia sustantivo femenino Sweden
' Suecia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
conocida
- conocido
- actualmente
- rey
English:
Sweden
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9 en menor grado
= to a lesser extent, to a lesser degreeEx. The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.Ex. Xworld is a good communications package that is most suitable for users interested in sending and receiving binary files, and to a lesser degree text files.* * *= to a lesser extent, to a lesser degreeEx: The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
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10 por esta razón
Ex. Nevertheless, it is important to envisage the appearance of a catalogue and for this reason we shall refer, almost exclusively, to the widely adopted card catalogue.* * *Ex: Nevertheless, it is important to envisage the appearance of a catalogue and for this reason we shall refer, almost exclusively, to the widely adopted card catalogue.
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11 por este motivo
Ex. Nevertheless, it is important to envisage the appearance of a catalogue and for this reason we shall refer, almost exclusively, to the widely adopted card catalogue.* * *Ex: Nevertheless, it is important to envisage the appearance of a catalogue and for this reason we shall refer, almost exclusively, to the widely adopted card catalogue.
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12 reglas prusianas
Ex. The Prussian instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.* * *Ex: The Prussian instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
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13 Hyatt, John Wesley
[br]b. 28 November 1837 Starkey, New York, USAd. 10 May 1920 Short Hills, New Jersey, USA[br]American inventor and the first successful manufacturer of celluloid.[br]Leaving school at the age of 16, Hyatt spent ten years in the printing trade, demonstrating meanwhile a talent for invention. The offer of a prize of $10,000 for finding a substitute for ivory billiard balls stimulated Hyatt to experiment with various materials. After many failures, he arrived at a composition of paper flock, shellac and collodion, which was widely adopted. Noting the "skin" left after evaporating collodion, he continued his experiments, using nitrocellulose as a base for plastic materials, yet he remained largely ignorant of both chemistry and the dangers of this explosive substance. Independently of Parkes in England, he found that a mixture of nitrocellulose, camphor and a little alcohol could, by heating, be made soft enough to mould but became hard at room temperature. Hyatt's first patent for the material, celluloid, was dated 12 July 1870 (US pat. 105338) and was followed by many others for making domestic and decorative articles of celluloid, replacing more expensive natural materials. Manufacture began at Albany in the winter of 1872–3. In 1881 Hyatt and his brother Isiah Smith floated the Hyatt Pure Water Company. By introducing purifying coagulants into flowing water, they avoided the expense and delay of allowing the water to settle in large tanks before filtration. Many towns and paper and woollen mills adopted the new process, and in 1891 it was introduced into Europe. During 1891–2, Hyatt devised a widely used type of roller bearing. Later inventions included a sugar-cane mill, a multistitch sewing machine and a mill for the cold rolling and straightening of steel shafts. It was characteristic of Hyatt's varied inventions that they achieved improved results at less expense.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsSociety of Chemical Industry Perkin Medal 1914.Bibliography12 July 1870, US patent no. 105,338 (celluloid).Further ReadingObituary, 1920, Chem. Metal. Eng. (19 May).J. Soc. Chem. Ind. for 16 March 1914 and J. Ind. Eng. Chem. for March 1914 carried accounts of Hyatt's achievements, on the occasion of his award of the Perkin Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry in that year.LRD -
14 Herschel, John Frederick William
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 7 March 1792 Slough, Englandd. 11 May 1871 Collingwood, England[br]English scientist who introduced "hypo" (thiosulphate) as a photographic fixative and discovered the blueprint process.[br]The only son of Sir William Herschel, the famous astronomer, John graduated from Cambridge in 1813 and went on to become a distinguished astronomer, mathematician and chemist. He left England in November 1833 to set up an observatory near Cape Town, South Africa, where he embarked on a study of the heavens in the southern hemisphere. He returned to England in the spring of 1838, and between 1850 and 1855 Herschel served as Master of the Royal Mint. He made several notable contributions to photography, perhaps the most important being his discovery in 1819 that hyposulphites (thiosulphates) would dissolve silver salts. He brought this property to the attention of W.H.F. Talbot, who in 1839 was using a common salt solution as a fixing agent for his early photographs. After trials, Talbot adopted "hypo", which was a far more effective fixative. It was soon adopted by other photographers and eventually became the standard photographic fixative, as it still is in the 1990s. After hearing of the first photographic process in January 1839, Herschel devised his own process within a week. In September 1839 he made the first photograph on glass. He is credited with introducing the words "positive", "negative" and "snapshot" to photography, and in 1842 he invented the cyanotype or "blueprint" process. This process was later to be widely adopted by engineers and architects for the reproduction of plans and technical drawings, a practice abandoned only in the late twentieth century.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order 1831. Baronet 1838. FRS 1813. Copley Medal 1821.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, 1968, Vol. IX, pp. 714–19.H.J.P.Arnold, 1977, William Henry Fox Talbot, London; Larry J.Schaaf, 1992, Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography, Newhaven and London (for details of his contributions to photography and his relationship with Talbot).JWBiographical history of technology > Herschel, John Frederick William
