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101 словно в воду глядел
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> В ВОДУ ГЛЯДЕЛ < СМОТРЕЛ> coll[VP; subj: human; past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (as if) one knew beforehand that sth. was going to happen, foresaw sth., had a presentiment about sth.:- it's as if X knew it all beforehand < in advance>;- [in limited contexts] X's words turned out to be all too true;- X's words <remarks etc> were prophetic.♦ Нуца знала, что муж её уже завёлся и теперь ещё долго будет пить, скорее всего всю ночь... Она как в воду смотрела (Искандер 5). Noutsa knew that her husband was off; he'd drink a long time now, most likely all the night....She must have been looking in a crystal ball (5a).♦ "Ну что ж, - сказал парторг, - я вижу, мы не договорились... С такими взглядами можно далеко докатиться". И действительно, парторг как в воду глядел. Наш учёный вскоре докатился в столыпинском вагоне до Колымы (Войнович 4). "All right, then," said the Party organizer. "Clearly we don't see eye to eye....With views like those you'll go far." The Party organizer must have had a crystal ball. Our scientist in no time had gone as far as Kolyma, in a prison train (4a).♦ "...Пока я член Политбюро, у меня есть всё. А вот когда меня выгонят, тогда неизвестно, что будет..." И как в воду глядел, выгнали-таки его (Войнович 1). "... As long as I'm a member of the Politburo, I have everything I want. But nobody knows what'll happen when they kick me out..." A prophetic remark, because later on he was kicked out of the Politburo (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > словно в воду глядел
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102 словно в воду смотрел
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> В ВОДУ ГЛЯДЕЛ < СМОТРЕЛ> coll[VP; subj: human; past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (as if) one knew beforehand that sth. was going to happen, foresaw sth., had a presentiment about sth.:- it's as if X knew it all beforehand < in advance>;- [in limited contexts] X's words turned out to be all too true;- X's words <remarks etc> were prophetic.♦ Нуца знала, что муж её уже завёлся и теперь ещё долго будет пить, скорее всего всю ночь... Она как в воду смотрела (Искандер 5). Noutsa knew that her husband was off; he'd drink a long time now, most likely all the night....She must have been looking in a crystal ball (5a).♦ "Ну что ж, - сказал парторг, - я вижу, мы не договорились... С такими взглядами можно далеко докатиться". И действительно, парторг как в воду глядел. Наш учёный вскоре докатился в столыпинском вагоне до Колымы (Войнович 4). "All right, then," said the Party organizer. "Clearly we don't see eye to eye....With views like those you'll go far." The Party organizer must have had a crystal ball. Our scientist in no time had gone as far as Kolyma, in a prison train (4a).♦ "...Пока я член Политбюро, у меня есть всё. А вот когда меня выгонят, тогда неизвестно, что будет..." И как в воду глядел, выгнали-таки его (Войнович 1). "... As long as I'm a member of the Politburo, I have everything I want. But nobody knows what'll happen when they kick me out..." A prophetic remark, because later on he was kicked out of the Politburo (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > словно в воду смотрел
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103 точно в воду глядел
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> В ВОДУ ГЛЯДЕЛ < СМОТРЕЛ> coll[VP; subj: human; past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (as if) one knew beforehand that sth. was going to happen, foresaw sth., had a presentiment about sth.:- it's as if X knew it all beforehand < in advance>;- [in limited contexts] X's words turned out to be all too true;- X's words <remarks etc> were prophetic.♦ Нуца знала, что муж её уже завёлся и теперь ещё долго будет пить, скорее всего всю ночь... Она как в воду смотрела (Искандер 5). Noutsa knew that her husband was off; he'd drink a long time now, most likely all the night....She must have been looking in a crystal ball (5a).♦ "Ну что ж, - сказал парторг, - я вижу, мы не договорились... С такими взглядами можно далеко докатиться". И действительно, парторг как в воду глядел. Наш учёный вскоре докатился в столыпинском вагоне до Колымы (Войнович 4). "All right, then," said the Party organizer. "Clearly we don't see eye to eye....With views like those you'll go far." The Party organizer must have had a crystal ball. Our scientist in no time had gone as far as Kolyma, in a prison train (4a).♦ "...Пока я член Политбюро, у меня есть всё. А вот когда меня выгонят, тогда неизвестно, что будет..." И как в воду глядел, выгнали-таки его (Войнович 1). "... As long as I'm a member of the Politburo, I have everything I want. But nobody knows what'll happen when they kick me out..." A prophetic remark, because later on he was kicked out of the Politburo (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > точно в воду глядел
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104 точно в воду смотрел
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> В ВОДУ ГЛЯДЕЛ < СМОТРЕЛ> coll[VP; subj: human; past only; fixed WO]=====⇒ (as if) one knew beforehand that sth. was going to happen, foresaw sth., had a presentiment about sth.:- it's as if X knew it all beforehand < in advance>;- [in limited contexts] X's words turned out to be all too true;- X's words <remarks etc> were prophetic.♦ Нуца знала, что муж её уже завёлся и теперь ещё долго будет пить, скорее всего всю ночь... Она как в воду смотрела (Искандер 5). Noutsa knew that her husband was off; he'd drink a long time now, most likely all the night....She must have been looking in a crystal ball (5a).♦ "Ну что ж, - сказал парторг, - я вижу, мы не договорились... С такими взглядами можно далеко докатиться". И действительно, парторг как в воду глядел. Наш учёный вскоре докатился в столыпинском вагоне до Колымы (Войнович 4). "All right, then," said the Party organizer. "Clearly we don't see eye to eye....With views like those you'll go far." The Party organizer must have had a crystal ball. Our scientist in no time had gone as far as Kolyma, in a prison train (4a).♦ "...Пока я член Политбюро, у меня есть всё. А вот когда меня выгонят, тогда неизвестно, что будет..." И как в воду глядел, выгнали-таки его (Войнович 1). "... As long as I'm a member of the Politburo, I have everything I want. But nobody knows what'll happen when they kick me out..." A prophetic remark, because later on he was kicked out of the Politburo (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > точно в воду смотрел
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105 avance
avance [avɑ̃s]1. feminine nouna. ( = marche, progression) advancec. (sur un horaire) avoir de l'avance to be ahead of schedule ; (dans son travail) to be ahead with one's workd. ( = acompte) advance• faire une avance de 800 € à qn to advance sb 800 eurose. (locutions)• être en avance d'une heure (sur l'heure fixée) to be an hour early ; (sur l'horaire) to be an hour ahead of schedule• dépêche-toi, tu n'es pas en avance ! hurry up, you haven't got much time!• payable à l'avance or d'avance payable in advance2. plural feminine noun* * *avɑ̃s
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1) ( progression) advance2) ( avantage) leadavoir/prendre de l'avance sur — to be/to pull ahead of
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à l'avance locution adverbiale in advance
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d'avance locution adverbiale
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en avance locution adverbiale1) ( sur l'heure) early2) ( sur les autres)
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avances nom féminin pluriel advancesfaire des avances à quelqu'un — to make advances to somebody, to come on to somebody (colloq) US
* * *avɑ̃s1. nf1) [troupes, expédition] advance2) [argent] advanceOn a une avance de 3h sur eux. — We've got a 3-hour lead on them.
Pour une fois, on a de l'avance. — For once we're ahead of schedule.
avoir de l'avance (pour un rendez-vous) — to be early, (dans un projet) to be ahead of schedule
être en avance (à un rendez-vous) — to be early, (sur un programme) to be ahead of schedule
4) (= progrès) progress5) TECHNIQUE, [élément mobile] forward movementavance papier INFORMATIQUE — paper advance
Nous vous remercions par avance. — Thank you in advance.
2. avances nfpl(en vue d'une négociation) overtures, (amoureuses) advances* * *A nf1 ( progression) advance; fuir devant l'avance des rebelles to flee before the advance of the rebels; ralentir/contenir l'avance de l'ennemi to slow/to contain the enemy's advance;2 ( avantage) lead; conserver son avance to keep one's lead; avance technologique technological advance; avoir une avance de 3% dans les sondages [parti, candidat] to have a 3% lead in the opinion polls; prendre de l'avance sur [personne, pays, entreprise] to pull ahead of; avoir de l'avance sur [personne, pays, entreprise] to be ahead of;B à l'avance loc adv in advance; faire qch à l'avance to do sth in advance; ils ont eu connaissance des sujets à l'avance they knew the subjects in advance.C d'avance loc adv already; il a perdu d'avance he has already lost; ça me déprime d'avance I'm already depressed about it; c'est acquis d'avance, elle sera augmentée it's already been agreed, she will get a rise GB ou raise US; il faut payer d'avance you have to pay in advance; d'avance je vous remercie I thank you in advance; avoir cinq minutes d'avance to be five minutes early.D en avance loc adv1 ( sur l'heure) early; être en avance to be early; arriver/partir en avance to arrive/to leave early;2 ( sur les autres) le Japon est en avance sur l'Europe Japan is ahead of Europe; il est en avance pour son âge he's advanced for his age; leur fille est très en avance dans ses études their daughter is very advanced in her studies.E par avance loc adv already; l'opposition dénonce par avance les résultats de l'élection the opposition is denouncing the election results before they're even out.F avances nfpl advances; faire des avances à qn to make advances to sb, to come on to sb○ US; répondre aux avances de qn to respond to sb's advances.avance rapide fast-forward.[avɑ̃s] nom féminin1. [par rapport au temps prévu]j'ai pris de l'avance sur le ou par rapport au planning I'm ahead of scheduleavoir de l'avance sur ou par rapport à ses concurrents to be ahead of the competition ou of one's competitorsarriver avec 10 minutes/jours d'avance to arrive 10 minutes/days early2. [d'une montre, d'un réveil]ma montre a une minute d'avance/prend une seconde d'avance toutes les heures my watch is one minute fast/gains a second every hour4. [dans un approvisionnement]en avoir d'avance, en faire d'avance: prends ce beurre, j'en ai plusieurs paquets d'avance have this butter, I keep several packs in reserve5. [acompte] advancedonner à quelqu'un une avance sur son salaire to give somebody an advance on his/her salary6. TECHNOLOGIE————————avances nom féminin pluriela. [suj: séducteur] to make advances to somebodyb. [suj: entreprise] to make overtures to somebody————————à l'avance locution adverbialeje n'ai été averti que deux minutes à l'avance I was only warned two minutes beforehand, I only got two minutes' notice————————d'avance locution adverbiale,par avance locution adverbiale[payer, remercier] in advanced'avance je peux te dire qu'il n'est pas fiable I can tell you right away ou now that he's not reliableen avance locution adjectivaleen avance locution adverbiale[avant l'heure prévue] earlyêtre en avance de 10 minutes/jours to be 10 minutes/days earlyje me dépêche, je ne suis pas en avance! I must rush, I'm (rather) late! -
106 gó|ra
Ⅰ f 1. (wzniesienie) (wysokie) mountain; (niskie) hill- stroma/wysoka/lesista góra a steep/high/wooded mountain- szczyt góry the top a. summit of a mountain- zbocze góry the side of a mountain, a mountain slope- chodzić po górach to walk in the mountains- wciąż schodzili z góry they were going downhill all the time- dźwigali bagaże pod górę they carried their luggage uphill- wejść/wspiąć się na górę to climb a mountain- zejść z góry to come down a. descend książk. a mountain- góry i doły (na drodze) potholes- góry i doliny hills and dales- góry Szkocji the (Scottish) Highlands2. (sterta) pile, mountain- góra śmieci a pile a. heap of rubbish- mieć górę naczyń do zmywania to have loads a. mountains of washing-up to do pot.- pod choinką leżała góra prezentów there was a pile of presents under the Christmas tree3. (górna część) top- przeszukać coś od góry do dołu to search sth from top to bottom- zmierzyć kogoś wzrokiem od góry do dołu to look sb up and down- od góry do dołu w bloku zapaliły się światła lights came on all over the block- siedział u góry stołu he sat at the head of the table- na górze at the top- każda strona ma numer na górze each page is numbered at the top- list leżał na górze komody the letter was lying on top of the chest (of drawers)4. sgt (w budynku) upstairs- zawsze urządzają przyjęcia na górze they always hold their parties upstairs- na górę upstairs- iść/przyjść z góry to go/come downstairs- z góry dobiegł go głos a voice could be heard from upstairs- poszli na górę już dawno temu they went upstairs a long time ago5. (miejsce, położenie) powietrze na górze jest bardzo zimne the upper air is very cold- tam, na górze up there- w górę up, upwards- balon płynął w górę the balloon floated upwards- w górze rzeki upriver- w górę rzeki upstream- do góry up- w ładną pogodę dym idzie prosto do góry in fine weather the smoke rises straight up- iść do góry po schodach/drabinie to go up a. climb the stairs/a ladder- do samej góry to the very top- tą stroną do góry! (oznaczenie przesyłki) this side up!- twarzą do góry face up a. uppermost- ku górze upwards- w górze (w powietrzu) up in the air, in the sky- w górze powoli płynęły obłoki clouds were floating (by) slowly in the sky- trzymaj ręce w górze! keep your hands up!- od góry from above- trzeba do wieży wejść od góry you have to enter the tower from above- z góry from above; from on high książk.- ceny idą w górę przen. prices are going up- pnie się w górę do władzy przen. he’s climbing (up) the power ladder- idzie w górę w swojej firmie przen. he’s rising in his company- barometr/licznik idzie w górę przen. the barometric pressure/meter reading is rising6. sgt (strych) przest. attic, loft- zawsze rozwieszała pranie na górze she always hung her washing out to dry in the attic- ten stary fotel trzeba już wynieść na górę you should put that old armchair (up) in the loft7. sgt pot. (zwierzchnicy) the authorities- rozkaz przyszedł z góry the order came from above a. from upstairs iron. a. (down) from on high żart.- góra szukała porozumienia ze strajkującymi górnikami the authorities were seeking a compromise with the striking miners8. środ., Muz. (wysokie tony) high notes pl, high register Ⅱ adv. pot. (co najwyżej) at (the) most; max pot.- miała góra pięćdziesiąt lat she was fifty (years old) at the mostⅢ górą adv. (powyżej) overhead, up above- górą leciał samolot an airplane flew overhead- kula przeszła górą the bullet flew over his head/their heads a. passed overheadⅣ z górą adv. (ponad, przeszło) over, upwards of- było tam z górą dwadzieścia osób there were over twenty people thereⅤ z góry adv. (zawczasu) in advance, beforehand- wiedzieć coś z góry to know sth in advance- z góry wiedziałem, że tak się stanie I knew beforehand that would happen- dziękować komuś z góry to thank sb in advance- osądzić kogoś/coś z góry to prejudge sb/sth- cieszyć się na coś z góry to look forward to sth- to było z góry postanowione it was foreordained- to było z góry ukartowane it was a put-up job GB pot.- to było z góry wiadomo it was to be expected; we knew that from the start a. the word go pot.- □ góra lodowa iceberg- góra świadek Geol. inselberg, island mountain- góry fałdowe Geol. fold a. folded mountains- góry kadłubowe Geol. residual hills- góry młode Geol. young mountains- góry stare Geol. old mountains- góry stołowe Geol. tableland, table mountains■ do góry dnem bottom up- do góry nogami upside down, wrong side up- przewrócili dom do góry nogami they turned the house upside down- powiesił obraz do góry nogami he hung the picture upside down- głowa a. uszy do góry! cheer up!; chin up! pot.- ręce do góry! hands up!- brać górę (nad kimś/czymś) to get the upper hand over sb/sth, to get the better of sb/sth- być górą to have the upper hand a. advantage- nasi górą! our team is in the lead!- mieć pod górę pot. to have a hard time (of it)- teraz mamy pod górę, ale później będzie lepiej it’s an uphill struggle a. a battle at the moment, but things will get better later- obiecywać komuś złote góry to promise sb the earth- wiara góry przenosi faith moves mountains- patrzeć na kogoś z góry to look down on sb- wsiąść na kogoś z góry to come down hard on sb a. down on sb like a ton of bricks- za górami, za lasami over hill, over dale- za siódmą górą over the hill and far away- jeżeli góra nie chce przyjść do Mahometa, to Mahomet musi iść do góry przysł. if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain przysł.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > gó|ra
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107 praedisco
prae-disco, ĕre, v. a., to learn beforehand, make one's self acquainted with beforehand (rare but class.):aliquid,
Cic. de Or. 1, 32, 147:ventos et varium caeli praediscere morem,
Verg. G. 1, 51:sic ut praediscere possimus, utrum sit perseverans,
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108 praeludo
prae-lūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to play beforehand, by way of practice or trial; to prelude, rehearse (post - Aug.).I.Lit.:II.Nero Pompeiano praeludit,
sings beforehand, preludes, Plin. 37, 2, 7, § 19:tragoediis,
Gell. 19, 11, 2.—With acc.: pugnam praeludere, to prepare one's self for fighting, Rut. Itin. 1, 257.—Trop.:aliquid operibus suis praeludere,
to premise, preface, Stat. S. 1 praef.:ac Mariana quidem rabies intra Urbem praeluserat, quasi experiretur,
had only made a prelude, Flor. 4, 2, 2:sic maria bello quasi tempestate praeluserant,
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prae-occŭpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (class., but not in Cic., since praecepit is the true read., Cic. Phil. 10, 1, 2).I. A.Lit.:B. C.hic ne intrare posset saltum, Datames praeoccupare studuit,
Nep. Dat. 7, 2:Macedoniam,
id. Eum. 2, 4:loca opportuna,
Liv. 44, 3; 35, 28; 42, 47:iter,
Caes. B. C. 3, 13:Asiam,
Vell. 2, 69, 2; cf.:praeoccupatum sese legatione ab Cn. Pompeio,
Caes. B. C. 2, 17.—Trop.:II.animos timor praeoccupaverat,
Caes. B. G. 6, 41, 3:hilaritas praeoccupaverat mentes,
Petr. 113:praeoccupati beneficio animi,
i. e. won over beforehand, Liv. 6, 20, 10:aures,
id. 38, 10.—To anticipate, prevent:ne alter alterum praeoccuparet,
Nep. Dion, 4, 1.—With obj.clause (like the simpler occupare):legem de multarum aestimatione ipsi praeoccupaverunt ferre,
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A work beforehand,τῷ βαρβάρῳ Hdt.2.158
; work or till beforehand,τῷ σπόρῳ νεόν X.Oec.20.3
:—[tense] pf. also in pass. sense, to be done before,τὰ προειργασμένα Antipho 2.2.12
, Th.2.89, 8.65; ἡ προειργασμένη δόξα glory won before, X.An.6.1.21;τὸ ὀψώνιον.. τοῦ -ειργασμένου χρόνου OGI266.8
(Pergam., iii B.C.).Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > προεργάζομαι
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111 Artificial Intelligence
In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, EventuallyJust 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 ProgramMany problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)[AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract FormThe basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory FormationIt is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular ContextsEven if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)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 IntelligenceThe primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary PropositionsIn artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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112 verabreden
I v/t (etw.) agree on, arrange; (Zeit, Termin, Ort) auch fixII v/refl: sich mit jemandem verabreden privat: arrange to meet ( oder go out with) s.o.; geschäftlich: make an appointment with s.o.; für heute Abend hab ich mich schon verabredet privat: I’m already meeting someone this evening, I’ve already arranged to meet someone this evening* * *to appoint;sich verabredento arrange to meet; to make an appointment; to date; to make a date; to have a date* * *ver|ạb|re|den [fɛɐ'|apreːdn] ptp vera\#bredet1. vtto arrange; Termin auch to fix, to agree upon; Maßnahmen to agree; Straftat to collude in; Mord to conspire inwir haben verabredet, dass wir uns um 5 Uhr treffen — we have arranged to meet at 5 o'clock
schon verabredet sein — to have a previous or prior engagement (esp form), to have something else on (inf)
mit jdm verabredet sein — to have arranged to meet sb; (geschäftlich, formell) to have an appointment with sb; (esp mit Freund/Freundin) to have a date with sb
2. vrsich mit jdm verabreden — to arrange to meet sb; (geschäftlich, formell) to arrange an appointment with sb; (esp mit Freund/Freundin) to make a date with sb; (Jur) to collude with sb
sich miteinander verabreden — to arrange to meet; (geschäftlich, formell) to arrange an appointment; (esp mit Freund/Freundin) to make a date; (Jur) to collude
* * *(to fix or agree on (a time for something): to appoint a time for a meeting.) appoint* * *ver·ab·re·den *I. vr▪ sich akk [mit jdm] [irgendwo/für eine Zeit] \verabreden to arrange to meet [sb] [somewhere/for a certain time]▪ [mit jdm/irgendwo] verabredet sein to have arranged to meet [sb/somewhere]II. vt▪ etw [mit jdm] \verabreden to arrange sth [with sb]einen Ort/Termin/eine Uhrzeit \verabreden to arrange [or fix] [or agree upon] a place/date/time▪ verabredet agreedwie verabredet as agreed [or arrangedIII. vi▪ [mit jdm] \verabreden, dass/was... to agree [with sb] that/what...* * *1.transitives Verb arrange2.reflexives Verbsich im Park/zum Tennis verabreden — arrange to meet in the park/for tennis
* * *A. v/t (etwas) agree on, arrange; (Zeit, Termin, Ort) auch fixB. v/r:sich mit jemandem verabreden privat: arrange to meet ( oder go out with) sb; geschäftlich: make an appointment with sb;für heute Abend hab ich mich schon verabredet privat: I’m already meeting someone this evening, I’ve already arranged to meet someone this evening* * *1.transitives Verb arrange2.reflexives Verbsich im Park/zum Tennis verabreden — arrange to meet in the park/for tennis
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113 VITA
* * *(veit, vissa, vitaðr), v.1) to have sense, be conscious (hann var enn eigi ørendr, en vissi þó ekki);with gen., gráðugr halr, nema geðs viti, unless he has his senses about him;2) to know;engi vissi skapara sinn, no one knew his maker;þeir er vel mart vitu, those who know many things;vita sik saklausan, to know oneself to be innocent;veizt þú, hvat þér man verða at bana, dost thou know what will be the cause of thy death?;vita skyn á e-m, to know one;Flosi kvaðst eigi vita skyn á, hverir lögmenn væri beztir, F. said that he knew nothing about who were the best lawyers;vita ván or vánir e-s, to expect, look for (G. vissi slíks matar þar ekki ván);vita fram, to be prescient, know the future;veit þat trúa min, upon my faith!;3) to see, try to find out (bað þá vita, hvat af Gretti yrði);vittu, ef þú hjálpir, see if thou canst help;vit, at þá náir sverði því, try to get that sword;4) to look, be turned towards;vita upp, fram, aptr, to look (be turned) upwards, forwards, backwards;vita móti sólu, at sjánum, to face the sun, the sea;vita til norðrættar, to look north;ormahöfuð öll vitu inn í húsit, all the heads of the serpents look into the hall;with gen., þeir fundu vínvið allt þar sem holta vissi, they found the vine wherever there was woodland;sökin veit til lands-laga, en ekki til Bjarkeyjar-réttar, the case comes under the country-law, and not under the town-law;6) to bode, betoken, with gen. (ekki vita slík orð lítils);þat mun eigi øngra tíðinda vita, this betokens no small tidings;7) to mean, have such and such bearing;hvat veit óp þetta, what means this shouting?;eigi veit þannig við, that is not the case;seg mér hit sanna, hversu við veit, how things stand;ok rœddu um þat, at nú mundi vel vita, that things were likely to take a good turn;8) with preps.:vita af e-u, to know of (ekki vissi á. af kaupi þeira);vita e-t at sér, to know oneself to be guilty of;vita e-t eptir sér = vita e-t at sér (vita eptir sér slíkan glœp);vita e-t frá sér, to be conscious (sensible) of (ek var svá syfjaðr, at ek vissa fátt frá mér);vita e-t fyrir, to know beforehand (ørlög sín viti engi maðr fyrir);vita til e-s, vita til um e-t, to know of (ekki vissu landsmenn til um ferð Þórólfs);vita ekki til sín, vita ekki til manna, to have lost consciousness, one’s senses;recipr. to know of an another (þeir vissust jafnan til í hafinu);vita um e-t, to make inquiries about (fara at vita um e-t);to know about (eigi veit ek um gaman þetta);vita e-t við e-n, to get to know a thing, from one (mun ek vita við skipverja mina, hvat þeim sýnist ráð).* * *a verb whose present is in a preterite form, see Gramm. p. xxiii: pres. veit, veizt (veiztu), veit; plur. vitum, vituð, vitu, later and mod. vitið, vita; the latter form appears in vellums early in the 14th century, e. g. þér vitið, Fms. vi. 144, from the Hulda: pret. vissa, vissir, vissi (never visti, cp. Goth. wissa, mod. Dan. vidste): subj. pres. vita, pret. vissa; imperat. vit, vittú; part. vitaðr (vitinn, Hornklofi): with neg. suff. veit-at, knows not, Hm. 74; veit-k-a-ek, ‘wot I not I,’ Hkr. iii. 376; veizt-attu, Hbl. 4; vitum-a, we know not, Skv. 3. 18; vissi-t, knew not: [Ulf. witan = εἰδέναι, γιγνώσκειν; A. S. and Hel. witan; Engl. wit; Germ. wissen; Dan. vide; Swed. vita; Lat. videre; Gr. εἰδέναι.]A. To wit, have sense, be conscious; hneig hón aptr ok vissi ekki til manna, Bjarn. 68; varð hann svá feginn at varla vissi hann, Flóv.; faðirinn vissi ekki lengi, svá þótti honum mikit, Bs. i. 369; hann þóttisk nær ekki vita fyrir hræzlu, Fms. vii. 142; hann var enn eigi örendr en vissi þó ekki, Fb. ii. 453; ek var svá syfjaðr at ek vissa fátt frá mér, Gísl. 6l; hestr laust einn ungan mann í höfuðit, ok sprakk mjök, ok vissi ekki, Bs. i. 314, l. c.; tók hann einn þeirra ok varðisk með, þar til er sá vissi ekki til sín, Fms. vi. 110; hann tók augna-verk strangan, ok vissi hann löngum hvárki í þenna heim né annan, Bs. i. 317; hann vissi lengi ekki hingat, 336; ok vissi þá ekki til sín löngum, 335; hvárt skal hjóna færa annat fram þat sem heldr hefir fé til, nema annat þeirra viti eigi vel ( unless he be not in the enjoyment of his full senses) en þegar er því batnar, Grág. i. 300: with gen., gráðigr halr nema geðs viti, Hm. 19 (see B. 3).2. vita skyn á, to understand, know, Nj. 223, Grág. ii. 167, Fms. i. 186, xi. 323 (see skyn); vita ván e-s, to expect, Eg. 746, Fms. viii. 180, Nj. 75, Blas. 46.II. to wit, know; vituð ér enn eða hvat, Vsp.; þeir er vel mart vitu, Hm. 53: ek veit, 76; vita sik saklausan, to know oneself to be sackless. Eg. 49; síðan skaltú vita þitt eyrendi, Finnb. 258; ef þeir vitu þetta eigi, Nj. 231; skaltú ok þat vita, at …, 88; lát sem þú vitir eigi, Ísl. ii. 250; þeir munu vitað hafa með Þráni, Nj. 136; ek veit allt með henni, El.; hitt veit ek eigi hvaðan þjófs-augu eru komin í ættir várar, Nj. 2; veit ek þann mann er þora man, 89; veizt þú hvat þér man verða at bana?—Veit ek, segir Njáll, 85; veitat hinn er vætki veit, Hm. 74.2. with prepp.; vita fram (fram-viss); vissi hann vel fram sem Vanir aðrir, Þkv. 15: vita fyrir, to foreknow (for-vitri); vita örlög sín fyrir, Hm. passim; mundi hann þat vita fyrir er hann vissi dauða sinn, Nj. 98: vita til e-s, to know of. Fms. x. 337; ekki vissu landsmenn til um ferð Þórólfs. Eg. 78.3. with the particle ‘at;’ þóttisk Þorkell vita at Grímr var þar, Dropl. 34; hana vissi at skíða-hlaði var við dyrr þær, 29; eigi munda ek vita at blóðrefillinn kæmi við mik í gær líttað, Fms. xi. 144: veitka ek nema þú þykkisk nú minn lávarðr, Hkr. iii. 376.III. in exclamations; hvat veit ek hvárt menn munu aldri hætta lygi-sögum, Fb. i. 184; var þetta hans bani, sem vita mátti, i. e. of course, Stj. 541; hvat ek veit, hvárt ek mun, what know I! should I? …, as an interjection, Nj. 85; veiztu, ef þú vin átt, farðú at finna opt, Hm. 43; veit þat trúa mín, upon my faith! Edda; veit menn, mod. viti menn! see maðr B. 3; hvar viti menn ( whoever knew) slíku bellt við konungmann, Eg. 415; hvar viti áðr orta mærð með æðra hætti, Edda (Ht.)IV. to see, try; má ek vita at ek fá af henni nökkurn vísdóm, Stj. 491; ek mun ríða ok hitta Óspak, ok vita at hanni vili sættask, Band. 5; ok vita at vér næðim Sokka víkingi, Fms. ii. 5; sá skal vita, er á strenginum heldr, hvárt hann skelfr, Fb. ii. 129; vil ek fara ok vita, at ek mega bjarga honum, 623. 16; vittu ef þú hjálpir, see if than canst help, Og. 5; vit at þú náir sverði því, Dropl. 28; fara heim ok vita hvers víss yrði, Nj. 114; vér skulum hlaupa at fylkingu þeirra, ok vita at vér komimk svá í gegnum, Fær. 81; skal yðr þat heimilt, ok vita at þit þroskizk hér, 45; sendi Sirpa bónda sinn at vita sér um brún-gras, to fetch for her (cp. vitja), Finnb. 258; ókunnugr ertú mér, ok vil ek vita við skipverja hvat þeim sýnisk ráð, Fbr. 62 new Ed.; ok bað hana vita af hón kenndi höfuðit, Bjarn. 68.V. to look towards, of a place, = Lat. spectare ad, vergere in; in þat er vissi til norðr-ættar, Edda 22; sá armr er vissi at dikinu, Fms. vi. 406; ok lögðusk þaðan undir sem at veit bænum, viii. 377; bæði þat er aptr vissi ok fram, vii. 94; á þann bekk er vissi móti sólu, vi. 439; þann arminn er vissi at sjánum, viii. 115; rökðu þangat sporin sem klaufirnar höfðu vitað, Ó. H. 152; vissu þá grundvellir upp, en veggir í jörð niðr, Sks. 142 new Ed.; fætr vissu upp, Eg. 508; þar á eynni er vissi til Atleyjar, 222; þeir fundu vínvið allt þar sem holta vissi, they found the vine wherever there was woodland, Þorf. Karl. 420; en þróask, ef hann vissi til mikilleiks, if it shewed growth, Korm. 8; allt þat er honum þótti grjóts vita, þótti honum við gull glóa, Konr.2. metaph. to come under that and that head, to respect, mean, have such and such bearing; sökin veit til lands-laga en ekki til Bjarkeyjar-réttar, this case comes under the country-law, and not under the town-law, Fms. vii. 130; eigi veit þannig við, that is not the case, Nj. 180; ef öðru-vísi veit við, Al. 106; seg mér et sanna, hversu við veit, how things stand, Fms. iii. 70; konungr svarar, at mál þat vissi allt annan veg við, Ó. H. 199; hvat veit hrygð þessi? Stj. 600; hvat veit óp þetta, what means this shouting? Fms. viii. 141; hvat vissi laga-frétt sú er Emundr spurði í gær? Ó. H. 87; skipan er hér á vorðin, ok veit ek eigi hvat þat veit, I know not what it means, cannot understand it, Fs. 6; þat man eigi öngra tíðenda vita, i. e. that will mean something great, Nj. 83; gör sem ek býð þér, ok kann vera, at þór viti vel, do as I bid thee, and may be, it will be well with thee, 655 xiii. B. 4; ok rædda um þat at nú mundi vel vita, Ísl. ii. 354; hræzlu (gen.) þat vissi, it savoured of fear, Am. 97; ekki vita slík orð lítils, Sd. 151; hlæra þú af því at þér góðs viti, it is for no good that thou laughest, Bkv. 2. 31; er lítils góðs vissi, Barl. 20: þá gleði er viti til meins, Hom. (St.); þat er til hans veit, what respects him, Orkn. 314; þat er til heiðins siðar veit, N. G. L. i. 383.3. vita á, to forebode; brakar í klaufum, vind mun á vita, Mar. 1057 (cp. á-vitull); það veit á regn, storm, …, of weather marks.B. Recipr. to know of one another; þeir vissusk jafnan til í hafinu, Landn. 56; ok vitask þeir við mála-munda þann sín á miðli, to know mutually, Grág. i. 469; better, ok vitusk þeir þat við mála-munda þann, Kb. i. 131.2. pass.; skyldi aldrei annat vitask, to be known, Fas. i. 22.3. part.; vitandi né valdandi þessa verks, Fms. ix. 412; margs vitandi, Vsp. 20, Edda 11; vitandi vits, Hm. 17, Fms. v. 258 (cp. A l); vitandi mann-vits, Edda 9; viss vitandi, intentionally, knowingly, jb. 309 A; visir vitendr, Grág. (Kb.) i. 243, ii. 57; visar vitendr, Grág. i. 228.4. the past pret.; á morgun skal okkur saga vituð verða, to be known, proved, 655 xiii. B. 1; þat mátti eigi vitað verða, 625. 83; ef þetta er satt, þá er þat vitað (clear, manifest) at hón hefir eigi mær verit, Fms. x. 294; þat er vitað ( well known) at sjá. maðr er afbragð annarra manna, vi. 144; ok er þat vitað hver stóriðendi görðusk um hans mál, vii. 124; sá er þeim völlr of vitaðr, that field is marked out for them, Vþm. 18; valr vitinn Friggjar faðm-byggvi, allotted to Odin, Hornklofi. -
114 antecedens
antĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go before, precede (in space), to take the lead, get the start; with dat., acc., or absol.I.Lit.a.With dat.: ubi ambitionem virtuti videas antecedere, Titin. ap. Non. 499, 8:b.si huic rei illa antecedit, huic non antecedit,
Cic. Top. 23.—With acc.:c.Pompeius expeditus antecesserat legiones,
Cic. Att. 8, 9: biduo me Antonius antecessit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13; Curt. 4, 7, 15:antecedite me,
Vulg. Gen. 32, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 9, 27; ib. Matt. 2, 9, and so Vulg. always.—Absol.:II.magnis itineribus antecessit,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35; Liv. 2, 6; Vell. 1, 4, 1:antecedente famā,
Liv. 5, 37, 6: antecedens scelestus, * Hor. C. 3, 2, 31.—Fig.A.To precede, in time: haec (dies) ei antecessit, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 40:B. a.exercitatio semper antecedere cibum debet,
Cels. 1, 2.—With dat.:b.virtute regi antecesseris,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 118:quantum natura hominis pecudibus antecedit,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 105; so id. Brut. 21, 82.—With acc. of person or thing and abl. or abl. with in:c.scientiā atque usu nauticarum rerum ceteros antecedunt,
Caes. B. G. 3, 8:nemo eum in amicitiā antecessit,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:maltha duritiam lapidis antecedens,
Plin. 36, 24, 58, § 18.—Absol., to distinguish one's self, to become eminent:1.ut quisque honore et aetate antecedebat,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64; so id. Inv. 2, 22.—Hence,antĕcēdens, entis, P. a.a.In gen.:b.hora,
Cic. ad Octav. 3:annus,
Plin. 13, 8, 16, § 59; so Suet. Tib. 5.—T. t. of philosophy, the antecedent (opp. consequens):2.causa,
Cic. Fat. 11, 33; 15, 34.—In plur. as subst.: an-tĕcēdentĭa, ōrum, n.:locus ex antecedentibus,
Cic. Top. 12; so id. Part. Or. 2; Quint. 5, 10, 45; 6, 3, 66.—antĕces-sus, a, um, P. a., that goes before; only in the connection, in antecessum dare, solvere, accipere, etc.; t. t., to give, pay, receive, etc., beforehand, in advance (postAug.):in antecessum dabo,
Sen. Ep. 118:accipere,
id. ib. 7:reponere,
id. Ben. 4, 32:praedam dividere,
Flor. 4, 12, 24 al. -
115 antecedentia
antĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go before, precede (in space), to take the lead, get the start; with dat., acc., or absol.I.Lit.a.With dat.: ubi ambitionem virtuti videas antecedere, Titin. ap. Non. 499, 8:b.si huic rei illa antecedit, huic non antecedit,
Cic. Top. 23.—With acc.:c.Pompeius expeditus antecesserat legiones,
Cic. Att. 8, 9: biduo me Antonius antecessit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13; Curt. 4, 7, 15:antecedite me,
Vulg. Gen. 32, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 9, 27; ib. Matt. 2, 9, and so Vulg. always.—Absol.:II.magnis itineribus antecessit,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35; Liv. 2, 6; Vell. 1, 4, 1:antecedente famā,
Liv. 5, 37, 6: antecedens scelestus, * Hor. C. 3, 2, 31.—Fig.A.To precede, in time: haec (dies) ei antecessit, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 40:B. a.exercitatio semper antecedere cibum debet,
Cels. 1, 2.—With dat.:b.virtute regi antecesseris,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 118:quantum natura hominis pecudibus antecedit,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 105; so id. Brut. 21, 82.—With acc. of person or thing and abl. or abl. with in:c.scientiā atque usu nauticarum rerum ceteros antecedunt,
Caes. B. G. 3, 8:nemo eum in amicitiā antecessit,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:maltha duritiam lapidis antecedens,
Plin. 36, 24, 58, § 18.—Absol., to distinguish one's self, to become eminent:1.ut quisque honore et aetate antecedebat,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64; so id. Inv. 2, 22.—Hence,antĕcēdens, entis, P. a.a.In gen.:b.hora,
Cic. ad Octav. 3:annus,
Plin. 13, 8, 16, § 59; so Suet. Tib. 5.—T. t. of philosophy, the antecedent (opp. consequens):2.causa,
Cic. Fat. 11, 33; 15, 34.—In plur. as subst.: an-tĕcēdentĭa, ōrum, n.:locus ex antecedentibus,
Cic. Top. 12; so id. Part. Or. 2; Quint. 5, 10, 45; 6, 3, 66.—antĕces-sus, a, um, P. a., that goes before; only in the connection, in antecessum dare, solvere, accipere, etc.; t. t., to give, pay, receive, etc., beforehand, in advance (postAug.):in antecessum dabo,
Sen. Ep. 118:accipere,
id. ib. 7:reponere,
id. Ben. 4, 32:praedam dividere,
Flor. 4, 12, 24 al. -
116 antecedo
antĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go before, precede (in space), to take the lead, get the start; with dat., acc., or absol.I.Lit.a.With dat.: ubi ambitionem virtuti videas antecedere, Titin. ap. Non. 499, 8:b.si huic rei illa antecedit, huic non antecedit,
Cic. Top. 23.—With acc.:c.Pompeius expeditus antecesserat legiones,
Cic. Att. 8, 9: biduo me Antonius antecessit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13; Curt. 4, 7, 15:antecedite me,
Vulg. Gen. 32, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 9, 27; ib. Matt. 2, 9, and so Vulg. always.—Absol.:II.magnis itineribus antecessit,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35; Liv. 2, 6; Vell. 1, 4, 1:antecedente famā,
Liv. 5, 37, 6: antecedens scelestus, * Hor. C. 3, 2, 31.—Fig.A.To precede, in time: haec (dies) ei antecessit, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 40:B. a.exercitatio semper antecedere cibum debet,
Cels. 1, 2.—With dat.:b.virtute regi antecesseris,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 118:quantum natura hominis pecudibus antecedit,
Cic. Off. 1, 30, 105; so id. Brut. 21, 82.—With acc. of person or thing and abl. or abl. with in:c.scientiā atque usu nauticarum rerum ceteros antecedunt,
Caes. B. G. 3, 8:nemo eum in amicitiā antecessit,
Nep. Alcib. 9, 3:maltha duritiam lapidis antecedens,
Plin. 36, 24, 58, § 18.—Absol., to distinguish one's self, to become eminent:1.ut quisque honore et aetate antecedebat,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64; so id. Inv. 2, 22.—Hence,antĕcēdens, entis, P. a.a.In gen.:b.hora,
Cic. ad Octav. 3:annus,
Plin. 13, 8, 16, § 59; so Suet. Tib. 5.—T. t. of philosophy, the antecedent (opp. consequens):2.causa,
Cic. Fat. 11, 33; 15, 34.—In plur. as subst.: an-tĕcēdentĭa, ōrum, n.:locus ex antecedentibus,
Cic. Top. 12; so id. Part. Or. 2; Quint. 5, 10, 45; 6, 3, 66.—antĕces-sus, a, um, P. a., that goes before; only in the connection, in antecessum dare, solvere, accipere, etc.; t. t., to give, pay, receive, etc., beforehand, in advance (postAug.):in antecessum dabo,
Sen. Ep. 118:accipere,
id. ib. 7:reponere,
id. Ben. 4, 32:praedam dividere,
Flor. 4, 12, 24 al. -
117 praedico
1.prae-dĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I. A.Lit., of a public crier:B.ut praeco praedicat,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 17:auctionem praedicem, ipse ut venditem,
id. Stich. 1, 3, 41; cf.:si palam praeco praedicasset,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; Cic. Quint. 15, 50; id. Off. 3, 13, 55; id. Fam. 5, 12, 8.—Transf.1.In gen., to make publicly known, to announce, proclaim, to say, relate, state, declare (syn.:2.moneo, ante denuntio,
Cic. Verr. 1, 12, 36; 1, 15, 43;class.): audes mihi praedicare id, Domi te esse?
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 11:vera praedico,
id. ib. 3, 2, 20:aliam nunc mihi orationem despoliato praedicas, atque olim,
you tell a different story, speak another language, id. As. 1, 3, 52:utrum taceamne an praedicem?
Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 53:si quidem haec vera praedicat,
id. And. 3, 1, 7.—With obj.-clause:qui ingenti magnitudine corporum Germanos esse praedicabant,
Caes. B. G. 1, 39; Sall. C. 48, 9; Caes. B. C. 3, 106, 4:barbari paucitatemque nostrorum militum suis praedicaverunt,
reported, id. B. G. 4, 34:injuriam in eripiendis legionibus praedicat,
displays, id. B. C. 1, 32, 6:ut praedicas,
as you assert, Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23:quod mihi praedicabas vitium, id tibi est,
that you attribute to me, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 249:avus tuus tibi aediliciam praedicaret repulsam,
would tell you of the repulse that P. Nasica suffered respecting the edileship, Cic. Planc. 21, 51.—In partic., to praise, laud, commend, vaunt, extol (syn.: laudo, celebro); constr. with aliquid ( de aliquo), de aliquā re, and absol., Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 18:3.quid ego ejus tibi nunc faciem praedicem aut laudem?
Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 17:beata vita glorianda et praedicanda est,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 50; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 57:aliquid miris laudibus,
id. 25, 5, 18, § 40; 13, 24, 47, § 130; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 10; Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 54.—With obj.-clause:Galli se omnes ab Dite patre prognatos praedicant,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:quae de illo viro Sulla, quam graviter saepe praedicaverunt!
Cic. Phil. 11, 13, 33:qui possit idem de se praedicare, numquam se plus agere, etc.,
id. Rep. 1, 17, 27; cf. id. Pis. 1, 2.—With de aliquā re:qui de meis in vos meritis praedicaturus non sum,
Caes. B. C. 2, 32.— Absol.:qui benefacta sua verbis adornant, non ideo praedicare, quia fecerint, sed, ut praedicarent, fecisse creduntur,
Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 15:verecundia in praedicando,
Tac. Agr. 8 fin. —To preach the gospel (eccl. Lat.):II.evangelium,
Vulg. Matt. 4, 23:baptismum,
id. Marc. 1, 4; absol., id. Matt. 4, 17 et saep.—For praedicere, to foretell, predict (eccl. Lat.):2. I.persecutiones eos passuros praedicabat,
Tert. Fug. in Persec. 6; so,persecutiones praedicatae,
id. ib. 12.In gen. (mostly post-Aug.; cf.II.praefor),
Ter. And. 4, 4, 54:hoc primum in hac re praedico tibi,
id. ib. 1, 1, 19:Davus dudum praedixit mihi,
id. ib. 5, 1, 21; 1, 2, 34; Quint. 4, 2, 57:tria, quae praediximus,
have mentioned before, id. 3, 6, 89; 2, 4, 24:praedicta ratio,
id. 8, 6, 52: ratio ejus in medicinā similis praedictis. Plin. 33, 13, 37, § 136; Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 8.—In partic.A.To foretell, predict; to forebode (class.):B.defectiones solis et lunae multo ante praedicere,
Cic. Sen. 14, 49; so,eclipsim,
Plin. 2, 12, 9, § 53:futura,
Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2; Petr. [p. 1417] 137 fin.:nihil adversi accidit non praedicente me,
that I had not predicted, id. Fam. 6, 6:aliquid,
Sen. Q. N. 2, 32, 5:malum hoc nobis De caelo tactas memini praedicere quercus,
Verg. E. 1, 17:hos luctus,
id. A. 3, 713.—To give notice or warning of, to appoint, fix (mostly post-Aug.), Naev. ap. Non. 197, 16:C.ubi praetor reo atque accusatoribus diem praedixisset,
Tac. A. 2, 79:praedictā die,
id. ib. 11, 27:insula Batavorum in quam convenirent praedicta,
id. ib. 2, 6; cf. Plin. 10, 23, 31, § 61:praedicta hora,
Suet. Claud. 8.—To say what one should do, to advise, warn, admonish, inform, charge, command (class.; syn.: praecipio, moneo); usually constr. with ut or ne:D.Pompeius suis praedixerat, ut, etc.,
Caes. B. C. 3, 92; Nep. Them. 7, 3; Liv. 2, 10, 4; 22, 60; 39, 19, 2:ei visam esse Junonem praedicere, ne id faceret,
Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48; Liv. 10, 41:praedixit, ne destinatum iter peterent,
Vell. 2, 82, 2; Tac. A. 13, 36; cf. in the abl. absol.:praedicto, ne in re publicā haberetur,
id. ib. 16, 33.—With acc.:unum illud tibi... Praedicam,
Verg. A. 3, 436; cf. with an obj.-clause:Mummius jussit praedici conducentibus, si eas (statuas) perdidissent, novas eos reddituros,
Vell. 1, 13, 4; absol. of a physician, Curt. 3, 6, 3.—To proclaim, announce at an auction, etc. (cf. 1. praedico, I. A.):A.si in auctione praedictum est, ne, etc.,
Gai. Inst. 4, 126.—Hence, praedictus, a, um, P. a., previously named, before mentioned, preceding:vicina praedictae sed amplior virtus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 83:nomen,
id. 9, 3, 66:posterior ex praedictis locus,
id. 2, 4, 24; 10, 1, 74:simul pedes, eques, classis aput praedictum amnem convenere,
Tac. A. 1, 60; Plin. 10, 23, 31, § 76.— praedictum, i, n.(Acc. to II. A.) A foretelling, prediction (class.;B. C.syn. praesagium): Chaldaeorum praedicta,
Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89:astrologorum,
id. ib. 2, 42, 88:vatum,
id. Leg. 2, 12, 30; Verg. A. 4, 464:haruspicis,
Suet. Oth. 6; Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24:deorum,
Val. Fl. 4, 460.— -
118 πρό
πρό,A before, forth:A PREP. WITH GENIT.:I of Place, before, in front of,ἠγερέθοντο π. ἄστεος Od.24.468
, cf. Il.15.351, etc.;π. πτόλιος δεδαϊγμένον 19.292
;κείνους κιχησόμεθα π. πυλάων 10.126
, cf. 6.80, etc.;φύλοπις αἰνὴ ἕστηκε π. νεῶν 18.172
;πυρὰ φαίνετο Ἰλιόθι π. 8.561
, cf. 10.12, Od.8.581, etc.;κλαγγὴ γεράνων πέλει οὐρανόθι π. Il.3.3
;π. τειχέων Pi.O.13.56
; ἔμπροσθε π. (v.l.)τῆς ἀκροπόλιος, ὄπισθε δὲ τῶν πυλέων Hdt.8.53
, cf. 9.52; π. δόμων, π. δωμάτων, in front of, i.e. outside the house, Pi.P.2.18, 5.96, etc.;π. θυρῶν S.El. 109
(anap.), etc.; τὴν π. τοῦ Ἡραίου νῆσον before or off the Heraeum, Th.3.75, cf. 7.22; π. ποδός, v. πούς 1.4a; π. χειρῶν at hand, S.Ant. 1279, E. Rh. 274, dub. in Tr. 1207;π. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν προφαίνεσθαι Aeschin. 2.148
.2 with Vbs. of motion,π. δ' ἄρ' αὐτῶν κύνες ἤϊσαν Od. 19.435
, cf. Il.23.115;π. Ἀχαιῶν ἄγγελος ᾔει 10.286
, cf. 13.693;π. ἕθεν κλονέοντα φάλαγγας 5.96
.3 before, in front of, for the purpose of shielding or guarding,π. Τρώων ἑσταότ' Il.24.215
: hence, in defence of,μάχεσθαι.. π. τε παίδων καὶ π. γυναικῶν 8.57
, cf. 4.156, 373, Hdt.8.74, etc.; ὀλέσθαι π. πόληος, Lat. pro patria mori, Il.22.110;π. τῆς Σπάρτης ἀποθνῄσκειν Hdt.7.134
, cf. 172,9.72, E.Alc.18, 645, etc.;π. τοῦ θανόντος.. ἔθεσθ' ἐπιστροφήν S.OT 134
;διακινδυνεῦσαι π. βασιλέως X.Cyr.8.8.4
; βουλεύεσθαι, πράττειν π. τινός, ib.1.6.42, 4.5.44, cf. Mem.2.4.7; π. τοξευμάτων as a defence against arrows, Id.An.7.8.18: hence also, for, on behalf of, instead of, ἀγρυπνῆσαι π. τινῶν ib.7.6.36, cf. Leg.Gort.1.43; of an advocate,π. τῶνδε φωνεῖν S.OT10
, cf. OC 811; ὄτι δέ κ' αὐτὸς π. Ειαυτοῦ [ἀμάρτῃ] whatever offence he commits of his own volition, Kohler-Ziebarth Stadtrecht von Gortyn p.34.4 π. ὁδοῦ ἐγένοντο further on the road, i.e. forwards, onward, Il.4.382, cf. Ael.NA3.16,7.29 (v. φροῦδος): also to denote distance,π. πολλοῦ τῆς πόλεως D.H.9.35
;π. τριάκοντα σταδίων
at a distance of30
stades, Str.8.6.24.II of Time, before,π. γάμοιο Od.15.524
;ἠῶθι π. 5.469
; π. ὃ τοῦ ἐνόησεν one before the other, Il.10.224; more freq. in later writers,π. τῶν Τρωικῶν Th.1.3
, cf. 1.1;π. τοῦ θανεῖν S.Ant. 883
;π. τοῦ θανάτου Pl.Phd. 57a
;π. τοῦ λοιμοῦ Id.Smp. 201d
;π. δείπνου X.Cyr. 5.5.39
; π. ἡμέρας ib.4.5.14; π. τοῦ χρῆσθαι before one uses it, Id.Mem.2.6.6; π. μοίρας τῆς ἐμῆς before my doom, A.Ag. 1266;π. τῆς εἱμαρμένης Antipho 1.21
;π. τοῦ καθήκοντος χρόνου Aeschin.3.126
, cf. 124; π. πολλοῦ long before, Hdt.7.130, etc.; π. μικροῦ, π. ὀλίγου, Plu.Pomp.73, App.BC2.116;ὀλίγον π. τούτων Th.2.8
