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  • 1 about

    1. adverb
    1) (all around) rings[her]um; (here and there) überall

    strewn/littered about all over the room — überall im Zimmer verstreut

    2) (near)

    be about — da sein; hier sein

    there was nobody about — es war niemand da

    3)
    4) (active)
    5) (approximately) ungefähr

    [at] about 5 p.m. — ungefähr um od. gegen 17 Uhr

    6) (round) herum; rum (ugs.)

    about turn!, (Amer.) about face! — (Mil.) kehrt!

    7)

    [turn and] turn about — (in rotation) abwechselnd

    2. preposition
    1) (all around) um [... herum]

    there was litter lying about the park/streets — überall im Park/auf den Straßen lag der Abfall herum

    2) (with)

    have something about one — etwas [bei sich] haben

    3) (concerning) über (+ Akk.)

    an argument/a question about something — Streit wegen etwas/eine Frage zu etwas

    talk/laugh about something — über etwas (Akk.) sprechen/lachen

    4) (occupied with)

    be quick/brief about it — beeil dich!; (in speaking) fasse dich kurz!

    while you're about it — da Sie gerade dabei sind

    * * *
    1. preposition
    (on the subject of: We talked about our plans; What's the book about?) über
    2. preposition, adverb
    1) ((sometimes round about) near (in place, time, size etc): about five miles away; (round) about six o'clock; just about big enough.) ungefähr
    2) (in different directions; here and there: The children ran about (the garden).) herum
    3) (in or on some part (of a place etc): You'll find him somewhere about (the office).) irgendwo in...
    4) (around or surrounding: She wore a coat about her shoulders; He lay with his clothes scattered about.) um
    3. adverb
    ((in military commands etc) in the opposite direction: About turn!) kehrt!
    - academic.ru/115262/be_about_to">be about to
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    [əˈbaʊt]
    I. prep
    1. (on the subject of, concerning) über + akk
    she had some misgivings \about the talk sie hatte wegen des Gesprächs Bedenken
    he often tells jokes \about dumb blonds er erzählt oft Blondinenwitze
    be quick \about it! beeil dich [damit]!, mach schnell!
    anxiety \about the future Angst f vor der Zukunft, Zukunftsangst f
    a book/movie/programme \about sth/sb ein Buch/ein Film/eine Sendung über etw/jdn
    what's that book \about? worum geht es in dem Buch?
    the movie is \about the American Civil War der Film handelt vom Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg
    to have a discussion \about how/who/why... darüber diskutieren, wie/wer/warum...
    to have a phobia \about spiders eine Spinnenphobie haben
    to be happy \about sth sich akk über etw akk freuen
    to be sure [or certain] /unsure [or uncertain] \about sth sich dat einer S. gen sicher/unsicher sein
    he was still unsure \about what he should do er war sich noch immer nicht sicher, was er tun sollte
    we are now certain \about our decision to move wir haben uns jetzt endgültig entschlossen umzuziehen
    to ask sb \about sth/sb jdn nach etw/jdm fragen
    to be on \about sth BRIT ( fam) sich akk über etw akk auslassen
    to care \about sth/sb sich akk für etw/jdn interessieren
    I don't care \about your opinion! deine Meinung interessiert mich nicht!
    to dream \about sth/sb von etw/jdm träumen
    she always dreams \about winning the lottery sie träumt immer davon, im Lotto zu gewinnen
    to talk \about sth über etw akk sprechen
    all \about sb/sth alles über jdn/etw
    he taught us all \about biology wir haben von ihm alles über Biologie gelernt
    it's all \about having fun es geht einfach nur darum, Spaß zu haben
    2. (affecting) gegen + akk
    to do something \about sth etwas gegen etw akk unternehmen
    will you please do something \about the leaky tap? kümmerst du dich bitte mal um den tropfenden Wasserhahn?
    I can't do anything \about it ich kann nichts dagegen machen
    to do little/much/nothing \about sth wenig/viel/nichts gegen etw akk tun
    there's nothing we can do \about it dagegen können wir nichts machen
    to do nothing \about a problem ein Problem nicht anpacken, nicht gegen ein Problem vorgehen
    3. (surrounding) um + akk
    he takes little notice of the world \about him er nimmt von seiner Umgebung kaum Notiz
    to put one's arms \about sb jdn umarmen
    4. after vb (expressing movement)
    to wander \about the house im Haus herumlaufen
    to look \about the room sich akk im Zimmer umsehen
    5. (expressing location)
    she must be \about the place somewhere sie muss hier irgendwo sein; BRIT ( form)
    do you have a pen \about you[r person]? haben Sie einen Kugelschreiber dabei?
    6. (being a feature, characteristic of) an + dat
    what exactly didn't you like \about the play? was genau hat dir an der Aufführung nicht gefallen?
    there is a deep sadness \about him ihn umgibt eine tiefe Melancholie
    he has a way \about him that I don't like er hat etwas an sich, das mir nicht gefällt
    there's something strange \about him er hat etwas Merkwürdiges an sich
    7. (aimed at)
    ▪ to be \about doing sth beabsichtigen [o darauf abzielen], etw zu tun
    the takeover was not \about getting rid of competition die Übernahme sollte nicht die Konkurrenz ausschalten; BRIT ( fam)
    to be \about it gerade dabei sein
    could you make me some coffee too while you're \about it? wo Sie gerade dabei sind, könnten Sie mir auch einen Kaffee machen?
    9.
    ▶ to go \about sth (continue) mit etw dat fortfahren; (tackle) etw angehen
    how shall go \about solving this problem? wie sollen wir dieses Problem angehen?
    how do you go \about getting a fishing licence here? was muss man tun, wenn man hier einen Angelschein erwerben will?
    ▶ how \about sth/sb? wie wäre es mit jdm/etw?
    how \about a cup of tea? wie wäre es mit einer Tasse Tee?
    ▶ to know what one is \about ( fam) wissen, was man tut
    ▶ what \about it? was ist damit?
    is that your car? — yes, what \about it? ist das da Ihr Auto? — ja, was ist damit?
    ▶ and what \about us? und was ist mit uns?
    ▶ what \about your job? wie läuft es bei der Arbeit?
    ▶ what \about going [or a trip] to the zoo? wie wäre es mit einem Besuch im Zoo?
    II. adv inv
    1. (approximately) ungefähr
    he's \about six feet tall er ist ungefähr 1,80 m groß
    \about eight [o'clock] [so] gegen acht [Uhr]
    \about two days/months ago vor etwa zwei Tagen/Monaten
    2. (almost) fast
    I've had just \about enough from you! ich habe allmählich genug von dir!
    that's just \about the limit! das ist ja so ziemlich das Letzte!
    3. (barely)
    we just \about made it wir haben es gerade noch [so] geschafft
    he earns just \about enough to live on er verdient gerade mal genug zum Leben
    4. esp BRIT (around) herum
    don't leave things \about on the floor lass nichts auf dem Boden herumliegen
    some people were standing \about ein paar Leute standen so herum
    there's a lot of flu \about at the moment im Moment geht die Grippe um
    to be up [or out] and \about auf den Beinen sein
    to move \about herumlaufen, umherlaufen
    stop moving \about! bleib doch mal [ruhig] stehen!
    5. esp BRIT (in the area) hier, in der Nähe
    is Cathy \about? ist Cathy hier irgendwo?
    she must be \about somewhere sie muss hier irgendwo sein
    have you seen Peter \about? hast du Peter irgendwo gesehen?
    there was nobody \about es war keiner da
    6. ( form: opposite) andersherum
    to turn sth \about etw herumdrehen
    \about turn [or AM face]! MIL [Abteilung] kehrt!
    ▪ to be \about to do sth im Begriff sein [o gerade vorhaben], etw zu tun
    she was [just] \about to leave when Mark arrived sie wollte gerade gehen, als Mark kam
    he was \about to burst into tears er wäre fast in Tränen ausgebrochen
    we're just \about to have supper wir wollen gerade zu Abend essen
    I'm not \about to beg for his apology ich werde ihn bestimmt nicht um eine Entschuldigung bitten
    8.
    ▶ that's \about all [or it] das wär's
    anything else? — no, that's \about it for now wünschen Sie noch etwas? — nein, das wäre erst einmal alles [o das wär's fürs Erste]
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    [ə'baʊt]
    1. adv
    1) (esp Brit) herum, umher; (= present) in der Nähe

    to run/walk about — herum- or umherrennen/-gehen

    to be ( up and) about again —

    there was nobody about who could help — es war niemand in der Nähe, der hätte helfen können

    at night when there's nobody about — nachts, wenn niemand unterwegs ist

    where is he/it? – he's/it's about somewhere — wo ist er/es? – (er/es ist) irgendwo in der Nähe

    See:
    → out, turn, up
    2)

    to be about to — im Begriff sein zu; ( esp US inf

    he's about to start school —

    are you about to tell me...? — willst du mir etwa erzählen...?

    3) (= approximately) ungefähr, (so) um... (herum)

    he's about 40 —

    he is about the same, doctor — sein Zustand hat sich kaum geändert, Herr Doktor

    that's about it — das ist so ziemlich alles, das wärs (so ziemlich) (inf)

    I've had about enough (of this nonsense) — jetzt reicht es mir aber allmählich (mit diesem Unsinn)

    See:
    → just, round, time
    2. prep
    1) (esp Brit) um (... herum); (= in) in (+dat) (... herum)

    to sit about the house —

    there's something about him/about the way he speaks — er/seine Art zu reden hat so etwas an sich

    while you're about it —

    and be quick about it! — und beeil dich damit!, aber ein bisschen dalli! (inf)

    2) (= concerning) über (+acc)

    he knows about it — er weiß darüber Bescheid, er weiß davon

    what's it all about? — worum or um was (inf) handelt es sich or geht es (eigentlich)?

    he's promised to do something about it — er hat versprochen, (in der Sache) etwas zu unternehmen

    how or what about me? — und ich, was ist mit mir? (inf)

    how or what about it/going to the cinema? —

    (yes,) what about it/him? —

    he doesn't know what he's about — er weiß nicht, was er (eigentlich) tut

    * * *
    about [əˈbaʊt]
    A adv
    1. umher, (rings-, rund)herum, in der Runde:
    all about überall;
    a long way about ein großer Umweg;
    the wrong way about falsch herum;
    three miles about drei Meilen im Umkreis
    2. ungefähr, etwa, nahezu:
    it’s about time that … es ist an der Zeit, dass …; es wird langsam Zeit, dass …;
    and about time, about time too es wurde aber auch langsam Zeit;
    it’s about right umg es kommt so ungefähr hin;
    that’s about it, that’s about all das wärs; → just B 5
    3. (halb) herum, in der entgegengesetzten Richtung:
    be about SCHIFF klar zum Wenden sein; → face C 1, turn1 A 27
    4. be about to do sth im Begriff oder dabei oder auf dem Sprung sein, etwas zu tun;
    he was about to go out, when … er wollte gerade ausgehen, als …;
    not be about to do sth bes US umg nicht die Absicht haben oder nicht daran denken, etwas zu tun
    5. in der Nähe, da:
    6. be about umgehen (Krankheit):
    there are a lot of colds about at the moment zurzeit sind viele erkältet
    B präp
    1. besonders Br um, um … herum
    2. (irgendwo) herum in (dat):
    wander about the streets in den Straßen herumwandern
    3. bei, auf (dat), an (dat), um:
    have you got any money about you? haben Sie Geld bei sich?;
    there is nothing about him an ihm ist nichts Besonderes;
    have sth about one etwas an sich haben;
    he had a gun hidden about his person er hatte eine Pistole in seiner Kleidung versteckt
    4. um, gegen, etwa:
    about my height ungefähr meine Größe;
    about this time (etwa oder ungefähr) um diese Zeit;
    about noon um die Mittagszeit, gegen Mittag
    5. über (akk):
    what is it (all) about? worum handelt es sich (eigentlich)?
    6. beschäftigt mit:
    he knows what he is about er weiß, was er tut oder was er will;
    what are you about?
    a) was machst du da?,
    b) was hast du vor?;
    and while you’re about it und wenn du schon dabei bist
    C v/t SCHIFF ein Schiff wenden
    * * *
    1. adverb
    1) (all around) rings[her]um; (here and there) überall

    strewn/littered about all over the room — überall im Zimmer verstreut

    be about — da sein; hier sein

    3)
    5) (approximately) ungefähr

    [at] about 5 p.m. — ungefähr um od. gegen 17 Uhr

    6) (round) herum; rum (ugs.)

    about turn!, (Amer.) about face! — (Mil.) kehrt!

    7)

    [turn and] turn about — (in rotation) abwechselnd

    2. preposition
    1) (all around) um [... herum]

    there was litter lying about the park/streets — überall im Park/auf den Straßen lag der Abfall herum

    have something about one — etwas [bei sich] haben

    3) (concerning) über (+ Akk.)

    an argument/a question about something — Streit wegen etwas/eine Frage zu etwas

    talk/laugh about something — über etwas (Akk.) sprechen/lachen

    be quick/brief about it — beeil dich!; (in speaking) fasse dich kurz!

    * * *
    adj.
    etwa adj.
    gegen adj.
    um... adj.
    ungefähr adj. prep.
    über präp.

    English-german dictionary > about

  • 2 John's got to be about somewhere

    English-Dutch dictionary > John's got to be about somewhere

  • 3 ‘John's quite happy about the result’ ‘I bet he is’

    ‘John's quite happy about the result’ ‘I bet he is’
    ‘John is best tevreden over het resultaat’ ‘dat kan ik me voorstellen’

    English-Dutch dictionary > ‘John's quite happy about the result’ ‘I bet he is’

  • 4 John Barleycorn

    Джон ячменное Зерно (олицетворение виски, пива и др. спиртных и солодовых напитков) [выражение, известное с первой половины XVII в., приобрело особую популярность благодаря балладе Р. Бёрнса; см. цитату]

    John Barleycorn was a hero bold. Of noble enterprise; For if you do but taste his blood, 't will make your courage rise... Then let us toast John Barleycorn, Each man a glass in hand; And may his great posterity Ne'er fail in old Scotland. (R. Burns, ‘John Barleycorn’) — Недаром был покойный Джон При жизни молодец - Отвагу подымает он Со дна людских сердец... Так пусть же до конца времен Не высыхает дно В бочонке, где клокочет Джон Ячменное Зерно! (перевод С. Маршака)

    It seems old Suzan liked John Barleycorn. She'd souse herself to the ears every chance she got... John Barleycorn... It's the old-fashioned name for whisky. (J. London, ‘The Valley of the Moon’, part III, ch. II) — Похоже, что старая Сузан весьма уважала Джона Ячменное Зерно. Она готова была нагрузиться при всяком удобном случае... Джон Ячменное Зерно... Это ведь старое название виски.

    Jamie: "...By the time I hit Mamie's dump I felt very sad about myself and all the other poor bums in the world. Ready for a weep on any old womanly bosom... You know how you get when John Barleycorn turns on the soft music inside you." (E. O'Neill, ‘Long Day's Journey into Night’, act IV) — Джейми: "...Когда я добрался до заведения мамаши Верне, у меня уже сердце разрывалось от жалости к себе и ко всем несчастным забулдыгам на белом свете. Я вполне созрел, чтобы поплакать на груди у какой-нибудь старушки... Ты же знаешь, как это бывает, когда маэстро Джон Ячменное Зерно заводит внутри тебя нежную, грустную музыку."

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  • 5 John

    1) Общая лексика: Джон, Иван, Йон
    2) Разговорное выражение: сортир
    3) Религия: От Иоанна святое благовествование, (An apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of Revelation) Иоанн Богослов (апостол от Двенадцати, евангелист), (Antipope during January 844. He was saved from being murdered by the noble faction through the intervention of Sergius II, consecrated Pope at St. Peter's without imperial sanction, who then imprisoned him in a monastery) антипапа Иоанн, (Any of three short didactic letters addressed to early Christians and included in the New Testament) Первое, Второе или Третье соборное послание св. апостола Иоанна Богослова, (One of the most popular Popes of all times - reigned 1958-63- who inaugurated a new era in the history of the Roman Catholic Church by his openness to change, shown especially in his convoking of the second Vatican Council) Иоанн XXIII, (Pope from 1276 to 1277, one of the most scholarly pontiffs in papal history) Иоанн XXI, (Pope from 523 to 526 who ended the Acacian Schism - 484-519 - thus reuniting the Eastern and Western churches by restoring peace between the papacy and the Byzantine emperor Justin I) Иоанн I, (Pope from 533 to 535 and the first pontiff to change his original name, which he considered pagan) Иоанн II, (Pope from 701 to 705. In his only extant letter, John ordered the restoration of the deposed bishop St. Wilfrid of York) Иоанн VI, (Pope from 705 to 707 who was noted for his devotion to the Virgin Mary and for his energetic restoration of Roman churches) Иоанн VII, (Pope from 898 to 900. His councils made compulsory the presence of an imperial emissary at papal elections) Иоанн IX, (Pope from 914 to 928 who approved the severe rule of the newly founded Benedictine order of Cluny) Иоанн X, (Pope from 931 to about 935, the son of Marozia, dominant lady of the Roman Crescentii family. In 932/933 he was confined by his half-brother Alberic II to the Lateran and remained a prisoner until his death) Иоанн XI, (Pope from 955 to 964 who was elected when he was only about 18 years of age) Иоанн XII, (Pope from 965 to 972. His alliance with the imperial family made his pontificate peaceful) Иоанн XIII, (Pope from 983 to 984. His sole extant document is a letter to Archbishop Alo of Benevento, Italy, concerning church reform) Иоанн XIV, (Pope from July 23, 685, to August 2, 686. A man of learning and generosity, he made liberal donations for the poor) Иоанн V, (Second Avignon Pope - reigned 1316-34 - who centralized church administration, condemned the Spiritual Franciscans, and, against Emperor Louis IV, upheld papal authority over imperial elections) Иоанн XXII, (The fourth Gospel in the NewTestament) Евангелие от Иоанна, (XXIII)(Schismatic antipope from 1410 to 1415) Иоанн (XXIII)
    7) Имена и фамилии: Джон (имя) (100%)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > John

  • 6 john

    1) Общая лексика: Джон, Иван, Йон
    2) Разговорное выражение: сортир
    3) Религия: От Иоанна святое благовествование, (An apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of Revelation) Иоанн Богослов (апостол от Двенадцати, евангелист), (Antipope during January 844. He was saved from being murdered by the noble faction through the intervention of Sergius II, consecrated Pope at St. Peter's without imperial sanction, who then imprisoned him in a monastery) антипапа Иоанн, (Any of three short didactic letters addressed to early Christians and included in the New Testament) Первое, Второе или Третье соборное послание св. апостола Иоанна Богослова, (One of the most popular Popes of all times - reigned 1958-63- who inaugurated a new era in the history of the Roman Catholic Church by his openness to change, shown especially in his convoking of the second Vatican Council) Иоанн XXIII, (Pope from 1276 to 1277, one of the most scholarly pontiffs in papal history) Иоанн XXI, (Pope from 523 to 526 who ended the Acacian Schism - 484-519 - thus reuniting the Eastern and Western churches by restoring peace between the papacy and the Byzantine emperor Justin I) Иоанн I, (Pope from 533 to 535 and the first pontiff to change his original name, which he considered pagan) Иоанн II, (Pope from 701 to 705. In his only extant letter, John ordered the restoration of the deposed bishop St. Wilfrid of York) Иоанн VI, (Pope from 705 to 707 who was noted for his devotion to the Virgin Mary and for his energetic restoration of Roman churches) Иоанн VII, (Pope from 898 to 900. His councils made compulsory the presence of an imperial emissary at papal elections) Иоанн IX, (Pope from 914 to 928 who approved the severe rule of the newly founded Benedictine order of Cluny) Иоанн X, (Pope from 931 to about 935, the son of Marozia, dominant lady of the Roman Crescentii family. In 932/933 he was confined by his half-brother Alberic II to the Lateran and remained a prisoner until his death) Иоанн XI, (Pope from 955 to 964 who was elected when he was only about 18 years of age) Иоанн XII, (Pope from 965 to 972. His alliance with the imperial family made his pontificate peaceful) Иоанн XIII, (Pope from 983 to 984. His sole extant document is a letter to Archbishop Alo of Benevento, Italy, concerning church reform) Иоанн XIV, (Pope from July 23, 685, to August 2, 686. A man of learning and generosity, he made liberal donations for the poor) Иоанн V, (Second Avignon Pope - reigned 1316-34 - who centralized church administration, condemned the Spiritual Franciscans, and, against Emperor Louis IV, upheld papal authority over imperial elections) Иоанн XXII, (The fourth Gospel in the NewTestament) Евангелие от Иоанна, (XXIII)(Schismatic antipope from 1410 to 1415) Иоанн (XXIII)
    7) Имена и фамилии: Джон (имя) (100%)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > john

  • 7 John Barleycorn

       Джoн Ячмeннoe Зepнo (oлицeтвopeниe виcки, пивa и дp. cпиpтныx и coлoдoвыx нaпиткoв) [выpaжeниe, извecтнoe c пepвoй пoлoвины XVII в., пpиoбpeлo ocoбую пoпуляpнocть блaгoдapя бaллaдe P. Бepнca 'John Barleycorn']
        Jamie....I felt very sad about myself and all the other poor bums in the world... You know how you get when John Barleycorn turns on the soft music inside you (E. O'Neilt)

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  • 8 John (Pope from 931 to about 935, the son of Marozia, dominant lady of the Roman Crescentii family. In 932/933 he was confined by his half-brother Alberic II to the Lateran and remained a prisoner until his death)

    Религия: Иоанн XI

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > John (Pope from 931 to about 935, the son of Marozia, dominant lady of the Roman Crescentii family. In 932/933 he was confined by his half-brother Alberic II to the Lateran and remained a prisoner until his death)

  • 9 John (Pope from 955 to 964 who was elected when he was only about 18 years of age)

    Религия: Иоанн XII

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > John (Pope from 955 to 964 who was elected when he was only about 18 years of age)

  • 10 know about

    transitive verb
    wissen über (+ Akk.)

    oh, I didn't know about it/that — oh, das habe ich nicht gewusst

    did you know about your son's behaviour? — haben Sie gehört, wie sich Ihr Sohn benommen hat?

    I don't know about that — na, ich weiß nicht [so recht]

    * * *
    vi
    ▪ to \know about about sth/sb von etw/jdm wissen
    did you \know about about the burglary? hast du von dem Einbruch gehört?
    I don't \know about about the others but I'm staying here ich weiß nicht, was die anderen machen, aber ich [für meinen Teil] bleibe hier
    I don't \know about about you but I'm starving ich weiß ja nicht, wie es dir geht, aber ich verhungere gleich!
    I \know about about that ich weiß [schon] Bescheid!; (have real knowledge) da kenne ich mich aus!
    yep, I \know about about that ja, das weiß ich
    I don't \know about about that na, ich weiß nicht; (really not knowing) davon weiß ich nichts
    oh, I didn't \know about about it oh, das habe ich [gar] nicht gewusst
    she's not to \know about about it sie soll nichts davon erfahren!
    I \know about about Mary but who else is coming? ich weiß, dass Mary kommt, aber wer noch?
    well I don't \know about about beautiful but she certainly is nice na ja, ob sie schön ist, weiß ich nicht, aber nett ist sie auf jeden Fall!
    my grandad \know abouts all there is to \know about about fishing mein Opa weiß wirklich alles übers Fischen
    I don't \know about anything about computers von Computern verstehe ich gar nichts
    not much is \know aboutn about it darüber weiß man nicht viel
    to not \know about the first thing about sth keine Ahnung von etw dat haben
    to not \know about the first thing about sb nichts über jdn wissen
    * * *
    vi +prep obj
    (= have factual knowledge, experience of) history, maths, politics sich auskennen in (+dat); Africa Bescheid wissen über (+acc); women, men, cars, horses sich auskennen mit; (= be aware of, have been told about) wissen von

    I only knew about it yesterday — ich habe erst gestern davon gehört

    I know about John, but is anyone else absent? — John, das weiß ich, aber fehlt sonst noch jemand?

    to get to know about sb/sth — von jdm/etw hören

    I don't know about you, but I'm hungry —

    she's very clever, isn't she? – I don't know about clever, but she certainly knows how to use people — sie ist sehr klug, nicht wahr? – klug, na, ich weiß nicht, aber sie weiß Leute auszunutzen

    I know all about that — da kenne ich mich aus

    I don't know about that! — da bin ich mir nicht so sicher! know of vi +prep obj café, better method kennen

    I soon got to know of all the facts/all his problems — ich war bald über alle Fakten/all seine Probleme informiert

    I know of him, although I've never met him — ich habe von ihm gehört, aber ich habe ihn noch nie getroffen

    not that I know of — nicht, dass ich wüsste

    * * *
    transitive verb
    wissen über (+ Akk.)

    oh, I didn't know about it/that — oh, das habe ich nicht gewusst

    did you know about your son's behaviour? — haben Sie gehört, wie sich Ihr Sohn benommen hat?

    I don't know about that — na, ich weiß nicht [so recht]

    English-german dictionary > know about

  • 11 how about John?

    how about John?
    wat doe je (dan) met John?
    ————————
    how about John?
    wat voor nieuws is er van John?, hoe stelt John het?

    English-Dutch dictionary > how about John?

  • 12 be about

    be about
    , 〈in betekenis 1  en 2 ook〉 be around
    2  er zijn ⇒ beschikbaar/aanwezig zijn
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   John's got to be about somewhere • John moet ergens in de buurt zijn
    2   there's a lot of flu about • er is heel wat griep onder de mensen
    3   he was about to leave • hij ging net vertrekken

    English-Dutch dictionary > be about

  • 13 Smalley, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. c. 1729 England
    d. 28 January 1782 Holywell, Wales.
    [br]
    English helped Arkwright to build and finance the waterframe.
    [br]
    John Smalley of Preston was the second son of John, a chapman of Blackburn. He was a distant relative of Richard Arkwright through marrying, in 1751, Elizabeth Baxter, whose mother Ellen was the widow of Arkwright's uncle, Richard. In the Preston Guild Rolls of 1762 he was described as a grocer and painter, and he was also Landlord of the Bull Inn. The following year he became a bailiff of Preston and in 1765 he became a Corporation steward. On 14 May 1768 Arkwright, Smalley and David Thornley became partners in a cotton-spinning venture in Nottingham. They agreed to apply for a patent for Arkwright's invention of spinning by rollers, and Smalley signed as a witness. It is said that Smalley provided much of the capital for this new venture as he sold his business at Preston for about £1,600, but this was soon found to be insufficient and the partnership had to be enlarged to include Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt.
    Smalley may have helped to establish the spinning mill at Nottingham, but by 28 February 1771 he was back in Preston, for on that day he was chosen a "Councilman in the room of Mr. Thomas Jackson deceased" (Fitton 1989:38). He attended meetings for over a year, but either in 1772 or the following year he sold the Bull Inn, and certainly by August 1774 the Smalleys were living in Cromford, where he became Manager of the mill. He soon found himself at logger-heads with Arkwright; however, Strutt was able to smooth the dispute over for a while. Things came to a head in January 1777 when Arkwright was determined to get rid of Smalley, and the three remaining partners agreed to buy out Smalley's share for the sum of £10,751.
    Although he had agreed not to set up any textile machinery, Smalley moved to Holywell in North Wales, where in the spring of 1777 he built a cotton-spinning mill in the Greenfield valley. He prospered there and his son was later to build two more mills in the same valley. Smalley used to go to Wrexham to sell his yarn, and there met John Peers, a leather merchant, who was able to provide a better quality leather for covering the drawing rollers which came to be used in Lancashire. Smalley died in 1782, shortly before Arkwright could sue him for infringement of his patents.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester (draws together the fullest details of John Smalley).
    R.L.Hills, 1969, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (includes details of the agreement with Arkwright).
    A.H.Dodd, 1971, The Industrial Revolution in North Wales, Cardiff; E.J.Foulkes, 1964, "The cotton spinning factories of Flintshire, 1777–1866", Flintshire Historical Society
    Journal 21 (provide more information about his cotton mill at Holywell).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Smalley, John

  • 14 how etc about someone or something

    expr interrog infml
    1)

    How about a drink? — Ну что, выпьем?

    What about giving me a nice kiss? — Ну а как насчет того, чтобы поцеловать меня?

    Well, what about it? Are we going? — Ну что, идем мы или не идем?

    What about painting it pink? — Давай покрасим это в розовый цвет, а?

    2)
    3)

    How about letting them know? — Ну ты им сказал, я надеюсь?

    You're the last one to talk about wasting electricity! How about all the times you fall asleep with your bedside lamp on all the night? — Только не тебе говорить об экономии электричества. Ты что, забыл, сколько раз ты засыпал, а лампа у тебя горела всю ночь?

    What about that coffee, waiter? — Официант, а где же кофе?

    What about money to pay for it? — А кто будет расплачиваться, а?

    What about the daft things you do yourself? — А ты-то что вытворяешь, забыл?

    The new dictionary of modern spoken language > how etc about someone or something

  • 15 Stevens, John

    [br]
    b. 1749 New York, New York, USA
    d. 6 March 1838 Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer of steamboats and railways.
    [br]
    Stevens, a wealthy landowner with an estate at Hoboken on the Hudson River, had his attention drawn to the steamboat of John Fitch in 1786, and thenceforth devoted much of his time and fortune to developing steamboats and mechanical transport. He also had political influence and it was at his instance that Congress in 1790 passed an Act establishing the first patent laws in the USA. The following year Stevens was one of the first recipients of a US patent. This referred to multi-tubular boilers, of both watertube and firetube types, and antedated by many years the work of both Henry Booth and Marc Seguin on the latter.
    A steamboat built in 1798 by John Stevens, Nicholas J.Roosevelt and Stevens's brother-in-law, Robert R.Livingston, in association was unsuccessful, nor was Stevens satisfied with a boat built in 1802 in which a simple rotary steam-en-gine was mounted on the same shaft as a screw propeller. However, although others had experimented earlier with screw propellers, when John Stevens had the Little Juliana built in 1804 he produced the first practical screw steamboat. Steam at 50 psi (3.5 kg/cm2) pressure was supplied by a watertube boiler to a single-cylinder engine which drove two contra-rotating shafts, upon each of which was mounted a screw propeller. This little boat, less than 25 ft (7.6 m) long, was taken backwards and forwards across the Hudson River by two of Stevens's sons, one of whom, R.L. Stevens, was to help his father with many subsequent experiments. The boat, however, was ahead of its time, and steamships were to be driven by paddle wheels until the late 1830s.
    In 1807 John Stevens declined an invitation to join with Robert Fulton and Robert R.Living-ston in their development work, which culminated in successful operation of the PS Clermont that summer; in 1808, however, he launched his own paddle steamer, the Phoenix. But Fulton and Livingston had obtained an effective monopoly of steamer operation on the Hudson and, unable to reach agreement with them, Stevens sent Phoenix to Philadelphia to operate on the Delaware River. The intervening voyage over 150 miles (240 km) of open sea made Phoenix the first ocean-going steamer.
    From about 1810 John Stevens turned his attention to the possibilities of railways. He was at first considered a visionary, but in 1815, at his instance, the New Jersey Assembly created a company to build a railway between the Delaware and Raritan Rivers. It was the first railway charter granted in the USA, although the line it authorized remained unbuilt. To demonstrate the feasibility of the steam locomotive, Stevens built an experimental locomotive in 1825, at the age of 76. With flangeless wheels, guide rollers and rack-and-pinion drive, it ran on a circular track at his Hoboken home; it was the first steam locomotive to be built in America.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1812, Documents Tending to Prove the Superior Advantages of Rail-ways and Steam-carriages over Canal Navigation.
    He took out patents relating to steam-engines in the USA in 1791, 1803, and 1810, and in England, through his son John Cox Stevens, in 1805.
    Further Reading
    H.P.Spratt, 1958, The Birth of the Steamboat, Charles Griffin (provides technical details of Stevens's boats).
    J.T.Flexner, 1978, Steamboats Come True, Boston: Little, Brown (describes his work in relation to that of other steamboat pioneers).
    J.R.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1927) 7: 114 (discusses tubular boilers).
    J.R.Day and B.G.Wilson, 1957, Unusual Railways, F.Muller (discusses Stevens's locomotive).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stevens, John

  • 16 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Elder, John

  • 17 Stringfellow, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 6 December 1799 Sheffield, England
    d. 13 December 1883 Chard, England
    [br]
    English inventor and builder of a series of experimental model aeroplanes.
    [br]
    After serving an apprenticeship in the lace industry, Stringfellow left Nottingham in about 1820 and moved to Chard in Somerset, where he set up his own business. He had wide interests such as photography, politics, and the use of electricity for medical treatment. Stringfellow met William Samuel Henson, who also lived in Chard and was involved in lacemaking, and became interested in his "aerial steam carriage" of 1842–3. When support for this project foundered, Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement "Whereas it is intended to construct a model of an Aerial Machine". They built a large model with a wing span of 20 ft (6 m) and powered by a steam engine, which was probably the work of Stringfellow. The model was tested on a hillside near Chard, often at night to avoid publicity, but despite many attempts it never made a successful flight. At this point Henson emigrated to the United States. From 1848 Stringfellow continued to experiment with models of his own design, starting with one with a wing span of 10 ft (3m). He decided to test it in a disused lace factory, rather than in the open air. Stringfellow fitted a horizontal wire which supported the model as it gained speed prior to free flight. Unfortunately, neither this nor later models made a sustained flight, despite Stringfellow's efficient lightweight steam engine. For many years Stringfellow abandoned his aeronautical experiments, then in 1866 when the (Royal) Aeronautical Society was founded, his interest was revived. He built a steam-powered triplane, which was demonstrated "flying" along a wire at the world's first Aeronautical Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace, London, in 1868. