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خَتَمَ \ close: to come or bring to an end: She closed her speech with a funny joke. conclude: to finish; end (a meeting, speech etc.). crown: to complete successfully: His success was crowned with glory. end: to bring to a finish: We ended the meeting at 8 o’clock. finish: to bring to an end; come to an end: Have you finished your meal? Yes, we’ve finished. seal: to close sth. (an envelope, a door, etc.) in such a way that it cannot be opened secretly by the wrong person: Valuable letters are sometimes sealed with wax. stamp: to mark with a rubber stamp: The price was stamped on the goods. \ See Also أنهى (أَنْهَى)، توقف (تَوَقَّفَ)، أقفل (أَقْفَلَ)، مهر (مَهَرَ) -
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خَتْم \ seal: wax that has been used (usu. with a special sign on it) for sealing a letter etc.: I broke the seals and opened the packet. stamp: a device for making a special mark (on official papers, etc.); the mark that it makes: a rubber stamp. \ خَتْم البَريد \ postmark: the mark on a letter (across the stamp) that shows the place and date of posting. -
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Ex: Ink was worked up for use on the ink-block of the press (a small table mounted behind the near-side cheek) and transferred to the surface of the type by one of the pressmen using a pair of ink balls.Ex: The restored materials are further conserved with the insertion of an alkaline buffer into the paper.Ex: The exhibition was a retrospective and featured clippings from pornographic magazines, props from past performances (including syringes, chains, tampons, meat cleavers, and Vaseline), and press cuttings.* zona tampón = buffer zone.* * *1 (para entintar) ink pad* * *
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tampón sustantivo masculino
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84 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
85 whakapou
[v.]stamp (with a rubber stamp)————————columns (enter in as) (computer term)————————establish; tab -
86 whakapou
[v.]stamp (with a rubber stamp)————————columns (enter in as) (computer term)————————establish; tab -
87 ختل (حيوانا ليصطاده أو ليصوره)
خَتَلَ (حيوانًا ليصطاده أو ليصوّره) \ stalk: to move secretly towards (an animal, so as to shoot it or to photograph it). \ See Also راوغ (رَاوَغ)، ترصد (تَرَصَّد) \ خَاتَم \ ring: a round metal band, worn on the finger: a gold ring; a wedding ring. seal: wax that has been used (usu. with a special sign on it) for sealing a letter etc.: I broke the seals and opened the packet. stamp: a device for making a special mark (on official papers, etc.): a rubber stamp. -
88 دمغ
دَمَغَ \ stamp: to mark with a rubber stamp: The price was stamped on the goods. -
89 مهر
مَهَرَ \ stamp: to mark with a rubber stamp: The price was stamped on the goods. -
90 ring
خَاتَم \ ring: a round metal band, worn on the finger: a gold ring; a wedding ring. seal: wax that has been used (usu. with a special sign on it) for sealing a letter etc.: I broke the seals and opened the packet. stamp: a device for making a special mark (on official papers, etc.): a rubber stamp. -
91 seal
خَاتَم \ ring: a round metal band, worn on the finger: a gold ring; a wedding ring. seal: wax that has been used (usu. with a special sign on it) for sealing a letter etc.: I broke the seals and opened the packet. stamp: a device for making a special mark (on official papers, etc.): a rubber stamp. -
92 seal
خَتْم \ seal: wax that has been used (usu. with a special sign on it) for sealing a letter etc.: I broke the seals and opened the packet. stamp: a device for making a special mark (on official papers, etc.); the mark that it makes: a rubber stamp. -
93 autorizar
v.1 to allow (dar permiso a).autorizar la publicación de un informe to authorize the publication of a reportautoricé a mi hermano para que recogiera el paquete I authorized my brother to collect the package2 to authorize, to allow, to permit, to warrant.Ricardo autoriza a Pedro Richard authorizes Peter.La maestra autorizó las boinas The teacher authorized berets.3 to give authorization to, to give one's authorization to.El juez autorizó sacar a Ricardo The judge gave authorization to get Richard out4 to empower, to grant legal power to, to accredit, to authorize.El juez autoriza a Pedro The judge empowers Peter.* * *1 to authorize2 DERECHO to legalize3 (aprobar) to approve of, give authority to* * *verb1) to authorize, sanction2) approve* * *VT1) (=dar facultad a) to authorize, empower; (=permitir) to approve, licenseautorizar a algn para — + infin to authorize sb to + infin, empower sb to + infin
el futuro no autoriza optimismo alguno — the future does not warrant o justify the slightest optimism
2) (Jur) to legalize* * *verbo transitivoa) <manifestación/documento/firma> to authorize; <aumento/pago/obra> to authorize, approvela película está autorizada para todos los públicos/para mayores de 18 años — the film has been authorized for general release/has been rated 18 and over
b) < persona>autorizar a alguien a or para + inf — to authorize somebody to + inf
eso no te autoriza a or para hablarme de ese modo — that doesn't give you the right to talk to me like that
* * *= authorise [authorize, -USA], empower, give + licence, license [licence, -USA], sanction, clear.Ex. At the same time, it obtains information about which functions you are authorized to use.Ex. At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC the staff was empowered to initiate scheduling the development of an interface between the OCLC network and these other nonmonographic data bases.Ex. Through the employment of such implicitly derogatory terminology librarians virtually give themselves licence to disregard or downgrade the value of certain materials.Ex. SilverPlatter Information System is a servicemark of SilverPlatter International licensed to SilverPlatter Information, Inc.Ex. Accounting for his departures from Panizzi's rules, Jewett explained that some of them 'conform more to rules advocated by Mr. Panizzi than to those finally sanctioned by the Trustees of the Museum'.Ex. 'Besides,' she appended, 'his is a staff position, and he'd only have to clear everything with 'Tilly the Hun' anyway'.* * *verbo transitivoa) <manifestación/documento/firma> to authorize; <aumento/pago/obra> to authorize, approvela película está autorizada para todos los públicos/para mayores de 18 años — the film has been authorized for general release/has been rated 18 and over
b) < persona>autorizar a alguien a or para + inf — to authorize somebody to + inf
eso no te autoriza a or para hablarme de ese modo — that doesn't give you the right to talk to me like that
* * *= authorise [authorize, -USA], empower, give + licence, license [licence, -USA], sanction, clear.Ex: At the same time, it obtains information about which functions you are authorized to use.
