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  • 1 seizième

    seizième [sεzjεm]
    adjective
    masculine noun, feminine noun
    * * *
    sɛzjɛm
    adjectif sixteenth
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    sɛzjɛm num
    * * *
    seizième ⇒ Les nombres, La date adj sixteenth.
    seizièmes de finale Sport round in competition with thirty-two competitors.
    [sɛzjɛm] adjectif numéral
    voir aussi link=cinquième cinquième
    ————————
    [sɛzjɛm] nom masculin et féminin
    ————————
    [sɛzjɛm] nom masculin
    1. [arrondissement]
    2. [partie]
    ————————
    seizièmes nom masculin pluriel
    This term often refers to the upper class social background, lifestyle, way of dressing etc, associated with the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > seizième

  • 2 amplio

    adj.
    1 ample, extensive, broad, roomy.
    2 ample, generous, broad, free-handed.
    3 wide, diverse, varied.
    4 liberal-minded, liberal, tolerant, all-round.
    5 spacious, capacious.
    6 free-ranging.
    * * *
    1 (extenso) large
    2 (espacioso) roomy, spacious
    3 (ancho) wide, broad
    4 (holgado) loose
    \
    en el sentido más amplio de la palabra in the broadest sense of the word
    * * *
    (f. - amplia)
    adj.
    ample, wide, spacious
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=espacioso) [habitación, interior] spacious; [avenida, calle] wide
    2) [ropa] loose(-fitting), roomy *; [falda] full
    3) [margen] wide
    4) [conocimiento, vocabulario, poder, gama] wide, extensive

    un amplio surtido de productos — a wide o extensive range of products

    5) [sentido] broad
    6) [repercusión] far-reaching

    la noticia tuvo amplia difusión o amplio eco en la prensa — the news was widely o extensively reported

    7) [informe] full, detailed
    * * *
    - plia adjetivo
    a) <calle/valle/margen> wide; < casa> spacious; <vestido/abrigo> loose-fitting
    b) <criterio/sentido> broad
    c) <garantías/programa> comprehensive
    * * *
    = vast [vaster -comp., vastest -sup.], extensive, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], wide-sweeping, widespread, broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], airy [airier -comp., airiest -sup.], ample, capacious, widespan, wide-reaching, expansive, extended, wide [wider -comp., widest -sup.], wide-angle(d), loose fit, roomy [roomier -comp., roomiest -sup.].
    Ex. If you add to this other access points, such as collections housed in old people's homes or day centres, prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, playgroups etc the coverage is vast.
    Ex. The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex. Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex. Surely these innovations already have and will continue to bring deep and wide-sweeping change to our profession - and because of their rapidity, these changes will be sudden and often tumultuous.
    Ex. Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.
    Ex. In 'upper town' streets are broad, quiet, and tree-shaded; the homes are tall and heavy and look like battleships, each anchored in its private sea of grass.
    Ex. In the questionnaire young people answered that the bookshops in their town were airy, well-lit and very pleasant shops to visit.
    Ex. The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex. This is an efficient method of storing large amounts of programs and data, which is faster, more reliable and much more capacious than the floppy disc.
    Ex. With no other type of structure is it possible to obtain clear, widespan coverage of almost unlimited areas, translucency to permit uniform daylight, and transportability or relocatability.
    Ex. Appraisal is the single most important function performed by an archivist because it has wide-reaching and everlasting social implications.
    Ex. The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex. The brief abstracts and extended abstracts of papers, not published in full in the proceedings, are excluded.
    Ex. Located in an isolated section of the Southwest, Los Pasos sits under the brassy sun on a wide plain below a low range of hills.
    Ex. Except for the principal no one besides the librarian has such a wide-angle view of the school's instructional programme.
    Ex. His offices and warehouses were one of the first designs which was subsequently described as loose fit, low energy building.
    Ex. With roomy interiors and flexible seating, minivans are some of the most versatile vehicles for carrying passengers and cargo.
    ----
    * cada vez más amplio = ever-widening.
    * demasiado amplio = overwide [over-wide].
    * desde un punto de vista más amplio = in a broader sense.
    * en el sentido más amplio = in the broadest sense, in the widest sense.
    * en su sentido más amplio = in its/their broadest sense, in its/their widest sense.
    * en un sentido más amplio = in a broader sense, in a larger sense.
    * horario de apertura más amplio = extended hours.
    * una amplia gama de = a wide variety of, a wide range of, a broad variety of, a broad range of.
    * una amplia variedad de = a broad variety of, a wide range of, a broad range of.
    * WAN (red de área amplia) = WAN (wide area network).
    * * *
    - plia adjetivo
    a) <calle/valle/margen> wide; < casa> spacious; <vestido/abrigo> loose-fitting
    b) <criterio/sentido> broad
    c) <garantías/programa> comprehensive
    * * *
    = vast [vaster -comp., vastest -sup.], extensive, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], wide-sweeping, widespread, broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], airy [airier -comp., airiest -sup.], ample, capacious, widespan, wide-reaching, expansive, extended, wide [wider -comp., widest -sup.], wide-angle(d), loose fit, roomy [roomier -comp., roomiest -sup.].

    Ex: If you add to this other access points, such as collections housed in old people's homes or day centres, prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, playgroups etc the coverage is vast.

    Ex: The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex: Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex: Surely these innovations already have and will continue to bring deep and wide-sweeping change to our profession - and because of their rapidity, these changes will be sudden and often tumultuous.
    Ex: Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.
    Ex: In 'upper town' streets are broad, quiet, and tree-shaded; the homes are tall and heavy and look like battleships, each anchored in its private sea of grass.
    Ex: In the questionnaire young people answered that the bookshops in their town were airy, well-lit and very pleasant shops to visit.
    Ex: The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex: This is an efficient method of storing large amounts of programs and data, which is faster, more reliable and much more capacious than the floppy disc.
    Ex: With no other type of structure is it possible to obtain clear, widespan coverage of almost unlimited areas, translucency to permit uniform daylight, and transportability or relocatability.
    Ex: Appraisal is the single most important function performed by an archivist because it has wide-reaching and everlasting social implications.
    Ex: The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex: The brief abstracts and extended abstracts of papers, not published in full in the proceedings, are excluded.
    Ex: Located in an isolated section of the Southwest, Los Pasos sits under the brassy sun on a wide plain below a low range of hills.
    Ex: Except for the principal no one besides the librarian has such a wide-angle view of the school's instructional programme.
    Ex: His offices and warehouses were one of the first designs which was subsequently described as loose fit, low energy building.
    Ex: With roomy interiors and flexible seating, minivans are some of the most versatile vehicles for carrying passengers and cargo.
    * cada vez más amplio = ever-widening.
    * demasiado amplio = overwide [over-wide].
    * desde un punto de vista más amplio = in a broader sense.
    * en el sentido más amplio = in the broadest sense, in the widest sense.
    * en su sentido más amplio = in its/their broadest sense, in its/their widest sense.
    * en un sentido más amplio = in a broader sense, in a larger sense.
    * horario de apertura más amplio = extended hours.
    * una amplia gama de = a wide variety of, a wide range of, a broad variety of, a broad range of.
    * una amplia variedad de = a broad variety of, a wide range of, a broad range of.
    * WAN (red de área amplia) = WAN (wide area network).

    * * *
    1 ‹calle› wide; ‹valle› wide, broad; ‹casa› spacious; ‹vestido/abrigo› loose-fitting; ‹falda/manga› full
    con una amplia sonrisa with a broad smile
    2 ‹criterio› broad; ‹margen› wide
    en el sentido amplio de la palabra in the broad sense of the word
    por amplia mayoría by a large majority
    tiene amplias facultades para decidir sobre este punto he has full authority to make a decision on this point
    una amplia gama de colores a wide range of colors
    les ofrecemos las más amplias garantías we offer comprehensive guarantees o the fullest possible guarantees
    un tema que tuvo una amplia difusión an issue that received wide media coverage
    un amplio programa de reformas a full o wide-ranging o comprehensive program of reforms
    * * *

     

    Del verbo ampliar: ( conjugate ampliar)

    amplío es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    amplió es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    ampliar    
    amplio
    ampliar ( conjugate ampliar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹local/carretera› to extend;

    ‹ negocio› to expand
    b) ‹capital/personal› to increase

    c) ‹conocimientos/vocabulario› to increase;

    ‹ explicación› to expand (on);
    ‹ campo de acción› to widen, broaden;

    d) ‹plazo/período› to extend


    amplio
    ◊ - plia adjetivo

    a) ‹calle/valle/margen› wide;

    ‹ casa› spacious;
    ‹vestido/abrigo› loose-fitting;
    ‹ sonrisa› broad
    b) ‹criterio/sentido› broad;


    una amplia gama de colores a wide range of colors
    c) ‹garantías/programa› comprehensive

    ampliar verbo transitivo
    1 (hacer más largo un plazo) to extend
    2 (hacer más grande un edificio) to enlarge
    3 (extender un negocio) to expand
    4 (una fotografía) to enlarge, to blow up
    5 (el campo de acción) to widen: los sindicatos proponen ampliar las sanciones a los defraudadores, the unions propose greater penalties for those committing fraud
    amplio,-a adjetivo
    1 large, roomy
    2 (ancho, profundo, variado) wide, broad ➣ Ver nota en ancho
    ' amplio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amplia
    - ancha
    - ancho
    - dilatada
    - dilatado
    - espectro
    - nave
    English:
    ample
    - extensive
    - large
    - roomy
    - spacious
    - sweep
    - vocabulary
    - wide
    - all
    - broad
    - comfortable
    - smock
    - sweeping
    * * *
    amplio, -a adj
    1. [grande] [sala, maletero] roomy, spacious;
    [avenida] wide;
    una amplio sonrisa a broad smile
    2. [ropa] loose
    3. [extenso] [explicación, cobertura] comprehensive;
    [ventaja, capacidad] considerable;
    en el sentido más amplio de la palabra in the broadest sense of the word;
    ganaron por una amplia mayoría they won with a large majority;
    hubo un amplio consenso there was a broad consensus;
    ofrecen una amplia gama de servicios they offer a wide range of services;
    gozan de una amplia aceptación they enjoy widespread approval;
    tiene una amplia experiencia she has wide-ranging experience
    4. [abierto]
    una persona de amplias miras o [m5] amplia de miras a broad-minded person
    * * *
    adj casa spacious; gama, margen wide; falda full
    * * *
    amplio, - plia adj
    : broad, wide, ample
    ♦ ampliamente adj
    * * *
    amplio adj
    1. (gama, margen) wide
    2. (valor, cantidad) large
    3. (espacioso) spacious
    4. (ropa) baggy [comp. baggier; superl. baggiest] / loose

    Spanish-English dictionary > amplio

  • 3 dominar

    v.
    1 to control (controlar) (pasión, nervios, caballo).
    era imposible dominar el vehículo it was impossible to maintain control of the vehicle
    2 to overcome.
    lo dominaba el deseo irrefrenable de besarla he was overcome by an irresistible desire to kiss her
    3 to master (conocer) (técnica, tema).
    domina varias lenguas she speaks various languages fluently
    ha conseguido dominar el inglés en pocos meses he managed to acquire a good command of English within a few months
    4 to overlook.
    desde aquí se domina todo Bilbao you can see the whole of Bilbao from here
    5 to predominate.
    6 to dominate, to domineer, to bestride, to have sway over.
    El tirano domina al pueblo The tyrant dominates the people.
    Ella domina su ira She dominates her anger.
    7 to tower above, to dominate.
    El cerro domina el horizonte The hill dominates the horizon.
    8 to have the control, to dominate, to have ascendancy, to have the ascendancy.
    Ella domina She has the control.
    9 to calm down forcibly, to calm down.
    10 to take over.
    * * *
    1 (tener bajo dominio) to dominate
    2 (avasallar) to domineer
    3 (controlar) to control, restrain
    4 (conocer a fondo) to master
    5 (ver) to overlook, dominate
    1 (ser superior) to dominate
    2 (destacar) to stand out
    3 (predominar) to predominate
    1 (controlarse) to control oneself, restrain oneself
    * * *
    verb
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=controlar) [+ población, territorio] to dominate; [+ países] to rule, rule over; [+ adversario] to overpower; [+ caballo] to control
    2) (=contener) [+ incendio, epidemia] to check, bring under control; [+ rebelión] to put down, suppress; [+ pasión] to control, master; [+ nervios, emoción] to control; [+ dolor] to overcome
    3) [+ técnica, tema] to master
    4) (=estar por encima de)
    2. VI
    1) [edificio] to tower
    2) (=predominar) [color, rasgo] to stand out; [opinión, tendencia] to predominate
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( controlar) <nación/territorio/persona> to dominate; <pasión/cólera> to control; <vehiculo/caballo> to control

    dominado por la ambición/los celos — ruled by ambition/consumed by jealousy

    b) < idioma> to have a good command of; <tema/asignatura> to know... very well
    d) montaña/torre to dominate
    2.
    dominar vi color/tendencia to predominate; opinión to prevail; equipo to dominate
    3.
    dominarse v pron persona to restrain o control oneself
    * * *
    = dominate, dominate + the scene, get + command of, tame, subdue, master, command, conquer, preponderate, overtake, overlook, gain + control (over/of), get + a grip on, tower above/over, pervade, hold + sway (over), be king, lord over, lord it over, keep + a tight hold on.
    Ex. The ideology advocated by Panizzi has since dominated not only Anglo-American but Western cataloging generally.
    Ex. This may have something to do with the absence of CABx, who seem to have dominated the scene in other states.
    Ex. The great storyteller, FC Sayers, having advised the beginner to 'steep himself in folklore until the elemental themes are part of himself,' explains how best to get command of a tale.
    Ex. The problem reside in the fact that they environment we seek to tame and control is an open, unstructured dynamic process, while human organizations are static and highly resistant to change.
    Ex. Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.
    Ex. The library director strove to master his frustration.
    Ex. Very few engravers commanded the necessary artistry.
    Ex. The tools and technologies provided by the Internet enable scholars to communicate or disseminate information in ways which conquer the barriers of time and space.
    Ex. The indexing languages used in science and technology were first in the field, and still preponderate, both in areas covered and in number.
    Ex. E-Books, while a curiosity and a lot of fun, do not seem to be overtaking the mass market.
    Ex. In this sense the British Council libraries may be seen as a window, overlooking the British Isles, their virtues and characteristics.
    Ex. Gradually many of these conquerors came to realize that, although military might was necessary to gain control over an area, sheer force of arms was not sufficient to govern effectively.
    Ex. The article ' Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.
    Ex. Prague represents a unique collection of historical monuments dominated by Prague Castle towering high above the city.
    Ex. I strongly believe that we must cultivate a more positive attitude towards change in the field of library work, and that this attitude must pervade all levels of librarianship.
    Ex. This ideology appealed widely to the librarian as well as the library user and held sway for nearly a quarter of a millennium when, in 1841, a catalytic event in the history of cataloging took place.
    Ex. Despite the electronics invasion, books are still king, and book fairs keeps on growing every year.
    Ex. She argues that the way yeoman farmers lorded over their wives and dependents was similar to the way wealthy planters lorded over their slaves.
    Ex. They believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense.
    Ex. A study of telly-addicts has found that in 45 per cent of homes mums keep a tight hold on the remote control.
    ----
    * dominar a Alguien = have + Nombre + under + Posesivo + thumb, bring + Nombre + under + Posesivo + sway.
    * dominar aún más = tighten + Posesivo + grip on.
    * dominar el miedo = conquer + fear.
    * dominar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * dominar por completo = sweep + the board.
    * dominar una destreza = master + skill.
    * dominar una técnica = master + technique.
    * la mano que mece la cuna es la mano que domina el mundo = the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( controlar) <nación/territorio/persona> to dominate; <pasión/cólera> to control; <vehiculo/caballo> to control

    dominado por la ambición/los celos — ruled by ambition/consumed by jealousy

    b) < idioma> to have a good command of; <tema/asignatura> to know... very well
    d) montaña/torre to dominate
    2.
    dominar vi color/tendencia to predominate; opinión to prevail; equipo to dominate
    3.
    dominarse v pron persona to restrain o control oneself
    * * *
    = dominate, dominate + the scene, get + command of, tame, subdue, master, command, conquer, preponderate, overtake, overlook, gain + control (over/of), get + a grip on, tower above/over, pervade, hold + sway (over), be king, lord over, lord it over, keep + a tight hold on.

    Ex: The ideology advocated by Panizzi has since dominated not only Anglo-American but Western cataloging generally.

    Ex: This may have something to do with the absence of CABx, who seem to have dominated the scene in other states.
    Ex: The great storyteller, FC Sayers, having advised the beginner to 'steep himself in folklore until the elemental themes are part of himself,' explains how best to get command of a tale.
    Ex: The problem reside in the fact that they environment we seek to tame and control is an open, unstructured dynamic process, while human organizations are static and highly resistant to change.
    Ex: Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.
    Ex: The library director strove to master his frustration.
    Ex: Very few engravers commanded the necessary artistry.
    Ex: The tools and technologies provided by the Internet enable scholars to communicate or disseminate information in ways which conquer the barriers of time and space.
    Ex: The indexing languages used in science and technology were first in the field, and still preponderate, both in areas covered and in number.
    Ex: E-Books, while a curiosity and a lot of fun, do not seem to be overtaking the mass market.
    Ex: In this sense the British Council libraries may be seen as a window, overlooking the British Isles, their virtues and characteristics.
    Ex: Gradually many of these conquerors came to realize that, although military might was necessary to gain control over an area, sheer force of arms was not sufficient to govern effectively.
    Ex: The article ' Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.
    Ex: Prague represents a unique collection of historical monuments dominated by Prague Castle towering high above the city.
    Ex: I strongly believe that we must cultivate a more positive attitude towards change in the field of library work, and that this attitude must pervade all levels of librarianship.
    Ex: This ideology appealed widely to the librarian as well as the library user and held sway for nearly a quarter of a millennium when, in 1841, a catalytic event in the history of cataloging took place.
    Ex: Despite the electronics invasion, books are still king, and book fairs keeps on growing every year.
    Ex: She argues that the way yeoman farmers lorded over their wives and dependents was similar to the way wealthy planters lorded over their slaves.
    Ex: They believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense.
    Ex: A study of telly-addicts has found that in 45 per cent of homes mums keep a tight hold on the remote control.
    * dominar a Alguien = have + Nombre + under + Posesivo + thumb, bring + Nombre + under + Posesivo + sway.
    * dominar aún más = tighten + Posesivo + grip on.
    * dominar el miedo = conquer + fear.
    * dominar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * dominar por completo = sweep + the board.
    * dominar una destreza = master + skill.
    * dominar una técnica = master + technique.
    * la mano que mece la cuna es la mano que domina el mundo = the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

    * * *
    dominar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 (controlar) ‹nación/territorio› to dominate; ‹persona› to dominate; ‹pasión/cólera› to control
    tiene a los niños totalmente dominados she has the children well under her thumb o under control
    dominado por la ambición ruled by ambition
    dominado por los celos consumed by jealousy
    no logró dominar su ira she couldn't contain o control her anger
    el equipo que dominó el encuentro the team which dominated the match
    no logró dominar el vehículo/caballo he couldn't get control of the vehicle/horse
    la policía dominó la situación en todo momento the police had the situation under control at all times
    2 ‹tema/idioma›
    no domino el tema I'm no expert on the subject
    domina el francés she has a good command of French
    nunca voy a poder dominar el inglés I'll never be able to master English
    3
    (abarcar con la vista): desde allí se domina toda la bahía there's a view over the whole bay from there, from there you can look out over the whole bay
    4 «montaña/torre» to dominate
    ■ dominar
    vi
    «color/tendencia» to predominate; «opinión» to prevail
    el tema que dominó en las negociones the subject which dominated the talks
    el equipo visitante dominó durante el segundo tiempo the visitors dominated the second half o were on top in the second half
    «persona» to restrain o control oneself
    * * *