; τὸ π. τοῦ (v.l. τούτου) ib.15; π. τοῦ (sts. written προτοῦ) A.Ag. 1204, Hdt.1.122, 5.83, Ar.Th. 418, Pl.Smp. 173a;ὁ π. τοῦ χρόνος A.Eu. 462
, Th.2.58, etc.; π. τοῦ ἤ, = πρὶν ἤ, IG7.2225.22 ([place name] Thisbe);οἱ π. ἡμῶν γενόμενοι Isoc.13.19
;οἱ π. ἐμοῦ Th.1.97
.2 in later writers freq. with Numerals, π. τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν thirty days before, Ael.NA5.52;π. μιᾶς ἡμέρας Plu.Caes.63
;π. ἐνιαυτοῦ Id.2.147e
;π. δυεῖν ἡμερῶν ἢ ἐτελεύτα Id.Sull.37
: freq. c. dupl. gen., π. δύο ἐτῶν τοῦ σεισμοῦ, π. δύο ὡρῶν τῆς ἐπιβολῆς, LXX Am.1.1, Dsc.1.64; π. ἓξ ἡμερῶν τοῦ πάσχα, π. μιᾶς ἡμέρας τῶν γενεθλίων, Ev.Jo.12.1, Plu. 2.717d;π. πολλοῦ τῆς ἑορτῆς Luc.Sat.14
.b in rendering Roman dates, τῇ π. μιᾶς Νωνῶν Ὀκτωβρίων, = pridie Non. Oct., Plu.2.203a, etc.III in other relations:1 of Preference, before, rather than, κέρδος αἰνῆσαι π. δίκας to praise sleight before right, Pi.P.4.140, cf. Pl.R. 361e; πᾶν δὴ βουλόμενοι σφίσι εἶναι π. τῆς παρεούσης λύπης anything before, rather than, their actual trouble, Hdt.7.152 (so, in order to avoid,π. τοῦ δεινοτάτου D.54.19
);πᾶν π. τοῦ δουλεῦσαι ἐπεξελθεῖν Th.5.100
, cf.4.59; ἑλέσθαι, αἱρεῖσθαι, or κρῖναί τι π. τινός to choose one before another, Id.5.36, Pl.R. 366b, Phlb. 57e; π. πολλοῦ ποιήσασθαι to esteem above much, i.e. very highly, Isoc.5.138;π. πολλῶν χρημάτων τιμήσασθαί τι Th.1.33
, cf.6.10; π. ἄλλων more than others, Pl.Mx. 249e (v.l.), cf. A. Th. 1002; δυσδαίμων.. π. πασᾶν γυναικῶν ib. 927 (codd., lyr.);π. πάντων θεῶν τῇ Ἑστίᾳ πρώτῃ προθύειν Pl.Cra. 401d
: after a [comp] Comp. it is redundant,ἡ τυραννὶς π. ἐλευθερίης ἀσπαστότερον Hdt.1.62
, cf.6.12, Pl.Ap. 28d, Cri. 54b, Phd. 99a; for ἤ afterἄλλος, οὐδεὶς ἄλλος π. σεῦ Hdt.3.85
, cf.7.3.2 of Cause or Motive, for, from, π. φόβοιο for fear, Il.17.667; ἀθλεύων π. ἄνακτος toiling before the face of, i.e. in his service, 24.734; π. τῶνδε there fore, S.El. 495 (lyr.).B POSITION: words may be put between π. and its case, Il.23.115; but it does not follow its case, exc. after [dialect] Ep. forms in -θι, Ἰλιόθι πρό, οὐρανόθι πρό, ἠῶθι πρό (v. supr.).C πρό, abs. as ADV.:I of Place, before, opp. ἐπί ( after), Il. 13.799, 800; before, in front, 15.360; forth, forward,ἐκ δ' ἄγαγε π. φόωσδε 19.118
; χωρεῖν π. δόμων to come forth from, S.Tr. 960 (lyr.);ἄγειν τινὰ π. δόμων E.Hec.59
(anap.); γῆν π. γῆς ἐλαύνομαι I am driven on from one land to another, A.Pr. 682;διώκειν γῆν π. γῆς Ar.Ach. 235
.II of Time, before,πρό οἱ εἴπομεν Od.1.37
; earlier,τά τ' ἐσσόμενα π. τ' ἐόντα Hes. Th.32
,38.III when joined with other Preps., ἀποπρό, διαπρό, ἐπιπρό, περιπρό, προπρό, it strengthens the first Prep., or adds to it the notion of forward, forth.I with Substs., to denote2 priority of rank, πρόεδρος, προεδρία, etc.: also priority of order, προάγων, πρόλογος, προοίμιον, προπάτωρ, etc.3 standing in another's place, πρόμαντις, πρόξενος.II with Adjs., to denote3 prematureness, πρόμοιρος, πρόωρος.III with Verbs,1 of Place, before, forwards, προβαίνω, προβάλλω, προτίθημι, etc.: also, before, in defence, προκινδυνεύω, προμάχομαι, etc.2 forth, προέλκω, προφέρω.b publicly, προγράφω, προειπεῖν, πρόκειμαι.3 away, προδίδωμι, προϊάλλω, προϊάπτω, προΐημι, προλείπω, προρέω, προτέμνω, προτρέπομαι, προφεύγω, προχέω.4 in preference, προαιροῦμαι, προτιμάω, etc.5 before, beforehand, προαισθάνομαι, προγίγνομαι, προκαταλαμβάνω, etc.; of foresight, προνοέω, προοράω.E Etymology: cf. Lat. προ?πρόX-, Slav. pro-, Skt. pra-, etc., in compounds. -
119 Stephenson, Robert
[br]b. 16 October 1803 Willington Quay, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 October 1859 London, England[br]English engineer who built the locomotive Rocket and constructed many important early trunk railways.[br]Robert Stephenson's father was George Stephenson, who ensured that his son was educated to obtain the theoretical knowledge he lacked himself. In 1821 Robert Stephenson assisted his father in his survey of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway and in 1822 he assisted William James in the first survey of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. He then went to Edinburgh University for six months, and the following year Robert Stephenson \& Co. was named after him as Managing Partner when it was formed by himself, his father and others. The firm was to build stationary engines, locomotives and railway rolling stock; in its early years it also built paper-making machinery and did general engineering.In 1824, however, Robert Stephenson accepted, perhaps in reaction to an excess of parental control, an invitation by a group of London speculators called the Colombian Mining Association to lead an expedition to South America to use steam power to reopen gold and silver mines. He subsequently visited North America before returning to England in 1827 to rejoin his father as an equal and again take charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co. There he set about altering the design of steam locomotives to improve both their riding and their steam-generating capacity. Lancashire Witch, completed in July 1828, was the first locomotive mounted on steel springs and had twin furnace tubes through the boiler to produce a large heating surface. Later that year Robert Stephenson \& Co. supplied the Stockton \& Darlington Railway with a wagon, mounted for the first time on springs and with outside bearings. It was to be the prototype of the standard British railway wagon. Between April and September 1829 Robert Stephenson built, not without difficulty, a multi-tubular boiler, as suggested by Henry Booth to George Stephenson, and incorporated it into the locomotive Rocket which the three men entered in the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway's Rainhill Trials in October. Rocket, was outstandingly successful and demonstrated that the long-distance steam railway was practicable.Robert Stephenson continued to develop the locomotive. Northumbrian, built in 1830, had for the first time, a smokebox at the front of the boiler and also the firebox built integrally with the rear of the boiler. Then in Planet, built later the same year, he adopted a layout for the working parts used earlier by steam road-coach pioneer Goldsworthy Gurney, placing the cylinders, for the first time, in a nearly horizontal position beneath the smokebox, with the connecting rods driving a cranked axle. He had evolved the definitive form for the steam locomotive.Also in 1830, Robert Stephenson surveyed the London \& Birmingham Railway, which was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1833. Stephenson became Engineer for construction of the 112-mile (180 km) railway, probably at that date the greatest task ever undertaken in of civil engineering. In this he was greatly assisted by G.P.Bidder, who as a child prodigy had been known as "The Calculating Boy", and the two men were to be associated in many subsequent projects. On the London \& Birmingham Railway there were long and deep cuttings to be excavated and difficult tunnels to be bored, notoriously at Kilsby. The line was opened in 1838.In 1837 Stephenson provided facilities for W.F. Cooke to make an experimental electrictelegraph installation at London Euston. The directors of the London \& Birmingham Railway company, however, did not accept his recommendation that they should adopt the electric telegraph and it was left to I.K. Brunel to instigate the first permanent installation, alongside the Great Western Railway. After Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company, Stephenson became a shareholder and was Chairman during 1857–8.Earlier, in the 1830s, Robert Stephenson assisted his father in advising on railways in Belgium and came to be increasingly in demand as a