Ex: At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC the staff was empowered to initiate scheduling the development of an interface between the OCLC network and these other nonmonographic data bases.Ex: Through the employment of such implicitly derogatory terminology librarians virtually give themselves licence to disregard or downgrade the value of certain materials.Ex: SilverPlatter Information System is a servicemark of SilverPlatter International licensed to SilverPlatter Information, Inc.Ex: Accounting for his departures from Panizzi's rules, Jewett explained that some of them 'conform more to rules advocated by Mr. Panizzi than to those finally sanctioned by the Trustees of the Museum'.Ex: 'Besides,' she appended, 'his is a staff position, and he'd only have to clear everything with 'Tilly the Hun' anyway'.* * *autorizar [A4 ]vt1 ‹acto/manifestación› to authorize; ‹pago/obra/aumento› to authorize, approvela película está autorizada para todos los públicos the film has been authorized for general release o passed as suitable for all ages2 ‹documento/firma› to authorize3 ‹persona› autorizar a algn A or PARA + INF:eso no te autoriza a or para hablarme de ese modo that doesn't give you the right to talk to me like thatel juez lo autorizó a asistir al funeral the judge granted him permission to attend the funeralhabía sido autorizado para negociar con los acreedores he had been given the authority to o he had been authorized to negotiate with the creditors* * *
autorizar ( conjugate autorizar) verbo transitivo
‹aumento/pago/obra› to authorize, approveb) ‹ persona›:◊ ¿quién te autorizó? who gave you permission?;
lo autoricé para recibir el pago I authorized him to receive the payment;
me autorizó para salir he gave me permission to go out;
eso no te autoriza a or para hablarme así that doesn't give you the right to talk to me like that
autorizar verbo transitivo to authorize
' autorizar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acreditar
- aprobar
- dejar
- homologar
- permitir
English:
authorize
- entitle
- license
- rubber stamp
- clear
* * *autorizar vt1. [pago, crédito, manifestación] to authorize;autorizaron la publicación del informe they authorized o sanctioned the publication of the report;autoricé a mi hermano para que recogiera el paquete I authorized my brother to collect the package;nos autorizó para controlar el presupuesto she authorized us to monitor the budget2. [documento] to authorize;autorizó el documento con su firma she authorized the document with her signature3. [dar derecho a]su cargo no lo autoriza para insultarme his position doesn't give him the right to insult me;este título nos autoriza para ejercer en Europa this qualification allows us to practise in Europe* * *v/t authorize* * *autorizar {21} vt: to authorize, to approve* * *autorizar vb1. (acción) to authorize -
94 joke
I [dʒəʊk] n1) шутка, шуточка, насмешка, острота, анекдот, смешной случайHe meant it as a joke. — Он сказал это в шутку.
He can't take a joke. — Он не понимает шуток.
The joke was on him. — Он в дураках остался.
He likes to play practical jokes. — Он любит разыгрывать.
The joke was wasted on him. — Он не понял шутки. /Шутка до него не дошла.
I wonder if he saw the joke. — Не знаю, дошла ли до него эта шутка.
- bad joke- current joke
- dirty joke
- practical joke
- stale joke
- innocent joke
- spicy joke
- rubber-stamp jokes
- unintended joke
- joke in bad taste
- joke at smb's expense
- in joke
- by way of a joke
- none of your joke!
- enjoy jokes
- carry the joke too far
- crack jokes with smb
- make a joke about smb
- make a joke of smth
- make a joke of the whole thing
- make jokes
- say jokes
- make a joke about smth, smb
- play a joke on smb
- see the joke
- tell funny jokes
- turn smth into a joke
- do smth for a joke
- adlib a joke2) объект шуток, посмешищеIt was a standing joke there. — Это был неистощимый объект для шуток.
He is a standing joke. — Над ним всегда все смеются. /Он ходячий анекдот/ходячее посмешище.
3) пустяк, пустячное дело- it is no joke to be a popular singer II [dʒəʊk] vшутить, острить, говорить остроты- joke about smb, smth- joke with smb
- be fond of joking
- joking apart -
95 класть
I несовер. - класть;
совер. - положить( кого-л./что-л.)
1) put, lay (down, on) ;
place, deposit (помещать) класть себе на тарелку (за столом) ≈ to help oneself (to) класть ногу на ногу ≈ to cross one's legs класть под сукно( что-л.) ≈ to shelve, to pigeonhole положа руку на сердце разг. ≈ (quite) frankly класть на место ≈ to put back, to put in its place, to replace класть не на место ≈ to mislay класть кирпичи ≈ to lay bricks класть на музыку ≈ to set to music
2) разг. (считать) assign, set aside, put aside, lay aside (время, деньги) Мы кладем пятьдесят рублей на эту поездку. ≈ We are setting aside fifty roubles for this trip. ∙ класть что-л. в основу ≈ to base oneself on smth., to assume smth. as a basis, to take smth. as a principle положить жизнь за что-л. ≈ to give (up) one's life for smth. как бог на душу положит ≈ anyhow, higgledy-piggledy, at random положить зубы на полку разг. ≈ tighten one's belt класть в лузу, класть шара бильярд ≈ to pocket a ball класть под сукно ≈ to shelve, to pigeon-hole, to put under dust covers, to pocket класть на обе лопатки ≈ to throw, to defeat положить на музыку ≈ to set to music класть яйца ≈ to lay eggs II несовер. - класть;
совер. - наложить( что-л.) apply, leave класть краски ≈ to apply paint класть отпечаток ≈ to leave an imprint III несовер. - класть;
совер. - сложить( что-л.) build, erect класть печку ≈ to build a stove сложа руки ≈ with arms folded сидеть сложа руки разг. ≈ to be idle, to sit by;
to twiddle one's thumbs не сидеть сложа руки ≈ to be up and doing класть голову ≈ to fall on the field of battle, положить, сложить (вн.)