     

    dominar ( conjugate dominar) verbo transitivo
    a) ( controlar) ‹nación/territorio/persona› to dominate;

    ‹pasión/cólera› to control;
    ‹vehículo/caballo› to control;
    ◊ dominado por la ambición/los celos ruled by ambition/consumed by jealousy


    ‹tema/asignatura› to know … very well


    verbo intransitivo [color/tendencia] to predominate;
    [ opinión] to prevail;
    [ equipo] to dominate
    dominarse verbo pronominal [ persona] to restrain o control oneself
    dominar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (un pueblo, país) to dominate, rule
    2 (contener, controlar) to control
    3 (conocer perfectamente: un idioma) to speak very well
    (: un asunto, una actividad) to master
    4 (con la vista) to overlook
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to dominate
    2 (un color, una característica) to stand out
    ' dominar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abarcar
    - imperar
    - imponerse
    - vencer
    - conocer
    - dejar
    - reducir
    - someter
    - sujetar
    English:
    control
    - curb
    - dominate
    - hold down
    - master
    - overpower
    - pervade
    - restrain
    - subdue
    - sway
    - tower
    - over
    - rule
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [controlar] [país, territorio, pueblo] to dominate, to rule (over);
    [persona, caballo] to control; [emociones, nervios] to control, to keep under control; [situación] to be in control of; [incendio, epidemia] to bring under control; [rebelión] to put down; [partido] to dominate;
    la guerrilla domina toda esta zona guerrillas control this entire area;
    la policía logró dominar a los alborotadores the police managed to bring the troublemakers under control;
    tiene al marido dominado she has her husband under her thumb;
    era imposible dominar el vehículo it was impossible to maintain control of the vehicle;
    no supo dominar sus nervios she couldn't control her nervousness;
    el equipo local dominó el partido en todo momento the local team dominated the game from the beginning
    2. [sujeto: pasión, nervios, emociones] to overcome;
    lo dominaba el deseo irrefrenable de besarla he was overcome by an irresistible desire to kiss her
    3. [ser experto en] [técnica, tema] to master;
    [lengua] to be fluent in;
    domina a la perfección los temas de contabilidad he has a perfect mastery of accounting;
    domina varias lenguas she speaks various languages fluently;
    ha conseguido dominar el inglés en pocos meses he managed to acquire a good command of English in a few months;
    ¡cómo domina el balón! what great ball control!
    4. [divisar] to overlook;
    desde aquí se domina todo Bilbao you can see the whole of Bilbao from here
    5. [destacar por encima de] to dominate;
    el castillo domina el pueblo the castle dominates the town
    ♦ vi
    [predominar] to predominate;
    una zona donde domina el voto socialista an area with a predominantly socialist vote
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    I v/t
    1 persona, mercado dominate
    2 idioma have a good command of
    II v/i dominate
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    1) : to dominate
    2) : to master, to be proficient at
    : to predominate, to prevail
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    1. (en general) to dominate
    2. (tener bajo poder) to rule over
    3. (controlar) to control
    4. (contener) to bring under control [pt. & pp. brought]
    5. (idioma) to be fluent in
    6. (otras materias) to be good at / to be an expert on

    Spanish-English dictionary > dominar

  • 4 kommen

    v/i; kommt, kam, ist gekommen
    1. come; (ankommen) auch arrive; (gelangen) get ( bis to); durch eine Stadt / Gegend kommen pass through a town / area; nach Hause kommen come ( oder get) home; wie komme ich zum Bahnhof / nach Linz? how do I get to the (Am. train) station / to Linz?; ich komme gerade von der Arbeit I’ve just got back from work; komm schon! come on!, hurry up!; ich komme schon! I’m coming; na, komm schon! umg. come on (, now)!; er wird bald kommen he’ll be here ( oder with you) soon, he won’t be long; da kommt jemand there’s somebody coming; es ist Post für dich gekommen there’s some post (Am. mail) for you; spät kommen come ( oder be) late; zu spät kommen be late; und etwas versäumen: be too late; jetzt komme ich an die Reihe now it’s my turn; zuerst oder als Erster / zuletzt oder als Letzter kommen come first / last; wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst Sprichw. first come, first served; wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben etwa: he who lags behind, loses; angelaufen etc. kommen come running etc. along ( oder up); der soll mir nur kommen!, er soll nur kommen! drohend: (just) let him come; jemanden kommen lassen send for s.o.; etw. kommen lassen (bestellen) send for ( oder order) s.th.; wie weit bist du gekommen? how far did you get?; es kam mir ( der Gedanke), dass... it occurred to me that...; es kommt mir oder mir kommt eine Idee I’ve got an idea, I know what we can do; mir kommen die Tränen tears come to my eyes, my eyes fill with tears; iro. don’t make me weep; das wird teuer kommen / dich teuer kommen umg. it’ll come expensive / it’ll cost you; ihr Aufschlag kommt gut Tennis: her serve is coming on well; siehe auch Reihe, spät II etc.
    2. (herannahen) be coming; es kommt ein Gewitter there’s a storm coming (up); der Morgen kommt it’s nearly morning, it’s starting to get light; die Flut kommt the tide is coming in; da vorn kommt gleich eine Kreuzung there’s a junction (Am. intersection) coming up, we’re just coming to a junction (Am. intersection)
    3. (geschehen) auch happen; etw. kommen sehen (voraussehen) see s.th. coming; das kommt mir gelegen / ungelegen it’s a good / bad time ( oder the right / wrong moment) for me; wie kommt das? how does that come about?, how is that possible?; wie oder woher kommt es, dass how is it that, how come umg.; das kommt daher, dass it’s because; das durfte jetzt nicht kommen it shouldn’t happen (now), it shouldn’t be possible; umg. (das hättest du nicht sagen sollen) you shouldn’t have said that; was auch ( immer) kommen mag... whatever happens,...; komme, was da wolle come what may; es wird noch ganz anders kommen there’s worse to come (yet); das musste ja so kommen it had to ( oder was bound to) happen; es kam, wie es kommen musste the inevitable happened; es ist so weit gekommen, dass things have got to the stage where; es wird noch so weit kommen, dass er rausgeschmissen wird he’ll be thrown out one of these days
    4. umg. wenn Sie mir so kommen if you talk to me like that; komm mir ja nicht so frech! don’t be so cheeky, Am. don’t be such a smart aleck, I don’t want any of your cheek; komm mir nur nicht mit diesen Ausreden spare me your excuses; damit kannst du mir nicht kommen you don’t expect me to believe that, do you?; komm mir nicht dauernd mit der Geschichte I wish you wouldn’t keep going on ( oder I wish you’d stop pestering me) about that business; er kommt einfach mit diesen Ideen he just trots out these ideas
    5. umg. (einen Orgasmus haben) come; ich komme I’m coming; es kommt ihr she’s coming
    6. umg. (sich entwickeln) develop; wie kommt dein neues Projekt? how is your new project coming on?
    7. kommen an (+ Akk)
    a) (gelangen zu) come ( oder get) to, arrive at; (jemandem zukommen) go ( oder fall) to; an jemandes Stelle kommen take s.o.’s place;
    b) (sich verschaffen, bekommen) get hold of; wie bist du an die Daten gekommen? how did you come by these data?
    8. kommen auf (+ Akk) (herausfinden) think of, hit upon; (sich erinnern an) think of, remember; auf eine Summe kommen come to ( oder total) an amount; auf die Rechnung kommen go ( oder be put) on the bill (Am. auch tab); das kommt (steht) auf Seite 12 that comes ( oder is) on page 12; auf etw. zu sprechen kommen get onto the subject of s.th.; wie kommst du darauf? what makes you say that?, what gives you that idea?; darauf wäre ich nie gekommen it would never have occurred to me; ich komme nicht darauf! I just can’t think of it; darauf komme ich gleich I’ll be coming to that; auf 100 Einwohner kommt ein Arzt there’s a ( oder one) doctor for every 100 inhabitants; ich lasse nichts auf ihn kommen I won’t have anything said against him
    9. hinter etw. (+ Akk) kommen find s.th. out
    10. das Buch kommt ins oberste Regal / ins Arbeitszimmer the book goes on the top shelf / belongs in the study; in Gefahr / Not / Verlegenheit kommen get into danger / difficulties Pl. / an embarrassing situation; ins Rutschen kommen get into a slide ( oder skid)
    11. über einen Zaun etc. kommen get over a fence etc.; über jemanden kommen Gefühl etc.: come over s.o.; Fluch: come upon s.o.
    12. um etw. kommen lose s.th.; durch fremdes Mitwirken: be done out of s.th.; ums Leben kommen lose one’s life, die, (getötet werden) auch be killed
    13. kommen unter (+ Akk) eine Überschrift etc.: go under; ein Auto etc.: be run over by
    14. kommen von Ergebnis: be a result of ( oder due to); das kommt davon! see what happens?, what did I tell you?; das kommt davon, wenn du so viel trinkst that’s what happens when you drink so much
    15. kommen vor (+ Akk) come ( oder go) before; vors Gericht kommen Sache: come up before the court
    16. zu etw. kommen come ( oder get) to s.th.; (bekommen) come by s.th., get hold of s.th.; zu Geld kommen (erben) come into money; zur Ansicht kommen, dass... come to the conclusion that..., decide that...; zur Sprache kommen come up (for discussion); ( wieder) zu sich kommen come to ( oder [a]round), regain consciousness; wie kamst du bloß dazu(, das zu tun)? what on earth made you do that?; es kam zum Streit a quarrel developed; es kam zu Kämpfen zwischen... fighting broke out between...; zum Stehen kommen come to a standstill; ich komme einfach nicht zum Lesen I just don’t get ( oder find) the time to read anything; ich komme aber erst morgen dazu I won’t get (a)round to it ( oder manage it) before tomorrow; wie kommen Sie dazu? how dare you?; siehe auch Kraft 1, Sache etc.
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    to arrive; to emerge; to come
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    Kọm|men
    nt -s, no pl
    coming

    ein einziges Kommen und Gehen — a constant coming and going

    jd ist im Kommen — sb is on his/her way up

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    das
    1) (coming or arrival: the advent of space travel.) advent
    2) (to (manage to) move, go, take, put etc: He couldn't get across the river; I got the book down from the shelf.) get
    3) (to move etc towards the person speaking or writing, or towards the place being referred to by him: Come here!; Are you coming to the dance?; John has come to see me; Have any letters come for me?) come
    4) (to become near or close to something in time or space: Christmas is coming soon.) come
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    kom·men
    [ˈkɔmən]
    1.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (eintreffen) to come, to arrive
    ich bin gerade ge\kommen I just arrived [or got here]
    ich komme schon! I'm coming!
    sie \kommen morgen aus Berlin they're arriving [or coming] from Berlin tomorrow
    der Zug kommt aus Paris the train is coming from Paris
    da kommt Anne/der Bus there's Anne/the bus
    der Bus müsste jeden Augenblick \kommen the bus is due any minute
    ich komme um vier und hole Sie ab I'll come and fetch you at four
    der Wind kommt von Osten/von der See the wind is blowing [or coming] from the East/off the sea
    sie kam in Begleitung ihres Mannes she was accompanied by her husband
    ich bin ge\kommen, um zu helfen I've come [or I'm here] to help
    du kommst wie gerufen! you've come just at the right moment!
    wann soll das Baby \kommen? when's the baby due?
    das Baby kam am 1. Mai the baby arrived [or was born] on the 1 May
    zurzeit \kommen laufend Anfragen zur neuen Software we keep receiving queries about the new software at the moment
    seine Antwort kam zögernd his answer was hesitant, he answered hesitantly
    jede Hilfe kam zu spät help came [or arrived] too late
    angefahren/angeflogen/angerannt \kommen to arrive by car/by plane/at a run
    sie kamen gestern aus Rom angefahren/angeflogen they drove up/flew in from Rome yesterday
    angereist \kommen to arrive
    mit dem Auto/Fahrrad \kommen to come by car/bike, to drive/cycle
    als Erster/Letzter \kommen to be the first/last to arrive, to arrive first/last
    früh/pünktlich/rechtzeitig/spät \kommen to arrive early/on time [or punctually]/in time/late
    zu Fuß \kommen to come on foot, to walk
    2.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (gelangen)
    ▪ irgendwohin \kommen to get [or reach] somewhere
    kommt man hier zum Bahnhof? is this the way to the station?
    wie komme ich von hier zum Bahnhof? how do I get to the station from here?
    zu Fuß kommt man am schnellsten dahin the quickest way [to get] there is to walk
    sie kommt kaum noch aus dem Haus she hardly gets out of the house these days
    nach Hause \kommen to come [or get] home
    unter's Messer \kommen (hum) to have an operation
    [sicher] ans Ufer \kommen to [safely] reach the bank
    ans Ziel \kommen to reach the finishing [or AM finish] line
    3.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich begeben) to come
    kommst du mit uns ins Kino? are you coming to the cinema with us?
    meine Kollegin kommt sofort zu Ihnen my colleague will be with you [or be along] immediately
    nach draußen/oben/unten \kommen to come outside/upstairs/downstairs
    nach London/England \kommen to come to London/England
    4.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (passieren)
    ▪ durch etw akk/über etw akk/einen Ort \kommen to pass [or come] through sth/a place
    5.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (teilnehmen)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen Kongress, Party, Training to come to [or form attend] sth
    6.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (besuchen)
    ▪ zu jdm \kommen to visit sb, to come and see [or visit] sb
    ich komme gern[e] einmal zu Ihnen I'd be delighted to visit you sometime
    komm doch mal, ich würde mich sehr freuen! [come and] stop by sometime, I'd love to see you!
    7.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (herstammen)
    ▪ irgendwoher \kommen to come [or be] [or hail] from somewhere
    sie kommt aus New York/Australien she's [or she comes] [or she hails] from New York/Australia, she's a New Yorker/an Australian
    8.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (folgen, an der Reihe sein) to come
    wer kommt [jetzt]? whose turn [or go] is it?
    ▪ nach etw dat \kommen to come after [or follow] sth
    die Schule kommt kurz nach der Kreuzung the school is just after the crossroads
    ▪ nach/vor jdm \kommen to come after/before sb
    an die Reihe \kommen to be sb's turn [or go]
    ich komme zuerst [an die Reihe] I'm first, it's my turn [or go] first
    noch \kommen to be still [or yet] to come
    da wird noch mehr Ärger \kommen there'll be more trouble yet
    das Schlimmste kommt noch the worst is yet to come
    zuerst [o als Erster] /als Nächster/zuletzt [o als Letzter] \kommen to come first/next/last
    9.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (untergebracht werden)
    ins Gefängnis/Krankenhaus \kommen to go to prison/into hospital
    vor Gericht \kommen Fall to come to court; Mensch to come [or appear] before the court
    in die Schule/Lehre \kommen to start school/an apprenticeship
    10.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (erlangen)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to achieve sth
    wie komme ich zu dieser Ehre? (iron, hum) to what do I owe this honour?
    zu der Erkenntnis \kommen, dass... to realize [or come to the realization] that...
    zu Geld \kommen to come into money
    zu Kräften \kommen to gain strength
    zu Ruhm \kommen to achieve [or win] fame
    [wieder] zu sich dat selbst \kommen to get out of one's head, to come back to [or find] oneself again
    zu sich dat \kommen to come to, to regain consciousness
    ▪ an jdn/etw \kommen to get hold of sb/sth
    wie bist du an das viele Geld ge\kommen? how did you get hold of [or come by] all that money?; s.a. Besinnung, Ruhe
    11.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (verlieren)
    ▪ um etw akk \kommen to lose sth
    ums Leben \kommen to lose one's life, to be killed, to die
    12.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (erreichen) to reach
    auf den 2. Platz \kommen to reach 2nd place, to come [in] 2nd
    13.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (gebracht werden) to come
    kam Post für mich? was there any post for me?
    14.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (veranlassen, dass jd kommt)
    den Arzt/den Klempner/ein Taxi \kommen lassen to send for [or call] the doctor/the plumber/a taxi
    15.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (hingehören) to go, to belong
    die Tasse kommt dahin the cup belongs there
    16.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (herannahen) to approach; (eintreten, geschehen) to come about, to happen
    heute kommt noch ein Gewitter there'll be a thunderstorm today
    der Winter kommt mit Riesenschritten winter is fast approaching
    der Termin kommt etwas ungelegen the meeting comes at a somewhat inconvenient time
    das habe ich schon lange \kommen sehen! I saw that coming a long time ago
    das kam doch anders als erwartet it/that turned out [or happened] differently than expected
    es kam eins zum anderen one thing led to another
    und so kam es, dass... and that's why/how..., and that's how it came about [or happened] that...
    wie kommt es, dass...? how is it that...?, how come...?
    es musste ja so \kommen it/that was bound to happen
    es hätte viel schlimmer \kommen können it could have been much worse
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to happen
    zum Prozess \kommen to come to trial
    es zu etw dat \kommen lassen zum Streit to let it come to sth
    so weit \kommen, dass... to get to the stage [or point] where...
    so weit kommt es noch! (iron fam) that'll be the day! fam
    komme, was da wolle come what may
    was auch immer \kommen mag whatever happens
    wie's kommt so kommt's whatever will be, will be
    [wieder] im K\kommen sein to be[come] fashionable again
    17.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (in Erscheinung treten) Pflanzen to come on [or along]
    die ersten Tomaten \kommen schon the first tomatoes are appearing
    18.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (jdn erfassen)
    ▪ über jdn \kommen Gefühl to come over sb
    eine gewaltige Traurigkeit kam über mich I was overcome by a tremendous sadness
    es kam einfach so über mich it just came over me
    19.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich bei jdm zeigen)
    jdm \kommen die Tränen sb is overcome by tears, sb starts to cry
    jdm \kommen Zweifel, ob... sb is beset [or overcome] by doubts [or sb doubts] whether...
    20.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (in einen Zustand geraten)
    ▪ in etw akk \kommen to get into sth
    wir kamen plötzlich ins Schleudern we suddenly started to skid
    in Fahrt [o Schwung] \kommen to get going
    in Gefahr/Not \kommen to get into danger/difficulty
    in Sicherheit \kommen to get to safety
    in Verlegenheit \kommen to get [or become] embarrassed; s.a. Stillstand
    21.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich verhalten) to be
    so lasse ich mir nicht \kommen! I won't have [or stand for] that!
    so kommst du mir nicht! don't you take that line with me!
    jdm frech \kommen to be cheeky to sb
    22.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: jdn belästigen)
    ▪ jdm mit etw dat \kommen to start telling sb about sth
    komm mir nicht schon wieder damit! don't give me [or start] that again!
    da kann [o könnte] ja jeder \kommen (fam) anyone could say that
    der soll nur \kommen! (fam) just let him try!
    23.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (seinen Grund haben) to come from
    daher kommt es, dass... that's why...
    das kommt davon! (fam) it's your own fault!
    das kommt davon, dass/weil... that's because...
    das kommt davon, wenn... that's what happens when...
    wie kommt es, dass... how come..., how is it that [that]...
    24.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich an etw erinnern)
    ▪ auf etw akk \kommen to remember sth, to recall sth
    ich komme beim besten Willen nicht darauf I just can't seem to remember [or recall] it
    25.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (einfallen)
    ▪ jdm \kommen to think of, to occur
    jdm kommt der Gedanke, dass... it occurs to sb that...
    na, das kommt dir aber früh! (iron) why didn't that occur to you sooner?
    26.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich verschaffen)
    ▪ an etw akk \kommen to get hold of sth
    wie bist du an das Geld ge\kommen? where did you get the money?
    27.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (etw herausfinden)
    ▪ hinter etw akk \kommen Pläne to find out sth sep, to get to the bottom of sth
    hinter ein Geheimnis \kommen to uncover [or sep find out] a secret
    wie kommst du darauf? what gives you that idea?, what makes you think that?; s.a. Schlich, Spur
    28.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein FILM, RADIO, TV (gesendet werden) to be on
    was kommt heute im Fernsehen? what's on [television] tonight?
    als Nächstes \kommen die Nachrichten the news is [on] next
    29.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (Zeit für etw finden)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to get around to doing sth
    ich komme zu nichts mehr! I don't have time for anything else!
    30.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (entfallen)
    ▪ auf jdn/etw \kommen to be allotted to sb/sth
    auf jeden Studenten kamen drei Studentinnen for every male student there were three female students, the ratio of female to male students was 3:1
    31.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (ähnlich sein)
    ▪ nach jdm \kommen to take after sb
    32.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: kosten) to cost
    die Reparatur kam sehr teuer the repairs cost a lot [of money]
    ▪ auf etw akk \kommen to come to sth
    33.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (überfahren werden)
    unter ein Auto/einen Lastwagen \kommen to be knocked down by a car/lorry [or AM truck]
    unter die Räder \kommen to get knocked [or run] down [or run over
    34.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (ansprechen)
    auf einen Punkt/eine Angelegenheit \kommen to broach [or get onto] a point/matter
    auf etw akk zu sprechen \kommen to get [a]round to [talking about] sth
    jetzt, wo wir auf das Thema Gehaltserhöhung zu sprechen \kommen,... now that we're on [or we've got round to] the subject of pay rises...
    ich werde gleich darauf \kommen I'll come [or get] to that in a moment
    35.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (reichen)
    ▪ an etw akk \kommen to reach sth
    36.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sl: Orgasmus haben) to come fam
    37.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: eine Aufforderung verstärkend)
    komm, sei nicht so enttäuscht come on, don't be so disappointed
    komm, lass uns gehen! come on [or hurry up], let's go!
    komm, komm, werd nicht frech! now now, don't get cheeky!
    ach komm! (fam) come on!
    38.
    ▶ erstens kommt es anders und zweitens als man denkt (prov) things never turn out the way you expect
    ▶ komm ich heut nicht, komm ich morgen (prov) you'll see me when you see me
    ▶ zu kurz \kommen to come off badly, to get a raw deal
    ▶ auf jdn/etw nichts \kommen lassen (fam) to not hear a [bad] word said against sb
    ▶ wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (prov) first come, first served; s.a. achtzig, halten, nahe, Zeit
    1.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich einfinden)
    ▪ es kommt jd sb is coming
    es kommt jetzt der berühmte Magier Obrikanus! and now the famous magician, Obrikanus!
    es scheint keiner mehr zu \kommen nobody else seems to be coming
    2.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (beginnen)
    ▪ es kommt etw sth is coming
    es kommt auch mal wieder schöneres Wetter the weather will turn nice again
    3.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sl: Orgasmus haben)
    ▪ es kommt jdm (veraltet) sb comes
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: kosten)
    ▪ jdn etw \kommen to cost sb sth
    die Reparatur kam mich sehr teuer I paid a lot [of money] for the repairs, the repairs cost a lot [of money]
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    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) come; (eintreffen) come; arrive

    angelaufen/angebraust usw. kommen — come running/roaring etc. along; (auf jemanden zu) come running/roaring etc. up

    angekrochen kommen — (fig.) come crawling up

    durch eine Gegend kommen — pass through a region

    nach Hause kommen — come or get home

    zu jemandem kommen — (jemanden besuchen) come and see somebody

    ist für mich keine Post gekommen? — is/was there no post for me?

    etwas kommen lassen — (etwas bestellen) order something

    jemanden kommen lassen — send for or call somebody

    da könnte ja jeder kommen! — (ugs.) who do you think you are?/who does he think he is? etc.

    komm mir bloß nicht damit! — (ugs.) don't give me that!

    [bitte] kommen! — (im Funkverkehr) come in[, please]

    2) (gelangen) get

    ans Ufer/Ziel kommen — reach the bank/finishing-line

    wie komme ich nach Paris? — how do I get to Paris?; (fig.)

    auf etwas (Akk.) zu sprechen kommen — turn to the discussion of something

    jemandem auf die Spur/Schliche kommen — get on somebody's trail/get wise to somebody's tricks

    dazu kommen, etwas zu tun — get round to doing something

    zum Einkaufen/Waschen kommen — get round to doing the shopping/washing

    3) (auftauchen) <seeds, plants> come up; <buds, flowers> come out; <peas, beans> form; < teeth> come through

    ihr ist ein Gedanke/eine Idee gekommen — she had a thought/an idea; a thought/an idea came to her

    zur Schule kommen — go to or start school

    ins Krankenhaus/Gefängnis kommen — go into hospital/to prison

    in den Himmel/in die Hölle kommen — (fig.) go to heaven/hell

    5) (gehören) go; belong

    in die Schublade/ins Regal kommen — go or belong in the drawer/on the shelf

    6) (gebracht, befördert werden) go
    7) (geraten) get

    in Gefahr/Not/Verlegenheit kommen — get into danger/serious difficulties/get or become embarrassed

    unter ein Auto/zu Tode kommen — be knocked down by a car/be or get killed

    neben jemandem zu sitzen kommen — get to sit next to somebody; s. auch Schwung; Stimmung

    8) (nahen)

    ein Gewitter/die Flut kommt — a storm is approaching/the tide's coming in

    der Tag/die Nacht kommt — (geh.) day is breaking/night is falling

    im Kommen sein — <fashion etc.> be coming in; < person> be on the way up

    9) (sich ereignen) come about; happen

    das durfte [jetzt] nicht kommen — (ugs. spött.) that's hardly the thing to say now

    gelegen/ungelegen kommen — <offer, opportunity> come/not come at the right moment; < visit> be/not be convenient

    überraschend [für jemanden] kommen — come as a surprise [to somebody]

    daher kommt es, dass... — that's [the reason] why...

    das kommt davon, dass... — that's because...

    vom vielen Rauchen/vom Vitaminmangel kommen — be due to smoking/vitamin deficiency

    wie kommt es, dass... — how is it that you/he etc....; how come that... (coll.)

    10) unpers

    es kam zum Streit/Kampf — there was a quarrel/fight

    es kam alles ganz anders — it all or everything turned out quite differently

    so weit kommt es noch [, dass ich euern Dreck wieder wegräume]! — (ugs. iron.) that really is the limit[, expecting me to clear up your rubbish after you]!

    11) (ugs.): (erreicht werden)

    da vorn kommt eine Tankstelle — there's a petrol station coming up (coll.)

    12)

    zu Erfolg/Ruhm usw. kommen — gain success/fame etc.

    nie zu etwas kommen — (ugs.) never get anywhere

    [wieder] zu sich kommen — regain consciousness; come round

    13) (an der Reihe sein; folgen)

    zuerst/zuletzt kam... — first/last came...

    als erster/letzter kommen — come first/last

    jetzt komme ich [an die Reihe] — it is my turn now

    14) (ugs.): (sich verhalten)

    jemandem frech/unverschämt/grob kommen — be cheeky/impertinent/rude to somebody

    so lasse ich mir nicht kommen! — I don't stand for that sort of thing!

    15)

    ich lasse auf ihn usw. nichts kommen — I won't hear anything said against him etc.

    über jemanden kommen — (jemanden erfassen) < feeling> come over somebody

    auf hundert Berufstätige kommen vier Arbeitslose — for every hundred people in employment, there are four people unemployed

    17)

    seine Eltern kommen aus Sachsen — his parents come or are from Saxony

    18) (ugs.): (kosten)

    alles zusammen kam auf... — altogether it came to...

    wie teuer kommt der Stoff? — how much or dear is that material?

    etwas kommt [jemanden] teuer — something comes expensive [for somebody]

    19) (ugs.): (anspringen) < engine> start
    20) (salopp): (Orgasmus haben) come (sl.)
    21) (ugs.): (als Aufforderung, Ermahnung)

    komm/kommt/kommen Sie — come on, now

    komm, komm — oh, come on

    [gut] kommen/nicht kommen — <serve, backhand, forehand, etc.> be going/not be going well

    23) in festen Wendungen: s. Ausbruch 2); Einsatz 3); Entfaltung 1); Fall
    * * *
    kommen v/i; kommt, kam, ist gekommen
    1. come; (ankommen) auch arrive; (gelangen) get (
    bis to);
    durch eine Stadt/Gegend kommen pass through a town/area;
    nach Hause kommen come ( oder get) home;
    wie komme ich zum Bahnhof/nach Linz? how do I get to the (US train) station/to Linz?;
    ich komme gerade von der Arbeit I’ve just got back from work;
    komm schon! come on!, hurry up!;
    ich komme schon! I’m coming;
    na, komm schon! umg come on(, now)!;
    er wird bald kommen he’ll be here ( oder with you) soon, he won’t be long;
    da kommt jemand there’s somebody coming;
    es ist Post für dich gekommen there’s some post (US mail) for you;
    spät kommen come ( oder be) late;
    zu spät kommen be late; und etwas versäumen: be too late;
    jetzt komme ich an die Reihe now it’s my turn;
    als Erster/zuletzt oder
    als Letzter kommen come first/last;
    wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst sprichw first come, first served;
    wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben etwa: he who lags behind, loses;
    kommen come running etc along ( oder up);
    der soll mir nur kommen!, er soll nur kommen! drohend: (just) let him come;
    etwas kommen lassen (bestellen) send for ( oder order) sth;
    wie weit bist du gekommen? how far did you get?;
    es kam mir (der Gedanke), dass … it occurred to me that …;
    mir kommt eine Idee I’ve got an idea, I know what we can do;
    mir kommen die Tränen tears come to my eyes, my eyes fill with tears; iron don’t make me weep;
    das wird teuer kommen/dich teuer kommen umg it’ll come expensive/it’ll cost you;
    ihr Aufschlag kommt gut Tennis: her serve is coming on well; → auch Reihe, spät B etc
    2. (herannahen) be coming;
    es kommt ein Gewitter there’s a storm coming (up);
    der Morgen kommt it’s nearly morning, it’s starting to get light;
    die Flut kommt the tide is coming in;
    da vorn kommt gleich eine Kreuzung there’s a junction (US intersection) coming up, we’re just coming to a junction (US intersection)
    3. (geschehen) auch happen;
    etwas kommen sehen (voraussehen) see sth coming;
    das kommt mir gelegen/ungelegen it’s a good/bad time ( oder the right/wrong moment) for me;
    wie kommt das? how does that come about?, how is that possible?;
    woher kommt es, dass how is it that, how come umg;
    das kommt daher, dass it’s because;
    das durfte jetzt nicht kommen it shouldn’t happen (now), it shouldn’t be possible; umg (das hättest du nicht sagen sollen) you shouldn’t have said that;
    was auch (immer) kommen mag … whatever happens, …;
    komme, was da wolle come what may;
    es wird noch ganz anders kommen there’s worse to come (yet);
    das musste ja so kommen it had to ( oder was bound to) happen;
    es kam, wie es kommen musste the inevitable happened;
    es ist so weit gekommen, dass things have got to the stage where;
    es wird noch so weit kommen, dass er rausgeschmissen wird he’ll be thrown out one of these days
    4. umg
    wenn Sie mir so kommen if you talk to me like that;
    komm mir ja nicht so frech! don’t be so cheeky, US don’t be such a smart aleck, I don’t want any of your cheek;
    damit kannst du mir nicht kommen you don’t expect me to believe that, do you?;
    komm mir nicht dauernd mit der Geschichte I wish you wouldn’t keep going on ( oder I wish you’d stop pestering me) about that business;
    er kommt einfach mit diesen Ideen he just trots out these ideas
    5. umg (einen Orgasmus haben) come;
    ich komme I’m coming;
    es kommt ihr she’s coming
    6. umg (sich entwickeln) develop;
    wie kommt dein neues Projekt? how is your new project coming on?
    7.
    kommen an (+akk) (gelangen zu) come ( oder get) to, arrive at; (jemandem zukommen) go ( oder fall) to;
    an jemandes Stelle kommen take sb’s place; (sich verschaffen, bekommen) get hold of;
    wie bist du an die Daten gekommen? how did you come by these data?
    8.
    kommen auf (+akk) (herausfinden) think of, hit upon; (sich erinnern an) think of, remember;
    auf eine Summe kommen come to ( oder total) an amount;
    auf die Rechnung kommen go ( oder be put) on the bill (US auch tab);
    auf Seite 12 that comes ( oder is) on page 12;
    auf etwas zu sprechen kommen get onto the subject of sth;
    wie kommst du darauf? what makes you say that?, what gives you that idea?;
    darauf wäre ich nie gekommen it would never have occurred to me;
    ich komme nicht darauf! I just can’t think of it;
    darauf komme ich gleich I’ll be coming to that;
    auf 100 Einwohner kommt ein Arzt there’s a ( oder one) doctor for every 100 inhabitants;
    ich lasse nichts auf ihn kommen I won’t have anything said against him
    9.
    hinter etwas (+akk)
    kommen find sth out
    10.
    das Buch kommt ins oberste Regal/ins Arbeitszimmer the book goes on the top shelf/belongs in the study;
    in Gefahr/Not/Verlegenheit kommen get into danger/difficulties pl/an embarrassing situation;
    ins Rutschen kommen get into a slide ( oder skid)
    11.
    kommen get over a fence etc;
    über jemanden kommen Gefühl etc: come over sb; Fluch: come upon sb
    12.
    um etwas kommen lose sth; durch fremdes Mitwirken: be done out of sth;
    ums Leben kommen lose one’s life, die, (getötet werden) auch be killed
    13.
    kommen unter (+akk) eine Überschrift etc: go under; ein Auto etc: be run over by
    14.
    kommen von Ergebnis: be a result of ( oder due to);
    das kommt davon! see what happens?, what did I tell you?;
    das kommt davon, wenn du so viel trinkst that’s what happens when you drink so much
    15.
    kommen vor (+akk) come ( oder go) before;
    vors Gericht kommen Sache: come up before the court
    16.
    zu etwas kommen come ( oder get) to sth; (bekommen) come by sth, get hold of sth;
    zu Geld kommen (erben) come into money;
    zur Ansicht kommen, dass … come to the conclusion that …, decide that …;
    zur Sprache kommen come up (for discussion);
    (wieder) zu sich kommen come to ( oder [a]round), regain consciousness;
    wie kamst du bloß dazu(, das zu tun)? what on earth made you do that?;
    es kam zum Streit a quarrel developed;
    es kam zu Kämpfen zwischen … fighting broke out between …;
    zum Stehen kommen come to a standstill;
    ich komme einfach nicht zum Lesen I just don’t get ( oder find) the time to read anything;
    ich komme aber erst morgen dazu I won’t get (a)round to it ( oder manage it) before tomorrow;
    wie kommen Sie dazu? how dare you?; → auch Kraft 1, Sache etc
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) come; (eintreffen) come; arrive

    angelaufen/angebraust usw. kommen — come running/roaring etc. along; (auf jemanden zu) come running/roaring etc. up

    angekrochen kommen — (fig.) come crawling up

    nach Hause kommen — come or get home

    zu jemandem kommen — (jemanden besuchen) come and see somebody

    ist für mich keine Post gekommen? — is/was there no post for me?

    etwas kommen lassen — (etwas bestellen) order something

    jemanden kommen lassen — send for or call somebody

    da könnte ja jeder kommen! — (ugs.) who do you think you are?/who does he think he is? etc.

    komm mir bloß nicht damit! — (ugs.) don't give me that!

    [bitte] kommen! — (im Funkverkehr) come in[, please]

    2) (gelangen) get

    ans Ufer/Ziel kommen — reach the bank/finishing-line

    wie komme ich nach Paris? — how do I get to Paris?; (fig.)

    auf etwas (Akk.) zu sprechen kommen — turn to the discussion of something

    jemandem auf die Spur/Schliche kommen — get on somebody's trail/get wise to somebody's tricks

    dazu kommen, etwas zu tun — get round to doing something

    zum Einkaufen/Waschen kommen — get round to doing the shopping/washing

    3) (auftauchen) <seeds, plants> come up; <buds, flowers> come out; <peas, beans> form; < teeth> come through

    ihr ist ein Gedanke/eine Idee gekommen — she had a thought/an idea; a thought/an idea came to her

    zur Schule kommen — go to or start school

    ins Krankenhaus/Gefängnis kommen — go into hospital/to prison

    in den Himmel/in die Hölle kommen — (fig.) go to heaven/hell

    5) (gehören) go; belong

    in die Schublade/ins Regal kommen — go or belong in the drawer/on the shelf

    6) (gebracht, befördert werden) go
    7) (geraten) get

    in Gefahr/Not/Verlegenheit kommen — get into danger/serious difficulties/get or become embarrassed

    unter ein Auto/zu Tode kommen — be knocked down by a car/be or get killed

    neben jemandem zu sitzen kommen — get to sit next to somebody; s. auch Schwung; Stimmung

    ein Gewitter/die Flut kommt — a storm is approaching/the tide's coming in

    der Tag/die Nacht kommt — (geh.) day is breaking/night is falling

    im Kommen sein — <fashion etc.> be coming in; < person> be on the way up

    9) (sich ereignen) come about; happen

    das durfte [jetzt] nicht kommen — (ugs. spött.) that's hardly the thing to say now

    gelegen/ungelegen kommen — <offer, opportunity> come/not come at the right moment; < visit> be/not be convenient

    überraschend [für jemanden] kommen — come as a surprise [to somebody]

    daher kommt es, dass... — that's [the reason] why...

    das kommt davon, dass... — that's because...

    vom vielen Rauchen/vom Vitaminmangel kommen — be due to smoking/vitamin deficiency

    wie kommt es, dass... — how is it that you/he etc....; how come that... (coll.)

    10) unpers

    es kam zum Streit/Kampf — there was a quarrel/fight

    es kam alles ganz anders — it all or everything turned out quite differently

    so weit kommt es noch [, dass ich euern Dreck wieder wegräume]! — (ugs. iron.) that really is the limit[, expecting me to clear up your rubbish after you]!

    11) (ugs.): (erreicht werden)
    12)

    zu Erfolg/Ruhm usw. kommen — gain success/fame etc.

    nie zu etwas kommen — (ugs.) never get anywhere

    [wieder] zu sich kommen — regain consciousness; come round

    13) (an der Reihe sein; folgen)

    zuerst/zuletzt kam... — first/last came...

    als erster/letzter kommen — come first/last

    jetzt komme ich [an die Reihe] — it is my turn now

    14) (ugs.): (sich verhalten)

    jemandem frech/unverschämt/grob kommen — be cheeky/impertinent/rude to somebody

    15)

    ich lasse auf ihn usw. nichts kommen — I won't hear anything said against him etc.

