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  • 81 desde

    prep.
    1 since (time).
    no lo veo desde el mes pasado/desde ayer I haven't seen him since last month/yesterday
    desde ahora from now on
    desde el principio from the beginning
    desde hace mucho/un mes for ages/a month
    desde… hasta… from… until…
    desde el lunes hasta el viernes from Monday till Friday
    desde entonces since then
    desde que since
    desde que murió mi madre since my mother died
    2 from (espacio).
    desde arriba/fuera from above/the outside
    desde… hasta… from… to…
    desde aquí hasta el centro from here to the center
    Está listo desde ese día It is ready from that day.
    3 from.
    desde 100.000 pesos from 100,000 pesos
    * * *
    1 (tiempo) since
    ■ ¿desde cuándo? since when?
    ■ desde entonces since then, from then on
    2 (lugar) from
    \
    desde ahora from now on
    desde hace mucho tiempo for a long time
    desde... hasta from... to
    desde luego (en realidad) really 2 (como respuesta) of course, certainly
    desde que since
    * * *
    prep.
    2) from
    •
    - desde entonces
    - desde luego
    * * *
    PREP
    1) [indicando origen] from

    • desde abajo — from below

    • desde arriba — from above

    • desde lejos — from a long way off, from afar liter

    2) [con cantidades, categorías] from
    3) [en el tiempo]

    desde el martes — (=el pasado) since Tuesday; (=el próximo) after Tuesday

    • desde ahora — from now on

    • ¿desde cuándo vives aquí? — how long have you been living here?

    ¿desde cuándo ocurre esto? — how long has this been happening?

    • desde entonces — since then

    • desde hace tres años — for three years

    • desde el 4 hasta el 16 — from the 4th until o to the 16th

    • desde niño — since childhood, since I was a child

    • desde siempre — always

    -¿desde cuándo eres comunista? -desde siempre — "since when have you been a communist?" - "I've always been one"

    4)

    • desde luego —

    a) (=por supuesto) of course

    -¿vendrás? -desde luego — "are you coming?" - "of course (I am)"

    eso, desde luego, no es culpa mía — that, of course, is not my fault

    -¿quieres venir con nosotros? -desde luego que sí — "do you want to come with us?" - "of course I do"

    -¿no sabes nada de eso? -desde luego que no — "you don't know anything about it?" - "of course not"

    no era muy morena pero rubia desde luego que no — she wasn't really dark-haired, but she certainly wasn't blonde

    b) [como coletilla]

    desde luego, vaya fama estamos cogiendo — we're certainly getting quite a reputation

    desde luego, ¿quién lo iba a pensar? — I ask you, who would have thought it?, well, who would have thought it?

    ¡mira que olvidarte de llamar! ¡desde luego que eres despistado! — how could you forget to phone? you're so absent-minded!

    5)

    • desde que — since

    desde que puedo recordar — ever since I can remember, as long as I can remember

    DESDE Expresiones temporales En expresiones temporales, desde puede traducirse por since, from o, en combinación con hace/ hacía, por for. ► Desde ( que ) se traduce por since siempre que se especifique a partir de cuándo comenzó una acción o un estado que sigue desarrollándose en el presente o en el momento en que se habla: Llevo aquí de vacaciones desde el viernes I have been here on holiday since Friday No come mejillones desde que sufrió aquella intoxicación alimenticia He hasn't eaten mussels since he had that bout of food poisoning Dijo que no la había visto desde la guerra He said he hadn't seen her since the war NOTA: Hay que tener en cuenta que en casos como estos cuando se trata de algo que comienza en el pasado y sigue en el presente, el inglés hace uso del {pretérito perfecto} (en sus formas simple o progresiva). ► Traducimos desde por from cuando desde simplemente indica el momento en el que empezó la acción cuando la oración indica el final de la acción o se implica, de algún modo, que esta ya ha terminado: Y desde aquel día el rey no volvió a hablar del asunto And from that day on(wards), the king never spoke about the subject again ► La construcción desde ... hasta se traduce por from ... until o por from ... to: Trabajamos desde las nueve de la mañana hasta las cinco de la tarde We work from nine in the morning until o to five in the afternoon Tendrás que pagar el alquiler desde julio hasta octubre You will have to pay rent from July until o to October ► Desde hace y desde hacía se traducen por for ya que van seguidos de una cantidad de tiempo: Estoy esperando desde hace más de una hora I have been waiting for over an hour No se había sentido tan feliz desde hacía años He hadn't felt so happy for years ► En oraciones interrogativas, desde cuándo se traduce por how long. En este tipo de preguntas, el inglés utiliza el pretérito perfecto para referirse a algo que empezó en el pasado y continúa en el presente: ¿Desde cuándo os conocéis? How long have you known each other? Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1) ( en el tiempo) since

    desde entonces/desde que se casó — since then/since he got married

    ¿desde cuándo te gustan los mejillones? - desde siempre! — since when have you liked mussels? - I've always liked them!

    ¿desde cuándo trabajas aquí? — how long have you been working here?

    desde niño — since he/I was a child

    desde el primer momento or un principio — right from the start

    2) ( en el espacio) from

    desde aquí/allá — from here/there

    ¿desde dónde tengo que leer? — where do I have to read from?

    3) (en escalas, jerarquías) from
    * * *
    = from, from as far back as + Expresión Temporal.
    Ex. From the analysis of some 5760 questions, Wilkinson and Miller developed a 'step approach' to differentiate reference questions according to how many judgmental steps were required to answer them.
    Ex. In all types of libraries in Lesotho, shortage of, and the need for trained librarians has been felt from as far back as the mid-1970s.
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    * desde allí = thence.
    * desde antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde aquel entonces = thenceforth.
    * desde aquel momento = ever after.
    * desde cero = from the ground up.
    * desde cualquier punto de vista = by any standard(s).
    * desde dentro = from within, from the inside, from the inside-out, inside-out.
    * desde dentro hacia fuera = from the inside-out.
    * desde dentro y desde fuera de = within and without.
    * desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer = from sunrise to sunset, from sun up to sun down, from sun up to sun down, from sun to sun.
    * desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer = from dawn (to/till/until) dusk.
    * desde el comienzo = from the outset, from the start, from the beginning, ab initio, from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el comienzo de los tiempos = since the beginning of time, from the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde el primer día = from day one.
    * desde el primer momento = from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el principio = from the start, all along, ab initio, from the outset, from the beginning, from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el principio de los tiempos = since the beginning of time, from the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde el punto de vista de = in terms of, from the vantage of.
    * desde el punto de vista de la conservación = aesthetically [esthetically, -USA], medically, medically, musically, preservationally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la archivística = archivally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la calidad = on quality grounds.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cinética = kinetically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la competitividad = competitively.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cultura = culturally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la funcionalidad = functionally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la logística = logistically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la mitosis = mitotically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la notación = notationally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la nutrición = nutritionally speaking, nutritionally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la química = chemically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la realidad = factually.
    * desde el punto de vista de las matemáticas = mathematically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la tonalidad = tonally.
    * desde el punto de vista del contexto = contextually.
    * desde el punto de vista del estilo = stylistically.
    * desde el punto de vista del funcionamiento = operationally.
    * desde el punto de vista del medio ambiente = environmentally.
    * desde el punto de vista del + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.
    * desde el punto de vista de los hechos = factually.
    * desde el punto de vista del trabajador = in the trenches.
    * desde el punto de vista del uso = in terms of use.
    * desde el punto de vista de + Nombre = as far as + Nombre + be + concerned.
    * desde el punto de vista económico = fiscally.
    * desde el punto de vista lingüístico = linguistically.
    * desde el punto de vista político = politically.
    * desde el punto de vista profesional = career-wise [careerwise].
    * desde entonces = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, ever since then, ever since then, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day.
    * desde entonces hasta la actualidad = from then to the present day.
    * desde ese día = since that day.
    * desde ese momento = from that point, ever after.
    * desde esta misma perspectiva = along the same lines.
    * desde este punto de vista = viewed in this light.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal = since + Expresión Temporal, ever since + Expresión Temporal.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta el presente = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta hoy día = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present day.
    * desde + Fecha + hasta ahora = from + Fecha + to the present.
    * desde + Fecha/Lugar + en adelante = from + Fecha/Lugar + onward(s).
    * desde fuera = from the outside.
    * desde hace algún tiempo = for some time past, for days.
    * desde hace años = over the years, for years past, for years.
    * desde hace la tira (de tiempo) = for yonks, for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace muchísimo tiempo = in ages (and ages and ages).
    * desde hace muchos años = for years.
    * desde hace mucho tiempo = for ages, long-time [longtime], far back in time, for a long time, long since, in ages (and ages and ages).
    * desde hace siglos = for yonks, for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace tanto tiempo = so long.
    * desde hace tiempo = long [longer -comp., longest -sup.], over the years, for a long time, long since, for some time.
    * desde hace un montonazo de tiempo = for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace un montón de tiempo = for yonks.
    * desde hace un par de + Tiempo = in these past couple of + Tiempo.
    * desde hace varios años + Presente = for several years + Pretérito Perfecto.
    * desde hace ya algún tiempo = for some time now.
    * desde hace ya años = for years now.
    * desde... hasta... = from... through..., during the period + Período de Tiempo, from... right across....
    * desde hoy en adelante = as from today.
    * desde la antigüedad = since ancient times.
    * desde la cabeza hasta los pies = head to toe, from head to toe, from head to foot.
    * desde la época de/cuando = since the days of/when.
    * desde la época prehistórica = since prehistoric times.
    * desde la mañana a la noche = from morning to night.
    * desde la perspectiva de = in light of.
    * desde la prehistoria = since prehistoric times.
    * desde lejos = from a distance, from afar.
    * desde los comienzos = from an early stage.
    * desde los primeros tiempos = since the earliest of times, from earliest times.
    * desde los viejos tiempos = since olden times.
    * desde mi punto de vista = in my opinion, in my view, in my books.
    * desde mitad de + Expresión Temporal + en adelante = from the mid + Expresión Temporal + onwards.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * desde muy lejos = from afar.
    * desde..., pasando por..., hasta... = from..., through..., to....
    * desde + perspectiva = against + backdrop.
    * desde principio a fin = throughout.
    * desde principios de siglo = since the turn of the century, from the turn of the century.
    * desde + punto de vista = against + backdrop.
    * desde que el mundo es mundo = from the beginning of time, since the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde su época = since + Posesivo + day.
    * desde su origen = from + its/their + inception, since + its/their + inception.
    * desde sus comienzos = from + its/their + inception, from + its/their + beginnings, since + its/their + beginnings, since + its/their + inception.
    * desde tiempo inmemorial = since earliest time, since time immemorial, from time immemorial, since time out of mind, from time out of mind.
    * desde tiempos prehistóricos = since prehistoric times.
    * desde todos los puntos de vista = in every sense.
    * desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = along + Adjetivo + line.
    * desde un extremo... al otro = from one end... to the other.
    * desde un punto de vista académico = academically.
    * desde un punto de vista antropológico = anthropologically.
    * desde un punto de vista clínico = medically, medically.
    * desde un punto de vista clínico = clinically.
    * desde un punto de vista cognitivo = cognitively.
    * desde un punto de vista crítico = judgmentally [judgementally], with a critical eye, critically.
    * desde un punto de vista cultural = culturally.
    * desde un punto de vista ecológico = ecologically.
    * desde un punto de vista económico = economically, monetarily.
    * desde un punto de vista estético = aesthetically [esthetically, -USA].
    * desde un punto de vista estrictamente técnico = technically speaking.
    * desde un punto de vista étnico = ethnically.
    * desde un punto de vista filosófico = philosophically.
    * desde un punto de vista general = in a broad sense.
    * desde un punto de vista histórico = historically.
    * desde un punto de vista más amplio = in a broader sense.
    * desde un punto de vista más general = in a broader sense.
    * desde un punto de vista médico = medically, medically.
    * desde un punto de vista medioambiental = environmentally.
    * desde un punto de vista monetario = monetarily.
    * desde un punto de vista morfológico = morphologically.
    * desde un punto de vista operativo = operationally.
    * desde un punto de vista racista = racially + Adjetivo.
    * desde un punto de vista religioso = religiously.
    * desde un punto de vista socioeconómico = socioeconomically.
    * desde un punto de vista técnico = technically.
    * desde un punto vista ético = ethically.
    * existir desde hace años = be around for years.
    * nada más y nada menos que desde + Expresión Temporal = from as far back as + Expresión Temporal.
    * olvidado desde hace tiempo = long forgotten.
    * * *
    1) ( en el tiempo) since

    desde entonces/desde que se casó — since then/since he got married

    ¿desde cuándo te gustan los mejillones? - desde siempre! — since when have you liked mussels? - I've always liked them!

    ¿desde cuándo trabajas aquí? — how long have you been working here?

    desde niño — since he/I was a child

    desde el primer momento or un principio — right from the start

    2) ( en el espacio) from

    desde aquí/allá — from here/there

    ¿desde dónde tengo que leer? — where do I have to read from?

    3) (en escalas, jerarquías) from
    * * *
    = from, from as far back as + Expresión Temporal.

    Ex: From the analysis of some 5760 questions, Wilkinson and Miller developed a 'step approach' to differentiate reference questions according to how many judgmental steps were required to answer them.

    Ex: In all types of libraries in Lesotho, shortage of, and the need for trained librarians has been felt from as far back as the mid-1970s.
    * desde allí = thence.
    * desde antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde aquel entonces = thenceforth.
    * desde aquel momento = ever after.
    * desde cero = from the ground up.
    * desde cualquier punto de vista = by any standard(s).
    * desde dentro = from within, from the inside, from the inside-out, inside-out.
    * desde dentro hacia fuera = from the inside-out.
    * desde dentro y desde fuera de = within and without.
    * desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer = from sunrise to sunset, from sun up to sun down, from sun up to sun down, from sun to sun.
    * desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer = from dawn (to/till/until) dusk.
    * desde el comienzo = from the outset, from the start, from the beginning, ab initio, from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el comienzo de los tiempos = since the beginning of time, from the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde el primer día = from day one.
    * desde el primer momento = from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el principio = from the start, all along, ab initio, from the outset, from the beginning, from the word go, from the word get-go.
    * desde el principio de los tiempos = since the beginning of time, from the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde el punto de vista de = in terms of, from the vantage of.
    * desde el punto de vista de la conservación = aesthetically [esthetically, -USA], medically, medically, musically, preservationally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la archivística = archivally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la calidad = on quality grounds.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cinética = kinetically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la competitividad = competitively.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cultura = culturally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la funcionalidad = functionally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la logística = logistically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la mitosis = mitotically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la notación = notationally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la nutrición = nutritionally speaking, nutritionally.
    * desde el punto de vista de la química = chemically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la realidad = factually.
    * desde el punto de vista de las matemáticas = mathematically.
    * desde el punto de vista de la tonalidad = tonally.
    * desde el punto de vista del contexto = contextually.
    * desde el punto de vista del estilo = stylistically.
    * desde el punto de vista del funcionamiento = operationally.
    * desde el punto de vista del medio ambiente = environmentally.
    * desde el punto de vista del + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.
    * desde el punto de vista de los hechos = factually.
    * desde el punto de vista del trabajador = in the trenches.
    * desde el punto de vista del uso = in terms of use.
    * desde el punto de vista de + Nombre = as far as + Nombre + be + concerned.
    * desde el punto de vista económico = fiscally.
    * desde el punto de vista lingüístico = linguistically.
    * desde el punto de vista político = politically.
    * desde el punto de vista profesional = career-wise [careerwise].
    * desde entonces = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, ever since then, ever since then, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day.
    * desde entonces hasta la actualidad = from then to the present day.
    * desde ese día = since that day.
    * desde ese momento = from that point, ever after.
    * desde esta misma perspectiva = along the same lines.
    * desde este punto de vista = viewed in this light.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal = since + Expresión Temporal, ever since + Expresión Temporal.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta el presente = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present.
    * desde + Expresión Temporal + hasta hoy día = from + Expresión Temporal + up to the present day.
    * desde + Fecha + hasta ahora = from + Fecha + to the present.
    * desde + Fecha/Lugar + en adelante = from + Fecha/Lugar + onward(s).
    * desde fuera = from the outside.
    * desde hace algún tiempo = for some time past, for days.
    * desde hace años = over the years, for years past, for years.
    * desde hace la tira (de tiempo) = for yonks, for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace muchísimo tiempo = in ages (and ages and ages).
    * desde hace muchos años = for years.
    * desde hace mucho tiempo = for ages, long-time [longtime], far back in time, for a long time, long since, in ages (and ages and ages).
    * desde hace siglos = for yonks, for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace tanto tiempo = so long.
    * desde hace tiempo = long [longer -comp., longest -sup.], over the years, for a long time, long since, for some time.
    * desde hace un montonazo de tiempo = for yonks and yonks.
    * desde hace un montón de tiempo = for yonks.
    * desde hace un par de + Tiempo = in these past couple of + Tiempo.
    * desde hace varios años + Presente = for several years + Pretérito Perfecto.
    * desde hace ya algún tiempo = for some time now.
    * desde hace ya años = for years now.
    * desde... hasta... = from... through..., during the period + Período de Tiempo, from... right across....
    * desde hoy en adelante = as from today.
    * desde la antigüedad = since ancient times.
    * desde la cabeza hasta los pies = head to toe, from head to toe, from head to foot.
    * desde la época de/cuando = since the days of/when.
    * desde la época prehistórica = since prehistoric times.
    * desde la mañana a la noche = from morning to night.
    * desde la perspectiva de = in light of.
    * desde la prehistoria = since prehistoric times.
    * desde lejos = from a distance, from afar.
    * desde los comienzos = from an early stage.
    * desde los primeros tiempos = since the earliest of times, from earliest times.
    * desde los viejos tiempos = since olden times.
    * desde mi punto de vista = in my opinion, in my view, in my books.
    * desde mitad de + Expresión Temporal + en adelante = from the mid + Expresión Temporal + onwards.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * desde muy lejos = from afar.
    * desde..., pasando por..., hasta... = from..., through..., to....
    * desde + perspectiva = against + backdrop.
    * desde principio a fin = throughout.
    * desde principios de siglo = since the turn of the century, from the turn of the century.
    * desde + punto de vista = against + backdrop.
    * desde que el mundo es mundo = from the beginning of time, since the beginning of time, since time began.
    * desde su época = since + Posesivo + day.
    * desde su origen = from + its/their + inception, since + its/their + inception.
    * desde sus comienzos = from + its/their + inception, from + its/their + beginnings, since + its/their + beginnings, since + its/their + inception.
    * desde tiempo inmemorial = since earliest time, since time immemorial, from time immemorial, since time out of mind, from time out of mind.
    * desde tiempos prehistóricos = since prehistoric times.
    * desde todos los puntos de vista = in every sense.
    * desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = along + Adjetivo + line.
    * desde un extremo... al otro = from one end... to the other.
    * desde un punto de vista académico = academically.
    * desde un punto de vista antropológico = anthropologically.
    * desde un punto de vista clínico = medically, medically.
    * desde un punto de vista clínico = clinically.
    * desde un punto de vista cognitivo = cognitively.
    * desde un punto de vista crítico = judgmentally [judgementally], with a critical eye, critically.
    * desde un punto de vista cultural = culturally.
    * desde un punto de vista ecológico = ecologically.
    * desde un punto de vista económico = economically, monetarily.
    * desde un punto de vista estético = aesthetically [esthetically, -USA].
    * desde un punto de vista estrictamente técnico = technically speaking.
    * desde un punto de vista étnico = ethnically.
    * desde un punto de vista filosófico = philosophically.
    * desde un punto de vista general = in a broad sense.
    * desde un punto de vista histórico = historically.
    * desde un punto de vista más amplio = in a broader sense.
    * desde un punto de vista más general = in a broader sense.
    * desde un punto de vista médico = medically, medically.
    * desde un punto de vista medioambiental = environmentally.
    * desde un punto de vista monetario = monetarily.
    * desde un punto de vista morfológico = morphologically.
    * desde un punto de vista operativo = operationally.
    * desde un punto de vista racista = racially + Adjetivo.
    * desde un punto de vista religioso = religiously.
    * desde un punto de vista socioeconómico = socioeconomically.
    * desde un punto de vista técnico = technically.
    * desde un punto vista ético = ethically.
    * existir desde hace años = be around for years.
    * nada más y nada menos que desde + Expresión Temporal = from as far back as + Expresión Temporal.
    * olvidado desde hace tiempo = long forgotten.

    * * *
    desde entonces/desde que se casó no lo he vuelto a ver I haven't seen him again since then/since he got married
    estamos aquí desde el mes pasado we've been here since last month
    ¿desde cuándo trabajas aquí? how long have you been working here?
    ¿desde cuándo te gustan los mejillones? — ¡desde siempre! since when have you liked mussels? — I've always liked them!
    ¿desde cuándo hay que hacerlo así? — desde ahora when do we have to start doing it that way? — as from now
    desde niño había sido muy ambicioso he had been very ambitious ever since he was a child
    desde el primer momento or un principio right from the start o the outset
    no los veo desde hace meses I haven't seen them for months
    estaba enfermo desde hacía un año he had been ill for a year
    desde que + SUBJ
    ( liter): desde que llegara a ese país since the day that she arrived in that country
    desde que aprendiera a escribir since the time I learned to write
    DESDE … HASTA:
    estará abierto desde el 15 hasta el 30 it will be open from the 15th to o till o until the 30th
    desde que llegó hasta que se fue from the time she arrived to the time she left
    desde ya ya1 adv C. (↑ ya (1))
    les mandé una postal desde Dublín I sent them a postcard from Dublin
    lo vi desde la ventana I saw him from the window
    ¿desde dónde tengo que leer? where do I have to read from?
    desde mi punto de vista from my point of view
    nosotros, desde aquí, intentaremos hacer lo que podamos we'll do what we can here o from this end o from our end
    DESDE … HASTA … FROM … TO …
    desde la página 12 hasta la 20 from page 12 to o as far as o up to page 20
    C (en escalas, jerarquías) from
    blusas desde 12 euros blouses from 12 euros
    DESDE … HASTA … FROM … TO …
    todos, desde los trabajadores hasta los empresarios, … everyone, from the workers (up) to the management, …
    desde el director hasta el último empleado de la compañía from the director (down) to the lowest employee in the company
    temas que van desde la reforma penal hasta la crisis económica subjects ranging from penal reform to the economic crisis
    D
    desde luego luego1 adv E. (↑ luego (1))
    * * *

     

    desde preposición
    1 ( en el tiempo) since;
    ◊ desde entonces/desde que se casó since then/since he got married;

    ¿desde cuándo trabajas aquí? how long have you been working here?;
    desde el primer momento right from the start;
    no los veo desde hace meses I haven't seen them for months;
    desde el 15 hasta el 30 from the 15th to o until the 30th
    2 ( en el espacio) from;
    ◊ desde aquí/allá from here/there;

    ¿desde dónde tengo que leer? where do I have to read from?;
    desde la página 12 hasta la 20 from page 12 (up) to page 20
    3 (en escalas, jerarquías) from;

    desde
    I preposición
    1 (punto en que comienza a contarse el tiempo) since: estuvo allí desde el jueves hasta el lunes, she was there from Thursday until Monday
    no he hablado con él desde hace meses, I haven't talked to him for months
    ¿desde cuándo lo sabes?, how long have you known?
    desde que María me lo dijo, ever since Maria told me
    desde ayer, since yesterday
    desde esta mañana, from this morning on
    2 (punto en que comienza a contarse una distancia o se señala una perspectiva) from
    desde aquí, from here
    desde la ventana, from the window
    figurado habla desde la ignorancia, he speaks out from ignorance
    ♦ Locuciones: desde luego, of course
    desde siempre, always
    ' desde' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abandonarse
    - arriba
    - borrasca
    - caer
    - cuándo
    - desarrollar
    - doblarse
    - donde
    - ermitaña
    - ermitaño
    - españolizar
    - ir
    - gritar
    - judoka
    - lloro
    - llover
    - lozana
    - lozano
    - luego
    - mendicidad
    - mustia
    - mustio
    - nos
    - residir
    - risa
    - robar
    - rondar
    - siempre
    - tarde
    - ver
    - vivir
    - yudoka
    - abajo
    - antiguo
    - arrastrar
    - bombardear
    - bombardeo
    - descender
    - descenso
    - dominar
    - exterior
    - mejor
    - memoria
    - mirar
    - pie
    - razón
    - retroactivo
    - saber
    - ser
    - simpatizar
    English:
    absolutely
    - all
    - approach
    - arouse
    - back up
    - beginning
    - blow
    - burning
    - can
    - carry
    - certainly
    - conception
    - ease off
    - ease up
    - educationally
    - elapse
    - explode
    - first
    - for
    - from
    - go
    - gorgeous
    - grandstand
    - hear of
    - hence
    - inherent
    - jump down
    - kerb-crawl
    - kerb-crawling
    - know
    - listen
    - look down
    - lost
    - mainland
    - off
    - ought
    - outset
    - outside
    - pass down
    - perspective
    - range
    - respect
    - scene
    - see
    - since
    - spectacular
    - splendid
    - standing
    - talk down
    - then
    * * *
    ♦ prep
    1. [indica tiempo] since;
    no lo veo desde el mes pasado/desde ayer I haven't seen him since last month/since yesterday;
    desde aquel día, nada volvió a ser igual from that day on, things were never the same again;
    desde ahora from now on;
    ¿desde cuándo? since when?;
    ¿desde cuándo se conocen? how long o since when have you known each other?;
    ¿desde cuándo no hay que llamar para entrar? since when has it been all right to come in without knocking?;
    desde entonces since then;
    no la veo desde hace un año I haven't seen her for a year, it's a year since I last saw her;
    desde hace dos días no come she hasn't eaten for two days;
    ¿desde cuánto hace que no come? how long has she not been eating?;
    desde hace mucho/un mes for ages/a month;
    trabaja para ellos desde hace poco she recently started working for them;
    te espero desde hace más de una hora I've been waiting for you for more than an hour;
    Fam
    ¡desde hace que no la veo! [en tono enfático] I haven't seen her for AGES!;
    desde… hasta… from… until…;
    desde el lunes hasta el viernes from Monday Br till o US through Friday;
    desde el 1 hasta el 15 de septiembre from 1 to 15 September;
    desde niño o [m5] desde pequeño me enseñaron a dar las gracias I was brought up to say thank you to people from an early age;
    desde el principio supe que no iba a salir bien I knew from the very beginning o from the word go it wasn't going to turn out well;
    desde que since;
    desde que la vi en el teatro, no he vuelto a saber nada de ella I haven't heard from her since (the day) I saw her at the theatre;
    desde que murió mi madre since my mother died;
    desde ya [inmediatamente] right now;
    ponte a ordenar esta habitación desde ya start tidying this room this instant
    2. [indica espacio] from;
    desde mi ventana se ve el puerto you can see the harbour from my window;
    vinieron a vernos desde Santiago they came from Santiago to visit us;
    ¿desde dónde nos disparan? where are they shooting at us from?;
    desde arriba/abajo from above/below;
    visto desde arriba, parece más grande seen from above, it looks bigger;
    se ve desde lejos it can be seen from a long way away;
    desde… hasta… from… to…;
    desde aquí hasta el centro from here to the centre;
    desde un punto de vista jurídico… from a legal point of view…;
    afrontemos el proceso de paz desde la democracia y el respeto let us enter the peace process in a spirit of democracy and respect
    3. [indica cantidad mínima] from;
    desde 10.000 euros from 10,000 euros
    4. [indica lo que se abarca]
    desde… hasta… from… to…;
    se encargan de todo, desde el viaje hasta el alojamiento they take care of everything, from the travel arrangements to the accommodation;
    sabe hacer de todo, desde cambiar un fusible hasta arreglar una moto she can do all sorts of things, from changing a fuse to repairing a motorbike
    ♦ desde luego loc adv
    1. [por supuesto]
    ¡desde luego (que sí)! of course!;
    ¡desde luego que me gusta! of course I like it!;
    ¡desde luego que no os ayudaré! no way am I going to help you!, I'm certainly not going to help you!
    2. [en tono de reproche]
    ¡desde luego! for goodness' sake!;
    ¡desde luego! ¡no te creía capaz de una cosa así! I certainly didn't think you were capable of something like this!;
    ¡desde luego, tienes cada idea! you really come out with some funny ideas!
    * * *
    prp
    1 en el tiempo since;
    desde 1993 since 1993;
    desde que since;
    desde hace tres días for three days;
    desde hace mucho/poco for a long/short time;
    desde mañana from tomorrow;
    desde ya Rpl right away
    2 en el espacio from;
    desde arriba/abajo from above/below;
    te veo desde aquí I can see you from here
    3 en escala from;
    desde … hasta … from … to …
    4
    :
    desde luego of course
    * * *
    desde prep
    1) : from
    2) : since
    3)
    desde ahora : from now on
    4)
    desde entonces : since then
    5)
    desde hace : for, since (a time)
    ha estado nevando desde hace dos días: it's been snowing for two days
    6)
    desde luego : of course
    7)
    desde que : since, ever since
    8)
    desde ya : right now, immediately
    * * *
    desde prep
    1. (lugar, cantidad) from
    desde... hasta from... to
    desde entonces since then / from then on
    ¿desde cuándo? how long?
    ¿desde cuándo pasas las vacaciones aquí? how long have you been coming here on holiday?

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  • 82 acto

    m.
    1 act.
    no es responsable de sus actos he's not responsible for his actions
    hacer acto de presencia to show one's face
    acto de fe act of faith
    acto reflejo reflex action
    acto sexual sexual act
    2 ceremony (ceremonia).
    actos culturales cultural events
    acto electoral election rally
    3 act (Teatro).
    * * *
    1 act, action
    2 (ceremonia) ceremony, meeting, public function
    3 TEATRO act
    4 RELIGIÓN Act
    \
    acto seguido immediately afterwards
    en el acto at once
    acto de fe act of faith
    acto reflejo reflex action
    acto sexual sexual intercourse
    Actos de los Apóstoles Acts of the Apostles
    * * *
    noun m.
    act, deed
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=acción) act, action

    el acto de escribir es un tipo de terapia — the act o action of writing is a kind of therapy

    hacer acto de presencia — (=asistir) to attend, be present; (=aparecer) to appear; (=dejarse ver brevemente) put in an appearance

    el acto sexual — the sexual o sex act

    2) (=ceremonia)
    3) (Teat) act
    4)

    en el acto — (=inmediatamente) there and then

    5)

    acto seguido, acto continuo — frm immediately after(wards)

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( acción) act

    en el acto: murió en el acto he died instantly; lo despidieron en el acto he was fired on the spot; acudieron en el acto they arrived immediately; fotocopias en el acto — photocopies while you wait

    2) ( ceremonia)

    los actos conmemorativos de... — the celebrations to commemorate...

    3) (Teatr) act
    * * *
    = act, event, deed.
    Ex. The sheer act of preservation renders the material permanent rather than transitory.
    Ex. The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.
    Ex. Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
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    * acto barbárico = barbaric act.
    * acto comunicativo = communication act.
    * acto de cobardía = act of cowardice.
    * acto de evitar = avoidance.
    * acto de fé = act of faith.
    * acto delictivo = delinquent act, criminal act.
    * acto de piratería = piracy.
    * acto de publicar = publication.
    * acto de rebeldía = act of opposition.
    * acto de traición = treasonable, treasonable, act of treachery, act of treason.
    * acto espontáneo de = random act of.
    * acto extraño = weirdness.
    * acto ilícito = wrongful act.
    * acto irracional = irrational act.
    * acto oficial = official act, public engagement.
    * acto racional = rational act.
    * acto raro = weirdness.
    * acto reflejo = knee-jerk reaction.
    * acto relacionado con el libro = book event.
    * acto seguido = thereupon [thereon].
    * acto sexual = sexual act.
    * actos heróicos = heroics.
    * acto social = networking event.
    * acto terrorista = act of terror.
    * cometer un acto de traición = commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un acto violento = commit + violence.
    * en el acto = ipso facto, outright, on the spot, while-you-wait [while-u-wait], at the drop of a hat.
    * fusilar en el acto = shoot on + sight.
    * organizar un acto = hold + event.
    * organizar un acto público = organise + function.
    * presidir un acto = preside over + act.
    * realizar un acto = commit + act.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( acción) act

    en el acto: murió en el acto he died instantly; lo despidieron en el acto he was fired on the spot; acudieron en el acto they arrived immediately; fotocopias en el acto — photocopies while you wait

    2) ( ceremonia)

    los actos conmemorativos de... — the celebrations to commemorate...

    3) (Teatr) act
    * * *
    = act, event, deed.

    Ex: The sheer act of preservation renders the material permanent rather than transitory.

    Ex: The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.
    Ex: Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
    * acto barbárico = barbaric act.
    * acto comunicativo = communication act.
    * acto de cobardía = act of cowardice.
    * acto de evitar = avoidance.
    * acto de fé = act of faith.
    * acto delictivo = delinquent act, criminal act.
    * acto de piratería = piracy.
    * acto de publicar = publication.
    * acto de rebeldía = act of opposition.
    * acto de traición = treasonable, treasonable, act of treachery, act of treason.
    * acto espontáneo de = random act of.
    * acto extraño = weirdness.
    * acto ilícito = wrongful act.
    * acto irracional = irrational act.
    * acto oficial = official act, public engagement.
    * acto racional = rational act.
    * acto raro = weirdness.
    * acto reflejo = knee-jerk reaction.
    * acto relacionado con el libro = book event.
    * acto seguido = thereupon [thereon].
    * acto sexual = sexual act.
    * actos heróicos = heroics.
    * acto social = networking event.
    * acto terrorista = act of terror.
    * cometer un acto de traición = commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un acto violento = commit + violence.
    * en el acto = ipso facto, outright, on the spot, while-you-wait [while-u-wait], at the drop of a hat.
    * fusilar en el acto = shoot on + sight.
    * organizar un acto = hold + event.
    * organizar un acto público = organise + function.
    * presidir un acto = preside over + act.
    * realizar un acto = commit + act.

    * * *
    A
    1 (acción) act
    2 ( en locs):
    acto seguido immediately after, immediately afterward(s)
    en el acto: murió en el acto he died instantly
    me cambiaron la rueda en el acto they changed my wheel there and then o then and there
    los bomberos acudieron en el acto the firefighters arrived immediately
    [ S ] llaves/fotocopias en el acto keys cut/photocopies while you wait
    Compuestos:
    act of war
    ( frml):
    el acto carnal the sexual act ( frml)
    act of contrition
    act of atonement
    act of faith
    act of war
    hacer acto de precencia to put in an appearance
    morir en acto de servicio «soldado» to die on active service;
    «policía/bombero» to die in the course of one's duty
    Freudian slip
    legally binding act
    public engagement
    religious service
    reflex action
    sexual act ( frml)
    durante el acto sexual during sexual intercourse o the sexual act
    B
    (ceremonia): acto inaugural/de clausura opening/closing ceremony
    los actos conmemorativos de … the celebrations to commemorate …
    asiste a todos los actos oficiales he attends all official functions
    C ( Teatr) act
    una comedia en tres actos a comedy in three acts
    * * *

     

    acto sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( acción) act;



    [policía/bombero] to die in the course of one's duty;

    b) ( en locs)


    en el acto ‹ morir› instantly;

    ‹ acudir› immediately;

    2

    b) (Teatr) act

    acto sustantivo masculino
    1 act, action: es un acto impropio de su carácter, the behaviour is out of character for him
    acto reflejo, reflex action
    acto sexual, sexual intercourse
    2 (evento público) ceremony: el acto de inauguración fue muy aburrido, the opening ceremony was really boring
    3 Teat act
    ♦ Locuciones: hacer acto de presencia, to put in an appearance
    acto seguido, immediately afterwards
    Mil en acto de servicio, in action
    en el acto, at once: vinieron en el acto, they came immediately
    "se reparan zapatos en el acto", "shoes repaired while you wait"
    ' acto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acción
    - alevosa
    - alevoso
    - amarre
    - coordinador
    - coordinadora
    - deplorable
    - desarrollo
    - deslucir
    - escena
    - fastos
    - impresión
    - presencia
    - responder
    - robar
    - seca
    - seco
    - sumisión
    - vandalismo
    - abrir
    - amor
    - asistir
    - atrocidad
    - barbaridad
    - cerrar
    - cívico
    - clausurar
    - comienzo
    - cultural
    - desarrollar
    - descortesía
    - disparatado
    - duración
    - emotivo
    - entierro
    - estupidez
    - extravagancia
    - gamberrada
    - hecho
    - homenaje
    - injusticia
    - introducir
    - lícito
    - ligereza
    - majadería
    - maldad
    - necedad
    - obra
    - patrocinador
    - patrocinar
    English:
    act
    - afterwards
    - appearance
    - benefit
    - deed
    - do
    - formal
    - function
    - ill-considered
    - impure
    - impurity
    - mindless
    - mount
    - on
    - opening
    - outright
    - presence
    - proceedings
    - reception
    - restoration
    - roll call
    - sober
    - spot
    - state
    - stay away
    - then
    - action
    - defiance
    - intercourse
    - most
    - there
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [acción] act;
    no es responsable de sus actos she's not responsible for her actions;
    lo acusaron de cometer actos terroristas he was charged with committing acts of terrorism;
    lo cazaron en el acto de huir con el dinero they caught him just as he was making off with the money
    acto de conciliación = formal attempt to reach an out-of-court settlement;
    acto de fe act of faith;
    Ling acto de habla speech act; Ling acto ilocutivo illocution, illocutionary act; Ling acto perlocutivo perlocution, perlocutionary act;
    acto de presencia: [m5] hacer acto de presencia to attend;
    acto reflejo reflex action;
    acto de servicio: [m5] murió en acto de servicio [militar] he died on active service;
    [policía] he was killed in the course of his duty;
    acto sexual sexual act;
    acto de solidaridad show of solidarity
    2. [ceremonia] ceremony;
    un acto conmemorativo del Día de la Independencia an Independence Day celebration, an event to mark Independence Day;
    es responsable de la organización de actos culturales she is responsible for organizing cultural events;
    asistió a todos los actos electorales de su partido he attended all his party's election rallies;
    su último acto oficial fue la inauguración de un hospital her last official engagement was the opening of a hospital
    3. Teatro act;
    una comedia en dos actos a comedy in two acts
    ♦ acto seguido loc adv
    immediately after
    ♦ en el acto loc adv
    on the spot, there and then;
    reparaciones en el acto repairs done while you wait;
    murió en el acto she died instantly
    * * *
    m
    1 TEA act
    2 ( ceremonia) ceremony
    3 ( acción)
    :
    acto violento act of violence;
    en acto de servicio on active service;
    hacer acto de presencia put in an appearance
    4
    :
    acto seguido immediately afterward(s);
    en el acto instantly, there and then
    * * *
    acto nm
    1) acción: act, deed
    2) : act (in a play)
    3)
    el acto sexual : sexual intercourse
    4)
    en el acto : right away, on the spot
    5)
    acto seguido : immediately after
    * * *
    acto n
    2. (ceremonia) ceremony [pl. ceremonies]