1. сов. положить put* (smb., smth.) ;
lay* (smb., smth.), place (smb., smth.) ;
~ деньги в карман put* money in one`s pocket;
~ кого-л. в больницу put* smb. in hospital;
~ раненого на стол lay* an injured man* on table;
~ краски на холст put* paint on a canvas, apply paint to a canvas;
~ печать на что-л. rubber-stamp smth. ;
перен. leave* its mark on smth. ;
~ сахар в чай put* sugar in one`s tea;
~ ногу на ногу cross one`s legs;
2. сов. сложить (строить) build* (smth.) make* (smth.) ;
~ печь build*/make* a stove;
~ стену build* a wall;
~ фундамент lay* a foundation;
~ яйца lay* eggs;
положить слова на музыку put*/set*words to music;
положить жизнь за родину lay* down one`s life for one`s country;
~ под сукно shelve. -
96 tag
1. n свободный, болтающийся конец; висящий кончикtag end — конец, последняя часть
2. n ярлык, этикетка, биркаa tag with a price on it — ярлык с указанием цены, ценник
3. n повестка или уведомление о штрафе4. n вчт. признак, метка, маркёр, тег5. n спец. кабельный наконечник6. n металлический наконечник на шнуркеname tag — именной жетон; медальон с фамилией; личный знак
7. n петля, ушко8. n лента, бант, кисточка9. n аксельбанты10. n кусочек ткани на рыболовном крючке рядом с наживкой11. n кончик, кисточка хвоста12. n свалявшийся клок шерсти13. n полоска пергамента с висящей печатью14. n конец, завершение; заключительная часть15. n заключение, эпилог; конец реплики; заключительные слова актёра; мораль16. n цветистая фраза; красное словцо17. n избитая цитата18. n изречение, афоризм19. n припев20. n салки, пятнашки21. n спец. меченый атом22. v наклеивать или навешивать ярлычок, бирку, этикетку23. v вчт. присваивать, приписывать метку; помечать, маркироватьtag mark — метка признака; ярлык
reference tag — метка для ссылок; ссылочная метка
24. v спец. метить25. v снабжать наконечником26. v разг. преследовать, идти27. v соединять, связывать28. v расцвечивать; блеснуть цитатой, ввернуть умное словцо29. v нанизывать30. v добавлять31. v салить, осалить32. v срезать свалявшуюся шерстьСинонимический ряд:1. card or marker (noun) card; card or marker; identification number; label; laundry mark; marker; plaque; price tag; slip; sticker; stub; ticket2. commonplace (noun) banality; bromide; cliche; commonplace; platitude; prosaicism; prosaism; rubber stamp; shibboleth; truism3. append (verb) append; attach; fasten4. call (verb) call; characterise; designate; style; term5. mark (verb) brand; check; dub; earmark; identify; label; mark; ticket6. tail (verb) bedog; dog; heel; shadow; tail; trail -
97 zustimmen
- {to agree [to]} đồng ý, tán thành, bằng lòng, thoả thuận, hoà thuận, hợp với, phù hợp với, thích hợp với, hợp, cân bằng - {to applaud} vỗ tay hoan nghênh, vỗ tay tán thưởng, khen ngợi - {to approve} chấp thuận, xác nhận, phê chuẩn, chuẩn y, chứng tỏ, tỏ ra, chứng minh, approve of tán thành - {to concern} liên quan, dính líu tới, nhúng vào, lo lắng, băn khoăn, quan tâm = zustimmen [jemandem] {to fall in [with someone]}+ = zustimmen [einer Bedingung] {to accede [to a condition]}+ = zustimmen [einem Vorschlag] {to assent [to a proposal]}+ = unbesehen zustimmen {to rubber-stamp}+ -
98 pegar
v.1 to stick.Ella pega el afiche She sticks the poster.2 to hit.pega a su mujer/a sus hijos he beats his wife/children3 to give (propinar) (bofetada, paliza).pegar un golpe a alguien to hit somebodypegar un tiro a alguien to shoot somebodyElla le pegó una tremenda paliza She gave him a good thrashing.4 to suit, to go with (corresponder a, ir bien a).no le pega ese vestido that dress doesn't suit herno le pega ese novio that boyfriend isn't right for her5 to paste (computing).6 to go together, to match.pegar con to go with7 to beat down (sol).8 to glue, to adhere, to bond, to paste.Ella pega las hojas She glues the sheets.9 to infect with.Yo le pegué a Ricardo un catarro I infected Richard with a cold.10 to sew on.Ella pega botones She sews on buttons.* * *2 (coser) to sew on3 (contagiar) to give4 (acercar) to move close to5 INFORMÁTICA to paste1 (combinar) to match1 (quemarse) to stick2 (persona) to latch onto■ se me pegó un tío en el pub y no hubo forma de deshacerme de él a bloke latched onto me in the pub and I couldn't get rid of him\no pegar ni con cola (no entonar) to be totally wrong, look totally out of place 2 (ser increíble) to be impossible to believe————————1 (golpear) to hit■ mamá, Pablo me ha pegado mum, Pablo hit me2 (dar) to give■ ¡vaya susto me has pegado! you didn't half scare me!1 (tener fuerza) to beat down■ ¡cómo pega el sol hoy! it's a real scorcher today!2 (beber) to knock back■ le gusta pegarle al whisky ¿eh? he likes knocking back the whisky, doesn't he1 (tropezar) to bump ( con, into)\dále que te pego over and over again, on and onno pegar golpe not to do a blessed thingno pegar ojo not to sleep a winkpegarle fuego a algo to set fire to somethingpegarle un tiro a alguien to shoot somebodypegarle una paliza a alguien to beat somebody uppegarse la vida padre familiar to live the life of Rileypegarse un tiro to shoot oneselfpegársela a alguien (engañar) to do the dirty on somebody 2 (ser infiel) to be unfaithful to somebody* * *verb1) to hit, strike2) glue, stick3) paste4) attach•- pegarse* * *1. VT1) (=adherir)a) [gen] to stick; [con cola] to glue, stick; [+ cartel] to stick up; [+ dos piezas] to fix together; (Inform) to pastelo puedes pegar con celo — you can stick it on with Sellotape ®, you can sellotape it on
b) (=coser) [+ botón] to sew on2) (=golpear) [gen] to hit; (=dar una torta a) to smackes un crimen pegar a los niños — it's a crime to hit o smack children
3) * (=dar)•
pegar un grito — to shout, cry out•
le han pegado un puntapié — they gave him a kick, they kicked him•
pegar un susto a algn — to scare sb, give sb a frightfuego 1)¡qué susto me has pegado! — what a fright you gave me!
4) (=arrimar)pegar una silla a una pared — to move o put a chair up against a wall
5) * (=contagiar) to give (a to)6)- pegarla8) Caribe [+ trabajo] to start2. VI1) (=adherir) to stick; (Inform) to paste2) (=agarrar) [planta] to take (root); [remedio] to take; [fuego] to catch3)pegar en algo — (=dar) to hit sth; (=rozar) to touch sth
pegaba con un palo en la puerta — he was pounding on o hitting the door with a stick
4) * (=armonizar) to go well, fit; [dos colores] to match, go togetherpegarle a algn: no le pega nada actuar así — it's not like him to act like that
pegar con algo — to match sth, go with sth
ese sombrero no pega con el abrigo — that hat doesn't match o go with the coat
5) * (=ser fuerte) to be strongeste vino pega (mucho) — this wine is really strong o goes to your head
6) * (=tener éxito)7) * (=creer)me pega que...: me pega que no vendrá — I have a hunch that he won't come
8)pegarle a algo — * to be a great one for sth *
3.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) <bofetada/patada> to giveb) <grito/chillido> to let outc) (fam) < repaso>2)pegó un póster en la pared — she stuck (o pinned etc) a poster up on the wall
b) ( coser) <mangas/botones> to sew onc) ( arrimar) to move... closer3) (fam) ( contagiar) < enfermedad> to give2.pegarla — (RPl fam) to be dead on (AmE colloq), to be spot on (BrE colloq)
pegar vi1)a) ( golpear)pegarle a alguien — to hit somebody; (a un niño, como castigo) to smack somebody
si vuelves a hacer eso, te pego — if you do that again, I'll smack you
b) (fam) ( hacerse popular) producto/moda to take off; artista to be very popularc) (fam) ( ser fuerte) viento to be strong2)a) ( adherir) to stickb) ( armonizar) to go together3.no pegar ni con cola — (fam)
pegarse v pron1)a) ( golpearse)me pegué con la mesa — I knocked o hit myself on the table
me pegué en la cabeza — I banged o knocked my head
se pegó un porrazo — (fam) she gave herself a nasty knock
pegársela — (Esp fam) to have a crash
pegársela a alguien — (Esp fam) ( ser infiel) to be unfaithful to somebody
b) (recípr) ( darse golpes) to hit each other2) < susto> to getpegarse una ducha — (fam) to take o have a shower
me voy a pegar unas vacaciones...! — I'm going to give myself a good vacation o (BrE) holiday
3)a) ( adherirse) to stickse pegó al or del timbre — she kept her finger on the doorbell
b) ( contagiarse) enfermedad to be infectiouseso se pega — you can easily catch it; (+ me/te/le etc)
se le pegó la costumbre de... — she got into the habit of...