    über jemanden kommen — (jemanden erfassen) < feeling> come over somebody

    auf hundert Berufstätige kommen vier Arbeitslose — for every hundred people in employment, there are four people unemployed

    17)
    18) (ugs.): (kosten)

    alles zusammen kam auf... — altogether it came to...

    wie teuer kommt der Stoff? — how much or dear is that material?

    etwas kommt [jemanden] teuer — something comes expensive [for somebody]

    19) (ugs.): (anspringen) < engine> start
    20) (salopp): (Orgasmus haben) come (sl.)
    21) (ugs.): (als Aufforderung, Ermahnung)

    komm/kommt/kommen Sie — come on, now

    komm, komm — oh, come on

    22) (Sportjargon): (gelingen)

    [gut] kommen/nicht kommen — <serve, backhand, forehand, etc.> be going/not be going well

    23) in festen Wendungen: s. Ausbruch 2); Einsatz 3); Entfaltung 1); Fall
    * * *
    interj.
    come interj. v.
    (§ p.,pp.: kam, ist gekommen)
    = to come v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: came, come)
    to cum v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > kommen

  • 5 alojamiento

    m.
    1 accommodation.
    alojamiento y comida board and lodging
    2 lodge, accommodations, billet, lodging.
    * * *
    1 lodging, accommodation
    * * *
    noun m.
    accommodation, rooms, lodgings
    * * *
    SM (=lugar de hospedaje) lodging, lodgings pl ; (Mil) billet, quarters pl ; And (=pensión) small hotel, boarding house

    dar alojamiento — to put up, accommodate

    * * *
    masculino accommodations (pl) (AmE), accommodation (BrE)
    * * *
    = housing, quarters, lodging, accommodation, digs, living quarters.
    Ex. The form of these terms, whether descriptors or non-descriptors, is usually one of the following: single words, e.g. Government, Hovercraft, housing.
    Ex. Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex. All these CD-ROM software products provide highly customized itineraries; very good route maps; and listings of lodgings, amusement parks, zoos, aquariums, and other sights along the way.
    Ex. NACs deal with a wide range of topics such as public and private rented accommodation, rents, rebates and allowances, improvement grants, landlord-tenant relations, environmental health, and house purchase.
    Ex. Don't go to France thinking that your cherished ancient library from your 50s/60s school days remains unchanged amid the splendour of its beautiful if dingy old digs.
    Ex. The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.
    ----
    * alojamiento barato = budget accommodation.
    * alojamiento de alquiler = rented accommodation, residential property.
    * alojamiento de lujo = mews cottage.
    * alojamiento de páginas web = web hosting.
    * alojamiento económico = budget accommodation.
    * alojamiento en hotel = hotel accommodation.
    * alojamiento en régimen de pensión completa = full-board accommodation.
    * asesoría de alojamiento = housing advice centre.
    * comida y alojamiento = board and lodging.
    * encontrar alojamiento = find + a home.
    * gastos de alojamiento = lodging expenses, lodging costs.
    * información de alojamiento = housing information.
    * traslado de alojamiento = rehousing.
    * * *
    masculino accommodations (pl) (AmE), accommodation (BrE)
    * * *
    = housing, quarters, lodging, accommodation, digs, living quarters.

    Ex: The form of these terms, whether descriptors or non-descriptors, is usually one of the following: single words, e.g. Government, Hovercraft, housing.

    Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex: All these CD-ROM software products provide highly customized itineraries; very good route maps; and listings of lodgings, amusement parks, zoos, aquariums, and other sights along the way.
    Ex: NACs deal with a wide range of topics such as public and private rented accommodation, rents, rebates and allowances, improvement grants, landlord-tenant relations, environmental health, and house purchase.
    Ex: Don't go to France thinking that your cherished ancient library from your 50s/60s school days remains unchanged amid the splendour of its beautiful if dingy old digs.
    Ex: The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.
    * alojamiento barato = budget accommodation.
    * alojamiento de alquiler = rented accommodation, residential property.
    * alojamiento de lujo = mews cottage.
    * alojamiento de páginas web = web hosting.
    * alojamiento económico = budget accommodation.
    * alojamiento en hotel = hotel accommodation.
    * alojamiento en régimen de pensión completa = full-board accommodation.
    * asesoría de alojamiento = housing advice centre.
    * comida y alojamiento = board and lodging.
    * encontrar alojamiento = find + a home.
    * gastos de alojamiento = lodging expenses, lodging costs.
    * información de alojamiento = housing information.
    * traslado de alojamiento = rehousing.

    * * *
    accommodations (pl) ( AmE), accommodation ( BrE)
    un amigo nos dio alojamiento a friend put us up o gave us accommodations o accommodation
    Compuesto:
    ( Inf) web hosting
    * * *

     

    alojamiento sustantivo masculino
    accommodations (pl) (AmE), accommodation (BrE);

    alojamiento sustantivo masculino accommodation
    dar alojamiento, to accommodate

    ' alojamiento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acomodar
    - pensión
    - albergue
    English:
    accommodation
    - board
    - boarding
    - dig
    - lodging
    - quarter
    - bed
    - fix
    - residential
    * * *
    accommodation;
    estoy buscando alojamiento I'm looking for accommodation;
    el precio incluye el alojamiento the price includes accommodation;
    * * *
    m accommodations pl, Br
    accommodation
    * * *
    : lodging, accommodations pl
    * * *
    alojamiento n accommodation

    Spanish-English dictionary > alojamiento

  • 6 bloque de pisos

    block of flats
    * * *
    (n.) = block of flats, block of high-rise flats, tower block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block
    Ex. The area is populated by old people, immigrants and single parent families housed in blocks of flats.
    Ex. In Britain, this meant the dislocation and scattering of what were close-knit communities either to sprawling suburban council estates, often grossly lacking in amenities, or to blocks of high-rise flats.
    Ex. There is a multiscreen cinema within 30 minutes walk of the conference venue, including the recently opened IMAX cinema, which shows specialist films on a screen as large as a tower block.
    Ex. Multiculturalism is the reality of the community's neighbourhood and apartment complexes.
    Ex. The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex. The difference between the two systems can be illustrated by analogy with a set of letter-boxes located in the entrance to an apartment block, with one box for each resident.
    * * *
    (n.) = block of flats, block of high-rise flats, tower block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block

    Ex: The area is populated by old people, immigrants and single parent families housed in blocks of flats.

    Ex: In Britain, this meant the dislocation and scattering of what were close-knit communities either to sprawling suburban council estates, often grossly lacking in amenities, or to blocks of high-rise flats.
    Ex: There is a multiscreen cinema within 30 minutes walk of the conference venue, including the recently opened IMAX cinema, which shows specialist films on a screen as large as a tower block.
    Ex: Multiculturalism is the reality of the community's neighbourhood and apartment complexes.
    Ex: The broad tree-lined streets with large Victorian homes surrounded by ample greenery on what were once the outskirts of town -- the gracious and expansive habitations of the wealthy mill and factory owners -- gradually yield to a miscellany of recent bungalows, modest cottages, and modern apartment buildings.
    Ex: The difference between the two systems can be illustrated by analogy with a set of letter-boxes located in the entrance to an apartment block, with one box for each resident.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bloque de pisos

  • 7 dependencias

    f.pl.
    1 outbuildings, outbuilding.
    2 living quarters.
    * * *
    (n.) = accommodation, quarters, living quarters
    Ex. Most CACs occupied office-type accommodation in town halls, libraries and consumer protection departments.
    Ex. Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex. The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.
    * * *
    (n.) = accommodation, quarters, living quarters

    Ex: Most CACs occupied office-type accommodation in town halls, libraries and consumer protection departments.

    Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex: The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dependencias

  • 8 nivel

    m.
    1 level, height (altura).
    al nivel de level with
    al nivel del mar at sea level
    la capital está a 250 metros sobre el nivel del mar the capital is 250 meters above sea level
    2 level, standard (grado).
    no tiene un buen nivel de inglés his level of English is poor
    una reunión al más alto nivel a meeting at the highest level, a top-level meeting
    al mismo nivel (que) on a level o par (with)
    a nivel europeo at a European level
    nivel mental level of intelligence
    nivel de vida standard of living
    3 spirit level (instrument).
    4 carpenter's level, level.
    5 floor, storey, decker.
    De dos niveles Used as a suffix -decker: Double-decker
    * * *
    1 (altura) level, height
    2 (categoría) level, standard, degree
    \
    a nivel de as for
    ■ a nivel de gastos as far as expenses are concerned, regarding expenses
    al más alto nivel at the highest level
    nivel de producción production level
    nivel de vida standard of living
    nivel del mar sea level
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=altura) level, height

    la nieve alcanzó un nivel de 1,5m — the snow reached a depth of 1.5m

    a nivel — [gen] level, flush; (=horizontal) horizontal

    al nivel de — on a level with, at the same height as, on the same level as

    paso a nivel — level crossing, grade crossing (EEUU)

    nivel de(l) aceite — (Aut etc) oil level

    2) [escolar, cultural] level, standard

    conferencia al más alto nivel, conferencia de alto nivel — high-level conference, top-level conference

    estar al nivel de — to be equal to, be on a level with

    niveles de audiencia — ratings, audience rating sing ; (TV) viewing figures

    3) (=instrumento) (tb: nivel de aire, nivel de burbuja) spirit level
    4)

    a nivel de — (=en cuanto a) as for, as regards; (=como) as; (=a tono con) in keeping with

    a nivel de viajes — so far as travel is concerned, regarding travel

    * * *
    a) ( altura) level
    b) (en escala, jerarquía) level
    * * *
    = degree, extent, index [indices/indexes, -pl.], level, range, scale, threshold, rank, gradation, grade, plateau [plateaux, -pl.], stratum [strata, -pl.], tier, rung.
    Ex. This degree of standardisation is not the pattern outside of this specific area of application.
    Ex. The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.
    Ex. As job anxiety scores increased, job satisfaction indices decreased.
    Ex. In particular series entries are useful for series where the series title indicates a particular subject scope, style of approach, level or audience.
    Ex. Overall, the library media specialists experienced stress in the mild to moderate range.
    Ex. Various scales of relevance ratings may be established.
    Ex. But documents with the following terms assigned would be rejected on the grounds that their combined weights did not exceed the pre-selected threshold.
    Ex. However, Cutter suggested that we should ignore on economic grounds both upward links (from narrower to broader subjects) and collateral (sideways) links from one term to another of equal rank.
    Ex. Until the mid nineteen hundreds, this community presented an almost feudal pattern of wealthy merchants and factory hands, with several gradations between these extremes.
    Ex. The project is concerned with the investigation of conditions of appointment for women librarians as well as the grades and salary scales assigned to library tasks.
    Ex. With the advent of both library on-line public access catalogue and end-user searching of on-line and CD-ROM data bases, the need for improved instruction in library use approaches a new plateau.
    Ex. However, amongst this stratum of the population, library users demonstrated greater residential stability.
    Ex. The author proposes a four tier planning framework for information technology, information systems and information management.
    Ex. In all types of libraries, programmes have been started, usually by keen librarians from the lower rungs of the profession.
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    * a bajo nivel = low-level.
    * a diferentes niveles = multi-tiered [multitiered], multi-tier [multitier].
    * a dos niveles = two-tier.
    * alcanzar niveles mínimos = reach + a low ebb.
    * alfabetización a nivel mundial = world literacy.
    * al mismo nivel de = flush with.
    * al mismo nivel que = on a par with, in the same league as.
    * alto nivel = high standard.
    * a muchos niveles = many-levelled [many-leveled, -USA].
    * a nivel de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * a nivel de calle = on the ground level.
    * a nivel de la calle = at ground level.
    * a nivel del suelo = at ground level.
    * a nivel estatal = statewide [state-wide].
    * a nivel federal = federally, federally.
    * a nivel individual = privately.
    * a nivel local = locally, domestically.
    * a nivel multicultural = multi-culturally [multiculturally].
    * a nivel mundial = worldwide [world-wide], globally.
    * a nivel nacional = nationally, domestically, countrywide [country-wide].
    * a nivel privado = privately.
    * a nivel regional = regionally.
    * a todos los niveles = at all levels.
    * a tres niveles = three-tiered.
    * a un alto nivel = high level [high-level].
    * a un nivel básico = at a lay level.
    * a un nivel por debajo del nacional = sub-national [subnational].
    * a varios niveles = multilevel [multi-level], at varying levels, many-levelled [many-leveled, -USA].
    * bajada de nivel = drawdown.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * barrera de paso a nivel = level-crossing gate.
    * clasificado por nivel de dificultad = graded.
    * construido en dos niveles = split-level.
    * con una nivel de especialización medio = semi-skilled.
    * con un buen nivel = fluent.
    * con un mayor nivel educativo = better educated [better-educated].
    * con un menor nivel educativo = lesser-educated.
    * con un nivel de estudios alto = well educated [well-educated].
    * curva de nivel = contour line.
    * dar un nivel de prioridad alto = put + Nombre + high on + Posesivo + list of priorities.
    * de alto nivel = of a high order, high level [high-level], high-powered.
    * de bajo nivel = lower-level, low-level.
    * de diferentes niveles = multi-tiered [multitiered], multi-tier [multitier].
    * de dos niveles = two-tier.
    * de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * de nivel medio = medium level [medium-level], middle-range, mid-level.
    * de nivel superior = upper-level, top echelon, higher-level.
    * de primer nivel = first-level.
    * descenso de nivel = drawdown.
    * descripción bibliográfica de primer nivel = first-level bibliographic description.
    * de segundo nivel = second-level.
    * de tercer nivel = third-level.
    * de tres niveles = three-tiered.
    * de varios niveles = multilevel [multi-level].
    * en cuatro niveles = quadraplaner.
    * en dos niveles = split-level.
    * en el nivel básico = at grass roots level.
    * en el nivel intermedio de = in the middle range of.
    * en el nivel medio de = in the middle range of.
    * en otro nivel = on a different plane.
    * en su nivel más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en un nivel bajo = at a low ebb.
    * estar al mismo nivel = be on a par.
    * gestor de nivel medio = middle manager.
    * gran nivel = high standard.
    * nivel alto de dirección = higher management.
    * nivel alto de gestión = higher management.
    * nivel avanzado = advanced level.
    * nivel básico = introductory level.
    * nivel cultural = literacy.
    * nivel de aceptación = adoption rate, acceptance rate.
    * nivel de adopción = adoption rate.
    * nivel de alfabetización = literacy, literacy rate.
    * nivel de analfabetismo = illiteracy rate.
    * nivel de atención = attention span.
    * nivel de azúcar en la sangre = level of blood sugar.
    * nivel de cobertura = depth of coverage.
    * nivel de colesterol = cholesterol level.
    * nivel de colesterol en la sangre = blood cholesterol level.
    * nivel de confianza = confidence level.
    * nivel de demanda = level of demand.
    * nivel de desarrollo = stage of development, developmental level, development level, level of development.
    * nivel de detalle = completeness, granularity, level of detail.
    * nivel de dominio medio = working knowledge.
    * nivel de estudios = educational background, level of education.
    * nivel de ingresos = income level, earning capacity, earning power.
    * nivel de la calle = road-level.
    * nivel del agua = water level.
    * nivel del alfabetización = literacy.
    * nivel de lectura = reading ability.
    * nivel de los usuarios = audience level.
    * nivel del público = audience level.
    * nivel del subconsciente, el = subconscious level, the.
    * nivel de luminosidad = light level.
    * nivel de pobreza = poverty level.
    * nivel de presentación = level of presentation.
    * nivel de ruido = noise level.
    * nivel de saciedad = point of futility.
    * nivel de satisfacción del usuario = user satisfaction.
    * nivel de saturación = point of futility.
    * nivel de solvencia = credit rating.
    * nivel de subdivisión = granularity.
    * nivel de utilización = degree of use.
    * nivel de vida = standard of living, living standard.
    * nivel económico = wealth.
    * nivel educativo = educational level, education level, level of education.
    * nivel escolar = grade level.
    * niveles de detalle en la descripción = levels of detail in the description.
    * nivel freático = groundwater table, water table.
    * nivel inferior = micro level [micro-leve/microlevel].
    * nivel intermedio = meso level, intermediate level.
    * nivel introductorio = introductory level.
    * nivel jerárquico falso = false link.
    * nivel máximo = high-water mark.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * nivel medio = middle range.
    * nivel medio de gestión = middle management.
    * nivel mínimo = low-water mark.
    * nivel mínimo del agua = low-water mark.
    * nivel profesional = competence, professional level.
    * nivel salarial = salary bracket.
    * nivel socioeconómico = socioeconomic status.
    * nivel superior = top level, top layer, macro level [macro-leve/macrolevel].
    * ocupar un nivel de prioridad alto = be high on + list, rank + high on the list of priorities.
    * pasar al siguiente nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * paso a nivel = level-crossing.
    * persona con nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * persona de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * persona de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * poner al mismo nivel que = bring + Nombre + to a par with.
    * por niveles = multilayered [multi-layered/multi layered], multilayer, layered, tiered.
    * preparación contra emergencias a nivel nacional = domestic preparedness.
    * rebajarse al nivel de Alguien = get down to + Posesivo + level.
    * ser de alto nivel = be at a high level.
    * sin ningún nivel de especialización = unskilled.
    * situado a nivel de la calle = ground-floor.
    * subir de nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir el nivel = raise + standard, raise + the bar.
    * teoría de niveles integrados = theory of integrative levels.
    * último nivel, el = bottom rung, the.
    * * *
    a) ( altura) level
    b) (en escala, jerarquía) level
    * * *
    = degree, extent, index [indices/indexes, -pl.], level, range, scale, threshold, rank, gradation, grade, plateau [plateaux, -pl.], stratum [strata, -pl.], tier, rung.

    Ex: This degree of standardisation is not the pattern outside of this specific area of application.

