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  • 41 silencio

    intj.
    silence, quiet, don't say a word, mum.
    m.
    1 silence.
    el silencio reinaba en la habitación there was complete o absolute silence in the room
    ¡silencio! silence!, quiet!
    ¡silencio en la sala! silence in court!
    en silencio in silence
    guardar silencio (sobre algo) to keep silent (about something)
    guardaron un minuto de silencio they held a minute's silence
    romper el silencio to break the silence
    silencio administrativo = lack of official response to a request, claim, etc. within a given period, signifying refusal or tacit assent, depending on circumstances
    2 rest (Music).
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: silenciar.
    * * *
    1 silence
    \
    en silencio in silence
    guardar silencio to keep quiet
    imponer silencio a alguien to make somebody be quiet
    romper el silencio to break the silence
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) (=falta de ruido) silence

    ¡silencio! — silence!, quiet!

    ¡silencio en la sala! — silence in court!

    un poco de silencio, por favor — let's have a bit of quiet, please

    ¡qué silencio hay aquí! — it's so quiet here!

    había un silencio sepulcral — it was deadly silent, there was a deathly silence

    en silencio — in silence

    guardar silencio — to keep silent, keep quiet

    imponer silencio a algn — frm to make sb be quiet

    mantenerse en silencio — to keep quiet, remain silent

    pasar una pena en silencio — to suffer in silence

    reducir al silencio — frm to silence, reduce to silence

    romper el silencio — frm to break the silence

    2) (Mús) rest
    2.
    ADJ And, CAm, Méx (=silencioso) silent, quiet; (=tranquilo) still
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( ausencia de ruido) silence

    silencio, hospital — quiet, hospital

    el silencio de la nochethe silence o quiet of the night

    2) (Mús) rest
    * * *
    = quiet, silence, hush, quietness, stillness.
    Ex. During the parliamentary debates he pointed out the advantages to the public that would accrue from such havens of quiet and reasonableness as the library.
    Ex. Above all, we specified an atmosphere in all public areas appropriate for study without the need for oppressive silence.
    Ex. The cathedral-like hush contrasted strangely with the clamor and movement outside.
    Ex. Study space in the library was most used by groups of unsupervised pupils, of different ages, browsing and studying, requiring different levels of quietness.
    Ex. Today is day one of my twenty one day challenge -- spending a minimum of 10 minutes a day in quiet stillness.
    ----
    * en silencio = in silence, silent, silently, hushed, dumbly.
    * guardar silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * hacer guardar silencio = shush.
    * huelga de silencio = silent strike.
    * lectura en silencio = silent reading.
    * mantener silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * permanecer en silencio = remain + silent, be silent.
    * quedarse en silencio = fall + silent, lapse into + silence.
    * romper el silencio = break + the hush, break + silence, crack + the silence.
    * toque de silencio = last post, the.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( ausencia de ruido) silence

    silencio, hospital — quiet, hospital

    el silencio de la nochethe silence o quiet of the night

    2) (Mús) rest
    * * *
    = quiet, silence, hush, quietness, stillness.

    Ex: During the parliamentary debates he pointed out the advantages to the public that would accrue from such havens of quiet and reasonableness as the library.

    Ex: Above all, we specified an atmosphere in all public areas appropriate for study without the need for oppressive silence.
    Ex: The cathedral-like hush contrasted strangely with the clamor and movement outside.
    Ex: Study space in the library was most used by groups of unsupervised pupils, of different ages, browsing and studying, requiring different levels of quietness.
    Ex: Today is day one of my twenty one day challenge -- spending a minimum of 10 minutes a day in quiet stillness.
    * en silencio = in silence, silent, silently, hushed, dumbly.
    * guardar silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * hacer guardar silencio = shush.
    * huelga de silencio = silent strike.
    * lectura en silencio = silent reading.
    * mantener silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * permanecer en silencio = remain + silent, be silent.
    * quedarse en silencio = fall + silent, lapse into + silence.
    * romper el silencio = break + the hush, break + silence, crack + the silence.
    * toque de silencio = last post, the.

    * * *
    A
    en sus clases siempre reinaba el más absoluto silencio there was always absolute silence o complete quiet in his classes
    se hizo un silencio sepulcral there was a deathly silence
    se guardó un minuto de silencio there was a minute's silence
    deben guardar silencio durante la ceremonia you must remain o keep silent during the ceremony
    ¡hagan silencio! silence!
    ¡qué silencio hay! isn't it quiet?
    ¡silencio en la sala! silence in court!
    sufrió en silencio he suffered silently o in silence
    [ S ] silencio, hospital quiet, hospital
    en el silencio más absoluto in dead o total silence
    el silencio de la noche the silence o quiet of the night
    mantuvieron el silencio radiofónico they maintained radio silence
    por fin ha decidido romper su silencio at last she has decided to break her silence
    B ( Mús) rest
    * * *

     

    Del verbo silenciar: ( conjugate silenciar)

    silencio es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    silenció es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    silenciar    
    silencio
    silencio sustantivo masculino
    1 ( en general) silence;

    en el silencio más absoluto in dead o total silence
    2 (Mús) rest
    silenciar verbo transitivo
    1 (hacer callar) to silence
    2 (ocultar un hecho, una noticia) to keep quiet about: los informativos silenciaron la manifestación, the news hushed up the demonstration
    silencio sustantivo masculino
    1 silence
    en silencio, in silence
    ¡silencio, por favor!, quiet, please!
    un silencio sepulcral, a deathly silence
    2 Mús rest
    ' silencio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    absoluta
    - absoluto
    - escocer
    - guardar
    - obedecer
    - ordenar
    - poderosa
    - poderoso
    - reemprender
    - reinar
    - romper
    - sepulcral
    - sigilo
    - turbarse
    - callar
    - palmada
    - permanecer
    - profundo
    - respetuoso
    - turbar
    English:
    aloud
    - break
    - calm
    - counsel
    - dead
    - deathly
    - discreet
    - disturb
    - hush
    - lapse
    - maintain
    - momentary
    - muffle
    - observe
    - pause
    - pregnant
    - quiet
    - quietness
    - silence
    - silent
    - stillness
    - talking
    - unbroken
    - embarrassed
    - ominous
    - remain
    - rest
    - silently
    * * *
    1. [ausencia de sonido] silence;
    el silencio reinaba en la habitación there was complete o absolute silence in the room;
    ¡silencio! silence!, quiet!;
    ¡silencio en la sala! silence in court!;
    en silencio in silence;
    estar en silencio to be silent;
    tienes que guardar silencio en clase you have to keep quiet in class;
    guardó silencio sobre el escándalo he kept silent about the scandal;
    guardaron un minuto de silencio they held a minute's silence;
    imponer silencio a alguien to make sb be silent;
    romper el silencio to break the silence
    silencio administrativo = lack of official response to a request, claim etc within a given period, signifying refusal or tacit assent, depending on circumstances
    2. Mús rest
    * * *
    m
    1 silence;
    en silencio in silence, silently;
    el profesor impuso silencio a los alumnos the teacher made the students be quiet;
    guardar silencio keep quiet
    2 MÚS rest
    * * *
    1) : silence, quiet
    ¡silencio!: be quiet!
    2) : rest (in music)
    * * *
    silencio n silence
    ¡silencio! be quiet!