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15 Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Emile
[br]b. 11 September 1845 Magneux, Franced. 28 March 1903 Sceaux, France[br]French engineer who developed the multiplexed telegraph and devised a 5-bit code for data communication and control.[br]Baudot had no formal education beyond his local primary school and began his working life as a farmer, as was his father. However, in September 1869 he joined the French telegraph service and was soon sent on a course on the recently developed Hughes printing telegraph. After service in the Franco-Prussian war as a lieutenant with the military telegraph, he returned to his civilian duties in Paris in 1872. He was there encouraged to develop (in his own time!) a multiple Hughes system for time-multiplexing of several telegraph messages. By using synchronized clockwork-driven rotating switches at the transmitter and receiver he was able to transmit five messages simultaneously; the system was officially adopted by the French Post \& Telegraph Administration five years later. In 1874 he patented the idea of a 5-bit (i.e. 32-permutation) code, with equal on and off intervals, for telegraph transmission of the Roman alphabet and punctuation signs and for control of the typewriter-like teleprinter used to display the message. This code, known as the Baudot code, was found to be more economical than the existing Morse code and was widely adopted for national and international telegraphy in the twentieth century. In the 1970s it was superseded by 7—and 8-bit codes.Further development of his ideas on multiplexing led in 1894 to methods suitable for high-speed telegraphy. To commemorate his contribution to efficient telegraphy, the unit of signalling speed (i.e. the number of elements transmitted per second) is known as the baud.[br]Bibliography17 June 1874, "Système de télégraphie rapide" (Baudot's first patent).Further Reading1965, From Semaphore to Satellite, Geneva: International Telecommunications Union.P.Lajarrige, 1982, "Chroniques téléphoniques et télégraphiques", Collection historique des télécommunications.KFBiographical history of technology > Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Emile
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16 Hodgkinson, Eaton
[br]b. 26 February 1789 Anderton, Cheshire, Englandd. 18 June 1861 near Manchester, England[br]English engineer who devised d new form of cast-iron girder.[br]Eaton Hodgkinson's father, a farmer, died when he was 6 years old, but his mother was a resourceful woman who set up a business in Salford and ensured that her son received a sound schooling. Most important for his education, however, was his friendship with the Manchester scientific luminary Dr. Dalton, who instructed him in practical mathematics. These studies led Hodgkinson to devise a new form of cast-iron girder, carefully tested by experiments and which was widely adopted for fire-proof structures in the nineteenth century. Following Dalton, Hodgkinson became an active member of the Manchester Philosophical Society, of which he was elected President in 1848. He also became an active member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Hodgkinson's work on cast-iron girders secured him a Fellowship of the Royal Society, and the Royal Medal of the Society, in 1841. It was Hodgkinson also who verified the mathematical value of the pioneering experiments carried out by William Fairbairn for Robert Stephenson's proposed wrought-iron tube structure which, in 1849, became the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits. He received a Silver Medal for this work at the Paris Exhibition of 1858. Hodgkinson served as a member of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the application of iron to railway structures. In 1847 he was appointed Professor of the Mechanical Principles of Engineering at University College, London, but his health began to fail shortly after. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1851. Described as "singularly simple and guileless", he was widely admired and respected.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Manchester Philosophical Society 1848. FRS 1841. Royal Society Medal 1841.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, London.Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 21:542–5.AB -
17 Sprague, Frank Julian
[br]b. 25 July 1857 Milford, Connecticut, USAd. 25 October 1934 New York, USA[br]American electrical engineer and inventor, a leading innovator in electric propulsion systems for urban transport.[br]Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1878, Sprague served at sea and with various shore establishments. In 1883 he resigned from the Navy and obtained employment with the Edison Company; but being convinced that the use of electricity for motive power was as important as that for illumination, in 1884 he founded the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company. Sprague began to develop reliable and efficient motors in large sizes, marketing 15 hp (11 kW) examples by 1885. He devised the method of collecting current by using a wooden, spring-loaded rod to press a roller against the underside of an overhead wire. The installation by Sprague in 1888 of a street tramway on a large scale in Richmond, Virginia, was to become the prototype of the universally adopted trolley system with overhead conductor and the beginning of commercial electric traction. Following the success of the Richmond tramway the company equipped sixty-seven other railways before its merger with Edison General Electric in 1890. The