* * *1 = plaster, affix, attach, glue, fasten together, stick, paste together, cement.Ex. Then it gets progressively worse as walls are washed away and vehicles plastered against houses and trees.Ex. Some libraries use small stickers affixed to the spines which have cartoons or ideograms indicating a special genre.Ex. In fixed location notation was physically attached to certain places on the shelves and books were always filed in the same place.Ex. The binding type specifies the type of binding ( glued, sewn).Ex. A book is physically a collection of sheets usually paper ones fastened together and protected by a cover which do form a genuine unit.Ex. Is it a matter of a library in one country sticking a pin in a map and requesting a document from the nearest library to where the pin is inserted?.Ex. The boards were generally made of wood up to the later fifteenth century; then of sheets of paper pasted together ('pasteboard'); and then, from the early eighteenth century in good-quality binding but later in cheap work, of rope-fibre millboard.Ex. An in-house bulletin may serve to cement firm relationships with the library's personnel.----* arrastrar y pegar = drag and drop.* copiar y pegar = copy and paste.* cortar y pegar = cut-and-paste.* goma de pegar = rubber solution.* ir pegado a = hug.* no pegar ni con cola = stick out like + a sore thumb.* pegar a Alguien = look + good on + Nombre.* pegar con cinta adhesiva = tape.* pegarse = stick together, bricking, blocking, rub off on.* pegarse a = stick to, have + a rub-off effect on.* pegarse como una lapa = cling like + a limpet, stick like + a limpet.* pegar sobre = paste onto.* pegar una nota en un sitio público = post.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) <bofetada/patada> to giveb) <grito/chillido> to let outc) (fam) < repaso>2)pegó un póster en la pared — she stuck (o pinned etc) a poster up on the wall
b) ( coser) <mangas/botones> to sew onc) ( arrimar) to move... closer3) (fam) ( contagiar) < enfermedad> to give2.pegarla — (RPl fam) to be dead on (AmE colloq), to be spot on (BrE colloq)
pegar vi1)a) ( golpear)pegarle a alguien — to hit somebody; (a un niño, como castigo) to smack somebody
si vuelves a hacer eso, te pego — if you do that again, I'll smack you
b) (fam) ( hacerse popular) producto/moda to take off; artista to be very popularc) (fam) ( ser fuerte) viento to be strong2)a) ( adherir) to stickb) ( armonizar) to go together3.no pegar ni con cola — (fam)
pegarse v pron1)a) ( golpearse)me pegué con la mesa — I knocked o hit myself on the table
me pegué en la cabeza — I banged o knocked my head
se pegó un porrazo — (fam) she gave herself a nasty knock
pegársela — (Esp fam) to have a crash
pegársela a alguien — (Esp fam) ( ser infiel) to be unfaithful to somebody
b) (recípr) ( darse golpes) to hit each other2) < susto> to getpegarse una ducha — (fam) to take o have a shower
me voy a pegar unas vacaciones...! — I'm going to give myself a good vacation o (BrE) holiday
3)a) ( adherirse) to stickse pegó al or del timbre — she kept her finger on the doorbell
b) ( contagiarse) enfermedad to be infectiouseso se pega — you can easily catch it; (+ me/te/le etc)
se le pegó la costumbre de... — she got into the habit of...
* * *pegar22 = hit, spank, smack, whip, beat, belt, whack.Ex: When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.
Ex: In addition, both physical & verbal violence appear to be transgenerational: people who were spanked frequently as children are more prone to frequently spank their own children.Ex: Parents who endorse the use of non-coercive management techniques smack their children as well.Ex: He got whipped by policemen right here in Montgomery.Ex: Flexible moulds made of laminated paper called 'flong' were first used in Lyons in 1829 and were blotting and tissue paper pasted together, and the mould was formed by beating damp flong on the face of the type.Ex: They chased him and one belted him over the head with the bar, forcing him to the ground.Ex: The assailants, he said, did not know 'if I was straight or gay, I just happened to pass by and got whacked on the head'.* pegar chillidos = shriek.* pegar en el larguero = hit + the crossbar.* pegar en el travesaño = hit + the crossbar.* pegar fuerte = hit + hard, pack + a wallop.* pegar gritos = shriek, shout.* pegarse una hostia = come + a cropper.* pegar un estirón = shoot up.* pegar un puñetazo = sock.* pegar un repullo = give + a start, startle.* pegar un respingo = give + a start, startle.* pegar un susto = spook.1 = plaster, affix, attach, glue, fasten together, stick, paste together, cement.Ex: Then it gets progressively worse as walls are washed away and vehicles plastered against houses and trees.
Ex: Some libraries use small stickers affixed to the spines which have cartoons or ideograms indicating a special genre.Ex: In fixed location notation was physically attached to certain places on the shelves and books were always filed in the same place.Ex: The binding type specifies the type of binding ( glued, sewn).Ex: A book is physically a collection of sheets usually paper ones fastened together and protected by a cover which do form a genuine unit.Ex: Is it a matter of a library in one country sticking a pin in a map and requesting a document from the nearest library to where the pin is inserted?.Ex: The boards were generally made of wood up to the later fifteenth century; then of sheets of paper pasted together ('pasteboard'); and then, from the early eighteenth century in good-quality binding but later in cheap work, of rope-fibre millboard.Ex: An in-house bulletin may serve to cement firm relationships with the library's personnel.* arrastrar y pegar = drag and drop.* copiar y pegar = copy and paste.* cortar y pegar = cut-and-paste.* goma de pegar = rubber solution.* ir pegado a = hug.* no pegar ni con cola = stick out like + a sore thumb.* pegar a Alguien = look + good on + Nombre.* pegar con cinta adhesiva = tape.* pegarse = stick together, bricking, blocking, rub off on.* pegarse a = stick to, have + a rub-off effect on.* pegarse como una lapa = cling like + a limpet, stick like + a limpet.* pegar sobre = paste onto.* pegar una nota en un sitio público = post.* * *pegar [A3 ]vtA1 (propinar) ‹bofetada/paliza/patada› to givele pegó una paliza terrible he gave him a terrible beatingle pegué una patada en la rodilla I gave him a kick on the knee, I kicked him on the kneete voy a pegar un coscorrón I'm going to clout you o give you such a clout! ( colloq)le pegaron un tiro they shot her2 ‹grito/salto›pegó un chillido she let out a scream, she screamedles pegó cuatro gritos y se callaron she shouted at them and they shut uppegó un salto de alegría he jumped for joypegó media vuelta y se fue he turned around and walked away3 ‹susto› to give¡qué susto me pegaste! you gave me a terrible fright!4 ( fam) ‹repaso›pégale un repaso a este capítulo look over this chapter againle pegué una miradita I had a quick look at itBpegué los sellos en el sobre I stuck the stamps on the envelope¿cómo pego la suela? how can I stick the sole?vamos a pegar todos los pedazos we're going to glue o stick all the pieces back togetherpegó un póster en la pared she stuck ( o pinned etc) a poster up on the wall2 (coser) ‹mangas/botones› to sew … onni siquiera sabe pegar un botón he can't even sew a button on3 (arrimar, acercar) to move … closerpega el coche un poco más a la raya move the car a little closer to the linepegó el oído a la pared he put his ear to the wall4 ( Inf) to pasteC ( fam) (contagiar) ‹enfermedad› to giveno te acerques, que te pego la gripe don't come near me, I'll give you my flu o you'll get my flula verdad es que la pegamos con su regalo we really were dead on o spot on with her giftcon este espectáculo sí la vamos a pegar we're going to have a big hit with this show ( colloq)■ pegarviA1dicen que le pega a su mujer they say he beats his wifesi vuelves a hacer eso, te pego if you do that again, I'll smack you¡a mí no me vas a pegar! don't you dare hit me!la pelota pegó en el poste the ball hit the goalpostpegarle a algo ( fam): ¡cómo le pegan al vino! they sure like their wine ( colloq), they certainly knock back the wine ( colloq)2 ( fam) (hacerse popular) to take offsi el producto no pega, quebramos if the product doesn't take off o catch on, we'll go underuna artista que pega en el extranjero an artist who's very popular abroadsu último disco está pegando fuerte her latest record is a big hit ( colloq)3 ( fam) (ser fuerte) «viento» to be strong¡cómo pegaba el sol! the sun was really beating down!, the sun was really hot!este vino pega muchísimo this wine's really strong, this wine goes to your headB1 (adherir) to stick2 (armonizar) to go togetherestos colores no pegan these colors* don't go togetherpegar CON algo to go WITH sthesos zapatos no pegan con el vestido those shoes don't go (well) with the dressesa mesa no pega con los demás muebles that table doesn't fit in with o go with the rest of the furnitureel vino blanco no pega con la carne white wine doesn't go with meatno pegar ni con cola or no pegar ni juntar ( fam): esos colores no pegan ni con cola those colors* don't go together at alleste cuadro aquí no pega ni con cola this picture looks really out of place hereno pegamos ni juntamos en este ambiente we stick out like a sore thumb in a place like thispegó para su casa she made o headed for home■ pegarseA1(golpearse): me pegué con la mesa I bumped into the table, I knocked myself on the tableme pegué en la cabeza I banged o knocked my headme pegué un golpe muy fuerte en la pierna I hit my leg really hardse cayó de la bicicleta y se pegó un porrazo ( fam); she fell off her bike and gave herself a nasty knockpegársela a algn ( Esp fam); (ser infiel) to be unfaithful to sb, cheat on sb ( AmE colloq); (traicionar) to double-cross sb, do the dirty on sb ( colloq)2 ( recípr) (darse golpes) to hit each otherestos niños siempre se están pegando these kids are always hitting each other o fightingB1 ‹susto›¡qué susto me pegué cuando la vi! I got such a fright when I saw her2 ‹tiro›se pegó un tiro en la sien he shot himself in the head¡es para pegarse un tiro! it's enough to drive you crazy o mad!3 ( fam)(tomarse, darse): me voy a pegar una ducha I'm going to take o have a showertuvimos que pegarnos una corrida para no perder el tren we had to run to catch the trainanoche nos pegamos una comilona tremenda we had an amazing meal last night ( colloq)¡me voy a pegar unas vacaciones …! I'm going to give myself o have myself a good vacationme pegué el día entero estudiando I spent the whole day studyingme pegué cuatro días sin salir de casa I didn't leave the house for four days, I went (for) four days without leaving the house ( colloq)C1 (adherirse) to stickno consigo que este sobre se pegue I can't get this envelope to stickse me ha pegado el arroz the rice has stuckmi madre se pega al or del teléfono y no para de hablar once my mother gets yakking on the phone there's no stopping her ( colloq)se pegó al or del timbre she kept her finger on o she leaned on the doorbellse me pega y después no se qué hacer para deshacerme de él he latches on to me and then I can't get rid of him2«costumbre/enfermedad» (contagiarse) (+ me/te/le etc): en Inglaterra se le pegó la costumbre de tomar té in England she got into the habit of drinking tease le ha pegado el acento mexicano he's picked up a Mexican accentno te acerques, que se te va a pegar el catarro don't come too close or you'll catch my cold* * *