    Ex: The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.
    Ex: As job anxiety scores increased, job satisfaction indices decreased.
    Ex: In particular series entries are useful for series where the series title indicates a particular subject scope, style of approach, level or audience.
    Ex: Overall, the library media specialists experienced stress in the mild to moderate range.
    Ex: Various scales of relevance ratings may be established.
    Ex: But documents with the following terms assigned would be rejected on the grounds that their combined weights did not exceed the pre-selected threshold.
    Ex: However, Cutter suggested that we should ignore on economic grounds both upward links (from narrower to broader subjects) and collateral (sideways) links from one term to another of equal rank.
    Ex: Until the mid nineteen hundreds, this community presented an almost feudal pattern of wealthy merchants and factory hands, with several gradations between these extremes.
    Ex: The project is concerned with the investigation of conditions of appointment for women librarians as well as the grades and salary scales assigned to library tasks.
    Ex: With the advent of both library on-line public access catalogue and end-user searching of on-line and CD-ROM data bases, the need for improved instruction in library use approaches a new plateau.
    Ex: However, amongst this stratum of the population, library users demonstrated greater residential stability.
    Ex: The author proposes a four tier planning framework for information technology, information systems and information management.
    Ex: In all types of libraries, programmes have been started, usually by keen librarians from the lower rungs of the profession.
    * a bajo nivel = low-level.
    * a diferentes niveles = multi-tiered [multitiered], multi-tier [multitier].
    * a dos niveles = two-tier.
    * alcanzar niveles mínimos = reach + a low ebb.
    * alfabetización a nivel mundial = world literacy.
    * al mismo nivel de = flush with.
    * al mismo nivel que = on a par with, in the same league as.
    * alto nivel = high standard.
    * a muchos niveles = many-levelled [many-leveled, -USA].
    * a nivel de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * a nivel de calle = on the ground level.
    * a nivel de la calle = at ground level.
    * a nivel del suelo = at ground level.
    * a nivel estatal = statewide [state-wide].
    * a nivel federal = federally, federally.
    * a nivel individual = privately.
    * a nivel local = locally, domestically.
    * a nivel multicultural = multi-culturally [multiculturally].
    * a nivel mundial = worldwide [world-wide], globally.
    * a nivel nacional = nationally, domestically, countrywide [country-wide].
    * a nivel privado = privately.
    * a nivel regional = regionally.
    * a todos los niveles = at all levels.
    * a tres niveles = three-tiered.
    * a un alto nivel = high level [high-level].
    * a un nivel básico = at a lay level.
    * a un nivel por debajo del nacional = sub-national [subnational].
    * a varios niveles = multilevel [multi-level], at varying levels, many-levelled [many-leveled, -USA].
    * bajada de nivel = drawdown.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * barrera de paso a nivel = level-crossing gate.
    * clasificado por nivel de dificultad = graded.
    * construido en dos niveles = split-level.
    * con una nivel de especialización medio = semi-skilled.
    * con un buen nivel = fluent.
    * con un mayor nivel educativo = better educated [better-educated].
    * con un menor nivel educativo = lesser-educated.
    * con un nivel de estudios alto = well educated [well-educated].
    * curva de nivel = contour line.
    * dar un nivel de prioridad alto = put + Nombre + high on + Posesivo + list of priorities.
    * de alto nivel = of a high order, high level [high-level], high-powered.
    * de bajo nivel = lower-level, low-level.
    * de diferentes niveles = multi-tiered [multitiered], multi-tier [multitier].
    * de dos niveles = two-tier.
    * de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * de nivel medio = medium level [medium-level], middle-range, mid-level.
    * de nivel superior = upper-level, top echelon, higher-level.
    * de primer nivel = first-level.
    * descenso de nivel = drawdown.
    * descripción bibliográfica de primer nivel = first-level bibliographic description.
    * de segundo nivel = second-level.
    * de tercer nivel = third-level.
    * de tres niveles = three-tiered.
    * de varios niveles = multilevel [multi-level].
    * en cuatro niveles = quadraplaner.
    * en dos niveles = split-level.
    * en el nivel básico = at grass roots level.
    * en el nivel intermedio de = in the middle range of.
    * en el nivel medio de = in the middle range of.
    * en otro nivel = on a different plane.
    * en su nivel más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en un nivel bajo = at a low ebb.
    * estar al mismo nivel = be on a par.
    * gestor de nivel medio = middle manager.
    * gran nivel = high standard.
    * nivel alto de dirección = higher management.
    * nivel alto de gestión = higher management.
    * nivel avanzado = advanced level.
    * nivel básico = introductory level.
    * nivel cultural = literacy.
    * nivel de aceptación = adoption rate, acceptance rate.
    * nivel de adopción = adoption rate.
    * nivel de alfabetización = literacy, literacy rate.
    * nivel de analfabetismo = illiteracy rate.
    * nivel de atención = attention span.
    * nivel de azúcar en la sangre = level of blood sugar.
    * nivel de cobertura = depth of coverage.
    * nivel de colesterol = cholesterol level.
    * nivel de colesterol en la sangre = blood cholesterol level.
    * nivel de confianza = confidence level.
    * nivel de demanda = level of demand.
    * nivel de desarrollo = stage of development, developmental level, development level, level of development.
    * nivel de detalle = completeness, granularity, level of detail.
    * nivel de dominio medio = working knowledge.
    * nivel de estudios = educational background, level of education.
    * nivel de ingresos = income level, earning capacity, earning power.
    * nivel de la calle = road-level.
    * nivel del agua = water level.
    * nivel del alfabetización = literacy.
    * nivel de lectura = reading ability.
    * nivel de los usuarios = audience level.
    * nivel del público = audience level.
    * nivel del subconsciente, el = subconscious level, the.
    * nivel de luminosidad = light level.
    * nivel de pobreza = poverty level.
    * nivel de presentación = level of presentation.
    * nivel de ruido = noise level.
    * nivel de saciedad = point of futility.
    * nivel de satisfacción del usuario = user satisfaction.
    * nivel de saturación = point of futility.
    * nivel de solvencia = credit rating.
    * nivel de subdivisión = granularity.
    * nivel de utilización = degree of use.
    * nivel de vida = standard of living, living standard.
    * nivel económico = wealth.
    * nivel educativo = educational level, education level, level of education.
    * nivel escolar = grade level.
    * niveles de detalle en la descripción = levels of detail in the description.
    * nivel freático = groundwater table, water table.
    * nivel inferior = micro level [micro-leve/microlevel].
    * nivel intermedio = meso level, intermediate level.
    * nivel introductorio = introductory level.
    * nivel jerárquico falso = false link.
    * nivel máximo = high-water mark.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * nivel medio = middle range.
    * nivel medio de gestión = middle management.
    * nivel mínimo = low-water mark.
    * nivel mínimo del agua = low-water mark.
    * nivel profesional = competence, professional level.
    * nivel salarial = salary bracket.
    * nivel socioeconómico = socioeconomic status.
    * nivel superior = top level, top layer, macro level [macro-leve/macrolevel].
    * ocupar un nivel de prioridad alto = be high on + list, rank + high on the list of priorities.
    * pasar al siguiente nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * paso a nivel = level-crossing.
    * persona con nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].
    * persona de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * persona de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * poner al mismo nivel que = bring + Nombre + to a par with.
    * por niveles = multilayered [multi-layered/multi layered], multilayer, layered, tiered.
    * preparación contra emergencias a nivel nacional = domestic preparedness.
    * rebajarse al nivel de Alguien = get down to + Posesivo + level.
    * ser de alto nivel = be at a high level.
    * sin ningún nivel de especialización = unskilled.
    * situado a nivel de la calle = ground-floor.
    * subir de nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir el nivel = raise + standard, raise + the bar.
    * teoría de niveles integrados = theory of integrative levels.
    * último nivel, el = bottom rung, the.

    * * *
    A
    1 (altura) level
    está a 2.300 metros sobre el nivel del mar it is 2,300 meters above sea level
    pon los cuadros al mismo nivel hang the pictures at the same height
    2 (en una escala, jerarquía) level
    negociaciones al más alto nivel top-level negotiations
    un funcionario de bajo nivel a low-ranking civil servant
    a nivel de mandos medios at middle-management level
    una solución a nivel internacional an international solution
    la obra no llega a pasar del nivel de un melodrama the play never rises above melodrama
    no está al nivel de los demás he's not up to the same standard as the others, he's not on a par with the others
    no supo estar al nivel de las circunstancias he failed to rise to the occasion, he didn't live up to expectations
    es incapaz de comprometerse tanto a nivel político como a nivel personal he's incapable of committing himself either politically or emotionally o on either a political or an emotional level
    Compuestos:
    standard of living
    water table
    B ( Const) tb
    nivel de burbuja or de aire spirit level
    * * *

     

    nivel sustantivo masculino

    b) (en escala, jerarquía) level;


    nivel de vida standard of living;
    no está al nivel de los demás he's not up to the same standard as the others;
    el nivel de las universidades mexicanas the standard of Mexican universities
    nivel sustantivo masculino
    1 (de las aguas, de un punto) level: estamos tres metros sobre el nivel del mar, we are at three metres above sea level
    2 (cultural, social, económico) level, standard: su nivel de francés es peor que el tuyo, her level of French is lower than yours
    3 (jerarquía) level
    4 (utensilio) level
    5 Ferroc paso a nivel, level crossing, US grade crossing
    ' nivel' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alta
    - alto
    - altura
    - baja
    - bajo
    - escalón
    - indicador
    - indicadora
    - ministerial
    - paso
    - plana
    - plano
    - ras
    - tren
    - alcanzar
    - azúcar
    - chato
    - competir
    - creces
    - crecida
    - cultural
    - descender
    - descenso
    - desnivelado
    - elemental
    - elevar
    - equiparar
    - hundimiento
    - hundir
    - intermedio
    - menguar
    - parejo
    - rango
    - sobre
    - sobrepasar
    - superior
    English:
    above
    - academic
    - catch up
    - crossing
    - down
    - grade
    - ground level
    - high-level
    - high-powered
    - intermediate
    - keep up
    - level
    - level crossing
    - living standards
    - maintain
    - oil
    - oil gauge
    - par
    - plane
    - proficiency
    - quality
    - rank
    - reach
    - sea-level
    - spirit level
    - stand
    - standard
    - top
    - top-level
    - up to
    - water level
    - watermark
    - A level
    - basis
    - bracket
    - catch
    - comprehensive
    - contour
    - county
    - deck
    - degree
    - descend
    - dumb
    - ground
    - high
    - keep
    - lapse
    - living
    - lowest common denominator
    - low
    * * *
    nivel nm
    1. [altura] level, height;
    al nivel de level with;
    al nivel del mar at sea level;
    la capital está a 250 metros sobre el nivel del mar the capital is 250 metres above sea level
    2. [piso, capa] level
    Geol nivel freático groundwater level o table
    3. [grado] level, standard;
    a nivel europeo at a European level;
    son los líderes a nivel mundial they are the world leaders;
    un problema que hay que abordar a nivel mundial a problem that has to be tackled internationally o globally;
    tiene un buen nivel de inglés she speaks good English;
    en esa universidad tienen un nivel altísimo the standard at that university is very high;
    una reunión al más alto nivel a meeting at the highest level, a top-level meeting;
    al mismo nivel (que) on a level o par (with)
    Informát nivel de acceso access level;
    nivel de colesterol cholesterol level;
    Informát niveles de gris grey(scale) levels;
    nivel mental level of intelligence;
    nivel de vida standard of living
    4. [instrumento]
    nivel (de burbuja) spirit level
    5.
    a nivel de [considerado incorrecto] as regards, as for;
    a nivel de salarios as regards o as for salaries;
    a nivel personal estoy contento on a personal level I'm happy
    * * *
    m
    1 level;
    a nivel mundial/nacional at o on a global/national level;
    un incremento del 4% a nivel nacional a 4% increase nationwide
    2 ( altura) height
    * * *
    nivel nm
    1) : level, height
    nivel del mar: sea level
    2) : level, standard
    nivel de vida: standard of living
    * * *
    1. (en general) level
    2. (calidad) standard

    Spanish-English dictionary > nivel

  • 9 residencia

    f.
    residencia (de ancianos) old people's home
    2 boarding house (hotel).
    3 hospital (hospital).
    4 residence permit (permiso para extranjeros).
    5 residency.
    6 stay (estancia).
    7 residence (localidad, domicilio).
    8 permanence, residence, residency.
    9 dormitory, hall of residence, living quarters for students.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: residenciar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: residenciar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) residence
    \
    hotel residencia residential hotel
    residencia de ancianos old people's home
    residencia de estudiantes hall of residence, US dormitory
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=casa) residence

    residencia canina — dogs' home, kennels pl, kennel (EEUU)

    residencia para ancianos, residencia para jubilados — residential home, old people's home

    2) (=domicilio) residence
    3) (=hotel) guest house, boarding house
    4) (=estancia) residence

    la conoció durante su residencia en Madrid — frm he got to know her during his residence o while he was living in Madrid

    5) (Jur) (=investigación) investigation, inquiry
    6) And
    (Jur)
    * * *
    1)
    a) (en país, ciudad) residence
    b) ( derecho) right of residence
    c) ( documento) tb
    2)
    a) ( casa) residence
    b) ( de estudiantes) dormitory (AmE), hall of residence (BrE); ( de enfermeras) hostel, home
    c) (hostal, fonda) boarding house, guest house ( not providing meals)
    3) (AmL) (Med) residency (AmE), time spent as a houseman (BrE)
    * * *
    = residence, abode, quarters, lodging, living quarters, hostel.
    Ex. This applies not only to trade but free movement of goods, rights of residence and work and many other aspects of life.
    Ex. The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.
    Ex. Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex. All these CD-ROM software products provide highly customized itineraries; very good route maps; and listings of lodgings, amusement parks, zoos, aquariums, and other sights along the way.
    Ex. The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.
    Ex. The author discusses the design of information management systems for Assistance Centres for Homeless People, which include hostels for homeless people, soup kitchens and other services.
    ----
    * cambiar de residencia = relocate.
    * cambio de residencia = resettlement.
    * curso intensivo con residencia = residential programme.
    * habitación de residencia de estudiantes = dorm room.
    * lugar de residencia = place of residence.
    * residencia asistida = residential care home.
    * residencia canina = boarding kennel.
    * residencia de ancianos = elderly persons' home, old people's home, elderly housing unit, nursing home, residential home, rest home.
    * residencia de estudiantes = dormitory [dorm, -abbr.], dorm, students' home, hall of residence, residence hall, student residence.
    * residencia de verano = summer residence.
    * residencia fiscal = tax residence.
    * residencia legal = legal residence.
    * residencia para familias = family residence.
    * ser residencia de = be home to.
    * sin residencia fija = of no fixed abode.
    * subsidio para cambio de residencia = resettlement allowance.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (en país, ciudad) residence
    b) ( derecho) right of residence
    c) ( documento) tb
    2)
    a) ( casa) residence
    b) ( de estudiantes) dormitory (AmE), hall of residence (BrE); ( de enfermeras) hostel, home
    c) (hostal, fonda) boarding house, guest house ( not providing meals)
    3) (AmL) (Med) residency (AmE), time spent as a houseman (BrE)
    * * *
    = residence, abode, quarters, lodging, living quarters, hostel.

    Ex: This applies not only to trade but free movement of goods, rights of residence and work and many other aspects of life.

    Ex: The forest, therefore, is regarded as the abode of robbers & sundry miscreants, implying its relation to the forces of chaos & disorder.
    Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex: All these CD-ROM software products provide highly customized itineraries; very good route maps; and listings of lodgings, amusement parks, zoos, aquariums, and other sights along the way.
    Ex: The captain's living quarters in a warship were furnished according to his pocket, the bare necessities in the case of an officer without private means, and luxury for a noble or wealthy man.
    Ex: The author discusses the design of information management systems for Assistance Centres for Homeless People, which include hostels for homeless people, soup kitchens and other services.
    * cambiar de residencia = relocate.
    * cambio de residencia = resettlement.
    * curso intensivo con residencia = residential programme.
    * habitación de residencia de estudiantes = dorm room.
    * lugar de residencia = place of residence.
    * residencia asistida = residential care home.
    * residencia canina = boarding kennel.
    * residencia de ancianos = elderly persons' home, old people's home, elderly housing unit, nursing home, residential home, rest home.
    * residencia de estudiantes = dormitory [dorm, -abbr.], dorm, students' home, hall of residence, residence hall, student residence.
    * residencia de verano = summer residence.
    * residencia fiscal = tax residence.
    * residencia legal = legal residence.
    * residencia para familias = family residence.
    * ser residencia de = be home to.
    * sin residencia fija = of no fixed abode.
    * subsidio para cambio de residencia = resettlement allowance.

    * * *
    A
    1 (en un país, una ciudad) residence
    fijaron or establecieron su residencia en León they took up residence in León, they settled in León
    dos alemanes con residencia en Florida two Germans resident in Florida
    2 (derecho) right of residence
    permiso de residencia residence permit
    1 (de una persona, familia) residence
    la residencia del Primer Ministro the Prime Minister's residence
    segundas residencias or viviendas de segunda residencia second homes
    2 (de estudiantes) dormitory ( AmE), residence ( BrE), hall of residence ( BrE); (de enfermeras) hostel, home
    la residencia de oficiales the officers' quarters
    3 (hostal, fonda) boarding house, guest house ( not providing meals)
    Compuestos:
    kennels ( sing or pl)
    old people's home, residential home for the elderly o for older people
    hospital
    college dormitory ( AmE), university hall of residence ( BrE), student residence ( BrE)
    C ( AmL) ( Med) internship ( AmE), residency ( AmE), time spent as a houseman ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    residencia sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (en país, ciudad) residence;


    b) ( documento) tb


    2


    ( de enfermeras) hostel, home;


    3 (AmL) (Med) residency (AmE), time spent as a houseman (BrE)
    residencia sustantivo femenino
    1 (estancia, casa) residence
    permiso de residencia, residence permit
    residencia habitual, normal place of residence
    2 (hospital) hospital
    3 (en hostelería) boarding house
    4 residencia de ancianos o de la tercera edad, old people's home
    residencia de estudiantes, hall of residence, US dorm
    ' residencia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    benéfica
    - benéfico
    - corte
    - dormitorio
    - permiso
    - establecer
    - fijar
    - hostal
    - hotel
    - palacio
    English:
    fraternity
    - hall
    - home
    - hospice
    - nursing home
    - old-folk's home
    - residence
    - residence permit
    - rest home
    - seat
    - sheltered
    - warden
    - commute
    - commuter
    - dormitory
    - Downing Street
    - green
    - hostel
    - kennel
    - nursing
    - old
    - permit
    * * *
    1. [establecimiento] [de oficiales] residence;
    residencia (de ancianos) retirement home, old people's home;
    residencia (de estudiantes) Br hall of residence, US dormitory
    residencia de animales kennels;
    residencia universitaria Br hall of residence, US dormitory
    2. [vivienda] residence;
    su residencia de verano their summer residence
    3. [localidad, domicilio] residence;
    fijaron su residencia en la costa they took up residence on the coast;
    certificado de residencia = official document confirming one's residence in a country, city etc;
    permiso de residencia residence permit
    4. [permiso para extranjeros] residence permit
    5. [hotel] boarding house
    6. [hospital] hospital
    7. [estancia] stay;
    durante su residencia en Alemania conoció a mucha gente she met a lot of people while she was in Germany
    * * *
    f residence;
    segunda residencia second home;
    * * *
    1) : residence
    2) : boarding house
    * * *
    1. (domicilio) residence
    2. (hospital) hospital

    Spanish-English dictionary > residencia

  • 10 Kommen

    v/i; kommt, kam, ist gekommen
    1. come; (ankommen) auch arrive; (gelangen) get ( bis to); durch eine Stadt / Gegend kommen pass through a town / area; nach Hause kommen come ( oder get) home; wie komme ich zum Bahnhof / nach Linz? how do I get to the (Am. train) station / to Linz?; ich komme gerade von der Arbeit I’ve just got back from work; komm schon! come on!, hurry up!; ich komme schon! I’m coming; na, komm schon! umg. come on (, now)!; er wird bald kommen he’ll be here ( oder with you) soon, he won’t be long; da kommt jemand there’s somebody coming; es ist Post für dich gekommen there’s some post (Am. mail) for you; spät kommen come ( oder be) late; zu spät kommen be late; und etwas versäumen: be too late; jetzt komme ich an die Reihe now it’s my turn; zuerst oder als Erster / zuletzt oder als Letzter kommen come first / last; wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst Sprichw. first come, first served; wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben etwa: he who lags behind, loses; angelaufen etc. kommen come running etc. along ( oder up); der soll mir nur kommen!, er soll nur kommen! drohend: (just) let him come; jemanden kommen lassen send for s.o.; etw. kommen lassen (bestellen) send for ( oder order) s.th.; wie weit bist du gekommen? how far did you get?; es kam mir ( der Gedanke), dass... it occurred to me that...; es kommt mir oder mir kommt eine Idee I’ve got an idea, I know what we can do; mir kommen die Tränen tears come to my eyes, my eyes fill with tears; iro. don’t make me weep; das wird teuer kommen / dich teuer kommen umg. it’ll come expensive / it’ll cost you; ihr Aufschlag kommt gut Tennis: her serve is coming on well; siehe auch Reihe, spät II etc.
    2. (herannahen) be coming; es kommt ein Gewitter there’s a storm coming (up); der Morgen kommt it’s nearly morning, it’s starting to get light; die Flut kommt the tide is coming in; da vorn kommt gleich eine Kreuzung there’s a junction (Am. intersection) coming up, we’re just coming to a junction (Am. intersection)
    3. (geschehen) auch happen; etw. kommen sehen (voraussehen) see s.th. coming; das kommt mir gelegen / ungelegen it’s a good / bad time ( oder the right / wrong moment) for me; wie kommt das? how does that come about?, how is that possible?; wie oder woher kommt es, dass how is it that, how come umg.; das kommt daher, dass it’s because; das durfte jetzt nicht kommen it shouldn’t happen (now), it shouldn’t be possible; umg. (das hättest du nicht sagen sollen) you shouldn’t have said that; was auch ( immer) kommen mag... whatever happens,...; komme, was da wolle come what may; es wird noch ganz anders kommen there’s worse to come (yet); das musste ja so kommen it had to ( oder was bound to) happen; es kam, wie es kommen musste the inevitable happened; es ist so weit gekommen, dass things have got to the stage where; es wird noch so weit kommen, dass er rausgeschmissen wird he’ll be thrown out one of these days
    4. umg. wenn Sie mir so kommen if you talk to me like that; komm mir ja nicht so frech! don’t be so cheeky, Am. don’t be such a smart aleck, I don’t want any of your cheek; komm mir nur nicht mit diesen Ausreden spare me your excuses; damit kannst du mir nicht kommen you don’t expect me to believe that, do you?; komm mir nicht dauernd mit der Geschichte I wish you wouldn’t keep going on ( oder I wish you’d stop pestering me) about that business; er kommt einfach mit diesen Ideen he just trots out these ideas
    5. umg. (einen Orgasmus haben) come; ich komme I’m coming; es kommt ihr she’s coming
    6. umg. (sich entwickeln) develop; wie kommt dein neues Projekt? how is your new project coming on?
    7. kommen an (+ Akk)
    a) (gelangen zu) come ( oder get) to, arrive at; (jemandem zukommen) go ( oder fall) to; an jemandes Stelle kommen take s.o.’s place;
    b) (sich verschaffen, bekommen) get hold of; wie bist du an die Daten gekommen? how did you come by these data?
    8. kommen auf (+ Akk) (herausfinden) think of, hit upon; (sich erinnern an) think of, remember; auf eine Summe kommen come to ( oder total) an amount; auf die Rechnung kommen go ( oder be put) on the bill (Am. auch tab); das kommt (steht) auf Seite 12 that comes ( oder is) on page 12; auf etw. zu sprechen kommen get onto the subject of s.th.; wie kommst du darauf? what makes you say that?, what gives you that idea?; darauf wäre ich nie gekommen it would never have occurred to me; ich komme nicht darauf! I just can’t think of it; darauf komme ich gleich I’ll be coming to that; auf 100 Einwohner kommt ein Arzt there’s a ( oder one) doctor for every 100 inhabitants; ich lasse nichts auf ihn kommen I won’t have anything said against him
    9. hinter etw. (+ Akk) kommen find s.th. out
    10. das Buch kommt ins oberste Regal / ins Arbeitszimmer the book goes on the top shelf / belongs in the study; in Gefahr / Not / Verlegenheit kommen get into danger / difficulties Pl. / an embarrassing situation; ins Rutschen kommen get into a slide ( oder skid)
    11. über einen Zaun etc. kommen get over a fence etc.; über jemanden kommen Gefühl etc.: come over s.o.; Fluch: come upon s.o.
    12. um etw. kommen lose s.th.; durch fremdes Mitwirken: be done out of s.th.; ums Leben kommen lose one’s life, die, (getötet werden) auch be killed
    13. kommen unter (+ Akk) eine Überschrift etc.: go under; ein Auto etc.: be run over by
    14. kommen von Ergebnis: be a result of ( oder due to); das kommt davon! see what happens?, what did I tell you?; das kommt davon, wenn du so viel trinkst that’s what happens when you drink so much
    15. kommen vor (+ Akk) come ( oder go) before; vors Gericht kommen Sache: come up before the court
    16. zu etw. kommen come ( oder get) to s.th.; (bekommen) come by s.th., get hold of s.th.; zu Geld kommen (erben) come into money; zur Ansicht kommen, dass... come to the conclusion that..., decide that...; zur Sprache kommen come up (for discussion); ( wieder) zu sich kommen come to ( oder [a]round), regain consciousness; wie kamst du bloß dazu(, das zu tun)? what on earth made you do that?; es kam zum Streit a quarrel developed; es kam zu Kämpfen zwischen... fighting broke out between...; zum Stehen kommen come to a standstill; ich komme einfach nicht zum Lesen I just don’t get ( oder find) the time to read anything; ich komme aber erst morgen dazu I won’t get (a)round to it ( oder manage it) before tomorrow; wie kommen Sie dazu? how dare you?; siehe auch Kraft 1, Sache etc.
    * * *
    to arrive; to emerge; to come
    * * *
    Kọm|men
    nt -s, no pl
    coming

    ein einziges Kommen und Gehen — a constant coming and going

    jd ist im Kommen — sb is on his/her way up

    * * *
    das
    1) (coming or arrival: the advent of space travel.) advent
    2) (to (manage to) move, go, take, put etc: He couldn't get across the river; I got the book down from the shelf.) get
    3) (to move etc towards the person speaking or writing, or towards the place being referred to by him: Come here!; Are you coming to the dance?; John has come to see me; Have any letters come for me?) come
    4) (to become near or close to something in time or space: Christmas is coming soon.) come
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    kom·men
    [ˈkɔmən]
    1.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (eintreffen) to come, to arrive
    ich bin gerade ge\kommen I just arrived [or got here]
    ich komme schon! I'm coming!
    sie \kommen morgen aus Berlin they're arriving [or coming] from Berlin tomorrow
    der Zug kommt aus Paris the train is coming from Paris
    da kommt Anne/der Bus there's Anne/the bus
    der Bus müsste jeden Augenblick \kommen the bus is due any minute
    ich komme um vier und hole Sie ab I'll come and fetch you at four
    der Wind kommt von Osten/von der See the wind is blowing [or coming] from the East/off the sea
    sie kam in Begleitung ihres Mannes she was accompanied by her husband
    ich bin ge\kommen, um zu helfen I've come [or I'm here] to help
    du kommst wie gerufen! you've come just at the right moment!
    wann soll das Baby \kommen? when's the baby due?
    das Baby kam am 1. Mai the baby arrived [or was born] on the 1 May
    zurzeit \kommen laufend Anfragen zur neuen Software we keep receiving queries about the new software at the moment
    seine Antwort kam zögernd his answer was hesitant, he answered hesitantly
    jede Hilfe kam zu spät help came [or arrived] too late
    angefahren/angeflogen/angerannt \kommen to arrive by car/by plane/at a run
    sie kamen gestern aus Rom angefahren/angeflogen they drove up/flew in from Rome yesterday
    angereist \kommen to arrive
    mit dem Auto/Fahrrad \kommen to come by car/bike, to drive/cycle
    als Erster/Letzter \kommen to be the first/last to arrive, to arrive first/last
    früh/pünktlich/rechtzeitig/spät \kommen to arrive early/on time [or punctually]/in time/late
    zu Fuß \kommen to come on foot, to walk
    2.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (gelangen)
    ▪ irgendwohin \kommen to get [or reach] somewhere
    kommt man hier zum Bahnhof? is this the way to the station?
    wie komme ich von hier zum Bahnhof? how do I get to the station from here?
    zu Fuß kommt man am schnellsten dahin the quickest way [to get] there is to walk
    sie kommt kaum noch aus dem Haus she hardly gets out of the house these days
    nach Hause \kommen to come [or get] home
    unter's Messer \kommen (hum) to have an operation
    [sicher] ans Ufer \kommen to [safely] reach the bank
    ans Ziel \kommen to reach the finishing [or AM finish] line
    3.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich begeben) to come
    kommst du mit uns ins Kino? are you coming to the cinema with us?
    meine Kollegin kommt sofort zu Ihnen my colleague will be with you [or be along] immediately
    nach draußen/oben/unten \kommen to come outside/upstairs/downstairs
    nach London/England \kommen to come to London/England
    4.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (passieren)
    ▪ durch etw akk/über etw akk/einen Ort \kommen to pass [or come] through sth/a place
    5.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (teilnehmen)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen Kongress, Party, Training to come to [or form attend] sth
    6.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (besuchen)
    ▪ zu jdm \kommen to visit sb, to come and see [or visit] sb
    ich komme gern[e] einmal zu Ihnen I'd be delighted to visit you sometime
    komm doch mal, ich würde mich sehr freuen! [come and] stop by sometime, I'd love to see you!
    7.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (herstammen)
    ▪ irgendwoher \kommen to come [or be] [or hail] from somewhere
    sie kommt aus New York/Australien she's [or she comes] [or she hails] from New York/Australia, she's a New Yorker/an Australian
    8.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (folgen, an der Reihe sein) to come
    wer kommt [jetzt]? whose turn [or go] is it?
    ▪ nach etw dat \kommen to come after [or follow] sth
    die Schule kommt kurz nach der Kreuzung the school is just after the crossroads
    ▪ nach/vor jdm \kommen to come after/before sb
    an die Reihe \kommen to be sb's turn [or go]
    ich komme zuerst [an die Reihe] I'm first, it's my turn [or go] first
    noch \kommen to be still [or yet] to come
    da wird noch mehr Ärger \kommen there'll be more trouble yet
    das Schlimmste kommt noch the worst is yet to come
    zuerst [o als Erster] /als Nächster/zuletzt [o als Letzter] \kommen to come first/next/last
    9.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (untergebracht werden)
    ins Gefängnis/Krankenhaus \kommen to go to prison/into hospital
    vor Gericht \kommen Fall to come to court; Mensch to come [or appear] before the court
    in die Schule/Lehre \kommen to start school/an apprenticeship
    10.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (erlangen)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to achieve sth
    wie komme ich zu dieser Ehre? (iron, hum) to what do I owe this honour?
    zu der Erkenntnis \kommen, dass... to realize [or come to the realization] that...
    zu Geld \kommen to come into money
    zu Kräften \kommen to gain strength
    zu Ruhm \kommen to achieve [or win] fame
    [wieder] zu sich dat selbst \kommen to get out of one's head, to come back to [or find] oneself again
    zu sich dat \kommen to come to, to regain consciousness
    ▪ an jdn/etw \kommen to get hold of sb/sth
    wie bist du an das viele Geld ge\kommen? how did you get hold of [or come by] all that money?; s.a. Besinnung, Ruhe
    11.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (verlieren)
    ▪ um etw akk \kommen to lose sth
    ums Leben \kommen to lose one's life, to be killed, to die
    12.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (erreichen) to reach
    auf den 2. Platz \kommen to reach 2nd place, to come [in] 2nd
    13.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (gebracht werden) to come
    kam Post für mich? was there any post for me?
    14.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (veranlassen, dass jd kommt)
    den Arzt/den Klempner/ein Taxi \kommen lassen to send for [or call] the doctor/the plumber/a taxi
    15.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (hingehören) to go, to belong
    die Tasse kommt dahin the cup belongs there
    16.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (herannahen) to approach; (eintreten, geschehen) to come about, to happen
    heute kommt noch ein Gewitter there'll be a thunderstorm today
    der Winter kommt mit Riesenschritten winter is fast approaching
    der Termin kommt etwas ungelegen the meeting comes at a somewhat inconvenient time
    das habe ich schon lange \kommen sehen! I saw that coming a long time ago
    das kam doch anders als erwartet it/that turned out [or happened] differently than expected
    es kam eins zum anderen one thing led to another
    und so kam es, dass... and that's why/how..., and that's how it came about [or happened] that...
    wie kommt es, dass...? how is it that...?, how come...?
    es musste ja so \kommen it/that was bound to happen
    es hätte viel schlimmer \kommen können it could have been much worse
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to happen
    zum Prozess \kommen to come to trial
    es zu etw dat \kommen lassen zum Streit to let it come to sth
    so weit \kommen, dass... to get to the stage [or point] where...
    so weit kommt es noch! (iron fam) that'll be the day! fam
    komme, was da wolle come what may
    was auch immer \kommen mag whatever happens
    wie's kommt so kommt's whatever will be, will be
    [wieder] im K\kommen sein to be[come] fashionable again
    17.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (in Erscheinung treten) Pflanzen to come on [or along]
    die ersten Tomaten \kommen schon the first tomatoes are appearing
    18.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (jdn erfassen)
    ▪ über jdn \kommen Gefühl to come over sb
    eine gewaltige Traurigkeit kam über mich I was overcome by a tremendous sadness
    es kam einfach so über mich it just came over me
    19.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich bei jdm zeigen)
    jdm \kommen die Tränen sb is overcome by tears, sb starts to cry
    jdm \kommen Zweifel, ob... sb is beset [or overcome] by doubts [or sb doubts] whether...
    20.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (in einen Zustand geraten)
    ▪ in etw akk \kommen to get into sth
    wir kamen plötzlich ins Schleudern we suddenly started to skid
    in Fahrt [o Schwung] \kommen to get going
    in Gefahr/Not \kommen to get into danger/difficulty
    in Sicherheit \kommen to get to safety
    in Verlegenheit \kommen to get [or become] embarrassed; s.a. Stillstand
    21.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich verhalten) to be
    so lasse ich mir nicht \kommen! I won't have [or stand for] that!
    so kommst du mir nicht! don't you take that line with me!
    jdm frech \kommen to be cheeky to sb
    22.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: jdn belästigen)
    ▪ jdm mit etw dat \kommen to start telling sb about sth
    komm mir nicht schon wieder damit! don't give me [or start] that again!
    da kann [o könnte] ja jeder \kommen (fam) anyone could say that
    der soll nur \kommen! (fam) just let him try!
    23.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (seinen Grund haben) to come from
    daher kommt es, dass... that's why...
    das kommt davon! (fam) it's your own fault!
    das kommt davon, dass/weil... that's because...
    das kommt davon, wenn... that's what happens when...
    wie kommt es, dass... how come..., how is it that [that]...
    24.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich an etw erinnern)
    ▪ auf etw akk \kommen to remember sth, to recall sth
    ich komme beim besten Willen nicht darauf I just can't seem to remember [or recall] it
    25.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (einfallen)
    ▪ jdm \kommen to think of, to occur
    jdm kommt der Gedanke, dass... it occurs to sb that...
    na, das kommt dir aber früh! (iron) why didn't that occur to you sooner?
    26.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich verschaffen)
    ▪ an etw akk \kommen to get hold of sth
    wie bist du an das Geld ge\kommen? where did you get the money?
    27.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (etw herausfinden)
    ▪ hinter etw akk \kommen Pläne to find out sth sep, to get to the bottom of sth
    hinter ein Geheimnis \kommen to uncover [or sep find out] a secret
    wie kommst du darauf? what gives you that idea?, what makes you think that?; s.a. Schlich, Spur
    28.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein FILM, RADIO, TV (gesendet werden) to be on
    was kommt heute im Fernsehen? what's on [television] tonight?
    als Nächstes \kommen die Nachrichten the news is [on] next
    29.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (Zeit für etw finden)
    ▪ zu etw dat \kommen to get around to doing sth
    ich komme zu nichts mehr! I don't have time for anything else!
    30.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (entfallen)
    ▪ auf jdn/etw \kommen to be allotted to sb/sth
    auf jeden Studenten kamen drei Studentinnen for every male student there were three female students, the ratio of female to male students was 3:1
    31.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (ähnlich sein)
    ▪ nach jdm \kommen to take after sb
    32.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: kosten) to cost
    die Reparatur kam sehr teuer the repairs cost a lot [of money]
    ▪ auf etw akk \kommen to come to sth
    33.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (überfahren werden)
    unter ein Auto/einen Lastwagen \kommen to be knocked down by a car/lorry [or AM truck]
    unter die Räder \kommen to get knocked [or run] down [or run over
    34.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (ansprechen)
    auf einen Punkt/eine Angelegenheit \kommen to broach [or get onto] a point/matter
    auf etw akk zu sprechen \kommen to get [a]round to [talking about] sth
    jetzt, wo wir auf das Thema Gehaltserhöhung zu sprechen \kommen,... now that we're on [or we've got round to] the subject of pay rises...
    ich werde gleich darauf \kommen I'll come [or get] to that in a moment
    35.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (reichen)
    ▪ an etw akk \kommen to reach sth
    36.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sl: Orgasmus haben) to come fam
    37.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: eine Aufforderung verstärkend)
    komm, sei nicht so enttäuscht come on, don't be so disappointed
    komm, lass uns gehen! come on [or hurry up], let's go!
    komm, komm, werd nicht frech! now now, don't get cheeky!
    ach komm! (fam) come on!
    38.
    ▶ erstens kommt es anders und zweitens als man denkt (prov) things never turn out the way you expect
    ▶ komm ich heut nicht, komm ich morgen (prov) you'll see me when you see me
    ▶ zu kurz \kommen to come off badly, to get a raw deal
    ▶ auf jdn/etw nichts \kommen lassen (fam) to not hear a [bad] word said against sb
    ▶ wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (prov) first come, first served; s.a. achtzig, halten, nahe, Zeit
    1.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sich einfinden)
    ▪ es kommt jd sb is coming
    es kommt jetzt der berühmte Magier Obrikanus! and now the famous magician, Obrikanus!
    es scheint keiner mehr zu \kommen nobody else seems to be coming
    2.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (beginnen)
    ▪ es kommt etw sth is coming
    es kommt auch mal wieder schöneres Wetter the weather will turn nice again
    3.
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (sl: Orgasmus haben)
    ▪ es kommt jdm (veraltet) sb comes
    <kam, gekommen>
    Hilfsverb: sein (fam: kosten)
    ▪ jdn etw \kommen to cost sb sth
    die Reparatur kam mich sehr teuer I paid a lot [of money] for the repairs, the repairs cost a lot [of money]
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) come; (eintreffen) come; arrive

    angelaufen/angebraust usw. kommen — come running/roaring etc. along; (auf jemanden zu) come running/roaring etc. up

    angekrochen kommen — (fig.) come crawling up

    durch eine Gegend kommen — pass through a region

    nach Hause kommen — come or get home

    zu jemandem kommen — (jemanden besuchen) come and see somebody

    ist für mich keine Post gekommen? — is/was there no post for me?

    etwas kommen lassen — (etwas bestellen) order something

    jemanden kommen lassen — send for or call somebody

    da könnte ja jeder kommen! — (ugs.) who do you think you are?/who does he think he is? etc.

    komm mir bloß nicht damit! — (ugs.) don't give me that!

    [bitte] kommen! — (im Funkverkehr) come in[, please]

    2) (gelangen) get

    ans Ufer/Ziel kommen — reach the bank/finishing-line

    wie komme ich nach Paris? — how do I get to Paris?; (fig.)

    auf etwas (Akk.) zu sprechen kommen — turn to the discussion of something

    jemandem auf die Spur/Schliche kommen — get on somebody's trail/get wise to somebody's tricks

    dazu kommen, etwas zu tun — get round to doing something

    zum Einkaufen/Waschen kommen — get round to doing the shopping/washing

    3) (auftauchen) <seeds, plants> come up; <buds, flowers> come out; <peas, beans> form; < teeth> come through

    ihr ist ein Gedanke/eine Idee gekommen — she had a thought/an idea; a thought/an idea came to her

    zur Schule kommen — go to or start school

    ins Krankenhaus/Gefängnis kommen — go into hospital/to prison

    in den Himmel/in die Hölle kommen — (fig.) go to heaven/hell

    5) (gehören) go; belong

    in die Schublade/ins Regal kommen — go or belong in the drawer/on the shelf

    6) (gebracht, befördert werden) go
    7) (geraten) get

    in Gefahr/Not/Verlegenheit kommen — get into danger/serious difficulties/get or become embarrassed

    unter ein Auto/zu Tode kommen — be knocked down by a car/be or get killed

    neben jemandem zu sitzen kommen — get to sit next to somebody; s. auch Schwung; Stimmung

    8) (nahen)

    ein Gewitter/die Flut kommt — a storm is approaching/the tide's coming in

    der Tag/die Nacht kommt — (geh.) day is breaking/night is falling

    im Kommen sein — <fashion etc.> be coming in; < person> be on the way up

    9) (sich ereignen) come about; happen

    das durfte [jetzt] nicht kommen — (ugs. spött.) that's hardly the thing to say now

    gelegen/ungelegen kommen — <offer, opportunity> come/not come at the right moment; < visit> be/not be convenient

    überraschend [für jemanden] kommen — come as a surprise [to somebody]

    daher kommt es, dass... — that's [the reason] why...

    das kommt davon, dass... — that's because...

    vom vielen Rauchen/vom Vitaminmangel kommen — be due to smoking/vitamin deficiency

    wie kommt es, dass... — how is it that you/he etc....; how come that... (coll.)

    10) unpers

    es kam zum Streit/Kampf — there was a quarrel/fight

    es kam alles ganz anders — it all or everything turned out quite differently

    so weit kommt es noch [, dass ich euern Dreck wieder wegräume]! — (ugs. iron.) that really is the limit[, expecting me to clear up your rubbish after you]!

    11) (ugs.): (erreicht werden)

    da vorn kommt eine Tankstelle — there's a petrol station coming up (coll.)

    12)

    zu Erfolg/Ruhm usw. kommen — gain success/fame etc.

    nie zu etwas kommen — (ugs.) never get anywhere

    [wieder] zu sich kommen — regain consciousness; come round

    13) (an der Reihe sein; folgen)

    zuerst/zuletzt kam... — first/last came...

    als erster/letzter kommen — come first/last

    jetzt komme ich [an die Reihe] — it is my turn now

    14) (ugs.): (sich verhalten)

    jemandem frech/unverschämt/grob kommen — be cheeky/impertinent/rude to somebody

    so lasse ich mir nicht kommen! — I don't stand for that sort of thing!

    15)

    ich lasse auf ihn usw. nichts kommen — I won't hear anything said against him etc.

    über jemanden kommen — (jemanden erfassen) < feeling> come over somebody

    auf hundert Berufstätige kommen vier Arbeitslose — for every hundred people in employment, there are four people unemployed

    17)

    seine Eltern kommen aus Sachsen — his parents come or are from Saxony

    18) (ugs.): (kosten)

    alles zusammen kam auf... — altogether it came to...

    wie teuer kommt der Stoff? — how much or dear is that material?

    etwas kommt [jemanden] teuer — something comes expensive [for somebody]

    19) (ugs.): (anspringen) < engine> start
    20) (salopp): (Orgasmus haben) come (sl.)
    21) (ugs.): (als Aufforderung, Ermahnung)

    komm/kommt/kommen Sie — come on, now

    komm, komm — oh, come on

    [gut] kommen/nicht kommen — <serve, backhand, forehand, etc.> be going/not be going well

    23) in festen Wendungen: s. Ausbruch 2); Einsatz 3); Entfaltung 1); Fall
    * * *
    Kommen n; -s, kein pl arrival;
    ein ständiges Kommen und Gehen a constant coming and going;
    es ist ein ständiges Kommen und Gehen people are in and out all day, there’s a constant stream of of people coming and going;
    im Kommen sein Ideologie etc: be in the ascendant;
    sind wieder im Kommen wider ties etc are coming in again;
    dieser Dirigent ist im Kommen he’s an up-and-coming conductor
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) come; (eintreffen) come; arrive

    angelaufen/angebraust usw. kommen — come running/roaring etc. along; (auf jemanden zu) come running/roaring etc. up

    angekrochen kommen — (fig.) come crawling up

    nach Hause kommen — come or get home

    zu jemandem kommen — (jemanden besuchen) come and see somebody

    ist für mich keine Post gekommen? — is/was there no post for me?

    etwas kommen lassen — (etwas bestellen) order something

    jemanden kommen lassen — send for or call somebody

    da könnte ja jeder kommen! — (ugs.) who do you think you are?/who does he think he is? etc.

    komm mir bloß nicht damit! — (ugs.) don't give me that!

    [bitte] kommen! — (im Funkverkehr) come in[, please]

    2) (gelangen) get

    ans Ufer/Ziel kommen — reach the bank/finishing-line

    wie komme ich nach Paris? — how do I get to Paris?; (fig.)

    auf etwas (Akk.) zu sprechen kommen — turn to the discussion of something

    jemandem auf die Spur/Schliche kommen — get on somebody's trail/get wise to somebody's tricks

    dazu kommen, etwas zu tun — get round to doing something

    zum Einkaufen/Waschen kommen — get round to doing the shopping/washing

    3) (auftauchen) <seeds, plants> come up; <buds, flowers> come out; <peas, beans> form; < teeth> come through

    ihr ist ein Gedanke/eine Idee gekommen — she had a thought/an idea; a thought/an idea came to her

    zur Schule kommen — go to or start school

    ins Krankenhaus/Gefängnis kommen — go into hospital/to prison

    in den Himmel/in die Hölle kommen — (fig.) go to heaven/hell

    5) (gehören) go; belong

    in die Schublade/ins Regal kommen — go or belong in the drawer/on the shelf

    6) (gebracht, befördert werden) go
    7) (geraten) get

    in Gefahr/Not/Verlegenheit kommen — get into danger/serious difficulties/get or become embarrassed

    unter ein Auto/zu Tode kommen — be knocked down by a car/be or get killed

    neben jemandem zu sitzen kommen — get to sit next to somebody; s. auch Schwung; Stimmung

    ein Gewitter/die Flut kommt — a storm is approaching/the tide's coming in

    der Tag/die Nacht kommt — (geh.) day is breaking/night is falling

    im Kommen sein — <fashion etc.> be coming in; < person> be on the way up

    9) (sich ereignen) come about; happen

    das durfte [jetzt] nicht kommen — (ugs. spött.) that's hardly the thing to say now

    gelegen/ungelegen kommen — <offer, opportunity> come/not come at the right moment; < visit> be/not be convenient

    überraschend [für jemanden] kommen — come as a surprise [to somebody]

    daher kommt es, dass... — that's [the reason] why...

    das kommt davon, dass... — that's because...

    vom vielen Rauchen/vom Vitaminmangel kommen — be due to smoking/vitamin deficiency

    wie kommt es, dass... — how is it that you/he etc....; how come that... (coll.)

    10) unpers

    es kam zum Streit/Kampf — there was a quarrel/fight

    es kam alles ganz anders — it all or everything turned out quite differently

    so weit kommt es noch [, dass ich euern Dreck wieder wegräume]! — (ugs. iron.) that really is the limit[, expecting me to clear up your rubbish after you]!

    11) (ugs.): (erreicht werden)
    12)

    zu Erfolg/Ruhm usw. kommen — gain success/fame etc.

    nie zu etwas kommen — (ugs.) never get anywhere

    [wieder] zu sich kommen — regain consciousness; come round

    13) (an der Reihe sein; folgen)

    zuerst/zuletzt kam... — first/last came...

    als erster/letzter kommen — come first/last

    jetzt komme ich [an die Reihe] — it is my turn now

    14) (ugs.): (sich verhalten)

    jemandem frech/unverschämt/grob kommen — be cheeky/impertinent/rude to somebody

    15)

    ich lasse auf ihn usw. nichts kommen — I won't hear anything said against him etc.

    über jemanden kommen — (jemanden erfassen) < feeling> come over somebody

    auf hundert Berufstätige kommen vier Arbeitslose — for every hundred people in employment, there are four people unemployed

    17)
    18) (ugs.): (kosten)

    alles zusammen kam auf... — altogether it came to...

    wie teuer kommt der Stoff? — how much or dear is that material?

    etwas kommt [jemanden] teuer — something comes expensive [for somebody]

    19) (ugs.): (anspringen) < engine> start
    20) (salopp): (Orgasmus haben) come (sl.)
    21) (ugs.): (als Aufforderung, Ermahnung)

    komm/kommt/kommen Sie — come on, now

    komm, komm — oh, come on

    22) (Sportjargon): (gelingen)

    [gut] kommen/nicht kommen — <serve, backhand, forehand, etc.> be going/not be going well

    23) in festen Wendungen: s. Ausbruch 2); Einsatz 3); Entfaltung 1); Fall
    * * *
    interj.
    come interj. v.
    (§ p.,pp.: kam, ist gekommen)
    = to come v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: came, come)
    to cum v.

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  • 11 Blanchard, Helen Augusta

    [br]
    b. 25 October 1840 Portland, Maine, USA
    d. 1922 USA
    [br]
    American inventor who made improvements in the sewing machine.
    [br]
    Blanchard was the daughter of a wealthy ship owner. She was said to have had inventive talents but seems to have had no technical training. She patented nothing until she was over 30, although that may have been due to shortage of funds. Inheriting the family wealth after the death of her father brought her talents out into the open. She moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and made and patented a number of mechanical devices to improve the sewing machine: these included the "over seaming" machine, a crochet attachment and methods of making knitwear. In 1881, with an unmarried sister, she founded the Blanchard Overseam Machine Company to exploit her sewing machine inventions. Her company seems to have prospered, for in 1891 she was said to own "great estates", a factory and many patent rights, the returns from which made her a wealthy woman. Patents for sewing machine improvements and attachments continued to flow until 1915. She suffered a stroke in 1916, and died six years later; no will was ever probated, so the fate of her wealth can only be surmised.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Stanley, 1993, Mothers and Daughters of Invention, Meruchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, pp. 518–21.
    LRD

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  • 12 Stephenson, George

    [br]
    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England
    [br]
    English engineer, "the father of railways".
    [br]
    George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.
    In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.
    In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.
    It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.
    During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.
    In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.
    On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.
    At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.
    In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.
    The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.
    Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.
    Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.
    Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.
    He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
    Bibliography
    1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).
    1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).
    S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).
    PJGR

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  • 13 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 14 Estoril

       Composed of the towns of São Pedro, São João, Monte Estoril, and Estoril, and located about 32 kilometers (15 miles) west of Lisbon along the coast, Estoril forms the heart of a tourist region. Once described in tourist literature as the Sun Coast ( Costa do Sol), this coast—in order not to be confused with a region with a similar name in neighboring Spain (Costa del Sol)—has been renamed the "Lisbon Coast." Its origins go back to several developments in the late 19th century that encouraged the building of a resort area that would take advantage of the coast's fine climate and beaches from Carcav-elos to Cascais. Sporty King Carlos I (r. 1889-1908) and his court liked summering in Cascais (apparently the first tennis in Portugal was played here), then only a simple fishing village. There are medicinal spring waters in Estoril, and the inauguration (1889) of a new train line from Lisbon to Cascais provided a convenient way of bringing in visitors before the age of automobiles and superhighways.
       As a high-class resort town, Estoril was developed beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, due in part to the efforts of the entrepreneur Fausto de Figueiredo, whose memorial statue graces the now famous Casino Gardens. Soon Estoril possessed a gambling casino, restaurants, and several fine hotels.
       Estoril's beginnings as a small but popular international resort and watering spot were slow and difficult, however, and what Estoril became was determined in part by international economy and politics. The resort's backers and builders modeled Estoril to a degree on Nice, a much larger, older, and better-known resort in the French Riviera. The name "Estoril," in fact, which was not found on Portuguese maps before the 20th century, was a Portuguese corruption of the French word for a mountain range near Nice. Estoril hotel designs, such as that of reputedly the most luxurious hotel outside Lisbon, the Hotel Palácio-Estoril, looked to earlier hotel designs on the French Riviera.
       It was remarkable, too, that Estoril's debut as a resort area with full services (hotels, casino, beach, spa) and sports (golf, tennis, swimming) happened to coincide with the depth of the world Depression (1929-34) that seemed to threaten its future. Less expensive, with a more reliably mild year-round climate and closer to Great Britain and North America than the older French Riviera, the "Sun Coast" that featured Estoril had many attractions. The resort's initial prosperity was guaranteed when large numbers of middle-class and wealthy Spaniards migrated to the area after 1931, during the turbulent Spanish Republic and subsequent bloody Civil War (1936-39). World War II (when Portugal was neutral) and the early stages of the Cold War only enhanced the Sun Coast's resort reputation. After 1939, numbers of displaced and dethroned royalty from Europe came to Portugal to live in a sunny, largely tax-free climate. In the early 1950s, Estoril's casino became known to millions of readers and armchair travelers when it was featured in one of the early James Bond books by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953). In the 1980s and 1990s, the Casino was expanded and rehabilitated, while the Hotel Palacio Estoril was given a face-lift along with a new railroad station and the addition of more elegant restaurants and shops. In 2003, in the Estoril Post Office building, a Museum of Exiles and Refugees of World War II was opened.

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  • 15 alcance

    m.
    1 range.
    de corto/largo alcance short-/long-range
    2 scope, extent.
    de alcance important
    3 reach, range, scope, extent.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: alcanzar.
    * * *
    1 reach, grasp
    2 (de arma) range
    3 (trascendencia) scope, importance
    4 (inteligencia) intelligence
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) reach, scope
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=posibilidad de acceso) [de brazo, persona] reach; [de pensamiento] scope

    • al alcance de algn — available to sb

    no tenía el dinero a su alcance — he didn't have access to the money, he didn't have the money available

    • estar al alcance de algn — to be within sb's reach

    • estar fuera del alcance de algn — (=alejado, imposible) to be out of sb's reach, be beyond sb's reach; (=incomprensible) to be over sb's head; (=caro) to be beyond sb's means

    • al alcance de la mano — at hand, within arm's reach

    • al alcance del oído — within earshot

    • poner algo al alcance de algn — to make sth available to sb

    • al alcance de la vista — within sight

    • al alcance de la voz — within call

    2) (=distancia) (Mil) range

    • al alcance — within range

    • de corto alcance — [arma, misil] short-range antes de s ; [objetivo, proyecto] short-term antes de s

    • de gran o largo alcance — [faros] full beam antes de s, high beam antes de s (EEUU); [arma, misil, micrófono] long-range antes de s ; [vuelo] long haul antes de s ; [efecto, repercusiones] far-reaching

    • de medio o mediano alcance — [arma, misil] medium-range

    buzón 1)
    3) (=importancia) [de problema] extent; [de noticia, suceso] importance, significance
    4) (=persecución) pursuit

    • andar o ir a los alcances de algn — to press close on sb

    • dar alcance a algn — (=capturar) to capture sb; (=llegar a la altura) to catch up with sb

    • andar o ir en los alcances a algn — to spy on sb

    • seguir el alcance a algn — (Mil) to pursue sb

    5) (Econ) adverse balance, deficit
    6) (Tip) stop-press, stop-press news
    7) pl alcances
    a) (=inteligencia) grasp sing

    • de cortos o pocos alcances — not very bright

    es hombre de cortos alcances — he's not a very intelligent man, he's not too bright

    b) CAm (=calumnias) calumnies, malicious accusations

    hacer un alcance — to clear sth up, clarify sth

    alcance de nombres, no es su padre, es solo un alcance de nombres — he's not his father, it just happens that their names coincide

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de persona) reach
    b) (de arma, emisora) range

    misiles de corto/largo alcance — short-range/long-range missiles

    c) (de ley, proyecto) scope; (de declaración, noticia) implications

    hacer un alcance — (Chi) to add/clarify something

    2) (Fin) deficit
    * * *
    = coverage, extent, grasp, reach, scope, sweep, compass.
    Ex. AACR1 is a weighty code, not because it contains extensive enumeration, but rather because of its comprehensive coverage.
    Ex. The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.
    Ex. When an item is in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.
    Ex. The cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man's sleeve within easy reach of his fingers.
    Ex. Subject field definition arises from the scope of the information service or system that the indexing language is expected to serve.
    Ex. The grand design is visible in the sweep of development from baked clay tablets to computerized typesetting.
    Ex. All truth is contained in the compass of your mind.
    ----
    * al alcance = within reach, within easy reach, within sight, within gunshot, within range.
    * al alcance de cualquiera = within anyone's reach, within anybody's reach.
    * al alcance de la mano = within arm's reach, within easy reach.
    * al alcance del oído = within earshot of.
    * al alcance de todos = within everybody's reach, within everyone's reach, accessible to everyone, accessible to everybody.
    * alcance amplio = broad scope.
    * alcance temático = subject scope.
    * ampliar el alcance de = extend + the reach of.
    * a + Posesivo + alcance = in the ballpark for + Pronombre, in + Posesivo + ballpark range.
    * caer fuera del alcance de = fall outside + the scope of.
    * calidad y alcance de, la = quality and extent of, the.
    * colocar fuera de alcance = place + out of reach.
    * con todos los medios a + Posesivo + alcance = with all the means at + Posesivo + disposal.
    * de alcance estatal = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * de alcance nacional = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * de amplio alcance = broad in scope.
    * de fácil alcance para = within easy reach of.
    * de largo alcance = far-reaching, far-ranging.
    * el alcance = comprehensiveness.
    * estar al alcance de la mano = be at hand.
    * estar fuera del alcance = lie outside + the scope of.
    * estudio de alcance = scoping study.
    * facilidad de alcance = reachability.
    * fuera de alcance = beyond reach, out of range.
    * fuera del alcance = out of reach.
    * fuera del alcance de = beyond the scope of.
    * fuera del alcance de las posibilidades de Alguien = beyond + Posesivo + powers.
    * fuera del alcance del oído = out of earshot.
    * nota de alcance = scope note (SN).
    * objetivo y alcance = purpose and scope.
    * poner al alcance = bring within + reach.
    * poner Algo al alcance = put + Nombre + within reach.
    * tener al alcance = have at + Posesivo + touch.
    * tener Algo al alcance = have + Nombre + at + Posesivo + fingertips.
    * WAN (red de gran alcance) = WAN (wide area network).
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de persona) reach
    b) (de arma, emisora) range

    misiles de corto/largo alcance — short-range/long-range missiles

    c) (de ley, proyecto) scope; (de declaración, noticia) implications

    hacer un alcance — (Chi) to add/clarify something

    2) (Fin) deficit
    * * *
    = coverage, extent, grasp, reach, scope, sweep, compass.

    Ex: AACR1 is a weighty code, not because it contains extensive enumeration, but rather because of its comprehensive coverage.

    Ex: The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.
    Ex: When an item is in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.
    Ex: The cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man's sleeve within easy reach of his fingers.
    Ex: Subject field definition arises from the scope of the information service or system that the indexing language is expected to serve.
    Ex: The grand design is visible in the sweep of development from baked clay tablets to computerized typesetting.
    Ex: All truth is contained in the compass of your mind.
    * al alcance = within reach, within easy reach, within sight, within gunshot, within range.
    * al alcance de = available at the fingertips of.
    * al alcance de cualquiera = within anyone's reach, within anybody's reach.
    * al alcance de la mano = within arm's reach, within easy reach.
    * al alcance del oído = within earshot of.
    * al alcance de todos = within everybody's reach, within everyone's reach, accessible to everyone, accessible to everybody.
    * alcance amplio = broad scope.
    * alcance temático = subject scope.
    * ampliar el alcance de = extend + the reach of.
    * a + Posesivo + alcance = in the ballpark for + Pronombre, in + Posesivo + ballpark range.
    * caer fuera del alcance de = fall outside + the scope of.
    * calidad y alcance de, la = quality and extent of, the.
    * colocar fuera de alcance = place + out of reach.
    * con todos los medios a + Posesivo + alcance = with all the means at + Posesivo + disposal.
    * de alcance estatal = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * de alcance nacional = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * de amplio alcance = broad in scope.
    * de fácil alcance para = within easy reach of.
    * de largo alcance = far-reaching, far-ranging.
    * el alcance = comprehensiveness.
    * estar al alcance de la mano = be at hand.
    * estar fuera del alcance = lie outside + the scope of.
    * estudio de alcance = scoping study.
    * facilidad de alcance = reachability.
    * fuera de alcance = beyond reach, out of range.
    * fuera del alcance = out of reach.
    * fuera del alcance de = beyond the scope of.
    * fuera del alcance de las posibilidades de Alguien = beyond + Posesivo + powers.
    * fuera del alcance del oído = out of earshot.
    * nota de alcance = scope note (SN).
    * objetivo y alcance = purpose and scope.
    * poner al alcance = bring within + reach.
    * poner Algo al alcance = put + Nombre + within reach.
    * tener al alcance = have at + Posesivo + touch.
    * tener Algo al alcance = have + Nombre + at + Posesivo + fingertips.
    * WAN (red de gran alcance) = WAN (wide area network).