    Spanish-English dictionary > silencio

  • 42 -tigr

    -tögr, -togr, -tugr, adj. (the mod. form is - tugr), only in compds, tví-tugr, þrí-tugr, fer-tugr, fim-tugr, sex-tugr, sjau-tugr (then átt-ræðr, ní-ræðr, tí-ræðr, tólf-ræðr), = twenty, thirty … years old, or measuring twenty …; so also, hálf-þrítugr, hálf-fertugr, hálf-fimmtugr, hálf-sixtugr, hálf-sjautugr, aged, measuring half the third, fourth … seventh ten, i. e. twenty-five, thirty-five, … sixty-five; var honum vetri fátt í hálf-fimtugum, five tens minus one, i. e. forty-nine, Grett. 186 new Ed.; skorti þrjá vetr á fimtugan at aldri, i. e. forty-seven, Bs. i. 74; tveim vetrum meirr enn þrítogr, 30; þá skorti hann vetr á þrítugan …, fimmtugan, i. e. aged twenty-nine …, forty-nine, Sturl. iii. 308; þá var hann vetri meirr enn hálf-fertugr, i. e. thirty-six, Bs. i. 79.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > -tigr

  • 43 С-259

    ДО СЛЁЗ PrepP Invar modif or adv (intensif))
    1. to a very high degree
    extremely
    really
    кому обидно \С-259 = s.o. is frustrated to the point of tears
    s.o. is so upset (frustrated etc) he could cry s.o. is so frustrated (annoyed etc) he could scream (in limited contexts) s.o. could just cry (scream)! ii обижаться - = be offended to the point of tears be deeply offended
    кому \С-259 хочется чего or что (с)делать =• s.o. desperately wants (to do) sth.
    s.o. wants (to do) sth. so badly he can taste it s.o. has a burning desire for sth. (to do sth.)
    кому \С-259 жаль кого — (seeing some person in such a state etc) is enough to make you want to cry
    s.o. feels desperately (incredibly) sorry for some person s.o. is so sorry for some person that he could cry (weep)
    тронуть кого \С-259 = move s.o. to tears
    II \С-259 какой = extremely (ever so) AdjP. Когда мы, в блокадную зиму, пилили с ней (теткой) в паре дрова... она, пятидесятилетняя, точно так сердилась на меня, пятилетнего, как сейчас. Она обижалась на меня до слез в споре, кому в какую сторону тянуть... (Битов 1). During the winter of the blockade of Leningrad, when she (Auntie) and I were sawing wood together...she, fifty years old, lost her temper at me, a five-year-old, in exactly the same way as now She was offended to the point of tears by an argument about who was supposed to pull in which direction (1a).
    С близкого поля, которое растекалось по обе стороны дороги прямо от истока слободы, тянуло зацветающей гречихой. На душе у Петра Васильевича стало вдруг так мирно и благостно, что ему захотелось, до слез захотелось туда, в этот запах, в этот давным-давно забытый сквозной простор... (Максимов 3). From a nearby field which welled up at the edge of the settlement and flowed along both sides of the road there came a scent of buckwheat in flower Pyotr Vasilievich suddenly felt blissfully at peace, and wanted desperately to go in that direction-into that scent, into those long-forgotten boundless spaces... (3a)
    .Ему все-таки до слез жалко было князя Андрея, жалко было его гордости (Толстой 5)....Не could have wept, so sorry was he for Prince Andrei and his wounded pride (5a).
    Сцена эта может показаться очень натянутой, очень театральной, а между тем через двадцать шесть лет я тронут до слез, вспоминая ее... (Герцен 1). This scene may strike others as very affected and theatrical, and yet twenty-six years afterwards I am moved to tears as I recall it. (1a).
    2. - смеяться, хохотать (to laugh) very hard
    laugh until (till, so hard) one cries
    laugh till tears flow (come) laugh till tears run down one's face (cheeks).
    Я иногда даже хохочу. И тот, в зеркале, хохочет. Я хохочу до слез. И тот, в зеркале, плачет (Олеша 3). Sometimes I even laugh. And the one in the mirror laughs I laugh until I cry. And the one in the mirror cries too (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > С-259

  • 44 до слез

    [PrepP; Invar; modif or adv (intensif)]
    =====
    1. to a very high degree:
    || кому обидно до слез s.o. is frustrated to the point of tears;
    - s.o. is so upset <frustrated etc> he could cry;
    - s.o. is so frustrated (annoyed etc) he could scream;
    - [in limited contexts] s.o. could just cry (scream)!
    || кому до слез хочется чего or что (с)делать s.o. desperately wants (to do) sth.;
    - s.o. wants (to do) sth. so badly he can taste it;
    - s.o. has a burning desire for sth. <to do sth.>;
    || кому до слез жаль кого (seeing some person in such a state etc) is enough to make you want to cry;
    - s.o. feels desperately (incredibly) sorry for some person;
    - s.o. is so sorry for some person that he could cry (weep);
         ♦ Когда мы, в блокадную зиму, пилили с ней [теткой] в паре дрова... она, пятидесятилетняя, точно так сердилась на меня, пятилетнего, как сейчас. Она обижалась на меня до слез в споре, кому в какую сторону тянуть... (Битов 1). During the winter of the blockade of Leningrad, when she [Auntie] and I were sawing wood together...she, fifty years old, lost her temper at me, a five-year-old, in exactly the same way as now She was offended to the point of tears by an argument about who was supposed to pull in which direction (1a).
         ♦ С близкого поля, которое растекалось по обе стороны дороги прямо от истока слободы, тянуло зацветающей гречихой. На душе у Петра Васильевича стало вдруг так мирно и благостно, что ему захотелось, до слез захотелось туда, в этот запах, в этот давным-давно забытый сквозной простор... (Максимов 3). From a nearby field which welled up at the edge of the settlement and flowed along both sides of the road there came a scent of buckwheat in flower Pyotr Vasilievich suddenly felt blissfully at peace, and wanted desperately to go in that direction-into that scent, into those long-forgotten boundless spaces... (3a)
         ♦...Ему все-таки до слёз жалко было князя Андрея, жалко было его гордости (Толстой 5)....He could have wept, so sorry was he for Prince Andrei and his wounded pride (5a).
         ♦ Сцена эта может показаться очень натянутой, очень театральной, а между тем через двадцать шесть лет я тронут до слез, вспоминая ее... (Герцен 1). This scene may strike others as very affected and theatrical, and yet twenty-six years afterwards I am moved to tears as I recall it. (1a).
    2. до слез смеяться, хохотать (to laugh) very hard:
    - laugh until (till, so hard) one cries;
    - laugh till tears run down one's face (cheeks).
         ♦ Я иногда даже хохочу. И тот, в зеркале, хохочет. Я хохочу до слез. И тот, в зеркале, плачет (Олеша 3). Sometimes I even laugh. And the one in the mirror laughs I laugh until I cry. And the one in the mirror cries too (3a).

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  • 45 et

    см. en

    klókken et — (в) час

    * * *
    * * *
    , se en.
    et ( artikel) a,
    ( i ubestemte tidsangivelser) one ( fx it happened one morning; one Sunday after church);
    (= cirka) some;
    [ for en syv år siden] some seven years ago;
    [en ( skønne) dag] one (fine) day;
    [ en tre-fire timer] (some) three or four hours.
    et num one;
    [ et af to] one thing or the other,
    (dvs du må selv vælge) take your choice;
    [ hun er hans et og alt] she is everything (el. all the world) to him;
    [ i et og alt] in every respect;
    [ den ene] one (of them);
    [ den ene... den anden] one... the other,
    ( af flere) one... another;
    [ det ene efter det andet] one thing after another;
    [ det ene med det andet] one thing with another;
    [ en efter en] one by one;
    [ ét er at... et andet at...] it is one thing to... another to... (
    fx it is one thing to promise and another to perform);
    [ en for en] one by one;
    [( lige) med ét] suddenly, all of a sudden, all at once;
    [ mit ene ben] one of my legs, my leg;
    [ en og samme] one and the same;
    [ en og tyve] twenty-one;
    [ et og andet] a thing or two ( fx I could teach him a thing or two!);
    [ en på øret] a box on the ear;
    (dvs en finte) that was one for you;
    [ under ét] together;
    (se også sælge).
    et pron
    ( en person) someone, somebody, one;
    (= man) one, you;
    [ en eller anden] someone;
    (foran sb) some ( fx some book; for some reason);
    [ et eller andet] something;
    [ en af dagene] one of these days;
    [en... en anden] one... another;
    [ der var en der fortalte mig at] somebody told me that;
    [ det kan de ikke forbyde en] they cannot forbid you that;
    [ hvad er han for en?] what sort of chap is he?

    Danish-English dictionary > et

  • 46 fotografiar

    v.
    1 to photograph, to take a photograph of.
    Ellos retratan chicos They photograph kids.
    2 to take photographs, to take a photo, to take pictures, to take a picture.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ DESVIAR], like link=desviar desviar
    1 to photograph, take a photograph of
    1 to have one's photograph taken
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to photograph, take a photograph of
    * * *
    = take + picture, photograph, snap.
    Ex. It takes pictures 3 millimeter square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond the present practice.
    Ex. So he sets a reproducer in action, photographs the whole trail out, and passes it to his friend for insertion in his own memex.
    Ex. The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to photograph, take a photograph of
    * * *
    = take + picture, photograph, snap.