pegar ( conjugate pegar) verbo transitivo
1
le pegaron un tiro they shot her
pegarle un susto a algn to give sb a fright
2
( con cola) to glue, stick
3 (fam) ( contagiar) ‹ enfermedad› to give;
verbo intransitivo
1
(a un niño, como castigo) to smack sb;
la pelota pegó en el poste the ball hit the goalpost
[ artista] to be very popular
2
pegar CON algo to go with sth;
pegarse verbo pronominal
1a) ( golpearse):◊ me pegué con la mesa I knocked o hit myself on the table;
me pegué en la cabeza I banged o knocked my head
2 ‹ susto› to get;
3 ( contagiarse) [ enfermedad] to be infectious;
se te va a pegar mi catarro you'll catch my cold;
se le ha pegado el acento mexicano he's picked up a Mexican accent
pegar
I verbo transitivo
1 (adherir) to stick
(con pegamento) to glue
2 (coser) to sew on
3 (arrimar) lean against: es mejor que pegues la cuna a la pared, you'd better put the cradle against the wall
4 (un susto, una enfermedad) to give
5 (realizar una acción) pegó fuego a la casa, he set the house on fire
pegó saltos de alegría, he jumped for joy
6 (maltratar) to hit: no pegues al niño, don't hit the child
II verbo intransitivo
1 (combinar) to match: ese jersey no pega con esos pantalones, that sweater doesn't go with those trousers
(estar próximo a) to be next to: su casa está pegada al cine, his house is next to the cinema
2 (sol) to beat down
♦ Locuciones: no pegar ojo, not to sleep a wink
' pegar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cartel
- cascar
- frenazo
- hebra
- ojo
- respingo
- reventón
- sacudir
- zurrar
- acertar
- culo
- dar
- estirón
- golpear
- maltratar
- rebote
- salto
- sonar
English:
affix
- beat
- beat down
- believe in
- belt
- bond
- give
- glue
- gum
- hang
- hit
- paste
- punch
- put up
- scare
- sellotape
- sew on
- shoot
- slap
- slug
- smack
- stick
- stick together
- strike
- tape
- wallop
- alone
- attach
- crack
- even
- go
- jolt
- superglue
- wink
* * *♦ vt1. [adherir] to stick;[con pegamento] to glue; [póster, cartel] to fix, to put up; [botón] to sew on;pegó la suela al zapato he stuck the sole on the shoeno pegues la silla tanto a la pared don't put the chair so close up against the wall;3. [golpear] to hit;el balón me pegó en la cara the ball hit me in the face;pega a su mujer/a sus hijos he beats his wife/children4. [dar] [bofetada, paliza, patada] to give;pegó un golpe sobre la mesa he banged the table;pegar un golpe a alguien to hit sb;pegar un susto a alguien to give sb a fright;pegar un disgusto a alguien to upset sb;pegar un tiro a alguien to shoot sbpegar un grito to cry out, to let out a cry;no arreglas nada pegando gritos it's no use shouting;pegar un respingo to (give a) start;pegaban saltos de alegría they were jumping for joy;pegar un suspiro to (give a) sigh;pegar fuego a algo to set sth on fire, to set fire to sthle pegó el sarampión a su hermano she gave her brother measles7. [corresponder a, ir bien a] to suit;no le pega ese vestido that dress doesn't suit her;esta corbata pega con esa camisa this tie goes with that shirt;no le pega ese novio that boyfriend isn't right for her8. Informát to pastela pegamos con esa idea we were spot on with that idea♦ vi1. [adherir] to stick2. [golpear] to hit;la lluvia pegaba en la ventana the rain was driving against the windowpane;una bala pegó contra el techo a bullet hit the ceiling;la pelota pegó en el larguero the ball hit the crossbar3. [armonizar] to go together, to match;no pegan nada they don't go together o match at all;no pega mucho un bingo en este barrio a bingo hall doesn't really fit o looks rather out of place in this part of town;pegar con to go with;un color que pegue (bien) con el rojo a colour that goes (well) with red[viento, aire] to be strong; [vino, licor, droga] to be strong stuff, to pack a punch;el aire pega de costado there's a strong side wind;¡cómo pega el sol! it's absolutely scorching!el restaurante pega con a la estación the restaurant's right next to the stationeste grupo está pegando mucho últimamente this group is massive at the moment;una nueva generación de tenistas viene pegando fuerte a new generation of tennis players is beginning to come through* * *I v/t1 ( golpear) hit2 ( adherir) stick, gluepegar un grito shout, give a shout;no me pega la gana Méx I don’t feel like itII v/i1 ( golpear) hit2 ( adherir) stick4 ( armonizar) go (together)* * *pegar {52} vt1) : to glue, to stick, to paste2) : to attach, to sew on3) : to infect with, to giveme pegó el resfriado: he gave me his cold4) golpear: to hit, to deal, to strikeme pegaron un puntapié: they gave me a kick5) : to give (out with)pegó un grito: she let out a yellpegar vi1) : to adhere, to stick2)pegar en : to hit, to strike (against)3)pegar con : to match, to go with* * *pegar vb5. (armonizar) to go -
99 seal
1. n зоол. тюленьpin seal — тюленья, котиковая кожа
harp seal — лысун, гренландский тюлень
2. n котиковый мех3. n тюленья кожа4. v охотиться на тюленей, котиковseal brown — густой коричневый цвет; цвет коричневого котика
5. n печать; клеймоunder seal — с приложением печати, за печатью, скреплённый печатью
6. n пломба7. n отпечаток8. n знак, доказательство9. n торжественное обещание, обет; обязательство10. n власть; полномочияto return the seals — уйти в отставку; сложить полномочия
11. n обыкн. брелоки12. n тех. изолирующий слой, изоляция13. n тех. перемычка, затвор14. n тех. обтюраторспай, впай
15. n тех. уплотнение, сальник16. v прикладывать, ставить печать; скреплять печатьюsigned, sealed and delivered — подписано, скреплено печатью и вручено
to adhibit the seal — приложить печать, скрепить печатью
affixed a seal — скрепил печатью; скрепленный печатью
17. v ставить клеймо18. v опечатывать, пломбировать19. v запечатывать20. v окружать плотным кольцомa vessel sealed in ice — судно, затёртое во льдах
21. v воен. окружать, блокировать22. v накладывать печать, отпечатокcommon seal — печать корпорации, компании
23. v предназначать, обрекать24. v окончательно решать, утверждать25. v арх. пожаловать хартию26. v уст. накладывать обязательство или взыскание27. v запаивать, герметизироватьseal off — запаивать наглухо; герметически заделывать