    Spanish-English dictionary > acto

  • 83 punta

    f.
    1 point (extremo) (de cuchillo, lápiz, aguja).
    este zapato me aprieta en la punta this shoe's squashing the ends of my toes
    recorrimos Chile de punta a punta we traveled from one end of Chile to the other
    en la otra punta de la ciudad on the other side of town
    en la otra punta de la mesa at the other end of the table
    sacar punta a un lápiz to sharpen a pencil
    2 touch, bit (pizca).
    3 small nail (clavo).
    4 point, headland (geography).
    5 tip, tine, nib, peak.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: puntar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: puntar.
    * * *
    2 (clavo) nail
    3 COCINA (pizca) pinch
    4 GEOGRAFÍA point
    1 (del pelo) ends
    2 (zapatillas de ballet) point shoes, ballet shoes
    \
    a punta de pistola at gunpoint
    a punta pala familiar by the hundreds
    de punta a punta from one end to the other
    de punta en blanco dressed up to the nines
    en hora punta at peak time
    estar de punta con alguien to be at odds with somebody
    sacar punta a (lápiz) to sharpen 2 (palabras) to read too much into
    ser la punta del iceberg to be the tip of the iceberg
    tener algo en la punta de la lengua to have something on the tip of one's tongue
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) point, head
    2) end, tip
    * * *
    1. SF
    1) (=extremo) [de dedo, lengua, pincel] tip; [de ciudad] side; [de mesa] end; [de pañuelo] corner

    la punta de los dedos — the fingertips, the tips of one's fingers

    • de punta a cabo o de punta a punta — from one end to the other

    2) (=extremo puntiagudo) [de cuchillo, tijeras, lápiz] point; [de flecha] tip

    • de punta, tenía todo el pelo de punta — her hair was all on end

    • acabado en punta — pointed

    • a punta de navaja — at knife point

    • a punta de pistola — at gunpoint

    • sacar punta a — [+ lápiz] to sharpen; Esp [+ comentario, opinión] to twist

    esas imágenes me pusieron el vello de punta — those images were really spine-chilling, those images made my hair stand on end

    tienen dinero a punta pala — they're loaded *, they've got loads of money *

    punta de diamante — (=cortador) diamond glass cutter; (=diseño) diamond point

    nervio 2)
    3) (=cantidad pequeña) (lit) bit; (fig) touch
    4) (=clavo) tack
    5) (Geog) (=cabo) point; (=promontorio) headland
    6) (=asta) [de toro] horn; [de ciervo] point, tine
    7) (Ftbl)
    8) (=colilla) stub, butt
    9) (Cos) (=encaje) dentelle
    10) pl puntas
    a) [del pelo] ends

    quiero cortarme las puntas — I'd like a trim, I'd like to have my hair trimmed

    b) (Ballet) points, ballet shoes
    c) (Culin)

    puntas de solomillo — finest cuts of pork

    11) Cono Sur, Méx
    12) Cuba [de tabaco] leaf of best tobacco
    13) Bol eight-hour shift of work
    14) Caribe (=mofa) taunt, snide remark
    2.
    ADJ INV peak

    • horas punta — [de electricidad, teléfono] peak times

    la hora punta — [del tráfico] the rush hour

    • tecnología punta — latest technology, leading edge technology

    • velocidad punta — maximum speed, top speed

    3.
    SMF (Dep) striker, forward
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable
    II
    1)
    a) (de lengua, dedos) tip; ( de nariz) end, tip; ( de pan) end; ( de pincel) tip

    a punta (de) pala — (Esp fam) loads (colloq)

    a punta de pistola or (Per) de bala — at gunpoint

    ir/ponerse de punta en blanco — to be/get (all) dressed up

    la punta del iceberg — the tip of the iceberg

    tener algo en la punta de la lengua — to have something on the tip of one's tongue

    b) puntas femenino plural ( del pelo) ends (pl)
    2) (de aguja, clavo, cuchillo, lápiz) point; (de flecha, lanza) tip

    mandar a alguien a la punta del cerro — (CS fam) to send somebody packing (colloq), to tell somebody to get lost (colloq)

    3) ( de pañuelo) corner
    4) (Dep)
    5) (Geog) point
    6) (CS fam) ( montón)

    una punta de plata — a lot of money, a fortune (colloq)

    tiene una punta de cosas que hacer — she has loads o stacks of things to do (colloq)

    7)

    a punta de — (AmL fam)

    * * *
    = apex, barb, end, tip.
    Ex. A hierarchy is usually illustrated as a triangle with the ultimate authority at the apex of the triangle and authority flowing downward to all other parts of the triangle.
    Ex. The letters are upright, narrow, and angular, standing on crooked feet, and the ascenders are usually decorated with barbs or thorns; f and p do not normally descend below the base line.
    Ex. Scanning must start to the left of the bar codes and must continue past the right end.
    Ex. Reportedly the tip of his nose is so damaged from the operations that the tissue has died.
    ----
    * acabado en punta = pointed.
    * a punta de pistola = at gunpoint.
    * con los nervios de punta = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge.
    * de punta en blanco = dressed (up) to the nines, spic(k)-and-span.
    * de una punta a otra = end to end.
    * de una punta de la ciudad a otra = cross-town.
    * durante las horas puntas = at peak periods.
    * en una punta... en la otra = at one end... at the other.
    * golpear ligeramente la punta de los dedos en sucesión sobre una superficie = tap + fingers.
    * grabado a la punta seca = drypoint.
    * hora punta = peak period, peak hour.
    * horas no punta = off-peak times.
    * poner los pelos de punta = bristle, scare + the living daylights out of, frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, make + Posesivo + hair stand on end, scare + the hell out of.
    * ponerse de punta = stand out.
    * punta de espárrago = asparagus tip.
    * punta de flecha = arrowhead.
    * punta de lanza = spearpoint.
    * punta del dedo = fingertip.
    * punta del iceberg, la = tip of the iceberg, the.
    * punta de trazar = scribe.
    * puntas abiertas = split ends.
    * sacar punta = sharpen.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * ser la punta de lanza de = spearhead.
    * tecnología punta = cutting edge technology.
    * tener dinero a punta pala = roll in + Dinero.
    * tener los nervios de punta = have + butterflies in + Posesivo + stomach.
    * vestirse de punta en blanco = tog out, tog up.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable
    II
    1)
    a) (de lengua, dedos) tip; ( de nariz) end, tip; ( de pan) end; ( de pincel) tip

    a punta (de) pala — (Esp fam) loads (colloq)

    a punta de pistola or (Per) de bala — at gunpoint

    ir/ponerse de punta en blanco — to be/get (all) dressed up

    la punta del iceberg — the tip of the iceberg

    tener algo en la punta de la lengua — to have something on the tip of one's tongue

    b) puntas femenino plural ( del pelo) ends (pl)
    2) (de aguja, clavo, cuchillo, lápiz) point; (de flecha, lanza) tip

    mandar a alguien a la punta del cerro — (CS fam) to send somebody packing (colloq), to tell somebody to get lost (colloq)

    3) ( de pañuelo) corner
    4) (Dep)
    5) (Geog) point
    6) (CS fam) ( montón)

    una punta de plata — a lot of money, a fortune (colloq)

    tiene una punta de cosas que hacer — she has loads o stacks of things to do (colloq)

    7)

    a punta de — (AmL fam)

    * * *
    = apex, barb, end, tip.

    Ex: A hierarchy is usually illustrated as a triangle with the ultimate authority at the apex of the triangle and authority flowing downward to all other parts of the triangle.

    Ex: The letters are upright, narrow, and angular, standing on crooked feet, and the ascenders are usually decorated with barbs or thorns; f and p do not normally descend below the base line.
    Ex: Scanning must start to the left of the bar codes and must continue past the right end.
    Ex: Reportedly the tip of his nose is so damaged from the operations that the tissue has died.
    * acabado en punta = pointed.
    * a punta de pistola = at gunpoint.
    * con los nervios de punta = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge.
    * de punta en blanco = dressed (up) to the nines, spic(k)-and-span.
    * de una punta a otra = end to end.
    * de una punta de la ciudad a otra = cross-town.
    * durante las horas puntas = at peak periods.
    * en una punta... en la otra = at one end... at the other.
    * golpear ligeramente la punta de los dedos en sucesión sobre una superficie = tap + fingers.
    * grabado a la punta seca = drypoint.
    * hora punta = peak period, peak hour.
    * horas no punta = off-peak times.
    * poner los pelos de punta = bristle, scare + the living daylights out of, frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, make + Posesivo + hair stand on end, scare + the hell out of.
    * ponerse de punta = stand out.
    * punta de espárrago = asparagus tip.
    * punta de flecha = arrowhead.
    * punta de lanza = spearpoint.
    * punta del dedo = fingertip.
    * punta del iceberg, la = tip of the iceberg, the.
    * punta de trazar = scribe.
    * puntas abiertas = split ends.
    * sacar punta = sharpen.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * ser la punta de lanza de = spearhead.
    * tecnología punta = cutting edge technology.
    * tener dinero a punta pala = roll in + Dinero.
    * tener los nervios de punta = have + butterflies in + Posesivo + stomach.
    * vestirse de punta en blanco = tog out, tog up.

    * * *
    en la hora punta during the rush hour
    un sector punta de nuestra industria a sector which is at the forefront of our industry
    velocidad punta top speed
    A
    1 (de la lengua, los dedos) tip; (de la nariz) end, tip; (del pan) end
    mojó la punta del pincel she wetted the tip of the paintbrush
    en la otra punta de la mesa at the other end of the table
    vivo en la otra punta de la ciudad I live on the other side o at the other end of town
    con la punta del pie with his toes
    me recorrí la ciudad de punta a punta I traipsed all over town o from one end of town to the other
    bailaba en puntas de pie (CS); she danced on the tips of her toes o ( frml) on her points
    entró caminando en puntitas de pie para no despertarlo (CS); she tiptoed in o she went in on tiptoe so as not to wake him
    tiene dinero a punta pala she's loaded ( colloq), she's got pots o stacks o loads of money ( colloq)
    a punta de pistola or ( Per) de bala at gunpoint
    hasta la punta de los pelos or del pelo ( fam): estoy hasta la punta del pelo de este trabajo I've had it up to here o I'm fed up to the backteeth with this job ( colloq)
    ir/ponerse de punta en blanco to be/get dressed up
    la punta del iceberg the tip of the iceberg
    tener algo en la punta de la lengua to have sth on the tip of one's tongue
    lo tengo en la punta de la lengua it's on the tip of my tongue, I have it on the tip of my tongue
    2 puntas fpl (del pelo) ends (pl)
    Compuesto:
    fpl asparagus tips (pl)
    B (de una aguja) point; (de una flecha, lanza) tip; (de un clavo, cuchillo, lápiz) point
    sácale punta al lápiz sharpen the pencil
    el cuchillo cayó de punta the knife fell point first
    en punta pointed
    los zapatos en punta pointed shoes
    por un extremo acaba en punta it's pointed at one end
    hacerle punta a algn ( Chi fam); to try to win sb's affections
    mandar a algn a la punta del cerro (CS fam); to send sb packing ( colloq), to tell sb to get lost ( colloq)
    sacarle punta a algo ( Esp); to read too much into sth, distort o twist sth
    Compuesto:
    spearhead
    estos grupos fueron la punta lanza de del cambio social these groups spearheaded the process of social change o were the spearhead of social change
    D ( Dep):
    juega en la punta he's a forward o striker
    E ( Geog) point
    F
    (CS fam) (montón): costó una punta de plata it cost a lot of money o ( colloq) a fortune
    tiene una punta de cosas que hacer she has loads o stacks of things to do ( colloq)
    son una punta de asesinos they're a bunch of murderers ( colloq)
    G
    a punta de ( AmL fam): a punta de repetírselo mil veces by telling him it a thousand times
    se curó a punta de antibióticos he got better by taking antibiotics
    a punta de palos lo hicieron obedecer they beat him until he did as he was told
    una dieta a punta de líquidos a liquid-based diet
    ( Dep) striker, forward
    punta izquierdo/punta derecho left/right winger
    * * *

     

    punta sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (de lengua, dedos) tip;

    ( de nariz) end, tip;
    ( de pan) end;
    ( de pincel) tip;
    ◊ vivo en la otra punta de la ciudad I live on the other side o at the other end of town;

    con la punta del pie with the print of one's foot;
    la punta del iceberg the tip of the iceberg;
    tener algo en la punta de la lengua to have sth on the tip of one's tongue
    b)

    ◊ puntas sustantivo femenino plural ( del pelo) ends (pl)

    2
    a) (de aguja, clavo, cuchillo, lápiz) point;

    (de flecha, lanza) tip;

    sácale punta al lápiz sharpen the pencil;
    de punta point first;
    en punta pointed;
    por un extremo acaba en punta it's pointed at one end
    b)

    ◊ a punta de (AmL fam): a punta de repetírselo mil veces by telling him it a thousand times;

    a punta de palos lo hicieron obedecer they beat him until he did as he was told
    3 ( de pañuelo) corner
    ■ adjetivo invariable:

    punta
    I adjetivo hora punta, peak o rush hour
    tecnología punta, high technology, familiar high-tech
    velocidad punta, top o maximum speed
    II sustantivo femenino
    1 (extremo puntiagudo) point: la punta del cuchillo, the tip of the knife
    (extremo) end, tip
    punta del dedo, fingertip
    punta del pie, toetip
    2 (de un sitio) trabaja en la otra punta del país, he works at the other side of the country
    3 (del pelo) puntas, ends pl
    4 Dep jugar en punta, to play as a forward or striker
    ♦ LOC ir/ponerse de punta en blanco, to be/get all dressed up
    sacar punta, (a un objeto) to sharpen, (a un comentario, suceso) to twist
    tener algo en la punta de la lengua, to have sthg on the tip of one's tongue
    a punta de pistola, at gunpoint
    de punta a punta, from end to end

    ' punta' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ápice
    - clavo
    - despuntar
    - iceberg
    - lanza
    - pelo
    - rotulador
    - tecnología
    - terminar
    - afinar
    - agudo
    - cesta
    - cortar
    - embotado
    - en
    - erizado
    - fino
    - hora
    - nervio
    - pistola
    - puntiagudo
    - puntilla
    - torre
    English:
    cutting-edge
    - edge
    - end
    - gunpoint
    - hair
    - headland
    - high-tech
    - mad
    - nail
    - nerve
    - nine
    - peak hours
    - point
    - prong
    - rush-hour
    - scary
    - sharpen
    - spike
    - spiky
    - stick up
    - taper
    - tip
    - weapon
    - bristle
    - corner
    - edgy
    - gun
    - hang
    - head
    - off
    - pointed
    - rat
    - rush
    - sharp
    - stand
    - stick
    * * *
    ♦ adj inv
    hora punta rush hour;
    velocidad punta top speed
    ♦ nf
    1. [extremo] [de cuchillo, lápiz, aguja] point;
    [de pan, pelo, nariz] end; [de dedo, cuerno, flecha, pincel] tip; [de zapato] toe; [de pistola] muzzle; [de sábana, pañuelo] corner;
    este zapato me aprieta en la punta this shoe's squashing the ends of my toes;
    punta fina/gruesa [de bolígrafo] fine/thick point;
    lo sujetó con la punta de los dedos she held it with the tips of her fingers;
    tengo las puntas (del pelo) abiertas o RP [m5] florecidas I've got split ends;
    en la otra punta de la ciudad on the other side of town;
    en la otra punta de la mesa at the other end of the table;
    se dio en la rodilla con la punta de la mesa she banged her knee on the corner of the table;
    lleva el pelo de punta he has spiky hair;
    recorrimos Chile de punta a punta we travelled from one end of Chile to the other;
    acabado en punta [objeto, instrumento] pointed;
    a punta de pistola at gunpoint;
    sacar punta a un lápiz to sharpen a pencil;
    Fam
    a punta (de) pala: tiene libros a punta (de) pala he has loads of books;
    vinieron turistas a punta (de) pala loads of tourists came, tourists came by the busload;
    estar de punta con alguien to be on edge with sb;
    ir de punta en blanco to be dressed up to the nines;
    Fam
    sacarle punta a algo to read too much into sth;
    tener algo en la punta de la lengua to have sth on the tip of one's tongue
    punta de flecha arrowhead; Fig la punta del iceberg the tip of the iceberg; Fig punta de lanza spearhead;
    los obreros de la capital fueron la punta de lanza de la revolución the industrial workers of the capital spearheaded the revolution;
    Perú, Ven punta trasera [de carne] rump tail;
    punta de velocidad: [m5] tiene una gran punta de velocidad he's very pacey, Br he has a good turn of pace
    2. [pizca] touch, bit;
    [de sal] pinch
    3. [clavo] small nail
    4. Dep [zona de ataque] attack;
    [jugador de ataque] forward;
    jugar en punta to play in attack, to be a forward;
    jugar como media punta to play just in behind the strikers
    5. Geog point, headland
    6. CSur
    en puntas de pie on tiptoe;
    andar en puntas de pie to (walk on) tiptoe
    7. RP Fam
    una punta [mucho] loads;
    se casó hace una punta de años he got married donkey's years ago;
    tiene una punta de primos she's got loads of cousins
    8. Comp
    Am
    a punta de [a fuerza de] by dint of;
    lo convencí a punta de amenazas I threatened him into doing it
    * * *
    f
    1 de dedo, nariz, pie tip
    2 ( extremo) end;
    de punta a punta (de principio a fin) from beginning to end; (de un extremo a otro) from one extreme to the other
    3 de lápiz, GEOG point;
    sacar punta a sharpen
    4 L.Am. ( grupo) group
    5
    :
    a punta de pistola at gunpoint;
    ir de punta en blanco be dressed up
    6 en fútbol forward
    * * *
    punta nf
    1) : tip, end
    punta del dedo: fingertip
    en la punta de la lengua: at the tip of one's tongue
    2) : point (of a weapon or pencil)
    punta de lanza: spearhead
    3) : point, headland
    4) : bunch, lot
    una punta de ladrones: a bunch of thieves
    5)
    a punta de : by, by dint of
    * * *
    2. (de lengua, dedo) tip
    3. (de nariz, pelo) end
    4. (de ciudad) side
    5. (clavo) nail

    Spanish-English dictionary > punta

  • 84 víctima

    f.
    1 victim, sufferer.
    2 casualty, fatality, person who has suffered an accident.
    3 victim, object of a crime, target of a crime, prey.
    * * *
    1 victim, casualty
    \
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (gen) victim; (Zool) prey; [de accidente] casualty
    2) ( Hist) sacrifice
    * * *
    a) ( persona perjudicada) victim

    no hubo que lamentar víctimas mortales — (period) nobody was killed o fatally injured

    b) ( en sacrificio) victim
    * * *
    = victim, sufferer, casualty.
    Ex. The question can be raised about whether the 'noise' created by Beauperthuy drowned out the cries of pain and suffering of the victims of yellow fever.
    Ex. In the Netherlands there are currently some 20,000 sufferers from this affliction.
    Ex. Unfortunately, there are indications that the use of rubber stamps in libraries may be among the first casualties of the information revolution.
    ----
    * animal víctima de la carretera = road kill [roadkill].
    * ayuda a las víctimas de una catástrofe = disaster relief.
    * causar muchas víctimas = take + a toll on life.
    * número de víctimas = death toll.
    * ser víctima de = fall + prey to, fall + victim to, run + foul of.
    * víctima civil = civilian casualty.
    * víctima de asesinato = murder(ed) victim.
    * víctima de guerra = casualty of war, war casualty.
    * víctima de homicidio = murder(ed) victim.
    * víctima de la carretera = road casualty.
    * víctima humana = human casualty.
    * víctima mortal = fatality.
    * * *
    a) ( persona perjudicada) victim

    no hubo que lamentar víctimas mortales — (period) nobody was killed o fatally injured

    b) ( en sacrificio) victim
    * * *
    = victim, sufferer, casualty.