    Ex: It takes pictures 3 millimeter square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond the present practice.

    Ex: So he sets a reproducer in action, photographs the whole trail out, and passes it to his friend for insertion in his own memex.
    Ex: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.

    * * *
    vt
    to photograph, take a photograph of
    * * *

    fotografiar ( conjugate fotografiar) verbo transitivo
    to photograph, take a photograph of
    fotografiar verbo transitivo to photograph, take a photograph of
    ' fotografiar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    retratar
    English:
    photograph
    - shoot
    * * *
    to photograph, to take a photograph of
    * * *
    v/t photograph
    * * *
    fotografiar {85} vt
    : to photograph
    * * *
    fotografiar vb to photograph

    Spanish-English dictionary > fotografiar

  • 47 Perkins, Jacob

    [br]
    b. 9 July 1766 Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 30 July 1849 London, England
    [br]
    American inventor of a nail-making machine and a method of printing banknotes, investigator of the use of steam at very high pressures.
    [br]
    Perkins's occupation was that of a gold-and silversmith; while he does not seem to have followed this after 1800, however, it gave him the skills in working metals which he would continue to employ in his inventions. He had been working in America for four years before he patented his nail-making machine in 1796. At the time there was a great shortage of nails because only hand-forged ones were available. By 1800, other people had followed his example and produced automatic nail-making machines, but in 1811 Perkins' improved machines were introduced to England by J.C. Dyer. Eventually Perkins had twenty-one American patents for a range of inventions in his name.
    In 1799 Perkins invented a system of engraving steel plates for printing banknotes, which became the foundation of modern siderographic work. It discouraged forging and was adopted by many banking houses, including the Federal Government when the Second United States Bank was inaugurated in 1816. This led Perkins to move to Philadelphia. In the intervening years, Perkins had improved his nail-making machine, invented a machine for graining morocco leather in 1809, a fire-engine in 1812, a letter-lock for bank vaults and improved methods of rolling out spoons in 1813, and improved armament and equipment for naval ships from 1812 to 1815.
    It was in Philadelphia that Perkins became interested in the steam engine, when he met Oliver Evans, who had pioneered the use of high-pressure steam. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society and conducted experiments on the compressibility of water before a committee of that society. Perkins claimed to have liquified air during his experiments in 1822 and, if so, was the real discoverer of the liquification of gases. In 1819 he came to England to demonstrate his forgery-proof system of printing banknotes, but the Bank of England was the only one which did not adopt his system.
    While in London, Perkins began to experiment with the highest steam pressures used up to that time and in 1822 took out his first of nineteen British patents. This was followed by another in 1823 for a 10 hp (7.5 kW) engine with only 2 in. (51 mm) bore, 12 in. (305 mm) stroke but a pressure of 500 psi (35 kg/cm2), for which he claimed exceptional economy. After 1826, Perkins abandoned his drum boiler for iron tubes and steam pressures of 1,500 psi (105 kg/cm2), but the materials would not withstand such pressures or temperatures for long. It was in that same year that he patented a form of uniflow cylinder that was later taken up by L.J. Todd. One of his engines ran for five days, continuously pumping water at St Katherine's docks, but Perkins could not raise more finance to continue his experiments.
    In 1823 one his high-pressure hot-water systems was installed to heat the Duke of Wellington's house at Stratfield Saye and it acquired a considerable vogue, being used by Sir John Soane, among others. In 1834 Perkins patented a compression ice-making apparatus, but it did not succeed commercially because ice was imported more cheaply from Norway as ballast for sailing ships. Perkins was often dubbed "the American inventor" because his inquisitive personality allied to his inventive ingenuity enabled him to solve so many mechanical challenges.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943, biography which appeared previously as a shortened version in the Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.
    D.Bathe and G.Bathe, 1943–5, "The contribution of Jacob Perkins to science and engineering", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.
    D.S.L.Cardwell, 1971, From Watt to Clausius. The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age, London: Heinemann (includes comments on the importance of Perkins's steam engine).
    A.F.Dufton, 1940–1, "Early application of engineering to warming of buildings", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 21 (includes a note on Perkins's application of a high-pressure hot-water heating system).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Perkins, Jacob

  • 48 old

    əuld
    1. прил.;
    сравн. - older, elder;
    превосх. - oldest, eldest
    1) а) старый old age old people grow old get old Syn: aged, elderly, patriarchal, senile, superannuated Ant: adolescent, boyish, childish, girlish, juvenescent, young, youthful б) старый, старческий в) старый, опытный, долго занимавшийся чем-л. old campaigner old hand at Syn: practised, experienced, skilled, clever, knowing
    2) а) давнишний, старинный;
    как первый компонент названий древних языков old family of the old school Old English - Old Norse Old Church Slavonic Old Higher German Old Prussian Syn: ancient, antique б) старый, выдержанный( о вине) в) отменный, потрясающий (тж. old in, old at) to have a high old time разг. ≈ хорошо повеселиться Syn: great, plentiful, abundant, excessive, grand г) поношенный, потрепанный, обветшалый
    3) бывший, прежний;
    предыдущий - old boy Old Year's Day old ice Syn: former
    4) а) вставное слово при вопросе о возрасте и при указании возраста, не переводится How old is she? ≈ Сколько ей лет? He is twenty-two years old. ≈ Ему двадцать два года. б) вставное слово, придает ласкательное либо усилительное значение существительному old guy ≈ дружище old thing old man old woman old lady ∙ old as the hills ≈ старо, как мир;
    очень старый an old head on young shouldersмудрость не по возрасту old man of the sea ≈ человек, от которого трудно отделаться;
    прилипала to come the old soldier over smb. разг. ≈ поучать кого-л. old shoe old bones old country Old Harry Old Gentleman Old Nick
    2. сущ.
    1) а) мн. или коллект. старики, пожилые люди( с определенным артиклем) old and young б) мн. более чем двулетний и не более чем четырехлетний хмель;
    крепкое пиво или эль I'd had two pints of old at the St. Clair. ≈ Две пинты крепкого проглотил у Сент-Клер.
    2) прошлое, стародавние времена of old from of old men of old in the days of old Syn: the past
    3) уст. возраст (собирательнле) старики;
    - home for the * дом для престарелых;
    - * and young alike are football fans nowadays среди болельщиков футбола есть и старики и молодежь давнее прошлое, древность;
    - of * в прежнее время, прежде;
    - in days of * в старину;
    - men of * люди доброго старого времени;
    - heroes of * герои прошлого;
    - our fanters of * наши предки;
    - from of * исстари, с прежних времен;
    - of * three were giants hese в давние времена эту местность населяли великаны;
    - I have heard it for * я об этом слыхивал давным-давно старый;
    - * people старики;
    - * horse старая лошадь;
    - the *est member старший по возрасту член;
    - * land (сельскохозяйственное) старопахотная почва, старопашка;
    - to grow * состариться;
    - he is * enough to know life better в его возрасте пора лучше разбираться в жизни старческий;
    старообразный;
    - * face старческое лицо;
    - to look * выглядеть старым такого-то возраста, стольких-то лет;
    - how * is he ? сколько ему лет?;
    - a baby three monts * трехмесячный ребенок;
    - a seven-year * child семилетний ребенок старый, поношенный, обветшалый, потрепанный;
    - * house старый дом;
    - * boots поношенная обувь;
    - * rags старье;
    старое тряпье;
    - * rose увядшая роза;
    старинный;
    давнишний;
    существующий издавна;
    - * customs старинные обычаи;
    - * family старинный род;
    - * wine выдержанное вино;
    - he was paying off * scores он сводил старые счеты существовавший в прошлом;
    древний;
    - * tomb древнее захоронение;
    - the * laws of our ancestors стародавние законы наших предков более ранний, более древний;
    относящийся к более отдаленному периоду;
    - our * literature наша древняя литература;
    - * church music старинная церковная музыка;
    - the * writers of drama драматурги прошлого;
    - O. English древнеанглийский язык давнишний, старый, привычный;
    хорошо известный;
    - * friend давнишний друг;
    - * familiar faces привычные, знакомые лица;
    - * habits старые привычки;
    - * excuse постоянное оправдание;
    - that's an * one! это старо! бывший, прежний;
    - an * Oxford man выпускник Оксфордского университета;
    - * seaman бывший моряк;
    - * guard сменяемый караул;
    - * officer of the day (американизм) (военное) офицер, сменившийся с дежурства;
    - the * days before the war доброе предвоенное время опытный;
    долго занимавшийся;
    - * champainger старый служака, ветеран;
    - * file (американизм) (военное) (жаргон) старослужащий;
    - an * hand опытный человек;
    - an * hand at the work опытный работник;
    - he is an * hand at that он на этом собаку съел;
    (австралийское) бывший заключенный закоренелый;
    - * bachelor старый холостяк;
    - * in vice закореневший в пороке - good * John дружище Джон;
    - my dear * fellow дорогогй друг;
    - * girl голубушка, милая;
    - * man старина, дружище - to have a fine * time хорошенько повеселиться;
    - to kick up a jolly * row устроить хорошенький скандальчик;
    - any * thing will do все подойдет (геология) размытый, намытый;
    эрозийный > the * Adam греховность человеческой натуры;
    > * boat (американизм) "старая калоша", развалина;
    > * thing старина, дружище;
    > the * bird стреляный воробей;
    > the * man "старик" (глава семьи), "сам" хозяин, начальник;
    босс, шеф;
    - the * Adam греховность человеческой натуры;
    (горное) выработанное пространство;
    - the O. Man of the sea прилипчивый человек;
    бремя, обуза;
    неотвязная мысль;
    неотступно преследующая забота;
    - * maid старая дева;
    чопорный нервный пожилой человек;
    простая детская карточная игра, "акулина";
    - * lady мать;
    жена;
    подружка;
    - O. Lady of Threadneedle Street Английский банк;
    - * woman "старуха", жена;
    суетливый пожилой мужчина;
    "баба";
    - * Nick (эвфмеизм) дьявол, враг рода человеческого, сатана;
    - O. Tom сорт джина;
    - the * one "старик", отец;
    - * salt опытный моряк, морской волк;
    - * soldier бывалый человек;
    - to come the * soldier командовать, распоряжаться, держаться свысока;
    пустая бутылка;
    (сленг) окурок;
    - * story что-то устаревшее, часто повторяющееся;
    - * bones старость;
    старик, старуха;
    - the * country родина, отечество;
    (американизм) старая родина, страна отцов;
    страна, откуда выехал иммигрант или его предки - * master один из великих художников периода XV-XVIII вв;
    картина такого художника;
    - one's * Dutch молодая женщина старо как мир;
    быльем поросло очень старый, древний;
    - as * as Methuselah старый как Мафусаил, очень древний;
    - to see the * year out встречать Новый год;
    - an * head on young shoulders мудрый не по летам ~ старинный, давнишний;
    an old family старинный род;
    of the old school старомодный ~ занимавшийся длительное время (чем-л.) ;
    опытный;
    an old hand( at smth.) опытный человек (в чем-л.) an ~ shoe шутл. старая калоша;
    an old head on young shoulders мудрость не по возрасту an ~ shoe шутл. старая калоша;
    an old head on young shoulders мудрость не по возрасту Old Harry, Old Gentleman, Old Nick дьявол;
    to come the old soldier (over smb.) разг. поучать (кого-л.) ~ прошлое;
    of old прежде, в прежнее время;
    from of old исстари ~ (older, elder;
    oldest, eldest) старый;
    old people старики;
    old age старость;
    to grow (или to get) old стариться to have a high ~ time разг. хорошо повеселиться;
    old as the hills старо, как мир;
    очень старый ~ при вопросе о возрасте и при указании возраста: how old is he? сколько ему лет?;
    he is ten years old ему десять лет in the days of ~ в старину;
    men of old люди прежних времен in the days of ~ в старину;
    men of old люди прежних времен ~ прошлое;
    of old прежде, в прежнее время;
    from of old исстари ~ старинный, давнишний;
    an old family старинный род;
    of the old school старомодный school: of the old ~ старой школы (о произведениях искусства и т. п.) of the old ~ старомодный ~ (older, elder;
    oldest, eldest) старый;
    old people старики;
    old age старость;
    to grow (или to get) old стариться ~, the ~ pl собир. старики;
    old and young все young: ~ (тж. the ~) собир. молодежь;
    old and young стар и млад to have a high ~ time разг. хорошо повеселиться;
    old as the hills старо, как мир;
    очень старый ~ bones шутл. старик;
    старуха ~ bones шутл. старость;
    she wouldn't make old bones она не доживет до старости old бывший, прежний;
    old boy бывший ученик школы ~ придает ласкательное или усилительное значение существительному: old boy дружище;
    old thing голубушка, дружок the ~ country родина, отечество;
    old man of the sea человек, от которого трудно отделаться;
    прилипала Old Harry, Old Gentleman, Old Nick дьявол;
    to come the old soldier (over smb.) разг. поучать (кого-л.) the ~ man разг. мор. капитан the ~ man разг. "старик" (муж или отец) the ~ man разг. старина the ~ man разг. шеф, босс the ~ country родина, отечество;
    old man of the sea человек, от которого трудно отделаться;
    прилипала Old Harry, Old Gentleman, Old Nick дьявол;
    to come the old soldier (over smb.) разг. поучать (кого-л.) ~ (older, elder;
    oldest, eldest) старый;
    old people старики;
    old age старость;
    to grow (или to get) old стариться ~ придает ласкательное или усилительное значение существительному: old boy дружище;
    old thing голубушка, дружок the ~ woman разг. "старушка" (обыкн. о жене) Old World Старый Свет, восточное полушарие world: ~ мир, свет;
    вселенная;
    to bring into the world произвести на свет, родить;
    the Old World Старый свет;
    the New World Новый свет ~ bones шутл. старость;
    she wouldn't make old bones она не доживет до старости

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > old

  • 49 sein

    n; -s, kein Pl. being; (Dasein) auch existence; Sein und Schein appearance and reality; mit allen Fasern seines Seins with every fib|re (Am. -er) of his being; Sein oder Nichtsein... to be or not to be...; es geht um Sein oder Nichtsein it is a question of survival ( oder a matter of life and death); das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein life determines consciousness
    * * *
    das Sein
    existence; being
    * * *
    [zain]
    nt -s, no pl
    being no art; (PHILOS) (= Existenz, Dasein auch) existence no art; (= Wesen, Sosein) essence, suchness