    * * *
    A
    un pugilista menos alto pero de mayor alcance a boxer who is shorter but has a longer reach
    [ S ] mantenga los medicamentos fuera del alcance de los niños keep all medicines out of reach of children
    está totalmente fuera de mi alcance it is completely beyond my means
    2 (de un arma, una emisora) range
    misiles de corto/largo alcance short-range/long-range missiles
    3
    (ámbito): el alcance de una ley the scope of a law
    todavía no sabemos el alcance que puedan tener sus declaraciones as yet we do not know the full implications of his statement
    una política educativa de largo alcance a far-reaching education policy
    4 ( en locs):
    al alcance de within reach of
    se trata de poner la cultura al alcance de todos the idea is to bring culture within everybody's reach o to make culture accessible to everyone
    un país en el que tener televisión no está al alcance de cualquiera a country where owning a television is not within everyone's reach
    tarifas al alcance de su presupuesto prices to suit your pocket
    eso no está a mi alcance that's not in my power
    es un lujo que no está a mi alcance it's a luxury I can't afford
    tiene a su alcance los mejores medios para la investigación he has the best research facilities available to him
    estos conceptos no están al alcance de nuestra inteligencia these concepts are unintelligible to us o are beyond our grasp
    cuando la Estatua de la Libertad estuvo al alcance de la vista when the Statue of Liberty was visible/came into view
    al alcance de la mano (literal) at hand; (fácil de conseguir) within reach, within one's grasp
    hacer un alcance ( Chi); to add/clarify sth
    Compuesto:
    ( Chi): hubo una confusión por un alcance de nombres there was a mix-up because their names were the same
    B ( Fin) deficit
    * * *

     

    Del verbo alcanzar: ( conjugate alcanzar)

    alcancé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    alcance es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    alcance    
    alcanzar
    alcance sustantivo masculino


    está fuera de mi alcance it is beyond my means
    b) (de arma, emisora) range;


    c) (de ley, proyecto) scope;

    (de declaración, noticia) implications (pl)
    d) ( en locs)


    precios al alcance de su bolsillo prices to suit your pocket;
    un lujo que no está a mi alcance a luxury I can't afford
    alcanzar ( conjugate alcanzar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹ persona› ( llegar a la altura de) to catch up with, to catch … up (BrE);

    (pillar, agarrar) to catch;

    ¡a que no me alcanzas! I bet you can't catch me! (colloq)
    b) (en tarea, estatura) to catch up with

    2 ( llegar a) ‹ lugar› to reach, get to;
    ‹temperatura/nivel/edad› to reach;

    estos árboles alcanzan una gran altura these trees can reach o grow to a great height;
    alcance la mayoría de edad to come of age
    3 (conseguir, obtener) ‹objetivo/éxito› to achieve;
    ‹ acuerdo› to reach
    4 (acercar, pasar) alcancele algo a algn to pass sb sth, to pass sth to sb
    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( llegar con la mano) to reach;

    alcance a hacer algo to manage to do sth
    2 ( ser suficiente) [comida/provisones] to be enough;

    alcance sustantivo masculino
    1 reach: deja eso al alcance de mi vista, put that where I can see it
    mantenga los medicamentos fuera del alcance de los niños, keep medicines out of the reach of children
    2 fig (posibilidades) scope: el ascenso está fuera de tu alcance, promotion is impossible for you
    3 (de una noticia) importance
    ♦ Locuciones: dar alcance, to catch up [a, with]
    alcanzar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to reach
    2 (coger a una persona) to catch up with
    3 (llegar hasta una cantidad) to be up to: su biblioteca alcanza los tres mil ejemplares, his library is up to three thousand volumes
    4 (acercar algo) to pass: alcánzame una silla, pass me a chair
    5 (lograr) to attain, achieve
    II vi (ser suficiente) to be sufficient: ese dinero no alcanza para un piso, this money isn't enough to buy a flat
    ' alcance' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    combatir
    - eco
    - fuera
    - proyección
    - alcanzar
    - ámbito
    - dimensión
    - milagro
    - trascendental
    English:
    ambit
    - extensive
    - far-reaching
    - grasp
    - hand
    - long-range
    - out of
    - range
    - reach
    - scope
    - short-range
    - sight
    - wide-ranging
    - extent
    - far
    - long
    - sweep
    - wide
    * * *
    1. [de arma, misil, emisora] range;
    de corto/largo alcance short-/long-range;
    una colisión por alcance [por detrás] a rear-end collision;
    [angular] a side-on collision
    2. [de persona]
    a mi alcance within my reach;
    utilizaron todos los medios a su alcance they used every means at their disposal;
    al alcance de mi bolsillo within my means;
    este restaurante sólo está al alcance de los más pudientes only the very wealthy can afford to eat at this restaurant;
    esta tarea no está al alcance de sus posibilidades he's not up to this task, this task is beyond his capabilities;
    la cuerda estaba casi al alcance de la mano the rope was almost within arm's reach;
    tuvo la victoria al alcance de la mano she was within sight of victory, she had victory within her grasp;
    al alcance de la vista within sight;
    el castillo queda fuera del alcance de nuestra vista we can't see the castle from here;
    dar alcance a alguien to catch up with sb;
    el pelotón dio alcance al ciclista escapado the bunch caught (up with) the cyclist who had broken away from them;
    fuera del alcance de beyond the reach of;
    guardar fuera del alcance de los niños [en etiqueta] keep out of reach of o away from children
    3. [de reformas, medidas] scope, extent;
    todavía no se han dado cuenta del alcance del fallo judicial the full implications of the verdict have still not become clear to them;
    un cambio de alcance universal a change that affects everybody;
    de alcance important
    4.
    una noticia de alcance [de última hora] a piece of news that has just come in
    5. [inteligencia]
    una persona de pocos alcances a slow o dim-witted person
    6. Chile [resto]
    este mes se quedó con un alcance he had a bit left over this month
    7. Chile [comentario] clarification;
    estoy de acuerdo, pero debo hacerle un alcance I agree, but I must make one thing clear
    * * *
    m
    1 reach;
    al alcance de la mano within reach;
    poner algo al alcance de alguien put sth within s.o.’s reach;
    dar alcance a alguien catch up with s.o.;
    al alcance de la vista visible, in view;
    ¿está al alcance de tu bolsillo? can you afford it?
    2 de arma etc range;
    de largo alcance long-range
    3 de medida scope
    4 de tragedia extent, scale
    5 fig
    :
    un hombre de mucho alcance a talented o gifted man;
    de pocos alcances fam untalented
    * * *
    1) : reach
    2) : range, scope
    * * *
    1. (en general) reach
    2. (de un arma, emisora, etc) range
    3. (importancia) importance

    Spanish-English dictionary > alcance

  • 16 poderoso

    adj.
    powerful, vigorous, mighty, potent.
    * * *
    1 powerful
    * * *
    (f. - poderosa)
    adj.
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    SMPL

    los poderosos — (=dirigentes) the people in power; (=ricos) the rich and powerful

    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <nación/persona> powerful; <remedio/calmante> powerful, effective; < motivo> powerful, strong
    * * *
    = strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], powerful, hefty [heftier -comp., heftiest -sup.], potent, power-packed.
    Ex. In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.
    Ex. ALA or its subdivision have been sitting back while these powerful people get together and decide what should be good for us.
    Ex. This new font had increased contrast and x-height in the lower case and a hefty set of capitals = Este nuevo tipo de letra había aumentado el contraste y el ojo medio de las minúsculas y las mayúsculas eran voluminosas.
    Ex. All considerations of changing or developing curricula have to take account of inadequacies and inflexibilities in this area as probably the most potent inhibitors of change.
    Ex. Eating these power-packed vegetables in their natural state especially garlic increases their health benefits.
    ----
    * poderosos, los = mighty, the.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <nación/persona> powerful; <remedio/calmante> powerful, effective; < motivo> powerful, strong
    * * *
    = strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], powerful, hefty [heftier -comp., heftiest -sup.], potent, power-packed.

    Ex: In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.

    Ex: ALA or its subdivision have been sitting back while these powerful people get together and decide what should be good for us.
    Ex: This new font had increased contrast and x-height in the lower case and a hefty set of capitals = Este nuevo tipo de letra había aumentado el contraste y el ojo medio de las minúsculas y las mayúsculas eran voluminosas.
    Ex: All considerations of changing or developing curricula have to take account of inadequacies and inflexibilities in this area as probably the most potent inhibitors of change.
    Ex: Eating these power-packed vegetables in their natural state especially garlic increases their health benefits.
    * poderosos, los = mighty, the.

    * * *
    1 ‹nación/persona› powerful
    2 ‹remedio/calmante› powerful, effective
    3 ‹motivo/razón› powerful, strong
    * * *

    poderoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    powerful
    poderoso,-a adjetivo
    1 (rico, influyente) powerful
    2 (importante, apremiante) strong: tiene poderosas razones para mantenerse en silencio, he has powerful reasons for remaining silent
    3 (eficaz) effective: le han recetado un poderoso antidepresivo, he was prescribed a strong antidepressant

    ' poderoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    poderosa
    - cacique
    - grande
    English:
    mighty
    - money
    - powerful
    - sinewy
    - strong
    * * *
    poderoso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [con poder, riquezas] powerful;
    poderoso caballero es don dinero money talks o makes the world go round
    2. [eficaz] [remedio, cura] powerful
    3. [razón, motivo] powerful, compelling
    ♦ nm,f
    powerful person;
    los poderosos the powerful
    * * *
    I adj powerful
    II mpl
    :
    los poderosos the people with power
    * * *
    poderoso, -sa adj
    1) : powerful
    2) : wealthy, influential
    3) : effective
    * * *
    poderoso adj powerful

    Spanish-English dictionary > poderoso

  • 17 bourgeois

    bourgeois, e [buʀʒwa, waz]
    1. adjective
    middle-class ; [appartement] plush ; (pejorative) [culture, préjugé, goûts] bourgeois
    2. masculine noun, feminine noun
    * * *

    1.
    bourgeoise buʀʒwa, az adjectif
    1) [libéralisme] bourgeois; péj [morale] middle-class
    2) ( cossu)
    3) Droit [habitation] for private use (après n)

    2.
    nom masculin, féminin
    1) ( personne de la classe moyenne) middle-class person, bourgeois péj
    2) Histoire ( sous l'Ancien Régime) bourgeois; ( au Moyen Âge) burgher
    * * *
    buʀʒwa, waz bourgeois, -e
    1. adj
    middle class, (avant le nom) middle-class, péjoratif bourgeois, middle class
    2. nm/f
    1) HISTOIRE burgher, bourgeois
    2)

    les bourgeois — the bourgeoisie, the upper middle classes

    * * *
    A adj
    1 [libéralisme, idéologie] bourgeois; péj [morale, préjugés] middle-class;
    2 ( cossu) [quartier, maison] bourgeois;
    3 Jur [habitation] for private use ( après n).
    B nm,f
    1 ( personne de la classe moyenne) middle-class person, bourgeois péj;
    2 Hist ( sous l'Ancien Régime) bourgeois; ( au Moyen Âge) burgher; les bourgeois de Calais the burghers of Calais.
    ( féminin bourgeoise) [burʒwa, az] adjectif
    1. [dans un sens marxiste] of the bourgeoisie, bourgeois
    2. [dans un sens non marxiste] middle-class
    3. (péjoratif) [caractéristique de la bourgeoisie]
    4. [aisé, confortable]
    ————————
    , bourgeoise [burʒwa, az] nom masculin, nom féminin
    1. [dans un sens marxiste] bourgeois
    2. [dans un sens non marxiste] member of the middle class
    3. HISTOIRE [au Moyen Âge] burgher
    [avant la Révolution] member of the third estate
    4. (Suisse) [citoyen] citizen
    5. (péjoratif) [béotien] Philistine
    bourgeoise nom féminin
    ma bourgeoise my old lady, the wife (UK)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > bourgeois

  • 18 Brindley, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals
    [br]
    b. 1716 Tunstead, Derbyshire, England
    d. 27 September 1772 Turnhurst, Staffordshire, England
    [br]
    English canal engineer.
    [br]
    Born in a remote area and with no material advantages, Brindley followed casual rural labouring occupations until 1733, when he became apprenticed to Abraham Bennett of Macclesfield, a wheelwright and millwright. Though lacking basic education in reading and writing, he demonstrated his ability, partly through his photographic memory, to solve practical problems. This established his reputation, and after Bennett's death in 1742 he set up his own business at Leek as a millwright. His skill led to an invitation to solve the problem of mine drainage at Wet Earth Colliery, Clifton, near Manchester. He tunnelled 600 ft (183 m) through rock to provide a leat for driving a water-powered pump.
    Following work done on a pump on Earl Gower's estate at Trentham, Brindley's name was suggested as the engineer for the proposed canal for which the Duke of Bridge water (Francis Egerton) had obtained an Act in 1759. The Earl and the Duke were brothers-in-law, and the agents for the two estates were, in turn, the Gilbert brothers. The canal, later known as the Bridgewater Canal, was to be constructed to carry coal from the Duke's mines at Worsley into Manchester. Brindley advised on the details of its construction and recommended that it be carried across the river Irwell at Barton by means of an aqueduct. His proposals were accepted, and under his supervision the canal was constructed on a single level and opened in 1761. Brindley had also surveyed for Earl Gower a canal from the Potteries to Liverpool to carry pottery for export, and the signal success of the Bridgewater Canal ensured that the Trent and Mersey Canal would also be built. These undertakings were the start of Brindley's career as a canal engineer, and it was largely from his concepts that the canal system of the Midlands developed, following the natural contours rather than making cuttings and constructing large embankments. His canals are thus winding navigations unlike the later straight waterways, which were much easier to traverse. He also adopted the 7 ft (2.13 m) wide lock as a ruling dimension for all engineering features. For cheapness, he formed his canal tunnels without a towpath, which led to the notorious practice of legging the boats through the tunnels.
    Brindley surveyed a large number of projects and such was his reputation that virtually every proposal was submitted to him for his opinion. Included among these projects were the Staffordshire and Worcestershire, the Rochdale, the Birmingham network, the Droitwich, the Coventry and the Oxford canals. Although he was nominally in charge of each contract, much of the work was carried out by his assistants while he rushed from one undertaking to another to ensure that his orders were being carried out. He was nearly 50 when he married Anne Henshall, whose brother was also a canal engineer. His fees and salaries had made him very wealthy. He died in 1772 from a chill sustained when carrying out a survey of the Caldon Canal.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.G.Banks and R.B.Schofield, 1968, Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: An Engineering Study, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    S.E.Buckley, 1948, James Brindley, London: Harrap.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Brindley, James

  • 19 Praed, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals
    [br]
    b. 24 June 1747 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, England
    d. 9 October 1833 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, England
    [br]
    English banker and Member of Parliament.
    [br]
    Born into a wealthy Cornish family, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was elected Member of Parliament for St Ives in 1774, but it was alleged that his father, who was a banker, had acted as agent for both his son and Drummond, the other candidate for the same party, in the course of which he advanced money to voters "on their notes payable with interest to the bank of Truro (Praed's bank)" but with the understanding that repayment would not be demanded from those who had voted for Praed and Drummond. Praed's election was therefore declared void on 8 May 1775. He was re-elected in 1780, by which time St Ives was virtually a Praed family monopoly. He served in successive Parliaments until 1806 and then represented Banbury until 1808. Meanwhile, in 1779 he had become a partner in his father's Truro bank, c. 1801 founded the London bank of Praed \& Co. at 189 Fleet Street.
    While in Parliament, he was instrumental in obtaining and carrying into effect the Bill for the Grand Junction Canal from Braunston to London. He was elected Chairman of the company formed for constructing the canal and proved an excellent choice, serving the company faithfully for nearly thirty years until his resignation in 1821. Upon his marriage to Elizabeth Tyringham in 1778 he made his home at Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire and so was very much in the Grand Junction Canal Company's area. London's Praed Street, in which Paddington Station stands, is named in his honour and the canal basin is at the rear of this street. His monument in Tyringham Church bears a relief illustrating a pair of lock gates and a canal boat.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Alan H.Faulkner, 1972, The Grand Junction Canal, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles. L.S.Presnell, 1956, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 295–6.
    G.C.Boase and W.P.Courtney, 1874, Biblio-theca Cornubiensis, Vol. II, London: Longmans, p. 524.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Praed, William

  • 20 Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. c. 1590 St Maartensdijk, Zeeland, the Netherlands
    d. 4 February 1656 probably London, England
    [br]
    Dutch/British civil engineer responsible for many of the drainage and flood-protection schemes in low-lying areas of England in the seventeenth century.
    [br]
    At the beginning of the seventeenth century, several wealthy men in England joined forces as "adventurers" to put their money into land ventures. One such group was responsible for the draining of the Fens. The first need was to find engineers who were versed in the processes of land drainage, particularly when that land was at, or below, sea level. It was natural, therefore, to turn to the Netherlands to find these skilled men. Joachim Liens was one of the first of the Dutch engineers to go to England, and he started work on the Great Level; however, no real progress was made until 1621, when Cornelius Vermuyden was brought to England to assist in the work.
    Vermuyden had grown up in a district where he could see for himself the techniques of embanking and reclaiming land from the sea. He acquired a reputation of expertise in this field, and by 1621 his fame had spread to England. In that year the Thames had flooded and breached its banks near Havering and Dagenham in Essex. Vermuyden was commissioned to repair the breach and drain neighbouring marshland, with what he claimed as complete success. The Commissioners of Sewers for Essex disputed this claim and whthheld his fee, but King Charles I granted him a portion of the reclaimed land as compensation.
    In 1626 Vermuyden carried out his first scheme for drainage works as a consultant. This was the drainage of Hatfield Chase in South Yorkshire. Charles I was, in fact, Vermuyden's employer in the drainage of the Chase, and the work was undertaken as a means of raising additional rents for the Royal Exchequer. Vermuyden was himself an "adventurer" in the undertaking, putting capital into the venture and receiving the title to a considerable proportion of the drained lands. One of the important elements of his drainage designs was the principal of "washes", which were flat areas between the protective dykes and the rivers to carry flood waters, to prevent them spreading on to nearby land. Vermuyden faced bitter opposition from those whose livelihoods depended on the marshlands and who resorted to sabotage of the embankments and violence against his imported Dutch workmen to defend their rights. The work could not be completed until arbiters had ruled out on the respective rights of the parties involved. Disagreements and criticism of his engineering practices continued and he gave up his interest in Hatfield Chase. The Hatfield Chase undertaking was not a great success, although the land is now rich farmland around the river Don in Doncaster. However, the involved financial and land-ownership arrangements were the key to the granting of a knighthood to Cornelius Vermuyden in January 1628, and in 1630 he purchased 4,000 acres of low-lying land on Sedgemoor in Somerset.
    In 1629 Vermuyden embarked on his most important work, that of draining the Great Level in the fenlands of East Anglia. Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, was given charge of the work, with Vermuyden as Engineer; in this venture they were speculators and partners and were recompensed by a grant of land. The area which contains the Cambridgeshire tributaries of the Great Ouse were subject to severe and usually annual flooding. The works to contain the rivers in their flood period were important. Whilst the rivers were contained with the enclosed flood plain, the land beyond became highly sought-after because of the quality of the soil. The fourteen "adventurers" who eventually came into partnership with the Earl of Bedford and Vermuyden were the financiers of the scheme and also received land in accordance with their input into the scheme. In 1637 the work was claimed to be complete, but this was disputed, with Vermuyden defending himself against criticism in a pamphlet entitled Discourse Touching the Great Fennes (1638; 1642, London). In fact, much remained to be done, and after an interruption due to the Civil War the scheme was finished in 1652. Whilst the process of the Great Level works had closely involved the King, Oliver Cromwell was equally concerned over the success of the scheme. By 1655 Cornelius Vermuyden had ceased to have anything to do with the Great Level. At that stage he was asked to account for large sums granted to him to expedite the work but was unable to do so; most of his assets were seized to cover the deficiency, and from then on he subsided into obscurity and poverty.
    While Cornelius Vermuyden, as a Dutchman, was well versed in the drainage needs of his own country, he developed his skills as a hydraulic engineer in England and drained acres of derelict flooded land.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1628.
    Further Reading
    L.E.Harris, 1953, Vermuyden and the Fens, London: Cleaver Hume Press. J.Korthals-Altes, 1977, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden: The Lifework of a Great Anglo-
    Dutchman in Land-Reclamation and Drainage, New York: Alto Press.
    KM / LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius

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