    Ex: The question can be raised about whether the 'noise' created by Beauperthuy drowned out the cries of pain and suffering of the victims of yellow fever.

    Ex: In the Netherlands there are currently some 20,000 sufferers from this affliction.
    Ex: Unfortunately, there are indications that the use of rubber stamps in libraries may be among the first casualties of the information revolution.
    * animal víctima de la carretera = road kill [roadkill].
    * ayuda a las víctimas de una catástrofe = disaster relief.
    * causar muchas víctimas = take + a toll on life.
    * número de víctimas = death toll.
    * ser víctima de = fall + prey to, fall + victim to, run + foul of.
    * víctima civil = civilian casualty.
    * víctima de asesinato = murder(ed) victim.
    * víctima de guerra = casualty of war, war casualty.
    * víctima de homicidio = murder(ed) victim.
    * víctima de la carretera = road casualty.
    * víctima humana = human casualty.
    * víctima mortal = fatality.

    * * *
    las víctimas del terremoto the victims of the earthquake
    en el accidente no hubo que lamentar víctimas mortales nobody was killed o fatally injured in the accident
    fue víctima de una emboscada he was the victim of an ambush
    falleció víctima de un paro cardíaco/de un accidente he died of o from a heart attack/as a result of o in an accident
    el terremoto cobró miles de víctimas thousands of people died in the earthquake, the earthquake claimed thousands of lives
    Compuesto:
    propitiatory victim
    * * *

    Del verbo victimar: ( conjugate victimar)

    victima es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    victimar    
    víctima
    víctima sustantivo femenino
    victim;
    víctima de algo victim of sth;

    víctimas del cáncer cancer victims
    víctima sustantivo femenino victim: no hubo ninguna víctima mortal, nobody was killed

    ' víctima' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    baja
    - conjura
    - insensibilidad
    - muerta
    - muerto
    - ofrecer
    English:
    fatality
    - poison
    - prey
    - victim
    - casualty
    - female
    * * *
    1. [por mala suerte o negligencia] victim;
    [en accidente, guerra] casualty;
    ser víctima de la represión/la injusticia to be the victim of repression/injustice;
    fue víctima de su propia ambición she was the victim of her own ambition;
    resultó víctima de su propio engaño he was hoist with his own petard, his scheme backfired on him;
    falleció víctima de un infarto he died of a heart attack
    víctima mortal fatality;
    hubo tres víctimas mortales three people were killed
    2. [en sacrificio] victim;
    hacerse la víctima to play the martyr
    víctima propiciatoria scapegoat
    * * *
    f victim;
    víctima mortal fatality;
    cobrarse muchas víctimas de incendio, terremoto etc claim many victims, kill many people;
    ser víctima de alguien/algo fall victim to s.o./sth
    * * *
    : victim
    * * *
    víctima n victim

    Spanish-English dictionary > víctima

  • 85 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 86 Edison, Thomas Alva

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    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
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    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
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    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
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A crowd gathered around me. \ مِن حَيْثُ شَخْصُهُ \ personally: as a person (in regard to character); socially: I like him personally, but I dislike his political ideas. \ مِن حِين لآخَر \ occasional: happening sometimes, but not regularly: We had an occasional quarrel. now and again, now and then: sometimes. \ مِن خِلال \ through: from one side to the other; from one end to the other: He drove a nail through (the board). A river ran through (the town). Water runs through pipes. I looked through the window, but I couldn’t see far through the mist. I read through my notes. \ مِن الدرجة الأولى \ first-class, first-rate: of the best quality: He is a first-class photographer. \ مِن سُخْرِية الأقدار \ ironic(al): (of events) like a cruel joke: It was ironical that she should break her leg just when she had at last got a job as a dancer. \ مِنَ الشرق \ eastern: belonging to the east. \ مِن صُنْعِ اليَد \ hand-made: made by hand, not by a machine: Hand-made shoes. \ مِن الضروريّ أن كما \ must: (p.t.. had to, neg.. needn’t, don’t/didn’t need to; don’t/didn’t have to) need to: You must go now, mustn’t you? Yes, I must. No, I needn’t go yet. \ مِن الطبيعيّ \ it goes without saying (that): naturally; of course: The invitation was sent to me; but it goes without saying that my wife is included. \ مِن الطراز القديم \ old-fashioned: (of people) holding on to old ideas and customs; (of things) not modern; no longer used. \ مِن طَرَف لآخر \ through: passing from one side or place to another; making a continuous journey: a through train. \ مِن عَجيب التَّقادِير \ ironic(al): (of events) like a cruel joke: It was ironical that she should break her leg just when she had at last got a job as a dancer. \ مِن عَلى ظهر السفينة \ overboard: over the side of a boat, and into the water: They jumped overboard when the ship was on fire. \ مِن غَيْر \ without: not with; not having: Without doubt, this is the best. I did it without his help. He took my bicycle without asking me. \ مِن غَيْر حَرَج \ freely: readily: They freely accepted my advice. \ مِنَ الفراء \ fur: animal skin, with the fur on it, used as clothing: a coat with a collar of fur; a fur hat. \ مِنَ الفِراش \ up: out of bed: I get up at 6.30 every morning. We stayed up very late last night. \ مِن فَضْلِك \ kindly: please!: kindly close the door!. please: (when asking) giving a polite order: Please stop that noise. A cup of coffee, please, asking for a favour or for permission Will you help me, please? Please, may I use your pen?. \ مِن فَوْق \ over: across, from one side of sth. to the other: He jumped over the fence. The gate was locked, so he climbed over. \ مِن فَوق سَطْح المَرْكَب \ overboard: over the side of a boat, and into the water: They jumped overboard when the ship was on fire. \ مِن قَبْل \ ago: before the present time: 100 years ago; a short while ago. already: before this time: She’s already married. before: at an earlier time (than): I have been here before. beforehand: before; early; in readiness: If you want your dinner early, warn the cook beforehand. \ مِن قِبَل \ by: (showing who or what did sth.): He was bitten by a dog. \ مِن قَلْبٍ مُخْلص \ heartily: thoroughly: I heartily agree with you. \ مِنَ المُؤسِف \ pity: (with a) an unfortunate fact or happening: It’s a pity that you can’t go with us to the cinema. \ مِنَ المُحَتَّم \ bound, (bind, bound) to: certain to: He’s bound to win. \ See Also المُؤَكَّد أَنّ \ مِنَ المُحْتَمَل \ likely: (usu. with very, most, more or quite) probably: She’s very likely right. well: (with may) very possibly; with good reason: He may well be late if the road is being repaired. \ مِن مُدّةٍ قريبة \ the other day: a few days ago: I met your son the other day. \ مِن المَرْتَبَة أو الدَّرَجة الثّانِية \ second-class: of the next level below that of top quality: The less comfortable second-class seats were much cheaper than the first-class ones. \ مِن المَفْروض أنّ \ be supposed to: to have a duty to; be expected to: You’re supposed to be working now, not playing. You’re not supposed to be here (You ought not be here). \ مِن مَكانٍ لآخَر \ about: from place to place in: We wandered about the town. \ مِن المُمْكِن \ could, (could not, couldn’t): (with an if clause, showing a possibility that depends on sth. else) would be able to: She could buy it if you lent her the money. possibly: perhaps: Possibly you can help. well: (with may) very possibly; with good reason: He may well be late if the road is being repaired.. \ مِنَ المُمْكِن أن \ could, (could not, couldn’t): (showing a simple possibility): You could telephone her (if you wanted to). might: expressing a weak possibility (future, present or past): She might do that tomorrow; she might be doing it at this moment; she might even have done it already (but I doubt that she has done it or ever will do it). \ مِنْ ناحية... مِنَ الناحية الأخرى \ on the one hand, on the other hand: comparing opposite facts or ideas; the first phrase is often left out: (On the one hand) you can live more cheaply in the country; on the other hand, work is harder to find there. \ مِن النّاحية النظريّة \ in theory: as an idea; according to ideas: Your plan may work in theory, but it will not work in practice. \ مِنَ النُّبَلاء \ earl: the title of a British nobleman. \ مِنَ النُّبَلاء \ noble: of high rank: a woman of noble birth. \ See Also الأشراف \ مِنْ نِتاج الوَطَن \ home-grown: (of food) grown in one’s own country, not in another country: home-grown vegetables. \ مِنْ نُسْخَتَين \ in duplicate: on two separate copies: Please complete this list in duplicate. \ مِنْ نَسْل \ descendant: sb. who is descended from a person: a descendant of Queen Victoria. \ See Also ذرية (ذُرِّيَّة)‏ \ مِنْ نَفْس البَلَد \ countryman, countrymen: (usu. fellow countryman) a person of the same nation as another. \ مِنْ نوع راق \ classical: of proved and lasting value: classical music. \ مَنْ هُم أَعْلَى مقَامًا \ betters, one’s betters: those who have more experience or higher rank than onself: Treat your betters with more respect. \ See Also أَرْفَع شَأنًا مِن \ مِن هُنَا \ away: (with verbs of movement) to a distance: Go away! We drove the dog away. by: past: Please let me (get) by. He smiled as he went by. \ مَن هو أَعْلَى دَرَجَةً \ superior: sb. of higher rank: You must obey your superiors. \ مِن واجبه أن \ up to: the duty of: It’s up to his father to punish him. \ مِن وَاحِد إلى آخَر \ over: across, from one person to another: She handed over the keys to a friend. \ مِن الواضح \ much: (in comparison; before most, etc.) without doubt; clearly: He is much the most experienced player in the team. \ مِن وَراءِ ظَهْرِه \ behind sb.’s back: when someone is not present: He tells untrue stories about me behind my back. \ مِن وَقْت لاِخَر \ now and again: sometimes. off and on, on and off: not continuously; at one time and another: It has been raining off and on the whole day. sometimes: at certain times but not always: Sometimes I win and sometimes I don’t. England sometimes has a hot summer, but not often.

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  • 88 Paul, Lewis

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    d. April 1759 Brook Green, London, England
    [br]
    English inventor of hand carding machines and partner with Wyatt in early spinning machines.
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    Lewis Paul, apparently of French Huguenot extraction, was quite young when his father died. His father was Physician to Lord Shaftsbury, who acted as Lewis Paul's guardian. In 1728 Paul made a runaway match with a widow and apparently came into her property when she died a year later. He must have subsequently remarried. In 1732 he invented a pinking machine for making the edges of shrouds out of which he derived some profit.
    Why Paul went to Birmingham is unknown, but he helped finance some of Wyatt's earlier inventions. Judging by the later patents taken out by Paul, it is probable that he was the one interested in spinning, turning to Wyatt for help in the construction of his spinning machine because he had no mechanical skills. The two men may have been involved in this as early as 1733, although it is more likely that they began this work in 1735. Wyatt went to London to construct a model and in 1736 helped to apply for a patent, which was granted in 1738 in the name of Paul. The patent shows that Paul and Wyatt had a number of different ways of spinning in mind, but contains no drawings of the machines. In one part there is a description of sets of rollers to draw the cotton out more finely that could have been similar to those later used by Richard Arkwright. However, it would seem that Paul and Wyatt followed the other main method described, which might be called spindle drafting, where the fibres are drawn out between the nip of a pair of rollers and the tip of the spindle; this method is unsatisfactory for continuous spinning and results in an uneven yarn.
    The spinning venture was supported by Thomas Warren, a well-known Birmingham printer, Edward Cave of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr Robert James of fever-powder celebrity, Mrs Desmoulins, and others. Dr Samuel Johnson also took much interest. In 1741 a mill powered by two asses was equipped at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, with, machinery for spinning cotton being constructed by Wyatt. Licences for using the invention were sold to other people including Edward Cave, who established a mill at Northampton, so the enterprise seemed to have great promise. A spinning machine must be supplied with fibres suitably prepared, so carding machines had to be developed. Work was in hand on one in 1740 and in 1748 Paul took out another patent for two types of carding device, possibly prompted by the patent taken out by Daniel Bourn. Both of Paul's devices were worked by hand and the carded fibres were laid onto a strip of paper. The paper and fibres were then rolled up and placed in the spinning machine. In 1757 John Dyer wrote a poem entitled The Fleece, which describes a circular spinning machine of the type depicted in a patent taken out by Paul in 1758. Drawings in this patent show that this method of spinning was different from Arkwright's. Paul endeavoured to have the machine introduced into the Foundling Hospital, but his death in early 1759 stopped all further development. He was buried at Paddington on 30 April that year.
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    Bibliography
    1738, British patent no. 562 (spinning machine). 1748, British patent no. 636 (carding machine).
    1758, British patent no. 724 (circular spinning machine).
    Further Reading
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London, App. This should be read in conjunction with R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester, which shows that the roller drafting system on Paul's later spinning machine worked on the wrong principles.
    A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and the early mills).
    E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, but is now out of date).
    A.Seymour-Jones, 1921, "The invention of roller drawing in cotton spinning", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 1 (a more modern account).
    RLH

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  • 89 fallar

    v.
    1 to get wrong (equivocar) (respuesta).
    2 to pass sentence on.
    3 to fail.
    este truco nunca falla this trick never fails
    me fallaron los frenos my brakes didn't work
    El chico falló de nuevo The boy failed again.
    El chico falló la prueba The boy failed the test.
    El chico le falló a Ricardo The boy failed Richard.
    Mi plan falló My plan failed.
    4 to give way.
    5 to miss.
    El misil falló el blanco The missile missed the target.
    6 to resolve, to judge, to rule.
    Ricardo falló el caso Richard judged the case.
    7 to fail on, to crash on.
    Me falla el sistema The system fails on me.
    * * *
    1 DERECHO to pass sentence, pass judgement
    2 (premio) to award a prize
    1 DERECHO to pass, pronounce
    2 (premio) to award
    ————————
    1 (fracasar, no funcionar) to fail
    2 (puntería) to miss; (plan) to go wrong
    3 (ceder) to give way, collapse
    1 (en naipes) to trump
    * * *
    verb
    2) miss
    3) rule
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [freno] to fail; [plan] to fail, go wrong; [cuerda] to break, give way; [motor] to misfire

    si le das un caramelo se calla, no falla nunca — if you give him a sweet he'll shut up, it never fails

    no falla, ya has vuelto a llegar tarde — * I knew it, you're late again

    2) (=defraudar)

    fallar a algn — to let sb down, fail sb

    mañana hay reunión, no me falles — there's a meeting tomorrow, don't let me down

    3) (Jur) to pass judgment

    fallar a favor/en contra de algn — to rule in favour of/against sb, find for/against sb

    4) (Naipes) to trump
    2. VT
    1) (=errar)
    2) (Jur) to deliver judgment in
    3) [+ premio] to award
    4) (Naipes) to trump
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) juez/jurado

    fallar a or en favor/en contra de alguien — to rule in favor* of/against somebody

    2)
    a) frenos/memoria to fail; planes to go wrong

    otra vez llegas tarde nunca falla! — you're late again, typical!; (+ me/te/le etc)

    a ti te falla/a él le falla — (AmL) (fam) you've/he's got a screw loose (colloq)

    b) persona (+ me/te/le etc) to let... down
    2.
    fallar vt
    1) < caso> to pronounce judgment in; < premio> to award; < concurso> to decide the result of
    2) ( errar) to miss
    * * *
    = fail, falter, misfire, derail, crash, backfire, come + unstuck.
    Ex. This article suggests the steps that libraries might take during periods of instability to reduce their chances of being injured by a vendor that fails.
    Ex. The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.
    Ex. While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results = Aunque se consideraba que el proyecto ALBIS fue un intento de cooperación en red que fracasó, no obstante produjo algunos resultados positivos.
    Ex. When organizational communication works well, every ofther facet of management is enhanced; if it derails, other aspects of directing falter as well = Cuando la comunicación dentro de una organización funciona bien, las demás facetas de la gestión mejoran; no obstante, si falla, los otros aspectos de la dirección flaquean también.
    Ex. Our computer crashed, the motherboard died, taking along with her the hard drive.
    Ex. While this direct contact can backfire if the person is not knowledgeable about the product, it is also a golden opportunity to respond directly to customer questions and unique needs.
    Ex. Bright people will always manage towork out the technology but it is the higher-level issues and processes that usually cause a project to come unstuck.
    ----
    * no falla = reliable.
    * sin fallar = without fail.
    * si no + Pronombre + fallar la memoria = to the best of + Posesivo + recollection.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) juez/jurado

    fallar a or en favor/en contra de alguien — to rule in favor* of/against somebody

    2)
    a) frenos/memoria to fail; planes to go wrong

    otra vez llegas tarde nunca falla! — you're late again, typical!; (+ me/te/le etc)

    a ti te falla/a él le falla — (AmL) (fam) you've/he's got a screw loose (colloq)

    b) persona (+ me/te/le etc) to let... down
    2.
    fallar vt
    1) < caso> to pronounce judgment in; < premio> to award; < concurso> to decide the result of
    2) ( errar) to miss
    * * *
    = fail, falter, misfire, derail, crash, backfire, come + unstuck.

    Ex: This article suggests the steps that libraries might take during periods of instability to reduce their chances of being injured by a vendor that fails.

    Ex: The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.
    Ex: While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results = Aunque se consideraba que el proyecto ALBIS fue un intento de cooperación en red que fracasó, no obstante produjo algunos resultados positivos.
    Ex: When organizational communication works well, every ofther facet of management is enhanced; if it derails, other aspects of directing falter as well = Cuando la comunicación dentro de una organización funciona bien, las demás facetas de la gestión mejoran; no obstante, si falla, los otros aspectos de la dirección flaquean también.
    Ex: Our computer crashed, the motherboard died, taking along with her the hard drive.
    Ex: While this direct contact can backfire if the person is not knowledgeable about the product, it is also a golden opportunity to respond directly to customer questions and unique needs.
    Ex: Bright people will always manage towork out the technology but it is the higher-level issues and processes that usually cause a project to come unstuck.
    * no falla = reliable.
    * sin fallar = without fail.
    * si no + Pronombre + fallar la memoria = to the best of + Posesivo + recollection.

    * * *
    fallar [A1 ]
    vi
    A
    (dictaminar) «juez/jurado»: fallar a or en favor de algn to rule in favor* of sb, to find for sb
    fallar en contra de algn to rule o find against sb
    B
    1 «frenos/memoria» to fail; «planes» to go wrong
    algo falló y se estrellaron something went wrong and they crashed
    (+ me/te/le etc): le falló el corazón his heart failed
    si los cálculos no me fallan if my calculations are right
    si la memoria no me falla if my memory serves me well
    le falló la puntería his aim was poor
    me falló el instinto my instinct failed me
    a ti te falla/a él le falla ( fam); you've/he's got a screw loose ( colloq)
    2 «persona» (+ me/te/le etc) to let … down
    nos fallaron dos personas two people let us down
    C (en naipes) to trump, ruff
    ■ fallar
    vt
    A ‹caso› to pronounce judgment in; ‹premio› to award; ‹concurso› to decide the result of
    B (errar) to miss
    fallé el disparo y di en el árbol I missed and hit the tree
    * * *

     

    fallar ( conjugate fallar) verbo intransitivo
    1 [juez/jurado] fallar a or en favor/en contra de algn to rule in favor( conjugate favor) of/against sb
    2
    a) [frenos/memoria] to fail;

    [ planes] to go wrong;

    le falló la puntería he missed;
    a ti te falla (AmL) (fam) you've a screw loose (colloq)
    b) [ persona] (+ me/te/le etc) to let … down

    verbo transitivo ( errar) to miss;

    fallar 1
    I vi Jur to rule
    II vtr (un premio) to award
    fallar 2 verbo intransitivo
    1 to fail: le falló la memoria, his memory failed
    2 (decepcionar) to disappoint: no nos falles, don't let us down

    ' fallar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    estrellarse
    - pifiar
    English:
    adrift
    - cert
    - conk out
    - crash
    - fail
    - find
    - flub
    - fluff
    - founder
    - give out
    - go
    - inch
    - misfire
    - miss
    - unstuck
    - break
    - let
    - malfunction
    - rule
    - wrong
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [equivocar] [respuesta] to get wrong;
    [tiro] to miss
    2. [sentenciar] to pass sentence on;
    [premio] to award
    ♦ vi
    1. [equivocarse] to get it wrong;
    [no acertar] to miss;
    sin fallar without fail;
    este truco nunca falla this trick never fails;
    ¡no falla, en cuanto salimos se pone a llover! it never fails, whenever we go out, it starts raining!;
    si la memoria no me falla if my memory serves me correctly;
    Fam Hum
    fallar más que una escopeta de feria: esta impresora falla más que una escopeta de feria this printer is a heap of junk
    2. [fracasar, flaquear] to fail;
    [no funcionar] to stop working; [plan] to go wrong;
    me fallaron los frenos my brakes didn't work;
    falló el suministro eléctrico there was a power cut;
    nos fallaron las previsiones our forecasts were out
    3. [decepcionar]
    fallarle a alguien to let sb down;
    contigo somos cuatro, no nos falles there'll be four of us if you come, don't let us down
    4. [quebrarse, ceder] to give way;
    el cable falló the cable broke o snapped
    5. [sentenciar]
    fallar a favor/en contra de alguien to find in favour of/against sb
    6. [en juegos de cartas] to trump
    * * *
    I v/i
    1 fail
    2 (no acertar) miss
    3 de sistema etc go wrong
    4 JUR find ( en favor de for;
    en contra de against)
    5
    :
    fallar a alguien let s.o. down
    II v/t
    1 JUR pronounce judg(e)ment in
    2 pregunta get wrong
    3
    :
    * * *
    fallar vi
    1) fracasar: to fail, to go wrong
    2) : to rule (in a court of law)
    fallar vt
    1) errar: to miss (a target)
    2) : to pronounce judgment on
    * * *
    fallar vb
    1. (un tiro) to miss
    2. (una pregunta) to get wrong
    3. (defraudar) to let down [pt. & pp. let]
    4. (no funcionar) to be wrong
    5. (perder resistencia) to go / to fail
    me fallaron las piernas my legs went / my legs failed me
    le falla la memoria his memory is going / his memory is failing

    Spanish-English dictionary > fallar

  • 90 FALLA

    * * *
    (fell; féll, féllum; fallinn), v.
    eigi fellr tré við fyrsta högg, a tree falls not with the first stroke;
    falla af baki, to fall from horse back;
    falla á kné, to fall on one’s knees;
    falla áfram (á bak aptr), to fall forwards (backwards);
    falla flatr, to fall prostrate;
    falla til jarðar, to fall to the ground;
    refl., láta fallast (= sik falla), to let oneself fall (þá lét Loki falla í kné Skaða);
    2) to drop down dead, be killed, fall (in battle);
    3) to die of plague (féllu fátœkir menn um alit land);
    4) to flow, run (of water, stream, tide);
    særinn fell út frá landi, ebbed;
    féll sjór fyrir hellismunnann, the sea rose higher than the cave-mouth;
    síðan féll sjór at, the tide rose;
    þeir sá þá ós mikinn falla í sjóinn, fall into the sea;
    á fél (a river flowed) við skála Ásólfs;
    var skipit svá hlaðit, at inn féll um söxin, that the sea rushed in at the prow;
    5) of clothes, hair, to fall, hang down;
    hárit féll á herðar honum aptr, the hair fell back on his shoulders;
    létu kvennváðir um kné falla, they let women’s dress fall about hi s knees;
    6) to fall, calm down (of the wind);
    féll veðrit (the storm fell) ok gerði logn;
    7) to fail, be foiled;
    sá eiðr fellr honum til útlegðar, if he fails in taking the oath, he shall be liable to outlawry;
    falla á verkum sínum, to have been caught red-handed, to be justly slain;
    falla or fallast at máli, sókn, to fail in one’s suit;
    falla frá máli, to give it up;
    fallinn at frændum, bereft of kinsmen;
    dœmi ek fyrir dráp hans fallnar yðrar eignir, I sentence your estates to be forfieited for his slaughter;
    refl., ef gerðarmenn láta fallast, if the umpires fail to do their duty;
    þá fallust öllum Ásum orðtök ok svá hendr, then voice and hands alike failed the Gods;
    féllust þeim allar kvéðjur, their greetings died on their lips;
    vill sá eigi falust láta andsvör, he will not fail or falter in replying;
    mér féll svá gæfusamliga (it befell me so quickly), at;
    stundum kann svá at falla, at, sometimes it may so happen that;
    9) to be had or produced (þat járn fellr í firði þeim; þar fellr hveiti ok vín);
    10) with adv., e-m fellr e-t þungt, létt, a thing falls heavily, lightly upon one (þetta mun ðr þungt falla);
    féll þá keisaranum þyngra bardaginn, the battle turned against the emperor;
    e-m fellr e-t nær, it falls nigh to one, touches one nearly;
    henni féll meinit svá nær, at, the illness fell on her so sore, that;
    mér fellr eigi firr en honum, it touches me no less than him;
    hörmuliga fellr oss nú, at, it falls out sadly for us, that;
    11) to please, suit;
    kvað sér, þat vel falla til attekta, said that it suited him well for drawing revenue from;
    honum féll vel í eyru lofsorð konungs, the king’s praise was pleasant in his ears;
    jarli féllst þat vel í eyru, the earl was well pleased to hear it;
    mun mér illa falla, ef, it will displease me, if;
    féll vel á með þeim, they were on good terms;
    refl., honum féllst þat vel í skap, it suited his mind well, he was pleased with it;
    féllst hvárt öðru vel í geð, they loved each other;
    12) with preps. and advs.,
    falla af, to fall, abate (féll af vindr, byrr);
    falla á e-n, to befall one;
    þær féllu lyktir í, at, the end was, that;
    falla í e-t, to fall into;
    falla í brot, to fall in a fit;
    falla í óvit, to faint, swoon;
    falla í villu, to fall into heresy;
    falla í vald e-s, to fall into one’s power;
    féll veðrit í logn, the storm calmed down;
    falla niðr, to fall, drop;
    mitt kvæði mun skjótt niðr falla, my poem will soon be forgotten;
    féll svá niðr þeirra tal, their conversation dropped, they left off talking;
    falla saman, to fill in with, agree;
    þó at eigi félli alit saman með þeim, though they, did not agree in everything;
    falla til, to occur, happen, fall out;
    ef auðna fellr til, if luck will have it so;
    litlu síðar féll til fagrt leiði, fair wind came on;
    öll þingviti, er til falla, all the fines that may fall in, be due;
    nema þörf falli til, unless need be;
    sem sakir falla til, as the case falls;
    falla undir e-n, to fall to one’s lot (of inheritance, obligation);
    arfr fellr undir e-n, devolves upon one;
    falla út, to recede, of the tide (þá er út féll sjórinn);
    falla við árar, to fall to at the oars.
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    pret. féll, 2nd pers. féllt, mod. féllst, pl. féllu; pres. fell, pl. föllum; part. fallinn; reflex. féllsk, fallisk, etc., with the neg. suffix fellr-at, féll-at, féllsk-at, Am. 6, vide Lex. Poët. [Common to all Teut. languages except Goth. (Ulf. renders πίπτειν by drjûsan); A. S. feallan; Engl. fall; Germ. fallen; Dan. falde; Swed. falla.]
    A. to fall; as in Engl. so in Icel. falla is the general word, used in the broadest sense; in the N. T. it is therefore used much in the same passages as in the Engl. V., e. g. Matth. v. 14, vii. 25, 27, x. 29, xii. 11, xiii. 4, xxi. 44, Luke xiv. 5, John xii. 24, Rom. xi. 11, xiv. 4, 1 Cor. x. 12, 1 Tim. vi. 9, Rev. viii. 10: blómstrið fellr, James i. 11: again, the verbs hrynja and hrapa denote ruin or sudden fall, detta a light fall, hrasa stumbling; thus in the N. T. hrynja is used, Luke xxiii. 30, Rev. vi. 16; hrapa, Luke x. 18, xi. 17, xiii. 4, Matth. xxiv. 29; hrasa, Luke x. 30; detta, xvi. 21: the proverb, eigi fellr tré við hit fyrsta högg, a tree falls not by the first stroke, Nj. 163, 224; hann féll fall mikit, Bs. i. 343; hón féll geigvænliga, id.; falla af baki, to fall from horseback, 344; f. áfram, to fall forwards, Nj. 165; f. á bak aptr, to fall on the back, 9; f. um háls e-m, to fall on one’s neck, Luke xv. 20; f. til jarðar, to fall to the ground, fall prostrate, Fms. vii. 13, Pass. 5. 4: to fall on one’s face, Stj. 422. Ruth ii. 10; f. fram, to fall down, Matth. iv. 9; f. dauðr ofan, to fall down dead, Fær. 31; ok jafnsnart féll á hann dimma og myrkr, Acts xiii. 11; hlutr fellr, the lot fell (vide hlut-fall), i. 26.
    2. to fall dead, fall in battle, Lat. cadere, Nj. 31, Eg. 7, 495, Dropl. 25, 36, Hm. 159, Fms. i. 8, 11, 24, 38, 95, 173, 177, 178, ii. 318, 324, 329, iii. 5, iv. 14, v. 55, 59, 78, 85, vi. 406–421, vii–xi, passim.
    3. of cattle, to die of plague or famine, Ann. 1341.
    4. medic., falla í brot, to fall in a fit, Bs. i. 335; f. í óvit, to swoon, Nj. 210: the phrase, f. frá, to fall, die (frá-fall, death), Grág. i. 139, 401, Fms. iv. 230, vii. 275; f. í svefn, to fall asleep, Acts xx. 9.
    II. to flow, run, of water, stream, tide, etc.: of the tide, særinn féll út frá landi, ebbed, Clem. 47; féll þar sær fyrir hellismunnann, the sea rose higher than the cave’s mouth, Orkn. 428; síðan féll sjór at, the tide rose, Ld. 58; ok þá er út féll sjórinn, Þorf. Karl. 420; sjórinn féll svá skjótt á land, at skipin vóru öll á floti, Fms. iv. 65: also used of snow, rain, dew, Vsp. 19; snjó-fall, a fall of snow: of the ashes of a volcano, cp. ösku-fall, s. v. aska: of a breaker, to dash, menn undruðusk er boði féll í logni, þar sem engi maðr vissi ván til at fyrri hefði fallit, Orkn. 164: of a river, nema þar falli á sú er eigi gengr fé yfir, Grág. ii. 256; vötn þau er ór jöklum höfðu fallit, Eg. 133; á féll ( flowed) við skála Ásólfs, Landn. 50, A. A. 285; þeir sá þá ós (fors, Hb.) mikinn falla í sjóinn, Landn. 29, v. l., cp. Fms. i. 236; Markar-fljót féll í millum höfuð-ísa, Nj. 142; á fellr austan, Vsp. 42; falla forsar, 58; læk er féll meðal landa þeirra, Landn. 145: of sea water, sjár kolblár fellr at þeim, the ship took in water, Ld. 118, Mar. 98; svá at inn féll um söxin, that the tea rushed in at the stern, Sturl. iii. 66.
    2. to stream, of hair; hárit silki-bleikt er féll ( streamed) á herðar honum aptr, Fms. vii. 155.
    β. of clothes, drapery, Edda (Ht. 2) 121.
    III. to fall, of the wind; féll veðrit ok görði logn, the wind fell, Eg. 372; þá féll byrrinn, Eb. 8; ok fellr veðrit er þeir koma út at eyjum, Ld. 116; hón kvaðsk mundu ráða at veðrit félli eigi, Gullþ. 30; í því bili fellr andviðrit, Fbr. 67; þá féll af byrrinn, Fms. vi. 17.
    2. falla niðr, to fall, drop; mitt kvæði mun skjótt niðr f., my poem will soon be forgotten, Fms. vi. 198; mun þat (in the poem) aldri niðr f. meðan Norðrlönd eru bygð, 372; féll svá þeirra tal, their speech dropped, they left off talking, Fas. iii. 579; as a law term, to let a thing drop, lát niðr f., Fs. 182; féllu hálfar bætr niðr fyrir sakastaði þá er hann þótti á eiga, Nj. 166, 250, Band. 18; þat eitt fellr niðr, Grág. i. 398, Fms. vii. 137; falla í verði, to fall in price, etc.
    IV. to fail, be foiled, a law term; sá (viz. eiðr) fellr honum til útlegðar, i. e. if he fails in taking the oath he shall be liable to outlawry, N. G. L. i. 84 (eið-fall); en ef eiðr fellr, þá fari hann útlægr, K. Á. 214; fellr aldri sekt handa á milli, the fine is never cancelled, N. G. L. i. 345; f. á verkum sínum, to have been caught red-handed, to be justly slain, Eg. 736; vera fallinn at sókn, to fail in one’s suit, N. G. L. i. 166; hence metaph. fallin at frændum, failing, bereft of friends, Hðm. 5; fallinn frá minu máli, having given my case up, Sks. 554, 747; því dæmi ek fyrir dráp hans fallnar eignir ykkar, I sentence your estates to lie forfeited for his slaughter, Fs. 122; f. í konungs garð, to forfeit to the king’s treasury. Fms. iv. 227; reflex., ef honum fellsk þessor brigð, if his right of reclamation fails, Gþl. 300; ef menn fallask at því, if men fail in that, N. G. L. ii. 345; ef gerð fellsk, if the reparation comes to naught, id.; ef gerðar-menn láta fallask, if they fail to do their duty, id., cp. i. 133, 415; to fail, falter, in the phrase, e-m fallask hendr, the hands fail one; bliknaði hann ok féllusk honum hendr, Ó. H. 70; þá féllusk öllum Ásum orðtök ok svá hendr, their voice and hands alike failed them, Edda 37; en bóndum féllusk hendr, því á þeir höfðu þá engan foringja, Fms. vi. 281; féllusk þeim allar kveðjur er fyrir vóru, their greeting faltered, i. e. the greeting died on their lips, Nj. 140; vill sá eigi fallask fáta andsvör, he would not fail or falter in replying, Hkr. i. 260; féllskat saðr sviðri, her judgment did not fail, Am. 6.
    V. metaph., falla í villu, to fall into heresy, Ver. 47; f. í hórdóm, to fall into whoredom, Sks. 588; f. í vald e-s. to fall into one’s power, Ld. 166; f. í fullsælu, to drop ( come suddenly) into great wealth, Band. 31; f. í fullting við e-n, to fall a-helping one, to take one’s part, Grág. i. 24; lyktir falla á e-t, to come to a close, issue, Fms. ix. 292. xi. 326; f. á, to fall on, of misfortune, vide á-fall.
    2. falla undir e-n, to full to one’s lot, of inheritance, obligation; arfr fellr undir e-n. devolves upon one, Gþl. 215; f. frjáls á jörð to be free born, N. G. L. i. 32; f. ánanðigr á jörð, to be born a bondsman, Grág. ii. 192.
    3. falla við árar, to fall to at the oars, Fms. xi. 73, 103; Þorgeirr féll þá svá fast á árar (pulled, so bard), at af gengu báðir háirnir, Grett. 125 A; f. fram við árar, id., Fas. ii. 495 (in a verse).
    VI. to fall out, befall; ef auðna fellr til, if it so falls out by luck, Fms. iv. 148; ef auðna vildi til f. með þeim, xi. 267; litlu siðar fellr til fagrt leiði, a fair wind befell them, 426; alla hluti þá er til kunni f., Nj. 224; öll þingvíti er til f., all the fines that may fall in, be due, Gþl. 21; nema þörf falli til, unless a mishap befalls him, i. e. unless he be in a strait, 76; mér féll svá gæfusamliga, it befell me so luckily, Barl. 114; verðuliga er fallit á mik þetta tilfelli, this accident has justly befallen me, 115; sem sakir f. til, as the case falls, Eg. 89.
    2. to fall, be produced; þat (the iron) fellr í firði þeim er Ger heitir, Fas. iii. 240; þar fellr hveiti ok vín, 360.
    VII. impers. in the phrases, e-m fellr e-t þungt, létt, etc., a thing falls lightly, heavily upon, esp. of feeling; þetta mun yðr þungt f., it will fall heavily on you, Band. 18; felir þá keisaranum þyngra bardaginn, the battle fell out ill to ( turned against) the emperor, Fms. xi. 32; at oss mundi þungt f. þessi mál, Nj. 191.
    2. the phrases, e-m fellr e-t nær, it falls nigh to one, touches one nearly; svá fellr mér þetta nær um trega, Nj. 170; sjá einn var svá hlutr, at Njáli féll svá nær, at hana mátti aldri óklökvandi um tala, this one thing touched Njal so nearly, that he could never speak of it without tears, 171; mér fellr eigi firr en honum, it touches me no less than him, Blas. 41; henni féll meinit svá, nær, at …, the illness fell on her so sore, that …, Bs. i. 178; féll henni nær allt saman, she was much vexed by it all (of illness), 351; e-t fellr bágliga, hörmuliga etc. fyrir e-m, things fall out sadly for one. Vígl. 30, El. 15.
    B. Metaph. to fall in with, agree, fit, suit, Germ. gefallen:
    I. to please, suit; kvað sér þat vel falla til aftekta, said that it suited him well for drawing taxes from, Fb. ii. 122: en allt þat, er hann heyrði frá himnaguði, féll honum harla vel, pleased him very well, Fms. i. 133; honum féll vel í eyru lofsorð konungs, the king’s praise suited his ears well, tickled, pleased his fancy, Bret. 16: reflex., þat lof fellsk honum í eyru, 4; jarli fellsk þat vel í eyru, the earl was well pleased to hear it, Bjarn. 7.
    β. falla saman, to fall in with, comply, agree; en þó at eigi félli allt saman með þeim, though they did not agree in all, Bs. i. 723.
    γ. féllsk vel á með þeim, they loved one another, Fas. i. 49; féll vel á með þeim Styrkári, i. e. he and S. were on good terms, Fms. iii. 120.
    δ. honum féllsk þat vel í skap, it suited his mind well, pleased him, Fas. i. 364; féllsk hvárt öðru vel í geð, they agreed well, liked one another well, Band. 9; fallask á e-t, to like a thing; brátt kvartar að mér fellst ei á, Bb. 3. 23.
    2. to beseem, befit; heldr fellr þeim ( it befits them), at sýna öðrum með góðvilja, Str. 2.
    3. falla at e-u, to apply to, refer to; þetta eitt orð er at fellr eiðstafnum, Band. MS. 15 (Ed. 18 wrongly eiðrinn instead of eiðnum).
    4. the phrase ‘falla við’ in Luke vi. 36 (bótin af því hinu nýja fellr eigi við hið gamla) means to agree with; hence also viðfeldinn, agreeable:—but in the two passages to be cited falla við seems to be intended for falda við, to enfold; hvergi nema þar sem falli við akr eða eng, unless field or meadow be increased or improved, N. G. L. ii. 116; ekki má falla (qs. falda) við hamingju-leysi mitt, ‘tis impossible to add a fold to my bad luck, it cannot be worse than it is, Al. 110.
    II. part. fallinn; svá f., such-like, so framed; eitt lítið dýr er svá fallið, at …, a small animal is so framed, that …, Stj. 77; hví man hinn sami maðr svá fallinn, how can the same man be so framed? Fms. xi. 429:—in law phrases, such-like, as follows, svá fallinn vitnisburð, testimony as follows, Vm. 47; svo fallinn órskurð, dóm, etc., a decision, sentence … as follows, a standing phrase; þá leið fallinn, such, such-like (Germ. beschaffen), Stj. 154.
    2. fallinn vel, illa, etc., well, ill-disposed; hann var vænn maðr ok vel fallinn, Fms. xi. 422; þau vóru tröll bæði ok at öllu illa fallin, Bárð. 165; fitted, worthy, bezt til konungs fallinn, Fms. i. 58; ok er hann bezt til þess f. af þessum þremr, vi. 386; at hann væri betr til fallinn at deyja fyrir þá sök en faðir hans, that he more deserved to die than his father did, x. 3; Ólafr er betr til yfirmanns f. enn mínir synir, Ld. 84; margir eru betr til fallnir fararinnar, Ísl. ii. 327; Hallgerðr kvað hann sér vel fallinn til verkstjóra, Nj. 57; sá er til þess er f., Sks. 299; ‘worthy,’ 1 Cor. vi. 2.
    3. neut. fit; ok hætti þá er honum þótti fallit, when he thought fit, Fms. vi. 364; slík reip sem f. þykir, as seems needful, Sks. 420; væri þat vel fallit, at …, it would do well, to …, Fms. ii. 115; þat mun nú vel fallit, that will be right, that will do well, Nj. 145; kallaði vel til fallit, said it was quite right, Fms. xi. 321.
    4. of a thing, with dat. suited to one; eigi þyki mér þér sú ferð vel fallin, i. e. this journey will not do for thee, will not do thee good, Fms. vi. 200; cp. ó-fallit, unfit.

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    I Adv.
    1. still; immer noch oder noch immer still; noch nicht not yet; noch ist es nicht zu spät it’s not too late yet; noch nie never (before); noch lange nicht umg. not by a long chalk (Am. shot); wir sind noch lange nicht fertig etc. we’re not nearly ( oder nowhere near) ready etc.
    2. geringen zeitlichen Abstand ausdrückend: noch am selben Tag that (very) same day; noch gestern only yesterday; heute noch (bis heute) to this day; noch jetzt even now; sie war eben oder gerade noch hier she was here only a moment ago; noch im 11. Jahrhundert... as late as the 11th century...; noch im 11. Jahrhundert benutzte man sie auch they were still in use in the 11th century
    3. begrenzten zeitlichen Rahmen ausdrückend: der Brief muss heute noch oder noch heute zur Post I etc. have to get this letter to the post office by the end of today; er starb noch an der Unfallstelle he died at the scene of the accident; noch bevor er etwas sagen konnte, ging sie hinaus she left before he could say anything
    4. (nicht mehr als): er hat nur noch 10 Dollar he’s only got 10 dollars left; es sind ( nur) noch 5 Kilometer bis zur Raststätte it’s (only) 5 more kilomet|res (Am. -ers) to the service station
    5. (ein weiteres Mal, zusätzlich) more; noch ( ein) mal once more, one more time, again; umg., nach Versprecher: let’s try that (one) again; das ist noch einmal gut gegangen that was close ( oder a close thing [Am. call]), umg. talk about lucky; noch dazu on top of that; dazu kommt noch, dass er trinkt not only that - he drinks too, auch and then he drinks on top of it (all); noch einer one more, another one; noch ein Stück another ( oder one more) piece; noch ein Bier, bitte! the same again, another beer, please; noch zwei Kaffee, bitte! two more coffees, please; auch das noch! that’s all I etc. needed; er hat Geld noch und noch oder nöcher umg. he’s got piles ( oder stacks) of money; es gab zu essen noch und noch oder nöcher umg. there was loads to eat; sie redet noch und noch she never stops talking; noch einmal so viel as much again; und noch etwas and another thing; noch etwas? anything else?; was wollen Sie noch? what more do you want?; ( und) was noch? umg. (and) what else?; wer kommt noch? who else is coming?; noch fünf Minuten five minutes to go; bittend: five more minutes, another five minutes; fehlen 1, 4, gerade II 2, 3
    6. (möglicherweise): du kommst noch zu spät! you’ll be late if you’re not careful; er landet noch im Gefängnis umg. he’ll end up in prison if he’s not careful; sie wird ( schon) noch anrufen she’ll still call
    7. (zuvor, vorher): sie will erst noch duschen she just wants to have a shower first; ich mache das noch fertig I’ll just finish this
    8. (später): er wird noch kommen he will come; vielleicht kann man das noch ( ein) mal gebrauchen perhaps it can be used again sometime
    9. beim Komparativ einen höheren Grad ausdrückend: noch besser / mehr even better / more; noch schlauer als du even smarter than you; es klingt etc. nur noch verdächtiger even ( oder all the) more suspicious; schön I 6
    10. einräumend: jede noch so kleine Spende zählt every donation counts however small it is; sei es noch so klein no matter how small it is, however small it may be; mag sie auch noch so sehr schimpfen oder wenn sie auch noch so sehr schimpft however ( oder no matter how) much she grumbles
    11. verstärkend: das ist noch Qualität that’s what I call quality; da bekommt man noch etwas für sein Geld at least there you get value for money (Am. auch something for your money); da haben wir ja noch Glück gehabt we were lucky there; der wird sich noch wundern he’s in for a surprise; noch im Fallen zog er die Pistole he drew the pistol before he hit the ground; man wird ( doch) noch fragen dürfen I etc. was only asking; das wirst du noch bereuen drohend: you’re going to regret that
    12. fragend: da kannst du noch lachen? how can you find that funny?; jetzt will er noch baden? he wants to go for a swim now?; nach Vergessenem: wie heißt sie noch? what’s ( oder what was) her name again?; was hattest du noch gesagt? what was it you said (again)?; wann war die Party noch ( mal)? umg. when was the party again?
    13. (weniger als): das kostet noch keine 5 Dollar it costs less than 5 dollars; es dauert noch keine 10 Minuten it won’t even take 10 minutes; er kann noch nicht einmal kochen he can’t even cook
    II Konj.: sie hat keine Bekannten, noch Freunde in der Stadt geh. she has no acquaintances or friends in the town; weder
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    nor (Konj.); even; yet; still
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    nọch [nɔx]
    1. adv

    noch nicht — still not, not yet

    bist du fertig? – noch nicht — are you ready? – not yet

    er ist noch nicht da — he still isn't here, he isn't here yet

    immer noch, noch immer — still

    sie ist immer noch nicht fertig — she still isn't ready (yet), she isn't ready yet

    er dachte noch lange an sie — it was a long time before he stopped thinking of her

    ich möchte gern[e] noch bleiben — I'd like to stay on longer

    2) (= irgendwann) some time, one day

    er wird sich ( schon) noch daran gewöhnen — he'll get used to it (some time or one day)

    das kann noch passieren — that just might happen, that might still happen

    3)

    (= eben, nicht später als) das muss noch vor Dienstag fertig sein — it has to be ready by Tuesday

    ich tue das noch heute or heute noch — I'll do it today or this very day

    noch im 18. Jahrhundert — as late as the 18th century

    4) (einschränkend) (only) just

    (gerade) noch gut genug — (only) just good enough

    5)

    (= außerdem, zusätzlich) wer war noch da? — who else was there?

    (gibt es) noch etwas? — (is there) anything else?

    noch etwas Fleisch — some more meat, a bit more meat

    noch zwei Bier — two more beers, another two beers

    noch einmal or mal — (once) again, once more

    und es regnete auch noch or noch dazu — and on top of that it was raining

    dumm und noch dazu frech — stupid and impudent with it (inf)

    6) (bei Vergleichen) even, still, yet

    das ist noch besser — that's even better, that's better still or still better

    das ist noch viel wichtiger als... — that is far more important yet or still than...

    (und) seien sie auch noch so klein — however small they may or might be

    und wenn du auch noch so bittest... — however much you ask...

    7) (inf)

    wir fanden Fehler noch und nöcher (hum inf) — we found tons (inf) or loads (inf) of mistakes

    sie hat noch und nöcher versucht,... — she tried again and again to...

    2. conj
    (weder... noch...) nor

    nicht X, noch Y, noch Z — not X nor Y nor Z

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    1) (yet; still: My boots were dirty, but his were even dirtier.) even
    2) (even: He seemed very ill in the afternoon and in the evening looked still worse.) still
    3) (again: We'll play it once more.) more
    4) (up till now: He hasn't telephoned yet; Have you finished yet?; We're not yet ready.) yet
    5) (used for emphasis: He's made yet another mistake / yet more mistakes.) yet
    6) ((with a comparative adjective) even: a yet more terrible experience.) yet
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    [ˈnɔx]
    I. adv
    1. (außerdem, zusätzlich) in addition
    sie hat ein Auto und auch \noch ein Motorrad he has a car and a motorbike as well
    \noch ein Wort! [not] another word!
    [sonst] \noch etwas? anything else?
    bitte \noch ein/zwei Bier! another beer/two more beers, please!
    möchten Sie \noch eine Tasse Kaffee? would you like another cup of coffee?
    bist du satt oder möchtest du \noch etwas essen? are you full or would you like something more to eat?
    mein Geld ist alle, hast du \noch etwas? I don't have any money left, do you have any?
    es fehlt mir \noch ein Euro I need another euro
    es dauert \noch zehn Minuten it'll be another ten minutes
    \noch einmal so lang as long again
    wer war \noch da? who else was there?
    hat er dir \noch etwas gesagt? did he tell you anything else?
    ich will \noch etwas sagen there's another thing I want to say
    es war \noch anders it was different again
    das ist nicht alles, diese Kisten kommen \noch dazu that's not everything, there are these crates too
    ich gebe dir \noch zwei dazu I'll give you two extra
    auch \noch [o \noch dazu]:
    er ist dumm und \noch dazu frech he's thick and cheeky into the bargain
    und es regnete auch \noch and on top of that it was raining
    ▪ \noch eine(r, s) another
    haben Sie \noch einen Wunsch? [can I get you] anything else?
    lass die Tür bitte auf, da kommt \noch einer leave the door open please, there's somebody else coming
    \noch [ein]mal [once] again, once more
    sie hat das \noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht she did it again/several times more
    nur \noch only
    ich habe nur \noch fünf Euro I've only five euros left
    2. in der Gegenwart, Vergangenheit (weiterhin) still
    er ist \noch da he's still here
    sie schläft \noch she's still asleep
    ich möchte gerne \noch bleiben I'd like to stay on longer
    bleib doch \noch ein bisschen! stay a bit longer!
    ein \noch ungelöstes Problem an as yet unsolved problem
    ich rauche kaum \noch I hardly smoke any more
    du bist \noch zu jung you're still too young
    auch wenn es nicht leichtfällt, \noch müssen wir schweigen even though it might not be easy, we have to keep quiet for now
    \noch nach Jahren... even years later...
    sie dachte \noch lange an ihn it was a long time before she stopped thinking of him
    \noch heute [o heute \noch] still today, even now [or today]
    \noch heute gibt es Leute, die alte Bräuche pflegen even today some people maintain their old customs [or traditions
    3. (bis jetzt)
    \noch immer [nicht] still [not]
    sie hat [bis jetzt] \noch immer gewonnen she's won every time up until now
    wir wissen \noch immer nicht mehr we still don't know anything else
    er ist immer \noch nicht fertig he still isn't ready, he isn't ready yet
    sie ist immer \noch nicht da she's still not here
    \noch nicht not yet, still not
    halt, warte, tu das \noch nicht! stop, wait, don't do it yet!
    bist du fertig? — \noch nicht are you ready? — not yet
    \noch regnet es nicht it hasn't started raining yet
    \noch nichts nothing yet
    zum Glück ist \noch nichts davon an die Öffentlichkeit gedrungen luckily, none of this has yet become public knowledge
    bisher habe ich \noch nichts Definitives erfahren I haven't heard anything more definite yet
    \noch nie [o niemals] never
    ich habe \noch nie Bagels gegessen I've never eaten bagels before
    das habe ich \noch nie gehört I've never known that [before]
    die Sonne schien und die Luft war klar wie \noch nie the sun was shining and the sky was clearer than ever before
    \noch niemand [o keiner] nobody yet
    bisher ist \noch niemand gekommen nobody has arrived yet; s.a. eben, erst, nur
    4. in der Zukunft (irgendwann) some time, one day
    sie wird \noch kommen she'll come [yet]
    du wirst ihn [schon] \noch kennen lernen you'll get to know him yet
    ich will \noch schnell duschen I just want to have a quick shower
    ich mache das jetzt \noch fertig I'll just get this finished
    vielleicht kann man den Karton \noch mal brauchen, ich hebe ihn jedenfalls auf I'll hang on to the box, it might come in handy some time
    sie wird sich [schon] \noch daran gewöhnen she'll get used to it [some time [or one day]]
    das kann [schon] \noch passieren that just might happen, that might still happen
    5. (bis zu einem Zeitpunkt) by the end of
    das Projekt dürfte \noch in diesem Jahr abgeschlossen sein the project should be finished by the end of the year
    das muss \noch vor Dienstag/Monatsende passieren that's got to happen by Tuesday/by the end of the month
    \noch in diesen Tagen werden wir erfahren, was beschlossen wurde we will find out what was decided in the next few days
    ich habe das \noch am selben Abend/Tag gemacht I did it the very same evening/day
    \noch bevor [o ehe] even before
    \noch ehe er antworten konnte, legte sie auf even before he could reply she hung up
    \noch heute [o heute \noch] today
    \noch heute räumst du dein Zimmer auf! you will tidy up your room today!
    ich mache das \noch heute [o heute \noch] I'll do it today [or this very day
    6. in der Vergangenheit (erst) only
    gestern habe ich sie \noch gesehen I saw her only yesterday
    \noch gestern habe ich davon nicht das Geringste gewusst even yesterday I didn't have the slightest idea of it
    \noch im 20. Jahrhundert... as late as the 20th century...
    es ist \noch keine Woche her, dass... it is less than a week ago that...
    ich habe Peter \noch vor zwei Tagen gesehen I saw Peter only two days ago
    eben [o gerade] \noch [only] just
    er war gerade \noch hier he was here only a moment ago
    7. (drückt etw aus, das jetzt nicht mehr möglich ist)
    ich habe ihn \noch gekannt I'm old enough to have known him
    \noch als Junge wollte er Fälscher werden (veraltend) even as a boy he wanted to become a forger
    8. (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful
    wir kommen \noch zu spät we're going to be late [if we're not careful]
    du landest \noch im Gefängnis you'll land up in prison if you don't watch out
    9. (bei Vergleichen) even [more], still
    \noch größer/schneller even bigger/quicker, bigger/quicker still
    das ist \noch besser that's even better [or better still]
    sie will \noch mehr haben she wants even [or still] more
    \noch höhere Gebäude verträgt dieser Untergrund nicht this foundation can't support buildings that are higher
    seinen Vorschlag finde ich sogar \noch etwas besser I think his suggestion is even slightly better still
    geht bitte \noch etwas langsamer, wir kommen sonst nicht mit please walk a bit more slowly, we can't keep up otherwise
    ach, ich soll Ihnen die Leitung übergeben? das ist ja \noch schöner! (iron) oh, so you want me to hand over the management to you? that's even better!
    ▪ ... \noch so however...
    er kommt damit nicht durch, mag er auch \noch so lügen he won't get away with it, however much he lies
    der Wein mag \noch so gut schmecken, er ist einfach zu teuer however good the wine may taste, it's simply too expensive
    du kannst \noch so bitten,... you can beg as much as you like..., however much you plead...
    11. einschränkend (so eben) still, just about
    das ist im Vergleich \noch billig that's still cheap in comparison
    es ist immer \noch teuer genug it's still expensive enough
    das ist ja \noch mal gut gegangen it was just about all right
    das ist \noch zu tolerieren, aber auch nur gerade \noch that's just about tolerable but only just
    sie hat \noch Glück gehabt, es hätte viel schlimmer kommen können she was lucky, it could have been much worse
    wenn sie sich wenigstens \noch entschuldigt hätte if she had apologized at least
    12.
    ▶ \noch und \noch [o nöcher] heaps, dozens
    ich habe diese undankbare Frau \noch und \noch mit Geschenken überhäuft! I showered this ungrateful woman with heaps of gifts
    er hat Geld \noch und nöcher he has oodles [and oodles] of money
    ich kann dir Beispiele \noch und nöcher geben I can give you any number of examples
    sie hat \noch und nöcher versucht,... she tried again and again to...
    II. konj
    ▪ weder... \noch neither... nor
    er kann weder lesen \noch schreiben he can neither read nor write
    weder er \noch Peter \noch Richard neither he nor Peter nor Richard
    ▪ nicht... \noch neither... nor
    nicht er \noch seine Frau haben eine Arbeit neither he nor his wife are in work
    III. part
    siehst du — man kann sich \noch auf sie verlassen! you see — you can always rely on her!
    das ist \noch Qualität! that's what I call quality!
    das dauert \noch keine fünf Minuten it won't even take five minutes
    2. (drohend)
    die wird sich \noch wundern! she's in for a [bit of a] shock!
    das wirst du \noch bereuen! you'll regret it!
    hat der sie eigentlich \noch alle? is he round the twist or what?
    sag mal, was soll der Quatsch, bist du \noch normal? what is this nonsense, are you quite right in the head?
    4. (nach Vergessenem fragend)
    wie heißt/hieß er \noch gleich? what's/what was his name again?
    * * *
    1.
    1) ([wie] bisher, derzeit) still
    2) (als Rest einer Menge)

    ich habe [nur] noch zehn Euro — I've [only] ten euros left

    es fehlt [mir/dir usw.] noch ein Euro — I/you etc. need another euro

    3) (bevor etwas anderes geschieht) just

    ich mache das [jetzt/dann] noch fertig — I'll just get this finished

    4) (irgendwann einmal) some time; one day

    du wirst ihn [schon] noch kennen lernen — you'll get to know him yet

    5) (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful

    sie war eben od. gerade noch hier — she was here only a moment ago

    es ist noch keine Woche her, dass... — it was less than a week ago that...

    noch am selben Abend — the [very] same evening

    8) (drückt aus, dass etwas unwiederholbar ist)
    9) (drückt aus, dass sich etwas im Rahmen hält)

    Er hat noch Glück gehabt. Es hätte weit schlimmer kommen können — He was lucky. It could have been much worse

    das geht noch — that's [still] all right or (coll.) OK

    das ist ja noch [ein]mal gut gegangen — (ugs.) it was just about all right

    10) (außerdem, zusätzlich)

    er hat [auch/außerdem] noch ein Fahrrad — he has a bicycle as well

    noch etwas Kaffee? — [would you like] some more coffee?

    noch ein/zwei Bier, bitte! — another beer/two more beers, please!

    ich habe das noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht — I did it again/several times more

    er ist frech und noch dazu dumm od. dumm dazu — he's cheeky and stupid with it

    Geld/Kleider usw. noch und noch — heaps and heaps of money/clothes etc. (coll.)

    er ist noch größer [als Karl] — he is even taller [than Karl]

    12) (nach etwas Vergessenem fragend)

    wie heißt/hieß sie [doch] noch? — [now] what's/what was her name again?

    2.

    der wird sich noch wundern — (ugs.) he's in for a surprise

    3.
    Konjunktion (und auch nicht) nor

    weder... noch — neither... nor

    * * *
    A. adv
    1. still;
    noch immer still;
    noch nicht not yet;
    noch ist es nicht zu spät it’s not too late yet;
    noch nie never (before);
    noch lange nicht umg not by a long chalk (US shot);
    wir sind noch lange nicht fertig etc we’re not nearly ( oder nowhere near) ready etc
    noch am selben Tag that (very) same day;
    noch gestern only yesterday;
    heute noch (bis heute) to this day;
    noch jetzt even now;
    gerade noch hier she was here only a moment ago;
    noch im 11. Jahrhundert … as late as the 11th century …;
    noch im 11. Jahrhundert benutzte man sie auch they were still in use in the 11th century
    noch heute zur Post I etc have to get this letter to the post office by the end of today;
    er starb noch an der Unfallstelle he died at the scene of the accident;
    noch bevor er etwas sagen konnte, ging sie hinaus she left before he could say anything
    er hat nur noch 10 Dollar he’s only got 10 dollars left;
    es sind (nur) noch 5 Kilometer bis zur Raststätte it’s (only) 5 more kilometres (US -ers) to the service station
    5. (ein weiteres Mal, zusätzlich) more;
    noch (ein)mal once more, one more time, again; umg, nach Versprecher: let’s try that (one) again;
    das ist noch einmal gut gegangen that was close ( oder a close thing [US call]), umg talk about lucky;
    noch dazu on top of that;
    dazu kommt noch, dass er trinkt not only that - he drinks too, auch and then he drinks on top of it (all);
    noch einer one more, another one;
    noch ein Stück another ( oder one more) piece;
    noch ein Bier, bitte! the same again, another beer, please;
    noch zwei Kaffee, bitte! two more coffees, please;
    auch das noch! that’s all I etc needed;
    nöcher umg he’s got piles ( oder stacks) of money;
    nöcher umg there was loads to eat;
    sie redet noch und noch she never stops talking;
    noch einmal so viel as much again;
    und noch etwas and another thing;
    noch etwas? anything else?;
    was wollen Sie noch? what more do you want?;
    (und) was noch? umg (and) what else?;
    wer kommt noch? who else is coming?;
    noch fünf Minuten five minutes to go; bittend: five more minutes, another five minutes; → fehlen 1, 4, gerade B 2, 3
    du kommst noch zu spät! you’ll be late if you’re not careful;
    er landet noch im Gefängnis umg he’ll end up in prison if he’s not careful;
    sie wird (schon) noch anrufen she’ll still call
    7. (zuvor, vorher):
    sie will erst noch duschen she just wants to have a shower first;
    er wird noch kommen he will come;
    vielleicht kann man das noch (ein)mal gebrauchen perhaps it can be used again sometime
    noch besser/mehr even better/more;
    noch schlauer als du even smarter than you;
    es klingt etc
    nur noch verdächtiger even ( oder all the) more suspicious; → schön A 6
    jede noch so kleine Spende zählt every donation counts however small it is;
    sei es noch so klein no matter how small it is, however small it may be;
    wenn sie auch noch so sehr schimpft however ( oder no matter how) much she grumbles
    das ist noch Qualität that’s what I call quality;
    da bekommt man noch etwas für sein Geld at least there you get value for money (US auch something for your money);
    der wird sich noch wundern he’s in for a surprise;
    noch im Fallen zog er die Pistole he drew the pistol before he hit the ground;
    man wird (doch) noch fragen dürfen I etc was only asking;
    das wirst du noch bereuen drohend: you’re going to regret that
    12. fragend:
    da kannst du noch lachen? how can you find that funny?;
    jetzt will er noch baden? he wants to go for a swim now?; nach Vergessenem:
    wie heißt sie noch? what’s ( oder what was) her name again?;
    was hattest du noch gesagt? what was it you said (again)?;
    wann war die Party noch (mal)? umg when was the party again?
    13. (weniger als):
    das kostet noch keine 5 Dollar it costs less than 5 dollars;
    es dauert noch keine 10 Minuten it won’t even take 10 minutes;
    er kann noch nicht einmal kochen he can’t even cook
    B. konj:
    sie hat keine Bekannten, noch Freunde in der Stadt geh she has no acquaintances or friends in the town; → weder
    * * *
    1.
    1) ([wie] bisher, derzeit) still

    ich habe [nur] noch zehn Euro — I've [only] ten euros left

    es fehlt [mir/dir usw.] noch ein Euro — I/you etc. need another euro

    3) (bevor etwas anderes geschieht) just

    ich mache das [jetzt/dann] noch fertig — I'll just get this finished

    4) (irgendwann einmal) some time; one day

    du wirst ihn [schon] noch kennen lernen — you'll get to know him yet

    5) (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful

    sie war eben od. gerade noch hier — she was here only a moment ago

    es ist noch keine Woche her, dass... — it was less than a week ago that...

    noch am selben Abend — the [very] same evening

    8) (drückt aus, dass etwas unwiederholbar ist)
    9) (drückt aus, dass sich etwas im Rahmen hält)

    Er hat noch Glück gehabt. Es hätte weit schlimmer kommen können — He was lucky. It could have been much worse

    das geht noch — that's [still] all right or (coll.) OK

    das ist ja noch [ein]mal gut gegangen — (ugs.) it was just about all right

    10) (außerdem, zusätzlich)

    er hat [auch/außerdem] noch ein Fahrrad — he has a bicycle as well

    noch etwas Kaffee? — [would you like] some more coffee?

    noch ein/zwei Bier, bitte! — another beer/two more beers, please!

    ich habe das noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht — I did it again/several times more

    er ist frech und noch dazu dumm od. dumm dazu — he's cheeky and stupid with it

    Geld/Kleider usw. noch und noch — heaps and heaps of money/clothes etc. (coll.)

    er ist noch größer [als Karl] — he is even taller [than Karl]

    12) (nach etwas Vergessenem fragend)

    wie heißt/hieß sie [doch] noch? — [now] what's/what was her name again?

    2.

    der wird sich noch wundern — (ugs.) he's in for a surprise

    3.
    Konjunktion (und auch nicht) nor

    weder... noch — neither... nor

    * * *
    adj.
    another adj.
    still adj. adv.
    nor adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > noch

  • 92 passé

    [pa’se:] Adj. umg. passé(e), out; das ist endgültig / längst passé that’s died a death / that went out with the ark
    * * *
    Pạs|se ['pasə]
    f -, -n
    yoke
    * * *
    (the part of a garment that fits over the shoulders and round the neck: a black dress with a white yoke.) yoke
    * * *
    Pas·se
    <-, -n>
    [ˈpasə]
    f MODE yoke
    * * *
    passee Adjektiv; nicht attr. (ugs.) passé; out of date
    * * *
    passé [paˈseː] adj umg passé(e), out;
    das ist endgültig/längst passé that’s died a death/that went out with the ark
    * * *
    passee Adjektiv; nicht attr. (ugs.) passé; out of date

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > passé

  • 93 desamparado

    adj.
    unprotected, forlorn, abandoned, destitute.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desamparar.
    * * *
    1→ link=desamparar desamparar
    1 (persona) helpless, unprotected
    2 (lugar) abandoned, forsaken
    * * *
    (f. - desamparada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=sin protección) helpless, defenceless, defenseless (EEUU)
    2) [lugar] (=expuesto) exposed; (=desierto) deserted
    * * *
    - da adjetivo <niño/anciano> defenseless*; < lugar> bleak, unprotected
    * * *
    = out in the cold, lorn, forsaken, unprotected.
    Ex. The documentary video ' Out in the Cold' seeks to raise audience awareness of the plight of homeless gay and lesbian youth.
    Ex. I felt lorn and bereft, then suddenly it was gone, leaving me empty and shaken the way a storm shakes the land and the sea.
    Ex. She was his only intimate friend for years before he died, for he was a most lonely forsaken man.
    Ex. Society is falling apart at the seams, causing individuals who have not been able to cope with the changes to feel unprotected and hopeless.
    ----
    * criatura desamparada = babe in the wood.
    * dejar desamparado = leave + Nombre + out in the cold, leave + unprotected.
    * desamparados, los = underprivileged, the.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo <niño/anciano> defenseless*; < lugar> bleak, unprotected
    * * *
    = out in the cold, lorn, forsaken, unprotected.

    Ex: The documentary video ' Out in the Cold' seeks to raise audience awareness of the plight of homeless gay and lesbian youth.

    Ex: I felt lorn and bereft, then suddenly it was gone, leaving me empty and shaken the way a storm shakes the land and the sea.
    Ex: She was his only intimate friend for years before he died, for he was a most lonely forsaken man.
    Ex: Society is falling apart at the seams, causing individuals who have not been able to cope with the changes to feel unprotected and hopeless.
    * criatura desamparada = babe in the wood.
    * dejar desamparado = leave + Nombre + out in the cold, leave + unprotected.
    * desamparados, los = underprivileged, the.

    * * *
    1 ‹niño/anciano› defenseless*, vulnerable
    se sentía sola y desamparada en la gran ciudad she felt alone and defenseless o vulnerable in the big city
    2 ‹lugar› bleak, unprotected
    * * *

    Del verbo desamparar: ( conjugate desamparar)

    desamparado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    desamparado    
    desamparar
    desamparado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹niño/anciano› defenseless( conjugate defenseless);


    ‹ lugar› bleak, unprotected
    desamparado,-a
    I adj (persona) helpless, unprotected
    (lugar) bleak, forsaken
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino helpless o abandoned person
    desamparar verbo transitivo
    1 to abandon, desert
    2 Jur to renounce, relinquish
    ' desamparado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desamparada
    English:
    helpless
    * * *
    desamparado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] helpless
    2. [lugar] desolate, forsaken
    ♦ nm,f
    helpless person;
    los desamparados the needy, the helpless
    * * *
    adj defenseless, Br
    defenceless
    * * *
    desamparado, -da adj
    desvalido: helpless, destitute

    Spanish-English dictionary > desamparado

  • 94 песен

    song
    лит. canto
    пея песен sing a song
    с песен на уста singing, with a song on o.'s lips
    стара песен на пов глас an old song to a new tune, the same old song
    старата песен it's the same old story/game
    все старата песен the tune the old cow died of
    пея старата песен harp on the same string
    пея стара песен на нов глас ring (the) changes (on)
    пея друга песен sing another tune, change o.'s tune/note, tell a different story, come down a peg (or two)
    песента му е извята his tale is. told, he is played out; he is dead and done for
    * * *
    пѐсен,
    ж., -ни 1. song; коледна \песенен carol; лит. canto; народна \песенен folk song; с \песенен на уста singing; това радио си е изпяло вече \песенента this radio is ready for the scrap heap;
    2. прен. разг. ( добре заучена реч) spiel; • все старата \песенен the tune the old cow died of; \песенента му е изпята his tale is told, he is played out; he is done for; разг. his number is up; пея друга \песенен sing another tune, change o.’s tune/note, tell a different story, come down a peg (or two); пея стара \песенен на нов глас ring (the) changes (on); пея старата \песенен harp on the same string; стара \песенен на нов глас an old song to a new tune, the same old song.
    * * *
    song; canticle (църк.); monody (погребална)
    * * *
    1. song 2. ПЕСЕНта му е извята his tale is. told, he is played out; he is dead and done for 3. все старата ПЕСЕН the tune the old cow died of 4. коледна ПЕСЕН carol 5. лебедова ПЕСЕН swan-song 6. лит. canto 7. народна ПЕСЕН a folk song 8. пея ПЕСЕН sing a song 9. пея друга ПЕСЕН sing another tune, change o.'s tune/note, tell a different story, come down a peg (or two) 10. пея стара ПЕСЕН на нов глас ring (the) changes (on) 11. пея старата ПЕСЕН harp on the same string 12. с ПЕСЕН на уста singing, with a song on o.'s lips 13. стара ПЕСЕН на пов глас an old song to a new tune, the same old song 14. старата ПЕСЕН it's the same old story/game

    Български-английски речник > песен

  • 95 Arkwright, Sir Richard

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 23 December 1732 Preston, England
    d. 3 August 1792 Cromford, England
    [br]
    English inventor of a machine for spinning cotton.
    [br]
    Arkwright was the youngest of thirteen children and was apprenticed to a barber; when he was about 18, he followed this trade in Bol ton. In 1755 he married Patients Holt, who bore him a son before she died, and he remarried in 1761, to Margaret Biggins. He prospered until he took a public house as well as his barber shop and began to lose money. After this failure, he travelled around buying women's hair for wigs.
    In the late 1760s he began spinning experiments at Preston. It is not clear how much Arkwright copied earlier inventions or was helped by Thomas Highs and John Kay but in 1768 he left Preston for Nottingham, where, with John Smalley and David Thornley as partners, he took out his first patent. They set up a mill worked by a horse where machine-spun yarn was produced successfully. The essential part of this process lay in drawing out the cotton by rollers before it was twisted by a flyer and wound onto the bobbin. The partners' resources were not sufficient for developing their patent so Arkwright found new partners in Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt, hosiers of Nottingham and Derby. Much experiment was necessary before they produced satisfactory yarn, and in 1771 a water-driven mill was built at Cromford, where the spinning process was perfected (hence the name "waterframe" was given to his spinning machine); some of this first yarn was used in the hosiery trade. Sales of all-cotton cloth were initially limited because of the high tax on calicoes, but the tax was lowered in 1774 by Act of Parliament, marking the beginning of the phenomenal growth of the cotton industry. In the evidence for this Act, Arkwright claimed that he had spent £12,000 on his machine. Once Arkwright had solved the problem of mechanical spinning, a bottleneck in the preliminary stages would have formed but for another patent taken out in 1775. This covered all preparatory processing, including some ideas not invented by Arkwright, with the result that it was disputed in 1783 and finally annulled in 1785. It contained the "crank and comb" for removing the cotton web off carding engines which was developed at Cromford and solved the difficulty in carding. By this patent, Arkwright had mechanized all the preparatory and spinning processes, and he began to establish water-powered cotton mills even as far away as Scotland. His success encouraged many others to copy him, so he had great difficulty in enforcing his patent Need died in 1781 and the partnership with Strutt ended soon after. Arkwright became very rich and financed other spinning ventures beyond his immediate control, such as that with Samuel Oldknow. It was estimated that 30,000 people were employed in 1785 in establishments using Arkwright's patents. In 1786 he received a knighthood for delivering an address of thanks when an attempt to assassinate George III failed, and the following year he became High Sheriff of Derbyshire. He purchased the manor of Cromford, where he died in 1792.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1786.
    Bibliography
    1769, British patent no. 931.
    1775, British patent no. 1,111.
    Further Reading
    R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester (a thorough scholarly work which is likely to remain unchallenged for many years).
    R.L.Hills, 1973, Richard Arkwright and Cotton Spinning, London (written for use in schools and concentrates on Arkwright's technical achievements).
    R.S.Fitton and A.P.Wadsworth, 1958, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, Manchester (concentrates on the work of Arkwright and Strutt).
    A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, Manchester (covers the period leading up to the Industrial Revolution).
    F.Nasmith, 1932, "Richard Arkwright", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 13 (looks at the actual spinning invention).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (discusses the technical problems of Arkwright's invention).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Arkwright, Sir Richard

  • 96 Ford, Henry

    [br]
    b. 30 July 1863 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    d. 7 April 1947 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer motor-car maker and developer of mass-production methods.
    [br]
    He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.
    At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.
    Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.
    Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.
    In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.
    In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.
    Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.
    Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1922, with S.Crowther, My Life and Work, London: Heinemann.
    Further Reading
    R.Lacey, 1986, Ford, the Men and the Machine, London: Heinemann. W.C.Richards, 1948, The Last Billionaire, Henry Ford, New York: Charles Scribner.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Ford, Henry

  • 97 morirse

    1 to die
    * * *
    VPR
    1) [persona, animal, planta] to die

    ¡ojalá o así se muera! — I hope he drops dead!

    • morirse de algo — to die of sth

    2) * [para exagerar] to die

    ¡muérete! primero se casa con una millonaria y luego se divorcia — you'll never guess what! first he marries a millionairess, then he gets divorced *

    ¡no se va a morir por llamar por teléfono alguna vez! — it wouldn't kill him to ring me some time! *

    ¡que me muera si miento! — cross my heart and hope to die! *, may God strike me dead if I'm lying! *

    • morirse de algo, en esta casa me muero de frío — I'm freezing in this house

    ¡me muero de hambre! — I'm starving!