consultant. In 1840, however, he was almost ruined financially as a result of the collapse of the Stanhope \& Tyne Rail Road; in return for acting as Engineer-in-Chief he had unwisely accepted shares, with unlimited liability, instead of a fee.During the late 1840s Stephenson's greatest achievements were the design and construction of four great bridges, as part of railways for which he was responsible. The High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed at Berwick were the links needed to complete the East Coast Route from London to Scotland. For the Chester \& Holyhead Railway to cross the Menai Strait, a bridge with spans as long-as 460 ft (140 m) was needed: Stephenson designed them as wrought-iron tubes of rectangular cross-section, through which the trains would pass, and eventually joined the spans together into a tube 1,511 ft (460 m) long from shore to shore. Extensive testing was done beforehand by shipbuilder William Fairbairn to prove the method, and as a preliminary it was first used for a 400 ft (122 m) span bridge at Conway.In 1847 Robert Stephenson was elected MP for Whitby, a position he held until his death, and he was one of the exhibition commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the early 1850s he was Engineer-in-Chief for the Norwegian Trunk Railway, the first railway in Norway, and he also built the Alexandria \& Cairo Railway, the first railway in Africa. This included two tubular bridges with the railway running on top of the tubes. The railway was extended to Suez in 1858 and for several years provided a link in the route from Britain to India, until superseded by the Suez Canal, which Stephenson had opposed in Parliament. The greatest of all his tubular bridges was the Victoria Bridge across the River St Lawrence at Montreal: after inspecting the site in 1852 he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief for the bridge, which was 1 1/2 miles (2 km) long and was designed in his London offices. Sadly he, like Brunel, died young from self-imposed overwork, before the bridge was completed in 1859.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1849. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1849. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1856. Order of St Olaf (Norway). Order of Leopold (Belgium). Like his father, Robert Stephenson refused a knighthood.Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (a good modern biography).J.C.Jeaffreson, 1864, The Life of Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (the standard nine-teenth-century biography).M.R.Bailey, 1979, "Robert Stephenson \& Co. 1823–1829", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 (provides details of the early products of that company).J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.PJGR -
120 sobre
prep.1 on, above, on top of, onto.Un libro sobre el cáncer de pulmón A book on lung cancer...2 on, about, over, referring to.3 on.Un libro sobre el cáncer de pulmón A book on lung cancer...m.envelope.pres.subj.3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: sobrar.* * *1 (encima) on, upon, on top of2 (por encima) over, above3 (acerca de) about, on4 (alrededor de) about, around5 (superioridad en rango) over6 figurado (indica reiteración) upon, after1 (de correo) envelope2 (de sopa etc) packet\irse al sobre familiar to hit the sacksobre manera exceedinglysobre todo above all, especially* * *1. noun m.1) envelope2) packet2. prep.1) on, upon, on top of2) over3) about•* * *ISM1) [para cartas] envelopesobre de paga, sobre de pago — pay packet
2) ** (=cama) bedmeterse en el sobre — to hit the sack *, hit the hay *
3) LAm (=cartera) handbagIIPREP1) (=encima de) onun puente sobre el río Ebro — a bridge across o over the river Ebro
varios policías se abalanzaron sobre él — several policemen jumped on o fell upon him
la responsabilidad que recae sobre sus hombros — the responsibility which rests on o upon his shoulders
tengo que estar sobre él para que lo haga — I have to stand over him to make him do it, I have to keep a constant watch over him to make sure he does it
2) (=por encima de)a) [+ lugar] overb) [con cantidades] above500 metros sobre el nivel del mar — 500 metres o (EEUU) meters above sea level
3) [indicando superioridad] overtiene muchas ventajas sobre los métodos convencionales — it has many advantages over conventional methods
4) [indicando proporción] out of, intres sobre cien — three out of every hundred, three in a hundred
cuatro personas sobre diez no votarían — four out of ten people would not vote, four in every ten people would not vote
5) (Econ) onun aumento sobre el año pasado — an increase on o over last year
6) (=aproximadamente) aboutocupa sobre 20 páginas — it fills about 20 pages, it occupies roughly 20 pages
7) (=acerca de) about, onun libro sobre Tirso — a book about o on Tirso
8) (=además de) in addition to, on top of9)sobre todo — (=en primer lugar) above all; (=especialmente) especially
sobre todo, no perdamos la calma — above all, let's keep calm
* * *I1)a) (Corresp) envelopesobre aéreo or (de) vía aérea — airmail envelope
b) ( envase)un sobre de sopa — a package of soup (AmE), a packet of soup (BrE)
2) (AmL) ( cartera) clutch bagII1) ( indicando posición)a) ( con contacto)letras en azul sobre (un) fondo blanco — blue letters on o upon a white background
b) ( sin contacto) overen el techo justo sobre la mesa — on the ceiling right above o over the table
4.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar — 4,000 meters above sea level
estar sobre alguien — ( vigilar) to check up on somebody
c) ( alrededor de) on3)a) (en relaciones de efecto, derivación, etc) onb) (Com, Fin) onun incremento del 11% sobre los precios del año pasado — an increase of 11% on o over last year's prices
4) ( acerca de) onlegislación sobre impuestos — tax legislation, legislation on taxes
escribió sobre el espinoso tema de... — she wrote on o about the thorny topic of...
5) (Esp) (con cantidades, fechas, horas) around, about (BrE)sobre unos 70 kilos — around o about 70 kilos
6)* * *I1)a) (Corresp) envelopesobre aéreo or (de) vía aérea — airmail envelope
b) ( envase)un sobre de sopa — a package of soup (AmE), a packet of soup (BrE)
2) (AmL) ( cartera) clutch bagII1) ( indicando posición)a) ( con contacto)letras en azul sobre (un) fondo blanco — blue letters on o upon a white background
b) ( sin contacto) overen el techo justo sobre la mesa — on the ceiling right above o over the table
4.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar — 4,000 meters above sea level
estar sobre alguien — ( vigilar) to check up on somebody
c) ( alrededor de) on3)a) (en relaciones de efecto, derivación, etc) onb) (Com, Fin) onun incremento del 11% sobre los precios del año pasado — an increase of 11% on o over last year's prices
4) ( acerca de) onlegislación sobre impuestos — tax legislation, legislation on taxes
escribió sobre el espinoso tema de... — she wrote on o about the thorny topic of...
5) (Esp) (con cantidades, fechas, horas) around, about (BrE)sobre unos 70 kilos — around o about 70 kilos
6)* * *sobre11 = envelope.Ex: A jacket or sleeve is a protective envelope for a sound disc, made of cardboard or paper.
* licencia en sobre hermético = shrink-wrap licence [shrinkwrap licence], shrink-wrapped licence [shrinkwrapped licence].* poner la dirección en un sobre = address + envelope.* sobre acolchado = jiffy bag.* sobre acolchado con burbujas de plástico = bubble bag.* sobre para el control del préstamo = slip holder pocket.* sopa de sobre = instant soup, packet soup.sobre2= about, on, on top of, onto, over, surrounding, the way in which, upon, atop.Ex: His report contains sufficient information about a set of events and the people involved to allow for careful, systematic investigation.
Ex: Efforts are being made in the direction of an international consensus on the definition and treatment of corporate authorship.Ex: Cards are superimposed, one on top of another, and carefully aligned.Ex: When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space.Ex: The conventional name of a government is the geographic name of the area over which the government has jurisdiction.Ex: This section, then, will review the basic problems surrounding the choice of form of headings for persons.Ex: Recommendations relating to analytical cataloguing practices concern themselves primarily with the way in which the part of a document or work to be accessed is described.Ex: Taube's original system relied upon 'uniterms' or one concept terms.Ex: In Paris, the liberty cap atop the pike became an important icon aimed against the fading tyranny of the ancien regime.* sobre ascuas = in suspense.* sobre base de arena = sand-based.* sobre + Cantidad = around + Cantidad.* sobre disco = ondisc.* sobre el automóvil = automotive.* sobre ello = thereupon [thereon].* sobre el papel = in intent, nominally.* sobre el que se están haciendo averiguaciones = under investigation.* sobre el terreno = on the ground.* sobre esta base = on this basis, on that basis.* a partir de esto = on that basis.* sobre forro de tela = cloth-backed.* sobre la base de = in relation to, on the usual basis.* sobre la comedia = comedic.* sobre la marcha = on-the-fly, off the top of + Posesivo + head, right off the bat, spur-of-the-moment, on the spur of the moment, while-you-wait [while-u-wait], straight away, as you go, right away, at once.* sobre la superficie = above ground.* sobre la tierra = on earth, on the face of the earth, on the ground.* sobre los glaciares = glaciological.* sobre museos = museum-based.* sobre ruedas = on wheels, roll-out, without a hitch.* sobre suelo firme = on firm footing.* sobre todas las cosas = above all things.* sobre todo = above all, above everything else, overwhelmingly, in particular, above all things.* Verbo + sobre todo = Verbo + the most.* y sobre todo = and worst of all.* * *A1 ( Corresp) envelopesobre aéreo or (de) vía aérea airmail envelopesobre de ventanilla window envelope2B ( arg)irse al sobre to hit the sack o the hay ( colloq)1(cuando hay contacto): lo dejé sobre la mesa I left it on the tablelos fue poniendo uno sobre otro she placed them one on top of the othervestía chaqueta a or de cuadros sobre una camisa blanca he wore a checked jacket over a white shirtletras en azul sobre un fondo blanco blue letters on o upon a white backgroundla lluvia que cayó sobre Quito the rain that fell on Quitoprestar juramento sobre los Santos Evangelios to swear on the Holy Biblela población está sobre el Paraná the town is on the Paraná riverse abalanzaron sobre él they leapt on himestamos sobre su pista we're on their trail2 (cuando no hay contacto) overvolaremos sobre Santiago we shall be flying over Santiagose inclinó sobre su lecho de enfermo she leaned o bent over his sick beden el techo justo sobre la mesa on the ceiling right above o over the table4.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar 4,000 meters above sea levelestar sobre algn to check up on sbestá constantemente sobre ella para que estudie he has to keep checking up on her to make sure she studies3 (alrededor de) ongira sobre su eje it spins on its axis4 ( Mat):X/y (en ecuaciones) (read as: x sobre y) X/y (léase: x over y)18/20 (calificación) (read as: 18 sobre 20) 18/20 (léase: 18 out of 20)B(en relaciones de jerarquía): sobre estos representantes tenemos al jefe de zona above these representatives we have the area headsu victoria sobre el equipo local their victory over the local teamamar a Dios sobre todas las cosas love God above all elseC1 (en relaciones de efecto, derivación, etc) onhan tenido mucha influencia sobre él they have had a great influence on himuna opereta sobre libreto de Sierra an operetta with libretto by Sierraun nuevo impuesto sobre las importaciones a new tax on importsun incremento del 11% sobre los precios del año pasado an increase of 11% on o over last year's pricesla hipoteca que pesa sobre la casa the mortgage on the houseprestan dinero sobre alhajas they lend money on jewelrycheque sobre Buenos Aires check payable in Buenos Airescheque girado sobre el Banco de Córdoba check drawn on the Banco de CórdobaD (acerca de) onlegislación sobre impuestos tax legislation, legislation on taxesexisten muchos libros sobre el tema there are many books on the subjectescribió sobre el espinoso tema de … she wrote on o about the thorny topic of …E1(próximo a): el ejército está sobre la ciudad the army is at the gates of the cityllegué muy sobre la hora ( AmS); I only arrived a short time beforehanddebe pesar sobre los 70 kilos he must weigh around o about 70 kilosFsobre todo above alltuvo mucho éxito, sobre todo entre la juventud it was very successful, above all o particularly o especially among young peopleaumentan las presiones políticas, sociales y, sobre todo, económicas the political, social and, above all, economic pressures are growing* * *
Del verbo sobrar: ( conjugate sobrar)
sobré es:
1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo
sobre es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo
Multiple Entries:
sobrar
sobre
sobre-
sobrar ( conjugate sobrar) verbo intransitivoa) (quedar, restar):
¿te ha sobrado dinero? do you have any money left?b) ( estar de más):◊ ya veo que sobro aquí I can see I'm not wanted/needed here;
a mí no me sobra el dinero I don't have money to throw around (colloq);
sobra un cubierto there's an extra place
sobre sustantivo masculino
1 (Corresp) envelope
2 (AmL) ( cartera) clutch bag
■ preposición
1 ( indicando posición)
los puso uno sobre otro she placed them one on top of the other;
estamos sobre su pista we're on their trail
en el techo, justo sobre la mesa on the ceiling right above o over the table;
4.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar 4,000 meters above sea level
2 ( en relaciones de jerarquía):
3 ( acerca de) on;◊ hay muchos libros sobre el tema there are many books on o about the subject
4 (Esp) (con cantidades, fechas, horas) around, about (BrE);◊ sobre unos 70 kilos around o about 70 kilos
5
sobrar verbo intransitivo
1 (quedar) to be left (over): si sobra tela hago un cojín, if there's any fabric left, I'll make a cushion
2 (haber en exceso) to be more than enough: nos sobra espacio para ponerlo, we have plenty of room to put it
3 (estar de más, ser innecesario) su marido sobraba en aquella reunión, her husband wasn't wanted at that meeting
sobran las disculpas, there is no need for you to apologize
sobre 1 sustantivo masculino
1 (para meter papeles, cartas) envelope
2 (para sopa) packet
(para medicina, etc) sachet
3 fam hum bed
ir al sobre, to go to bed
sobre 2 preposición
1 (encima de) on, upon, on top of: se puso un chal sobre los hombros, she put a shawl over her shoulders
toda la responsabilidad recae sobre él, the entire responsibility falls on him
2 (por encima) over, above
3 (en torno a, hacia) about: llamaron sobre las seis, they phoned at about six o'clock
4 (a propósito de) about, on: hablaremos sobre ello, we'll talk about it
un libro sobre Napoleón, a book on Napoleón
5 (además de) upon
6 (para indicar el objeto de la acción) ejerce mucha influencia sobre él, he has a lot of influence on him
♦ Locuciones: sobre todo, above all
sobre- pref super-, over-
' sobre' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abalanzarse
- abatirse
- absoluta
- absoluto
- acometer
- acumularse
- advertir
- alertar
- antediluviana
- antediluviano
- ascendiente
- ascua
- aviso
- cábala
- caballería
- carta
- cerrar
- charla
- conferencia
- conversar
- copete
- curso
- dato
- derramar
- descargar
- desconocimiento
- deslizarse
- dictaminar
- discusión
- discutir
- disertar
- dispar
- disputar
- documentación
- documentarse
- elevarse
- en
- encima
- encogerse
- entrañas
- especialmente
- estabilizador
- estabilizadora
- estándar
- estimativa
- estimativo
- eurócrata
- extendida
- extendido
- fantasma
English:
about
- above
- act on
- aerial
- alive
- all
- array
- article
- assert
- background
- balance
- basis
- bear down on
- bob
- brain
- bridge
- call
- capital gains tax
- card
- cast
- chiefly
- client
- comfortably
- concise
- confer
- consult
- contention
- converse
- credit bureau
- dab
- dark
- deal with
- debate
- deduction
- definition
- deliberate
- denunciation
- develop
- diary
- differ
- discuss
- dispute
- disseminate
- dissertation
- dive
- double back
- dubious
- enclose
- enclosure
- enlarge
* * *sobre1 nm1. [para cartas] envelope2. [para alimentos, medicamentos] sachet, packet4. Am [bolsa] clutch bag♦ prep1. [encima de] on (top of);el libro está sobre la mesa the book is on (top of) the table;aún hay nieve sobre las montañas there's still snow on the mountains;fui apilando las tejas una sobre otra I piled the tiles up one on top of the other;una cruz roja sobre fondo blanco a red cross on o against a white background;varios policías saltaron sobre él several policemen fell upon him;seguimos sobre su pista we're still on her trail;Andes, RPsobre la hora: ¿tomamos algo antes de que subas al tren? – imposible, ya estoy sobre la hora shall we have a bite to eat before you catch the train? – I can't, I'm already tight for time;llegamos muy sobre la hora we arrived with very little time to spare2. [por encima de] over, above;el puente sobre la bahía the bridge across o over the bay;en estos momentos volamos sobre la isla de Pascua we are currently flying over Easter Island;la catedral destaca sobre los demás edificios the cathedral stands out over o above the other buildings;a 3.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar 3,000 metres above sea level3. [en torno a] on;la Tierra gira sobre sí misma the Earth revolves on its own axis4. [indica superioridad]su opinión está sobre las de los demás his opinion is more important than that of the others;una victoria sobre alguien a win over sbtiene muchas ventajas sobre el antiguo modelo it has a lot of advantages over the old model;su efecto sobre la quemadura es inmediato its effect on the burn is immediate;no tienen influencia sobre ellos they have no influence over them6. [acerca de] about, on;discuten sobre política they are arguing about politics;un libro sobre el amor a book about o on love;una conferencia sobre el desarme a conference on disarmament7. [aproximadamente] about;llegarán sobre las diez/sobre el jueves they'll arrive at about ten o'clock/around Thursday;tiene sobre los veinte años she's about twenty;los solicitantes deben de ser sobre dos mil there must be about two thousand applicants8. [indica acumulación] upon;nos contó mentira sobre mentira he told us lie upon lie o one lie after another9. [indica inminencia] upon;la desgracia estaba ya sobre nosotros the disaster was already upon us♦ sobre todo loc advabove all;afectó sobre todo a la industria turística it particularly affected the tourist industry;y, sobre todo, no le digas nada a ella and, above all, don't say anything to her* * *I m envelope;sopa de sobre packet soupII prp1 on;sobre la mesa on the table2 ( acerca de):sobre esto about this3 ( alrededor de):sobre las tres around three o’clock4:sobre todo above all, especially* * *sobre nm1) : envelope2) : packetun sobre de sazón: a packet of seasoningsobre prep1) : on, on top ofsobre la mesa: on the table2) : over, above3) : about¿tiene libros sobre Bolivia?: do you have books on Bolivia?4)sobre todo : especially, above all* * *sobre1 n1. (para carta) envelope2. (envoltorio) packet3. (envoltorio pequeño) sachetsobre2 prep1. (encima de) on2. (por encima de) over3. (acerca de, alrededor de) aboutsobre todo above all / especially
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