Sprague traction motor supported on the axle of electric streetcars and flexibly mounted to the bogie set a pattern that was widely adopted for many years.Encouraged by successful experiments with multiple-sheave electric elevators, the Sprague Elevator Company was formed and installed the first set of high-speed passenger cars in 1893–4. These effectively displaced hydraulic elevators in larger buildings. From experience with control systems for these, he developed his system of multiple-unit control for electric trains, which other engineers had considered impracticable. In Sprague's system, a master controller situated in the driver's cab operated electrically at a distance the contactors and reversers which controlled the motors distributed down the train. After years of experiment, Sprague's multiple-unit control was put into use for the first time in 1898 by the Chicago South Side Elevated Railway: within fifteen years multiple-unit operation was used worldwide.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, American Institute of Electrical Engineers 1892–3. Franklin Institute Elliot Cresson Medal 1904, Franklin Medal 1921. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison Medal 1910.Bibliography1888, "The solution of municipal rapid transit", Trans. AIEE 5:352–98. See "The multiple unit system for electric railways", Cassiers Magazine, (1899) London, repub. 1960, 439–460.1934, "Digging in “The Mines of the Motor”", Electrical Engineering 53, New York: 695–706 (a short autobiography).Further ReadingLionel Calisch, 1913, Electric Traction, London: The Locomotive Publishing Co., Ch. 6 (for a near-contemporary view of Sprague's multiple-unit control).D.C.Jackson, 1934, "Frank Julian Sprague", Scientific Monthly 57:431–41.H.C.Passer, 1952, "Frank Julian Sprague: father of electric traction", in Men of Business, ed. W. Miller, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 212–37 (a reliable account).——1953, The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875–1900, Cambridge, Mass. P.Ransome-Wallis (ed.), 1959, The Concise Encyclopaedia of World RailwayLocomotives, London: Hutchinson, p. 143..John Marshall, 1978, A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.GW / PJGR -
18 получать
несовер. - получать;
совер. - получить( кого-л./что-л.) receive, get;
obtain (доставать) ;
catch, get, contract (болезнь) получать пальму первенства ≈ to bear the palm получать широкое применение ≈ to be widely adopted получать/сдавать зачет( по чему-л.) ≈ to pass a test (in) получить всеобщее признание ≈ to be generally recognized получать признание ≈ to be accorded recognition, to obtain recognition получать огласку ≈ to become known;
to receive publicity;
to be made known;
to take air получать одобрение ≈ to meet with approval получать преимущество ≈ to get the better (of) ;
to get the start (of) ;
to come( over) получать повышение ≈ (по службе) to better oneself получать по заслугам ≈ to meet one's deserts, to meet with one's deserts, to get one's fairing, to get one's bitters амер. получать наследство ≈ to come into a fortune получать взбучку ≈ to have one's gruel;
to get it on the nose получать расчет ≈ to get lay-off pay, to receive lay-off pay получать нагоняй ≈ to get one's pennyworth;
to catch it, to get it, to get it hot разг. получать в подарок ≈ to receive as a present/gift получать патент ≈ to take out a patent получать поддержку ≈ to get/derive encouragement( from), to receive powerful backing( from) получать прибавку ≈ to get a rise получать прибыль ≈ to get a profit (out of), to receive a profit (from) ;
to profit (by/from) получать приз ≈ to win a prize получить по шее ≈ to get it in the neckполуч|ать -, получить (вн.) receive (smth.), get* (smth.) ;
(добиваться тж.) obtain (smth.) ;
получить письмо receive а letter;
~ газету take* а paper;
~ зарплату receive one`s wages;
~ доступ к чему-л. get* admission to smth. ;
получить среднее, высшее образование receive/have* а secondary, higher education;
получить профессуру be* appointed to а professorship;
~ огласку receive publicity;
~ повышение get* promotion;
получить насморк catch*/get* а cold;
получить выговор be* reprimanded;
~ лицензию obtain a license;
получить чьё-л. согласие obtain/get* smb.`s consent;
получить признание receive recognition;
~аться, получиться come* out;
что получилось? what was the result of it?, what came of it?;
результаты получились совершенно неожиданные the results were quite unexpected;
может быть, из него получится хороший музыкант he may make a fine musician, he may turn out a fine musician;
~ение с. receipt;
для ~ения in order to receive;
подтвердить ~ение (рд.) acknowlege the receipt (of) ;
расписка в ~ении receipt;
по ~ении on receiving.Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > получать
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19 применение
ср. application;
use;
adaptation получать широкое применение ≈ to be widely adopted в применении ≈ as applied (to) находить применение ≈ to find a use (for), to find an application (for)примен|ение - с.
1. application;
(употребление) use, employment;
~ новых методов производства employment of new methods of production;
~ маркетинга marketing realization;
достойный лучшего ~ения worthy of better application;
2. (к условиям, местности) adaptation;
~имость ж. applicability;
~имость техники usefulness of the machinery;
~имый applicable;
вполне ~имый способ quite feasible method;
~ительно with/in reference to;
~ить(ся) сов. см. применять(ся).Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > применение
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20 применение
с.application; ( употребление) useнаходить применение (дт.) — find* a use, или an application (for)
получить широкое применение (о методах и т. п.) — be widely adopted
в применении (к) — in application (to), as applied (to)
применение к местности воен. — use of terrain, adaptation to the terrain
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