    ¡me muero de sed! — I'm dying of thirst! *

    • morirse de ganas de hacer algo — to be dying to do sth *

    • morirse por algo — [de deseo] to be dying for sth *; [de afición] to be crazy o mad about sth *

    ¡me muero por una cerveza fresquita! — I'm dying for o I could murder a nice cold beer! *

    se muere por el fútbol — he's crazy o mad about football *

    morirse por algn — to be crazy o mad about sb *

    de o para morirse —

    ese jamón estaba de o para morirse — that ham was just amazing! *

    3) (=entumecerse) [brazo, pierna] to go to sleep, go numb
    * * *

    ■morirse verbo reflexivo
    1 to die: el pueblo entero se muere de hambre, the whole nation is starving to death
    2 (exageración) morirse de ganas de hacer algo, to be dying to do sthg
    morirse de vergüenza, to die of embarrassment
    morirse por algo, to be dying to get sthg
    ' morirse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hambre
    - morir
    - risa
    English:
    croak
    - green
    - heart
    - hysterical
    - hysterics
    - starve
    - broken
    - crave
    - die
    - double
    - yen
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [fallecer] to die (de of);
    se está muriendo she's dying;
    se le ha muerto la madre his mother has died;
    Fam
    nadie se muere por hacer unas cuantas horas extras a few hours of overtime never hurt anyone;
    Fam
    ¡muérete! drop dead!;
    Fam
    ¡por mí como si se muere! she could drop dead for all I care!
    2. [sentir con fuerza]
    morirse de envidia/ira to be burning with envy/rage;
    morirse de miedo to be scared to death;
    casi me muero de risa/vergüenza I nearly died laughing/of shame;
    me muero de ganas de ir a bailar/fumar un pitillo I'm dying to go dancing/for a cigarette;
    me muero de hambre/frío I'm starving/freezing;
    morirse por algo to be dying for sth;
    se mueren por tener un niño they're desperate to have a child;
    morirse por alguien to be crazy about sb
    3. Ven Fam [como exclamación]
    ¡muérete! que conseguí trabajo guess what, I've got a job!;
    ¡muérete! que se robaron tu carro you won't believe it, but your car's been stolen
    * * *
    v/r die;
    morirse de fig die of;
    morirse por fig be dying for;
    morirse de sed die of thirst;
    morirse de risa laugh one’s head off, die laughing
    * * *
    morirse vb to die

    Spanish-English dictionary > morirse

  • 98 на месте

    I
    [PrepP; Invar]
    =====
    1. [adv]
    ⇒ right there where sth. is happening:
    - at the scene (of sth.).
         ♦ "...Неужели ты все это тогда же так на месте и обдумал?" - воскликнул Иван Федорович вне себя от удивления (Достоевский 2). "...Can you possibly have thought of all that right there on the spot?" Ivan Fyodorovich exclaimed, beside himself with astonishment (2a).
    2. [usu. subj-compl with быть, бывать etc (subj: human)]
    ⇒ in the room or place where a person works and should be:
    - X на месте≈ X is in (his office);
    - [in limited contexts] X is where he is supposed to be.
         ♦ Как раз именно полковник Добренький, которого никогда не бывает на месте, [лейтенанту] и нужен (Войнович 4)...It was precisely Colonel Dobrenky, who was never in, with whom he [the lieutenant] needed to speak (4a).
         ♦ Майор, против обыкновения, оказался на месте (Максимов 1). For once the major was in his office (1a).
         ♦ Разбирать конфликт должен заведующий... но его никогда нет на месте, целыми днями где-то пропадает... (Рыбаков 2). It was the manager's responsibility to straighten out problems...but he was never where he was supposed to be, he vanished for days at a time... (2a).
    3. на месте чьем, кого [adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: human; subjunctive only)]
    ⇒ (if s.o. were) in another person's situation:
    - будь X (если бы X был) на месте Y-a ≈ (if X were) in Y's place (shoes, position) (X would...);
    - [1st pers only] if I were you.
         ♦...Его лицо ничего не выражало особенного, и мне стало досадно: я бы на его месте умер с горя (Лермонтов 1)....His face did not express anything unusual, and this annoyed me; in his place, I would have died of grief (1a)...His face showed nothing in particular, and that annoyed me. If I'd been in his place, I'd have died of grief (Ic).
         ♦ [Тригорин:] Я бы вот хотел хоть один час побыть на вашем месте, чтобы узнать, как вы думаете... [Нина:] А я хотела бы побывать на вашем месте. [Тригорин:] Зачем? [Нина:] Чтобы узнать, как чувствует себя известный талантливый писатель (Чехов 6). [Т.:] I'd like to be in your shoes, if only for an hour, to find out how you think... [N.:] And I should like to be in your shoes. [T.:] Why? [N.:] To find out how it feels to be a famous, gifted writer (6a).
         ♦ "А я бы на твоём месте, знаешь, что сделал? Для начала я перестал бы быть холуём при Иванько" (Войнович 3). "And in your position, you know what I would do? To start, I would stop toadying to Ivanko!" (За).
         ♦ "...Аябы на вашем месте поостерёгся..." (Стругацкие 3). Td be worried if I were you" (3a).
    4. уложить, убить, прихлопнуть и т.п. кого ≈ coll [adv].
    ⇒ Also: КЛАСТЬ/ПОЛОЖИТЬ НА МЕСТЕ [VP; subj: human; usu. pfv; fixed WO] to kill s.o. outright, immediately:
    - X уложил Y-а на месте≈ X killed Y on the spot;
    - [in limited contexts] X blasted Y on the spot.
         ♦...Он пригласил к себе старшего помощника для объяснений и убил его на месте (Богданов 1)....He summoned his assistant for an explanation and killed him on the spot (1a).
    II
    • НА МЕСТЕ; НА СВОЕМ МЕСТЕ
    [PrepP; these forms only; subj-compl with copula (subj: human)]
    =====
    ⇒ a person who is engaged in work or activities that suit his abilities, vocation:
    - X is out of place (out of his element).
         ♦ Экспериментатором он быть не мог - только теоретиком, но здесь уж он был на месте (Грекова 2). He could not conduct experiments, he had to confine himself to theoretical work but here he was the right man in the right place (2a).
         ♦...Я думаю, генералом он был бы больше на месте, чем монахом... (Герцен 1)....I think he would have been more in his right place as a general than as a monk... (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > на месте

  • 99 Brand

    m; -(e)s, Brände
    1. fire; (Großbrand) auch blaze; in Brand ( stehen) (be) on fire, (be) in flames, (be) ablaze; in Brand geraten catch fire; in Brand stecken set fire to, set on fire, set alight; (Brennholz etc.) kindle; (Pfeife etc.) light; ein Gebäude in Brand schießen MIL. set fire to a building by gunfire; einen Brand legen start ( oder set) a fire; der Brand griff um sich the fire spread; einen Brand bekämpfen fight a fire; einen Brand eindämmen contain a fire, bring a fire under control; einen Brand löschen put out a fire; ein Brand wütet a fire is raging (out of control); beim Brand des Hotels kamen drei Menschen um three people died in the hotel fire
    2. umg., fig. (Durst) raging thirst; einen riesigen Brand haben be parched, be dying of thirst allg.
    4. BOT. blight, mildew
    5. nur Sg.; MED. (Nekrose) gangrene ohne Art.; feuchter / trockener Brand moist / dry gangrene
    6. von Keramik etc.: firing
    7. nur Sg.; (Heizmaterial) fuel, firewood
    * * *
    der Brand
    blaze; fire
    * * *
    Brạnd [brant]
    m -(e)s, ordm;e
    ['brɛndə]
    1) (= Feuer) fire; (lodernd) blaze, conflagration (liter)

    in Brand geraten — to catch fire; (in Flammen aufgehen) to burst into flames

    in Brand stehen — to be on fire, to be ablaze

    etw in Brand setzen or stecken — to set fire to sth, to set sth alight or on fire

    2) usu pl (= brennendes Holz etc) firebrand
    3) (fig geh der Liebe, des Hasses) burning passion
    4) (=das Brennen von Porzellan etc) firing
    5) (fig inf = großer Durst) raging thirst
    6) (dial inf) (= Brennstoff) fuel; (= Holz auch) firewood
    7) (MED) gangrene no art
    8) (= Pflanzenkrankheit) blight
    * * *
    (the decay of a part of the body of a living person, animal etc, because the blood supply to that part of the body has stopped.) gangrene
    * * *
    <-[e]s, Brände>
    [brant, pl ˈbrɛndə]
    m
    1. (Feuer) fire
    in \Brand geraten to catch fire, to burst into flames
    einen \Brand legen to start a fire
    einen \Brand löschen to extinguish [or sep put out] a fire
    etw in \Brand stecken to set sth alight
    ein Gebäude in \Brand stecken to set a building on fire, to set fire to a building
    2. (das Brennen)
    ▪ der \Brand von Keramik, Porzellan, Ziegel firing
    3. (fam: großer Durst) raging thirst
    einen \Brand haben (fam) to be parched
    seinen \Brand löschen (fam) to cool one's raging thirst
    4. MED gangrene no art, no pl
    5. BOT blight, smut
    * * *
    der; Brand[e]s, Brände
    1) fire

    etwas in Brand setzen od. stecken — set fire to something; set something on fire

    3) (ugs.): (Durst) raging thirst
    * * *
    Brand m; -(e)s, Brände
    1. fire; (Großbrand) auch blaze;
    in Brand (stehen) (be) on fire, (be) in flames, (be) ablaze;
    in Brand geraten catch fire;
    in Brand stecken set fire to, set on fire, set alight; (Brennholz etc) kindle; (Pfeife etc) light;
    ein Gebäude in Brand schießen MIL set fire to a building by gunfire;
    einen Brand legen start ( oder set) a fire;
    der Brand griff um sich the fire spread;
    einen Brand bekämpfen fight a fire;
    einen Brand eindämmen contain a fire, bring a fire under control;
    einen Brand löschen put out a fire;
    ein Brand wütet a fire is raging (out of control);
    beim Brand des Hotels kamen drei Menschen um three people died in the hotel fire
    2. umg, fig (Durst) raging thirst;
    einen riesigen Brand haben be parched, be dying of thirst allg
    4. BOT blight, mildew
    5. nur sg; MED (Nekrose) gangrene ohne art;
    feuchter/trockener Brand moist/dry gangrene
    6. von Keramik etc: firing
    7. nur sg; (Heizmaterial) fuel, firewood
    * * *
    der; Brand[e]s, Brände
    1) fire

    etwas in Brand setzen od. stecken — set fire to something; set something on fire

    3) (ugs.): (Durst) raging thirst
    * * *
    ¨-e (von Keramik) m.
    firing n. ¨-e m.
    blaze n.
    fire n.
    gangrene n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Brand

  • 100 fehlen

    v/i
    1. (nicht vorhanden sein, abhanden gekommen sein) be missing; (jemandem ermangeln) be lacking; bei dir fehlt ein Knopf you’ve lost a button, you’ve got a button missing; in der Kasse fehlt Geld money is missing from the till; ihm fehlen zwei Zähne he has two teeth missing; mir fehlt... I have no..., I haven’t got (any)...; (ich habe nicht genug, brauche) I haven’t got enough..., I need...; uns fehlt das nötige Geld we haven’t got the money (needed); es fehlen uns immer noch einige Leute we still need ( oder we are still short of) a few people; ihr fehlten noch 50 Euro she was short 50 euros, she needed another 50 euros; mir fehlen die Worte words fail me; das fehlte gerade noch! iro. that’s the last straw, that’s all I ( oder we etc.) need(ed); das hat / du hast mir gerade noch ( zu meinem Glück) gefehlt! iro. that’s / you’re all I need(ed)
    2. (abwesend sein) be absent (in der Schule, bei einer Sitzung etc. from); er hat gefehlt auch he wasn’t there; er hat eine Woche gefehlt he was absent for a week; du darfst bei der Hochzeit nicht fehlen you mustn’t miss the wedding, the wedding won’t be the same without you; bei dem Rezept darf ein Schuss Kognak nicht fehlen the recipe is not complete without a dash of brandy
    3. jemandem fehlen (vermisst werden) be missed by s.o.; du hast uns sehr gefehlt we really missed you
    4. unpers.: es fehlt an (+ Dat) there’s a lack of; (es gibt kein[e]) there’s ( oder there are) no, there isn’t ( oder there aren’t) enough; es an nichts fehlen lassen make sure nothing is lacking; (keine Mühe/Kosten scheuen) spare no pains / expense; es fehlt ihm an nichts he’s got everything he wants; es fehlte an jeder Zusammenarbeit there was no cooperation whatsoever; wo fehlt’s denn? what’s wrong?, what’s the trouble?; es fehlte nicht viel, und er wäre daran gestorben he very nearly died of it; an mir soll’s nicht fehlen (well,) I’ll do what I can; daran soll’s nicht fehlen that’s no problem; dazu fehlt’s noch weit oder dazu fehlt noch viel that’s still a long way off, he’s etc. still got a long way to go before he etc. can do that; bei dir fehlt’s wohl da oben oder hier umg. mit Stirntippen: you must be off your head ( oder out of your mind); Ecke
    5. gesundheitlich etc.: was fehlt ihr denn? what’s wrong with her?; fehlt Ihnen etwas? are you all right?; dem fehlt schon nichts beruhigend: there’s nothing wrong with him, he’s perfectly OK
    6. (vorbeischießen) miss; weit gefehlt! fig. (falsch geraten) try again; (nichts dergleichen) you ( oder he etc.) couldn’t be more wrong
    7. geh. (sündigen) sin, transgress
    * * *
    das Fehlen
    non-existence; shortage; lack; shortcoming; absence
    * * *
    feh|len ['feːlən]
    1. vi
    1) (= mangeln) to be lacking; (= nicht vorhanden sein) to be missing; (in der Schule etc) to be away or absent (
    in +dat from); (= schmerzlich vermisst werden) to be missed

    entschuldigt féhlen — to be absent

    unentschuldigt féhlen (Sch) — to play truant

    jdm fehlt etw — sb lacks sth, sb doesn't have sth

    mir féhlen 20 Cent am Fahrgeld — I'm 20 cents short for my fare, I'm short of 20 cents for my fare

    mir féhlen die Worte — words fail me

    meine Bibliothek fehlt/du fehlst mir sehr — I miss my library/you a lot

    der/das hat mir gerade noch gefehlt! (inf) — he/that was all I needed (iro)

    das durfte nicht féhlen — that had to happen

    2)

    (= los sein) was fehlt dir? — what's the matter or what's up( with you)?

    dem Hund scheint etwas zu féhlen — the dog seems to have something the matter with it, there seems to be something wrong or the matter with the dog

    3) (old = etwas falsch machen) to err
    2. vi impers

    es fehlt etw or an etw (dat) — there is a lack of sth; (völlig) there is no sth, sth is missing

    es féhlen drei Messer — there are three knives missing

    féhlen lassen — to be lacking in sth, to lack sth

    er ließ es uns an nichts féhlen (geh) — he let us want for nothing

    es fehlt hinten und vorn(e), es fehlt an allen Ecken und Enden or Kanten — we/they etc are short of everything; (bei Kenntnissen) he/she etc has a lot to learn, he/she etc has a long way to go; (bei Klassenarbeit etc) it's a long way from perfect

    wo fehlt es? — what's the trouble?, what's up? (inf)

    es fehlte nicht viel und ich hätte ihn verprügelt — I almost hit him

    es fehlt(e) nur noch, dass wir sonntags arbeiten sollen — working Sundays is all we need (iro)

    to miss

    weit gefehlt! (fig) — you're way out! (inf); (ganz im Gegenteil) far from it!

    * * *
    1) (to have too little or none of: He lacked the courage to join the army.) lack
    2) (to be absent; to be present in too little an amount: Money for the project is not lacking but enthusiasm is.) be lacking
    * * *
    Fehl·en
    <-s>
    [ˈfe:lən]
    \Fehlen der zugesicherten Eigenschaft JUR lack of promised quality
    * * *
    1) (nicht vorhanden sein) be lacking

    ihm fehlt der Vater/das Geld — he has no father/no money

    ihr fehlt der Sinn dafür — she lacks a or has no feeling for it

    2) (ausbleiben) be missing; be absent

    [un]entschuldigt fehlen — be absent with[out] permission

    3) (verschwunden sein) be missing; be gone

    in der Kasse fehlt Geld — money is missing or has gone from the till

    er/das wird mir fehlen — I shall miss him/that

    5) (erforderlich sein) be needed

    es fehlte nicht viel, und ich wäre eingeschlafen — I all but fell asleep

    das fehlte mir gerade noch [zu meinem Glück], das hat mir gerade noch gefehlt — (ugs.) that's all I needed

    6) unpers. (mangeln)

    es fehlt an allen Ecken und Enden od. Kanten [bei jemandem] — somebody is short of everything

    7)

    fehlt dir etwas? — is there something wrong?; are you all right?

    8)

    weit gefehlt! — (geh.) far from it!

    * * *
    fehlen v/i
    1. (nicht vorhanden sein, abhanden gekommen sein) be missing; (jemandem ermangeln) be lacking;
    bei dir fehlt ein Knopf you’ve lost a button, you’ve got a button missing;
    in der Kasse fehlt Geld money is missing from the till;
    ihm fehlen zwei Zähne he has two teeth missing;
    mir fehlt … I have no …, I haven’t got (any) …; (ich habe nicht genug, brauche) I haven’t got enough …, I need …;
    uns fehlt das nötige Geld we haven’t got the money (needed);
    es fehlen uns immer noch einige Leute we still need ( oder we are still short of) a few people;
    ihr fehlten noch 50 Euro she was short 50 euros, she needed another 50 euros;
    mir fehlen die Worte words fail me;
    das fehlte gerade noch! iron that’s the last straw, that’s all I ( oder we etc) need(ed);
    das hat/du hast mir gerade noch (zu meinem Glück) gefehlt! iron that’s/you’re all I need(ed)
    2. (abwesend sein) be absent (
    bei einer Sitzung etc from);
    er hat gefehlt auch he wasn’t there;
    er hat eine Woche gefehlt he was absent for a week;
    du darfst bei der Hochzeit nicht fehlen you mustn’t miss the wedding, the wedding won’t be the same without you;
    bei dem Rezept darf ein Schuss Kognak nicht fehlen the recipe is not complete without a dash of brandy
    3.
    jemandem fehlen (vermisst werden) be missed by sb;
    du hast uns sehr gefehlt we really missed you
    4. unpers:
    es fehlt an (+dat) there’s a lack of; (es gibt kein[e]) there’s ( oder there are) no, there isn’t ( oder there aren’t) enough;
    es an nichts fehlen lassen make sure nothing is lacking; (keine Mühe/Kosten scheuen) spare no pains/expense;
    es fehlt ihm an nichts he’s got everything he wants;
    es fehlte an jeder Zusammenarbeit there was no cooperation whatsoever;
    wo fehlt’s denn? what’s wrong?, what’s the trouble?;
    es fehlte nicht viel, und er wäre daran gestorben he very nearly died of it;
    an mir soll’s nicht fehlen (well,) I’ll do what I can;
    daran soll’s nicht fehlen that’s no problem;
    dazu fehlt’s noch weit oder
    dazu fehlt noch viel that’s still a long way off, he’s etc still got a long way to go before he etc can do that;
    bei dir fehlt’s wohl da oben oder
    hier umg mit Stirntippen: you must be off your head ( oder out of your mind); → Ecke
    5. gesundheitlich etc:
    was fehlt ihr denn? what’s wrong with her?;
    fehlt Ihnen etwas? are you all right?;
    dem fehlt schon nichts beruhigend: there’s nothing wrong with him, he’s perfectly OK
    6. (vorbeischießen) miss;
    weit gefehlt! fig (falsch geraten) try again; (nichts dergleichen) you ( oder he etc) couldn’t be more wrong
    7. geh (sündigen) sin, transgress
    * * *

    ihm fehlt der Vater/das Geld — he has no father/no money

    ihr fehlt der Sinn dafür — she lacks a or has no feeling for it

    2) (ausbleiben) be missing; be absent

    [un]entschuldigt fehlen — be absent with[out] permission

    3) (verschwunden sein) be missing; be gone

    in der Kasse fehlt Geld — money is missing or has gone from the till

    er/das wird mir fehlen — I shall miss him/that

    5) (erforderlich sein) be needed

    es fehlte nicht viel, und ich wäre eingeschlafen — I all but fell asleep

    das fehlte mir gerade noch [zu meinem Glück], das hat mir gerade noch gefehlt — (ugs.) that's all I needed

    6) unpers. (mangeln)

    es fehlt an allen Ecken und Enden od. Kanten [bei jemandem] — somebody is short of everything

    7)

    fehlt dir etwas? — is there something wrong?; are you all right?

    8)

    weit gefehlt! — (geh.) far from it!

    * * *
    (von) n.
    lack (of) n. n.
    absence (of) n.

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