    Séín und Schein — appearance and reality

    Séín oder Nichtsein — to be or not to be

    * * *
    das
    1) (existence: When did the Roman Empire come into being?) being
    2) (used with a present participle to form the progressive or continuous tenses: I'm reading; I am being followed; What were you saying?.) be
    3) (used in giving or asking for information about something or someone: I am Mr Smith; Is he alive?; She wants to be an actress; The money will be ours; They are being silly.) be
    4) (belonging to a male person already spoken about: John says it's his book; He says the book is his; No, his is on the table.) his
    5) (belonging to it: The bird has hurt its wing.) its
    6) (used instead of his, his or her etc where a person of unknown sex or people of both sexes are referred to: Everyone should buy his own ticket.) their
    * * *
    <-s>
    [zain]
    nt kein pl PHILOS existence
    \Sein und Schein appearance and reality
    * * *
    das; Seins (Philos.) being; (Dasein) existence
    * * *
    sein1; ist, war, ist gewesen
    A. v/i
    1. allg be;
    sind Sie es? is that you?;
    am Apparat? who’s speaking ( oder calling)?;
    ist da jemand? is anybody there?;
    ach, Sie sind es! oh, it’s you;
    ich bin’s it’s me;
    hallo, ich bin der Holger hullo, I’m Holger;
    wer ist das (überhaupt)? who’s that?
    2. von Beruf, Nationalität, Herkunft, Religion etc: be;
    was ist dein Vater eigentlich (von Beruf)? what does your father actually do (for a living)?;
    ich bin Lektor von Beruf I’m an editor (by trade);
    von Beruf bin ich eigentlich Lehrer, aber ich arbeite als Autor I’m really a teacher (by profession), but I work as a writer;
    er ist Christ/Moslem/Buddhist he’s a Christian/Muslim/Buddhist;
    Engländerin? are you English?;
    er ist aus Mexiko he’s ( oder he comes) from Mexico;
    er ist wer umg he’s really somebody
    3. (existieren) be (alive);
    unser Vater ist nicht mehr form our father is no longer alive;
    ich denke, also bin ich I think therefore I am;
    wenn du nicht gewesen wärst if it hadn’t been for you
    4. vor adj etc, in best. Zustand, bei best. Tätigkeit: be;
    wir sind seit 1987/16 Jahren verheiratet we have been married since 1987/for 16 years;
    er ist schon lange tot he has been dead for a long time;
    sei(d) nicht so laut! don’t be so noisy, stop making such a noise;
    sei nicht so frech! don’t be so cheeky;
    sei so gut und … do me a favo(u)r and …, would you be so good as to …?;
    sei er auch noch so reich no matter how rich he is, however rich he may be;
    wie teuer es auch (immer) sein mag however expensive it may be;
    er ist beim Lesen he’s reading;
    sie ist am Putzen umg she’s doing the cleaning;
    die Garage ist im Bau the garage is being built;
    sie ist schon ein paar Mal im Fernsehen gewesen auch she’s made a few appearances on TV ( oder a few TV appearances);
    sie ist jetzt 15 Jahre she’s 15 now;
    es ist ein Jahr (her), seit it’s a year since, it was a year ago that;
    ich bin ja nicht so umg I’m not like that;
    sei doch nicht so! umg don’t be like that;
    du bist wohl! umg you must be crazy!;
    sei es, wie es sei be that as it may;
    wenn dem so ist umg if that’s the case, in that case
    5. (sich befinden, aufhalten) be;
    es ist niemand zu Hause there’s nobody at home;
    sie ist in Urlaub/zur Kur she’s on holiday/taking a cure;
    warst du mal in London? have you ever been to London?
    wie ist das Wetter bei euch? how’s the weather ( oder what’s the weather like) with you?;
    wie ist der Wein? how’s the wine?, what’s the wine like?;
    wie ist er so als Chef? what’s he like as a boss?;
    der Film/die Party war nichts umg the film (US auch movie)/party was a dead loss (US a washout)
    7. geeignet, bestimmt:
    Alkohol ist nichts für Kinder alcohol isn’t for children, children shouldn’t touch alcohol;
    das ist nichts für mich that’s not my cup of tea; (bin an Kauf etc nicht interessiert) that’s not for me;
    dies ist gegen die Schmerzen this is for the pain
    mir ist, als kenne ich ihn schon I have a feeling I know him;
    es ist, als ob … it’s as though …
    9. mit dat (sich fühlen):
    mir ist kalt I’m cold, I feel cold;
    mir ist schlecht I feel ill (besonders US sick);
    mir ist nicht nach Arbeiten umg I don’t feel like working, I’m not in the mood for work
    10. verantwortlich, schuldig etc:
    wer war das? (wer hat das getan?) who did that?;
    keiner will es gewesen sein nobody will admit they did it, nobody’s owning up;
    du bist es! beim Fangenspielen: you’re it
    11. mit zu (+inf):
    die Waren sind zu senden an … the goods are to be sent to …;
    das Spiel ist nicht mehr zu gewinnen the game can no longer be won, we can no longer win (the game);
    da ist nichts (mehr) zu machen umg there’s nothing to be done ( oder one can do);
    er ist nicht mehr zu retten he’s past saving; umg, fig he’s a lost cause, he’s beyond help;
    es ist nun an dir zu (+inf) it’s up to you to … now;
    es ist nicht an uns zu urteilen form it’s not for us to judge
    12. MATH etc:
    5 und 2 ist 7 five and two are ( oder is, make[s]) seven;
    3 mal 7 ist 21 three times seven is ( oder are, make[s]) twenty-one;
    x sei … let x be …
    13. meist unbestimmt, oft in umg Wendungen:
    ist was? umg is anything ( oder something) wrong?; auch provozierend: what’s the problem?;
    was ist mit dir? umg what’s the matter ( oder what’s wrong) with you?;
    so ist das nun mal umg that’s the way it is;
    nun, wie ist’s? umg well, what about it (then)?;
    wie ist es mit dir? umg what about you?;
    mit dem Urlaub war nichts umg the holiday didn’t work out, the holiday fell through;
    Nachtisch/Fernsehen ist heute nicht, Kinder umg there’s no sweet (US dessert)/television for you today, children;
    was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden umg there’s plenty of time yet;
    das war’s umg that’s it, that’s the lot;
    war das alles? is that all ( oder the lot)?;
    das wär’s für heute! umg that’s all for today
    etwas sein lassen (nicht tun) not do sth; (aufhören) stop doing sth;
    lass es sein stop it; (rühr es nicht an) leave it alone; (kümmere dich nicht drum) don’t bother;
    ich an deiner Stelle würde das sein lassen if I were you I wouldn’t have anything to do with it;
    am besten lassen wir es ganz sein we’d better forget all about it;
    muss das sein? do you have to?;
    was sein muss, muss sein whatever will be, will be;
    was soll das sein? what’s that supposed to be?;
    das kann sein, kann oder
    mag sein umg it’s possible, it could be;
    das kann nicht sein that’s impossible, it can’t be
    es sei denn(, dass) unless;
    sei es, dass … oder dass … whether … or …;
    wie wär’s mit einer Partie Schach? how ( oder what) about a game of chess?;
    na, wie wär’s mit uns beiden? umg how about the two of us getting together?;
    und das wäre? umg and what might that be?
    B. v/aux have;
    ich bin ihm schon begegnet I’ve met him before;
    die Sonne ist untergegangen the sun has set ( oder gone down);
    er ist nach Berlin gegangen he has gone to Berlin;
    ich bin bei meinem Anwalt gewesen I’ve been to see my lawyer;
    als die Polizei kam, war er schon verschwunden when the police arrived he had disappeared;
    er ist in Paris gesehen worden he has been seen in Paris;
    ich bin in Böhmen/1972 geboren I was born in Bohemia/in 1972;
    die Arbeiten sind beendet the jobs are finished;
    der neue Kanzler ist gewählt the new Chancellor has been elected
    sein2
    A. poss pr
    1. adjektivisch: his; Mädchen: her; Sache: its; Tier: meist its; Haustier: his, weiblich: her; Schiff, Staat: oft her; unbestimmt: one’s;
    sein Glück machen make one’s fortune;
    all sein bisschen Geld what little money he has ( oder had);
    Seine Majestät His Majesty;
    es kostet (gut) seine tausend Dollar it costs a good thousand dollars
    seiner, seine, sein(e)s, der (die, das) sein(ig)e his; Mädchen: hers;
    jedem das Seine to each his own;
    das Sein(ig)e tun do one’s share (bit umg); (sein Möglichstes tun) do one’s best
    B. pers pr (gen von er und es) of him; Mädchen: of her;
    er war seiner nicht mehr mächtig he had lost control of himself completely
    * * *
    das; Seins (Philos.) being; (Dasein) existence
    * * *
    nur sing. (Dasein) n.
    existence n. nur sing. n.
    being n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > sein

  • 50 odd

    [od]
    1) (unusual; strange: He's wearing very odd clothes; a very odd young man.) nenavaden
    2) ((of a number) that cannot be divided exactly by 2: 5 and 7 are odd (numbers).) lih
    3) (not one of a pair, set etc: an odd shoe.) brez para
    4) (occasional; free: at odd moments.) priložnosten
    - oddly
    - oddment
    - odds
    - odd jobs
    - odd job man
    - be at odds
    - make no odds
    - oddly enough
    - odd man out / odd one out
    - odds and ends
    - what's the odds?
    * * *
    I [ɔd]
    adjective ( oddly adverb)
    odvečen; lih, neparen, presežen, brez para, nadštevilen; priložnosten, prigoden; čuden, nenavaden, čudaški
    an odd fish ( —ali fellow, stick)čudak
    odd jobs — priložnostni opravki, drobna dela
    odd man out — človek, ki je ostal brez para
    at odd moments ( —ali times) — priložnostno, tu in tam
    odd months — meseci, ki imajo 31 dni
    economy odd lot — slab borzni zaključek; American malenkostna množina
    II [ɔd]
    noun
    nekaj čudnega, nekaj nenavadnega; prednostni udarec (pri golfu)

    English-Slovenian dictionary > odd

  • 51 old

    [əʊld, Am oʊld] adj
    1) person, animal alt;
    there's life in the \old boy yet! ( esp iron) er steckt noch voller Leben!;
    to be \old enough to be sb's father/ mother ( fam) jds Vater/Mutter sein können;
    to be \old enough to do sth alt genug sein, um etw zu tun;
    to grow \old gracefully mit Würde alt werden;
    to be [a bit] too \old to be doing sth [ein bisschen] zu alt sein, um etw zu tun;
    to get [or grow] \old/\older alt/älter werden;
    to live to a ripe \old age ein hohes Alter erreichen;
    to seem \old beyond one's years älter wirken, als man ist
    2) object alt;
    \old cheese alter Käse;
    \old joke abgedroschener Witz ( fam)
    the \old part of town [or the \old quarter] die Altstadt
    Rosie's six years \old now Rosie ist jetzt sechs Jahre alt
    4) attr, inv ( former) alt, ehemalig;
    \old boyfriend früherer Freund;
    in the [good] \old days in der guten alten Zeit;
    \old job alter [o früherer] Job;
    for \old times' sake um der alten Zeiten willen
    5) attr ( long known) altbekannt;
    with him, it's always the same \old story! es ist doch immer die gleiche Geschichte mit ihm!;
    \old friend alter Freund/alte Freundin
    6) attr, inv (fam: expression of affection) [gute(r)] alte(r);
    good \old Pete! der gute alte Pete!;
    I hear poor \old Frank's lost his job ich habe gehört, dem armen Frank wurde gekündigt
    7) attr, inv ( pej) ( fam);
    dirty \old man geiler alter Bock ( pej) ( vulg), alter Wüstling ( pej)
    8) attr, inv (fam: any)
    why don't you put the shoes in the cupboard properly and not just any \old how? warum räumst du die Schuhe nicht ordentlich in den Schrank und nicht immer nur so, wie sie dir gerade in die Hand fallen?;
    I don't want to eat in just any \old place - I want to go to a romantic restaurant! ich möchte nicht einfach nur irgendwo essen - ich möchte in ein romantisches Restaurant gehen!;
    come round any \old time you like komm vorbei, wann immer du möchtest;
    any \old present/ rubbish/ thing irgendein Geschenk/irgendeinen Unsinn/irgendwas;
    a load of \old rubbish! ( pej) nichts als blanker Unsinn! ( fam)
    PHRASES:
    to be a chip off the \old block ganz der Vater sein ( fam)
    to be as tough as \old boots hart im Nehmen sein;
    you can't teach an \old dog new tricks ( new tricks) der Mensch ist ein Gewohnheitstier ( prov)
    there's no fool like an \old fool (like an \old fool) Alter schützt vor Torheit nicht ( prov)
    you can't put an \old head on young shoulders ( on young shoulders) man kann einen alten Kopf nicht auf junge Schultern verpflanzen;
    to be as \old as the hills [or as Methuselah] [or as time] uralt [o ( fam) so alt wie Methusalem] sein;
    money for \old rope leicht verdientes Geld;
    you're as \old as you feel! (!) man ist so alt, wie man sich fühlt! ( prov) n
    the \old pl die Alten pl;
    young and \old Jung und Alt
    2) (liter: in past times)
    in days of \old in früheren Zeiten;
    to know sb of \old ( esp Brit) jdn seit langem kennen comp
    a twenty-one-year-\old ein Einundzwanzigjähriger/eine Einundzwanzigjährige;
    a three-month-\old puppy ein drei Monate altes Hündchen

    English-German students dictionary > old

  • 52 sein1;

    ist, war, ist gewesen
    I v/i
    1. allg. be; sind Sie es? is that you?; wer ist dort oder am Apparat? who’s speaking ( oder calling)?; ist da jemand? is anybody there?; ach, Sie sind es! oh, it’s you; ich bin’s it’s me; hallo, ich bin der Holger hullo, I’m Holger; wer ist das ( überhaupt)? who’s that?
    2. von Beruf, Nationalität, Herkunft, Religion etc.: be; was ist dein Vater eigentlich ( von Beruf)? what does your father actually do (for a living)?; ich bin Lektor von Beruf I’m an editor (by trade); von Beruf bin ich eigentlich Lehrer, aber ich arbeite als Autor I’m really a teacher (by profession), but I work as a writer; er ist Christ / Moslem / Buddhist he’s a Christian / Muslim / Buddhist; sind Sie Engländer oder Engländerin? are you English?; er ist aus Mexiko he’s ( oder he comes) from Mexico; er ist wer umg. he’s really somebody
    3. (existieren) be (alive); unser Vater ist nicht mehr förm. our father is no longer alive; ich denke, also bin ich I think therefore I am; wenn du nicht gewesen wärst if it hadn’t been for you
    4. vor Adj. etc., in best. Zustand, bei best. Tätigkeit: be; wir sind seit 1987 / 16 Jahren verheiratet we have been married since 1987 / for 16 years; er ist schon lange tot he has been dead for a long time; sei(d) nicht so laut! don’t be so noisy, stop making such a noise; sei nicht so frech! don’t be so cheeky; sei so gut und... do me a favo(u)r and..., would you be so good as to...?; sei er auch noch so reich no matter how rich he is, however rich he may be; wie teuer es auch ( immer) sein mag however expensive it may be; er ist beim Lesen he’s reading; sie ist am Putzen umg. she’s doing the cleaning; die Garage ist im Bau the garage is being built; sie ist schon ein paar Mal im Fernsehen gewesen auch she’s made a few appearances on TV ( oder a few TV appearances); sie ist jetzt 15 Jahre she’s 15 now; es ist ein Jahr ( her), seit it’s a year since, it was a year ago that; ich bin ja nicht so umg. I’m not like that; sei doch nicht so! umg. don’t be like that; du bist wohl! umg. you must be crazy!; sei es, wie es sei be that as it may; wenn dem so ist umg. if that’s the case, in that case
    5. (sich befinden, aufhalten) be; es ist niemand zu Hause there’s nobody at home; sie ist in Urlaub / zur Kur she’s on holiday / taking a cure; warst du mal in London? have you ever been to London?
    6. qualitativ: wie ist das Wetter bei euch? how’s the weather ( oder what’s the weather like) with you?; wie ist der Wein? how’s the wine?, what’s the wine like?; wie ist er so als Chef? what’s he like as a boss?; der Film / die Party war nichts umg. the film (Am. auch movie)/ party was a dead loss (Am. a washout)
    7. geeignet, bestimmt: Alkohol ist nichts für Kinder alcohol isn’t for children, children shouldn’t touch alcohol; das ist nichts für mich that’s not my cup of tea; (bin an Kauf etc. nicht interessiert) that’s not for me; dies ist gegen die Schmerzen this is for the pain
    8. (scheinen): mir ist, als kenne ich ihn schon I have a feeling I know him; es ist, als ob... it’s as though...
    9. mit Dat (sich fühlen): mir ist kalt I’m cold, I feel cold; mir ist schlecht I feel ill (bes. Am. sick); mir ist nicht nach Arbeiten umg. I don’t feel like working, I’m not in the mood for work
    10. verantwortlich, schuldig etc.: wer war das? (wer hat das getan?) who did that?; ich war es (habe es getan) it was me; keiner will es gewesen sein nobody will admit they did it, nobody’s owning up; du bist es! beim Fangenspielen: you’re it
    11. mit zu (+ Inf.): die Waren sind zu senden an... the goods are to be sent to...; das Spiel ist nicht mehr zu gewinnen the game can no longer be won, we can no longer win (the game); da ist nichts ( mehr) zu machen umg. there’s nothing to be done ( oder one can do); er ist nicht mehr zu retten he’s past saving; umg., fig. he’s a lost cause, he’s beyond help; es ist nun an dir zu (+ Inf.) it’s up to you to... now; es ist nicht an uns zu urteilen förm. it’s not for us to judge
    12. MATH. etc.: 5 und 2 ist 7 five and two are ( oder is, make[s]) seven; 3 mal 7 ist 21 three times seven is ( oder are, make[s]) twenty-one; x sei... let x be...
    13. meist unbest., oft in umg. Wendungen: ist was? umg. is anything ( oder something) wrong?; auch provozierend: what’s the problem?; was ist mit dir? umg. what’s the matter ( oder what’s wrong) with you?; so ist das nun mal umg. that’s the way it is; nun, wie ist’s? umg. well, what about it (then)?; wie ist es mit dir? umg. what about you?; mit dem Urlaub war nichts umg. the holiday didn’t work out, the holiday fell through; Nachtisch / Fernsehen ist heute nicht, Kinder umg. there’s no sweet (Am. dessert)/ television for you today, children; was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden umg. there’s plenty of time yet; das war’s umg. that’s it, that’s the lot; war das alles? is that all ( oder the lot)?; das wär’s für heute! umg. that’s all for today
    14. mit Verben: etw. sein lassen (nicht tun) not do s.th.; (aufhören) stop doing s.th.; lass es sein stop it; (rühr es nicht an) leave it alone; (kümmere dich nicht drum) don’t bother; ich an deiner Stelle würde das sein lassen if I were you I wouldn’t have anything to do with it; am besten lassen wir es ganz sein we’d better forget all about it; muss das sein? do you have to?; was sein muss, muss sein whatever will be, will be; was soll das sein? what’s that supposed to be?; das kann sein, kann oder mag sein umg. it’s possible, it could be; das kann nicht sein that’s impossible, it can’t be
    15. im Konjunktiv es sei denn(, dass) unless; sei es, dass... oder dass... whether... or...; wie wär’s mit einer Partie Schach? how ( oder what) about a game of chess?; na, wie wär’s mit uns beiden? umg. how about the two of us getting together?; und das wäre? umg. and what might that be?
    II Hilfsv. have; ich bin ihm schon begegnet I’ve met him before; die Sonne ist untergegangen the sun has set ( oder gone down); er ist nach Berlin gegangen he has gone to Berlin; ich bin bei meinem Anwalt gewesen I’ve been to see my lawyer; als die Polizei kam, war er schon verschwunden when the police arrived he had disappeared; er ist in Paris gesehen worden he has been seen in Paris; ich bin in Böhmen / 1972 geboren I was born in Bohemia / in 1972; die Arbeiten sind beendet the jobs are finished; der neue Kanzler ist gewählt the new Chancellor has been elected
    I Poss. Pron.
    1. adjektivisch: his; Mädchen: her; Sache: its; Tier: meist its; Haustier: his, weiblich: her; Schiff, Staat: oft her; unbestimmt: one’s; sein Glück machen make one’s fortune; all sein bisschen Geld what little money he has ( oder had); Seine Majestät His Majesty; es kostet ( gut) seine tausend Dollar it costs a good thousand dollars
    2. substantivisch: his; seiner, seine, sein(e)s, der (die, das) sein(ig)e his; Mädchen: hers; jedem das Seine to each his own; das Sein(ig) e tun do one’s share (bit umg.); (sein Möglichstes tun) do one’s best
    II pers. Pron. ( Gen von er und es) of him; Mädchen: of her; er war seiner nicht mehr mächtig he had lost control of himself completely