Синонимический ряд:1. crest (noun) crest; emblem; insignia2. permission (noun) allowance; approval; authorisation; authorization; permission; permit3. sign (noun) sign; symbol; token4. stamp (noun) cachet; fastener; mark; sigil; signature; signet; stamp; sticker; tape; tie5. approve (verb) approve; certify; endorse; sanction; validate6. secure (verb) close; fasten; glue; paste; plaster; secure; shut; stickАнтонимический ряд:annul; open -
100 Scheck
Scheck m BANK (AE) check, (BE) cheque, Chq. • einen Scheck auf jmdn. ausstellen BANK (AE) make a check payable to sb, (BE) make a cheque payable to sb • einen Scheck ausstellen BANK (BE) make out a cheque, (AE) raise a check, (AE) draw a check, (BE) draw a cheque, (AE) write out a check, (BE) write out a cheque • einen Scheck einlösen BANK (AE) cash a check, (BE) cash a cheque • einen Scheck kreuzen BANK (AE) cross a check, (BE) cross a cheque • einen Scheck nicht einlösen BANK (AE) dishonor a check, (BE) dishonour a cheque • einen Scheck zur Einlösung vorlegen BANK (AE) present a check for payment, (BE) present a cheque for payment • einen Scheck zur Verrechnung ausstellen BANK (AE) cross a check, (BE) cross a cheque • einen Scheck zur Zahlung vorlegen BANK (AE) present a check for payment, (BE) present a cheque for payment* * *m < Bank> check (AE), cheque (Chq.) (BE) ■ einen Scheck auf jmdn. ausstellen < Bank> make a check payable to sb (AE), make a cheque payable to sb (BE) ■ einen Scheck ausstellen < Bank> make out a cheque (BE), raise a check (AE), draw a check (AE), draw a cheque (BE), write out a check (AE), write out a cheque (BE) ■ einen Scheck einlösen < Bank> cash a check (AE), cash a cheque (BE) ■ einen Scheck kreuzen < Bank> cross a check (AE), cross a cheque (BE) ■ einen Scheck nicht einlösen < Bank> dishonor a check (AE), dishonour a cheque (BE) ■ einen Scheck zur Einlösung vorlegen < Bank> present a check for payment (AE), present a cheque for payment (BE) ■ einen Scheck zur Verrechnung ausstellen < Bank> cross a check (AE), cross a cheque (BE) ■ einen Scheck zur Zahlung vorlegen < Bank> present a check for payment (AE), present a cheque for payment (BE)* * *Scheck
cheque (Br.), check (US);
• abgerechneter Scheck cleared cheque;
• noch nicht abgerechneter Scheck uncleared cheque;
• annullierter Scheck cancelled cheque;
• nicht vollständig (fertig) ausgefüllter Scheck inchoate cheque;
• von einem Nichtkaufmann ausgestellter Scheck personal cheque;
• als Sicherheit ausgestellter Scheck memorandum cheque;
• auswärtiger Scheck out-of-town cheque;
• avisierter Scheck advised cheque;
• im Einzug befindliche Schecks cheques in process of collection, float (US);
• befristeter Scheck memorandum check (US);
• von einer Bank beglaubigter (bestätigter) Scheck marked (guaranteed, certified) cheque (Br.);
• beschädigter Scheck mutilated cheque;
• durchkreuzter Scheck crossed check;
• eigener Scheck house item (Br.), own check, home debit (US);
• von einer Verrechnungsstelle eingehende Schecks incoming exchanges (US);
• eingelöster Scheck paid check;
• nicht eingelöster Scheck unpaid (dishono(u)red) cheque;
• noch nicht eingelöster Scheck outstanding cheque;
• am Schalter eingelöster Scheck check cashed over the counter;
• entwerteter Scheck cancelled check;
• fauler Scheck dud check (cheque, Br.);
• nicht firmierter Scheck uncrossed cheque, open check;
• gefälschter Scheck false (forged, bogus, cold, US, stiff, US sl.) check;
• durch Erhöhung des Betrages gefälschter Scheck raised check;
• zum Ausgleich eines Anspruchs gegebener Scheck cheque in full settlement of a claim (Br.);
• gekennzeichneter Scheck certified cheque, marked check;
• abhanden gekommener Scheck lost cheque;
• gekreuzter Scheck crossed cheque;
• nicht in Anspruch genommener Scheck unclaimed cheque;
• auf Echtheit der Unterschrift geprüfter Scheck initialled cheque;
• zum Einzug gesandte Schecks cheques in process of collection;
• insgesamt an andere Verrechnungsstellen gesandte Schecks outclearing (Br.);
• gesperrter Scheck stopped (blocked, earmarked) cheque;
• girierfähiger Scheck negotiable cheque;
• girierter Scheck endorsed cheque;
• nicht girierter Scheck unendorsed cheque;
• nicht ordnungsgemäß girierter Scheck cheque irregularly endorsed;
• zum Einzug hereingegebene Schecks cheques paid in for collection;
• nicht indossierter Scheck unbacked cheque;
• auf Dollar lautender Scheck dollar check;
• auf den Namen lautender Scheck non-negotiable cheque;
• auf den Überbringer lautender Scheck cheque [payable] to bearer;
• limitierter Scheck limited cheque;
• nachdatierter Scheck postdated cheque;
• offener Scheck open cheque (Br.);
• protestierter Scheck protested cheque;
• retournierte Schecks returned cheques, returns (Br.);
• zum Einzug übersandter Scheck cheque sent for collection;
• unausgefüllter Scheck blank cheque;
• der Höhe nach unbegrenzter Scheck unlimited cheque;
• unbezahlter Scheck returned cheque;
• undatierter Scheck undated cheque;
• uneingelöster Scheck unpaid (uncleared, dishono(u)red) cheque;
• ungedeckter Scheck flash (dud, bad, uncovered, rubber, worthless) cheque, check without provision, bouncer, kite (Br.), stumer (Br. sl.), cheque without sufficient funds;
• unvollständiger Scheck invalid check;
• verfallener Scheck overdue cheque;
• verjährter Scheck stale cheque;
• auf dem Postwege verloren gegangener Scheck cheque lost in the post;
• verspätet (zu spät) vorgelegter Scheck overdue cheque;
• noch nicht verrechnete Schecks uncleared effects (Br.);
• vordatierter Scheck antedated cheque, cheque dated ahead;
• vorgekommener Scheck presented cheque;
• zurückdatierter Scheck predated check (cheque, Br.);
• Scheck ohne Deckung flash cheque;
• Scheck mit angehefteter Quittung cheque with receipt form attached;
• Scheck mit Rechnungsvermerk check voucher;
• Scheck auf sich selbst cashier’s check;
• Scheck mit geprüfter Unterschrift initial(l)ed cheque;
• Scheck nur zur Verrechnung non-negotiable check, crossed cheque, clearinghouse check;
• am nächsten Tag eingelöste Schecks und Wechsel holdovers (US);
• gekreuzten Scheck in einen Barscheck abändern to open a crossing (Br.);
• Scheck vom Scheckheft abtrennen to tear a cheque out of the book;
• Scheck ausschreiben to write (make) out a cheque;
• Scheck ausstellen to draw a cheque;
• ungedeckte Schecks ausstellen to issue bad cheques;
• Scheck auf j. ausstellen to oblige s. o. with a cheque, to make out a cheque to s. o.;
• Scheck auf den Schatzmeister ausstellen to draw a cheque in favo(u)r of the treasurer;
• Scheck auf den Überbringer ausstellen to make a cheque payable to bearer;
• zum Rechnungsausgleich einen Scheck beifügen to enclose a cheque in settlement;
• ungedeckte Schecks benutzen to lay paper (sl.);
• Scheck bestätigen to mark a cheque, to certify a check;
• ungedeckten Scheck bestätigen to overcertify (US);
• mit Scheck bezahlen to remit (pay) by cheque;
• Scheck höher beziffern to raise a check;
• gefälschten Scheck in Verkehr bringen to pass a forged cheque;
• Scheck einlösen to cash a cheque, to hono(u)r a check;
• Scheck bei der Bank einlösen to pay a check into (get the check cashed at) the bank;
• Scheck nicht einlösen to dishono(u)r a cheque;
• Scheck einreichen to lodge a check;
• Scheck zum Einzug einreichen to pay in a cheque for collection;
• Scheck zur Gutschrift einreichen to deposit a cheque;
• Scheck entgegennehmen to accept a cheque;
• Scheck fälschen to forge (alter) a cheque;
• Scheck girieren to endorse a cheque;
• Scheck vor Einreichung gutschreiben to credit a cheque as cash before clearance;
• Scheck honorieren to pay a cheque;
• Scheck für j. kassieren to cash a cheque for s. o.;
• Scheck kreuzen to cross a cheque;
• sich einen Scheck vom Konto auszahlen lassen to draw a cheque upon an account;
• Scheck platzen lassen to bounce a check;
• Scheck sperren lassen to stop payment on a check, to place a stop on a cheque;
• Scheck zurückgehen lassen to dishono(u)r a cheque;
• Scheck durch Streichungen ungültig machen to obliterate the writing of a cheque;
• Scheck stornieren to cancel a check;
• Scheck einer Bank zum Einzug übergeben to lodge a cheque with a bank for collection;
• Scheck zum Ausgleich übersenden to send a cheque in settlement;
• Scheck verrechnen to clear a cheque;
• Scheck im Clearing verrechnen to pass a cheque through the clearinghouse;
• Scheck mit Verrechnungsvermerk versehen to cross a cheque;
• Scheck vor[aus]datieren to date a cheque ahead, to antedate (date forward) a cheque;
• Scheck zur Bestätigung vorlegen to present a cheque for certification;
• Scheck zur Einlösung vorlegen to cash (collect) a cheque, to present a cheque for payment;
• per Scheck zahlen to pay by cheque;
• Scheck auf ein Guthaben ziehen to issue a cheque against (draw a check upon) an account;
• Scheck an den Aussteller zurückgeben to refer a cheque to the drawer;
• Scheck zurückweisen to return (dishono(u)r) a check, to reject a cheque;
• schicken Sie uns bitte einen Scheck kindly remit by cheque;
• Scheckabrechnung cheque clearance (clearing);
• Scheckabrechnungssatz clearinghouse exchange rate (US);
• Scheckabrechnungsstelle clearinghouse;
• Scheckabschnitt counterfoil of a check, stub (US);
• Scheckanforderung request for a cheque;
• Scheckaußenstände outclearing (Br.);
• Scheckaussteller drawer (maker) of a cheque;
• Scheckausstellung making out (drawing, issuance, issue of) a cheque, cheque writing;
• Scheckbearbeitung cheque handling;
• Scheckbestand checks in hand;
• Scheckbestätigung (durch Bank) certifying of a check, marking of a cheque, certification of a check, advice of fate;
• Scheckbetrag fälschen to kite (raise) a check;
• Scheckbetrug cheque fraud, issuing bad checks;
• Scheckbetrug begehen to issue bad checks;
• Scheckbetrüger cheque trickster;
• Scheckbetrügereien cheque cheats;
• Scheckbuch cheque-book (Br.), checkbook (US);
• Scheckbuch anfordern to make application for a checkbook (US);
• sein Scheckbuch zücken to pull out one’s cheque-book (Br.);
• Scheckbündel package of cheques;
• vereinfachter Scheckdienst personal cheque service;
• Scheckduplikat duplicate cheque;
• Scheckeinlagen demand deposits subject to check;
• Scheckeinlösung cashing of a check, check cashing;
• Scheckeinlösung im Lastschriftinkassoverfahren payment of a cheque under advice;
• Scheckeinreichung lodging of a cheque;
• Scheckeinreichungsformular credit slip for cheques;
• Scheckeinziehung collection of cheques, cheque collection;
• belegloser Scheckeinzug (BSE) paperless cheque collection procedure;
• Großbetrag-Scheckeinzugsverfahren (GSE) large-value cheque collection procedure;
• Scheckempfänger payee of a cheque;
• Scheckfälscher cheque forger, fake-check customer;
• Scheckfälschung fraudulent alteration of cheques, forgery on cheques, cheque alteration (forgery);
• Scheckformular blank cheque, cheque form;
• kombiniertes Scheck- und Quittungsformular combined cheque and receipt form;
• Scheckgesetz Cheques Act (Br.);
• Scheckguthaben demand deposit, current (Br.) (drawing, US) account;
• Scheckhandelssatz clearinghouse exchange rate, cash rate (Br.);
• Scheckinhaber endorsee (bearer, holder) of a check;
• Scheckinkasso collection of cheques, cheque collection (cashing);
• am vereinbarten Scheck- und Lastschrifteninkasso teilnehmen to claim the protection of the Cheques Act (Br.);
• Scheckinkassospesen check-collection charges;
• Scheckkarte banker’s (cheque) card;
• Scheckkarteninhaber holder of a cheque card, cheque-card holder (US);
• Scheckkonto cheque account (Br.), drawing (checking, US) account;
• gebührenpflichtiges Scheckkonto special checking account (US);
• Scheckkontoinhaber cheque account depositor;
• Scheckkontrollabteilung certification department (US);
• besondere Scheckkreuzung special crossing;
• Scheckkreuzung rückgängig machen to open a crossing (Br.);
• Scheckkurs cash rate (Br.), clearinghouse exchange rate (US), cheque rate;
• Scheckliste cheque register;
• Scheckmerkmale data of a cheque;
• Schecknummer number of a cheque, cheque number;
• fälschungssicheres Scheckpapier sensitized cheque (Br.) (check, US) paper;
• Scheckrechnung cheque account;
• Scheck schutz, Schecksicherung protection for cheques, cheque protection [device];
• Schecksperre stopping [payment of] a cheque, stop[-payment] order;
• Scheck stempel, Schecksteuer duty on checks, check stamp, stamp duty on cheques;
• Scheckstornierung countermand of payment of a cheque;
• Schecksystem check system;
• Scheckumlauf cheques in circulation;
• Scheckunterschrift signature on cheques;
• Scheck- und Wechselverkäufe cheque and bill transactions;
• Scheckverkehr cheque transactions, clearinghouse business;
• Scheck- und Wechselverkehr cheque and bill transactions;
• Scheckverrechnung clearing of cheques, cheque clearing;
• regionale Scheckverrechnungsstelle regional clearinghouse;
• Scheckverrechnungssystem clearinghouse system;
• Scheckversicherung check alteration and forgery insurance;
• Scheckverzeichnis cheque register;
• Scheckvordruck cheque form, blank cheque;
• Scheckzahlung payment by cheque;
• Scheckzahlung anbieten to offer a cheque in payment;
• Scheckzahlungsavis cheque remittance feature;
• Scheckziffern in betrügerischer Absicht erhöhen to raise a check;
• Scheckzurückweisung wegen nicht ausreichenden Guthabens returning a cheque for lack of funds.
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