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > sein1;

  • 53 Clymer, George E.

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1754 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 27 August 1834 London, England
    [br]
    American inventor of the Columbian printing press.
    [br]
    Clymer was born on his father's farm, of a family that emigrated from Switzerland in the early eighteenth century. He attended local schools, helping out on the farm in his spare time, and he showed a particular talent for maintaining farm machinery. At the age of 16 he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed in the same district for over twenty-five years. During that time, he showed his talent for mechanical invention in many ways, including the invention of a plough specially adapted to the local soils. Around 1800, he moved to Philadelphia, where his interest was aroused by the erection of the first bridge over the Schuylkill River. He devised a pump to remove water from the cofferdams at a rate of 500 gallons per day, superior to any other pumps then in use. He obtained a US patent for this in 1801, and a British one soon after.
    Clymer then turned his attention to the improvement of the printing press. For three and a half centuries after its invention, the old wooden-framed press had remained virtually unchanged except in detail. The first real change came in 1800 with the introduction of the iron press by Earl Stanhope. Modified versions were developed by other inventors, notably George Clymer, who after more than ten years' effort achieved his Columbian press. With its new system of levers, it enabled perfect impressions to be obtained with far less effort by the pressman. The Columbian was also notable for its distinctive cast-iron ornamentation, including a Hermes on each pillar and alligators and other reptiles on the levers. Most spectacular, it was surmounted by an American spread eagle, usually covered in gilt, which also served as a counterweight to raise the platen. The earliest known Columbian, surviving only in an illustration, bears the inscription Columbian Press/No.25/invented by George Clymer/Anno Domini 1813/Made in Philadelphia 1816. Few American printers could afford the US$400 selling price, so in 1817 Clymer went to England, where it was taken up enthusiastically. He obtained a British patent for it the same year, and by the following March it was being manufactured by the engineering firm R.W.Cope, although Clymer was probably making it on his own account soon afterwards. The Columbian was widely used for many years and continued to be made even into the twentieth century. The King of the Netherlands awarded Clymer a gold medal for his invention and the Tsar of Russia gave him a present for installing the press in Russia. Doubtless for business reasons, Clymer spent most of his remaining years in England and Europe.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1973, Printing Presses, London: Faber \& Faber.
    —1969, contributed a thorough survey of the press in J. Printing Hist. Soc., no. 3.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Clymer, George E.

  • 54 Meek, Marshall

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 22 April 1925 Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and leading twentieth-century exponent of advanced maritime technology.
    [br]
    After early education at Cupar in Fife, Meek commenced training as a naval architect, taking the then popular sandwich apprenticeship of alternate half years at the University of Glasgow (with a Caird Scholarship) and at a shipyard, in his case the Caledon of Dundee. On leaving Dundee he worked for five years with the British Ship Research Association before joining Alfred Holt \& Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line. During his twenty-five years at Liverpool, he rose to Chief Naval Architect and Director and was responsible for bringing the cargo-liner concept to its ultimate in design. When the company had become Ocean Fleets, it joined with other British shipowners and looked to Meek for the first purpose-built containership fleet in the world. This required new ship designs, massive worldwide investment in port facilities and marketing to win public acceptance of freight containers, thereby revolutionizing dry-cargo shipping. Under the houseflag of OCL (now POCL), this pioneer service set the highest standards of service and safety and continues to operate on almost every ocean.
    In 1979 Meek returned to the shipbuilding industry when he became Head of Technology at British Shipbuilders. Closely involved in contemporary problems of fuel economy and reduced staffing, he held the post for five years before his appointment as Managing Director of the National Maritime Institute. He was deeply involved in the merger with the British Ship Research Association to form British Maritime Technology (BMT), an organization of which he became Deputy Chairman.
    Marshall Meek has held many public offices, and is one of the few to have been President of two of the United Kingdom's maritime institutions. He has contributed over forty papers to learned societies, has acted as Visiting Professor to Strathclyde University and University College London, and serves on advisory committees to the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Transport and Lloyd's Register of Shipping. While in Liverpool he served as a Justice of the Peace.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1989. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1990. President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1990–3; North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 1984–6. Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) 1986. Royal Institution of Naval Architects Silver Medal (on two occasions).
    Bibliography
    1970, "The first OCL containerships", Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Meek, Marshall

  • 55 Mitchell, Charles

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 20 May 1820 Aberdeen, Scotland
    d. 22 August 1895 Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    [br]
    Scottish industrialist whose Tyneside shipyard was an early constituent of what became the Vickers Shipbuilding Group.
    [br]
    Mitchell's early education commenced at Ledingham's Academy, Correction Wynd, Aberdeen, and from there he became a premium apprentice at the Footdee Engineering Works of Wm Simpson \& Co. Despite being employed for around twelve hours each day, Mitchell matriculated at Marischal College (now merged with King's College to form the University of Aberdeen). He did not graduate, although in 1840 he won the chemistry prize. On the completion of his apprenticeship, like Andrew Leslie (founder of Hawthorn Leslie) and other young Aberdonians he moved to Tyneside, where most of his working life was spent. From 1842 until 1844 he worked as a draughtsman for his friend Coutts, who had a shipyard at Low Walker, before moving on to the drawing offices of Maudslay Sons and Field of London, then one of the leading shipbuilding and engineering establishments in the UK. While in London he studied languages, acquiring a skill that was to stand him in good stead in later years. In 1852 he returned to the North East and set up his own iron-ship building yard at Low Walker near Newcastle. Two years later he married Anne Swan, the sister of the two young men who were to found the company now known as Swan Hunter Ltd. The Mitchell yard grew in size and reputation and by the 1850s he was building for the Russian Navy and Merchant Marine as well as advising the Russians on their shipyards in St Petersburg. In 1867 the first informal business arrangement was concluded with Armstrongs for the supply of armaments for ships; this led to increased co-operation and ultimately in 1882 to the merger of the two shipyards as Sir W.G.Armstrong Mitchell \& Co. At the time of the merger, Mitchell had launched 450 ships in twenty-nine years. In 1886 the new company built the SS Gluckauf, the world's first bulk oil tanker. After ill health in 1865 Mitchell reduced his workload and lived for a while in Surbiton, London, but returned to Tyneside to a new house at Jesmond. In his later years he was a generous benefactor to many good causes in Tyneside and Aberdeen, to the Church and to the University of Aberdeen.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    D.F.McGuire, 1988, Charles Mitchell 1820–1895, Victorian Shipbuilder, Newcastle upon Tyne: City Libraries and Arts.
    J.D.Scott, 1962, Vickers. A History, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson (a recommended overview of the Vickers Group).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Mitchell, Charles

  • 56 С-562

    В ЧЕТЫРЁХ СТЕНАХ сидеть, жить и т. п. PrepP Invar adv
    1. (to spend all or almost all of one's time) in one's home or a certain building: (be (live)) within these (those, one's own) four walls.
    (Домна Пантелевна:) Измучилась я в театре-то: жара, духота, радехонька, что выкатилась. (Матрена:) Да вестимо, летнее дело в четырех стенах сидеть... (Островский 11). ( context transl) (D.R:) That theatre wore me out
    it was so hot and stuffy I was glad to come away (M.:) It's a shame to be cooped up in summer (11a).
    2. (to live) like a recluse, associating little or not at all with others and spending all one's time inside: (stay (be buried, hole o.s. up)) within these (those, one's own) four walls.
    (Войницкий:) Двадцать пять лет я вот с этою матерью, как крот, сидел в четырех стенах... (Чехов 3). (V.:) For twenty-five years I have sat here with this mother, buried like a mole within these four walls... (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > С-562

  • 57 в четырех стенах

    В ЧЕТЫРЕХ СТЕНАХ сидеть, жить и т. п.
    [PrepP; Invar; adv]
    =====
    1. (to spend all or almost all of one's time) in one's home or a certain building:
    - (be < live>) within these (those, one's own) four walls.
         ♦ [Домна Пантелевна:] Измучилась я в театре-то: жара, духота, радехонька, что выкатилась. [Матрена:] Да вестимо, летнее дело в четырех стенах сидеть... (Островский 11). [context transl] [D.P:] That theatre wore me out; it was so hot and stuffy I was glad to come away [M.:] It's a shame to be cooped up in summer (11a).
    2. (to live) like a recluse, associating little or not at all with others and spending all one's time inside:
    - (stay <be buried, hole o.s. up>) within these (those, one's own) four walls.
         ♦ [Войницкий:] Двадцать пять лет я вот с этою матерью, как крот, сидел в четырёх стенах... (Чехов 3). [V.:] For twenty-five years I have sat here with this mother, buried like a mole within these four walls... (3a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в четырех стенах

  • 58 Gestetner, David

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. March 1854 Csorna, Hungary
    d. 8 March 1939 Nice, France
    [br]
    Hungarian/British pioneer of stencil duplicating.
    [br]
    For the first twenty-five years of his life, Gestetner was a rolling stone and accordingly gathered no moss. Leaving school in 1867, he began working for an uncle in Sopron, making sausages. Four years later he apprenticed himself to another uncle, a stockbroker, in Vienna. The financial crisis of 1873 prompted a move to a restaurant, also in the family, but tiring of a menial existence, he emigrated to the USA, travelling steerage. He began to earn a living by selling Japanese kites: these were made of strong Japanese paper coated with lacquer, and he noted their long fibres and great strength, an observation that was later to prove useful when he was searching for a suitable medium for stencil duplicating. However, he did not prosper in the USA and he returned to Europe, first to Vienna and finally to London in 1879. He took a job with Fairholme \& Co., stationers in Shoe Lane, off Holborn; at last Gestetner found an outlet for his inventive genius and he began his life's work in developing stencil duplicating. His first patent was in 1879 for an application of the hectograph, an early method of duplicating documents. In 1881, he patented the toothed-wheel pen, or Cyclostyle, which made good ink-passing perforations in the stencil paper, with which he was able to pioneer the first practicable form of stencil duplicating. He then adopted a better stencil tissue of Japanese paper coated with wax, and later an improved form of pen. This assured the success of Gestetner's form of stencil duplicating and it became established practice in offices in the late 1880s. Gestetner began to manufacture the apparatus in premises in Sun Street, at first under the name of Fairholme, since they had defrayed the patent expenses and otherwise supported him financially, in return for which Gestetner assigned them his patent rights. In 1882 he patented the wheel pen in the USA and appointed an agent to sell the equipment there. In 1884 he moved to larger premises, and three years later to still larger premises. The introduction of the typewriter prompted modifications that enabled stencil duplicating to become both the standard means of printing short runs of copy and an essential piece of equipment in offices. Before the First World War, Gestetner's products were being sold around the world; in fact he created one of the first truly international distribution networks. He finally moved to a large factory to the north-east of London: when his company went public in 1929, it had a share capital of nearly £750,000. It was only with the development of electrostatic photocopying and small office offset litho machines that stencil duplicating began to decline in the 1960s. The firm David Gestetner had founded adapted to the new conditions and prospers still, under the direction of his grandson and namesake.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    W.B.Proudfoot, 1972, The Origin of Stencil Duplicating London: Hutchinson (gives a good account of the method and the development of the Gestetner process, together with some details of his life).
    H.V.Culpan, 1951, "The House of Gestetner", in Gestetner 70th Anniversary Celebration Brochure, London: Gestetner.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Gestetner, David

  • 59 Hoe, Richard March

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 12 September 1812 New York, USA
    d. 7 June 1886 Florence, Italy
    [br]
    American inventor of the rotary printing press.
    [br]
    He was the son of Robert Hoe, a printer who improved the cylinder press invented by David Napier. At the age of 15 he entered his father's business, taking full control of it three years later. Newspaper publishers demanded ever-increasing speeds of output from the printing press, and Hoe was one of those who realized that the speed was limited by the reciprocating action of the flat-bed machine. In 1846 he constructed a rotary press in which a central cylinder carried the type and flat sheets of paper were fed to smaller impression cylinders ranged around it. This kind of press, with four impression cylinders, was first used to print the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1847, and was able to print 8,000 papers per hour. Such presses reigned supreme for newspaper printing in many countries for twenty-five years: in 1857, for example, The Times had a ten-feeder machine making 20,000 impressions per hour. Even so, the quest for speed, now limited by the single-sheet feed, continued. William Bullock (1813–67) introduced continuous roll or web feed for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1865, and the next year The Times followed suit with the web-fed Walter press. In 1871 Hoe devised a machine that combined all the advantages of the existing machines, producing a rotary, web, perfecting (printing on both sides of the paper at once) machine, first used in the office of the New York Tribune. Ten years later the Hoe Company devised a folding machine to fold the copies as they came off the press: the modern newspaper printing press had arrived. In addition to his contributions to the printing industry, Hoe was a good employer, arranging free evening classes and other welfare services for his apprentices.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.Hoe, 1902, A Short History of the Printing Press, New York. S.D.Tucker, A History of K.Hoe \& Co. New York.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Hoe, Richard March

  • 60 odd

    odd [ɒd]
       a. ( = strange) bizarre
    the odd thing about it is... ce qui est bizarre c'est...
       b. [number] impair
       c. [shoe, sock] dépareillé
    £5 and some odd pennies 5 livres et quelques pennies
       d. ( = and a few more) (inf) sixty-odd soixante et quelques
    in odd moments he... à ses moments perdus, il...
    to do odd jobs about the house ( = housework) faire un peu de ménage ; ( = do-it-yourself) bricoler dans la maison
    * * *
    [ɒd] 1.
    1) (strange, unusual) [person, object, occurrence] bizarre

    it is odd how... — c'est bizarre de voir comme...

    3) [socks, gloves] dépareillés
    5) Mathematics [number] impair
    6) ( different)

    spot the odd man ou one out — trouvez l'intrus

    2.
    - odd combining form ( approximately)

    English-French dictionary > odd

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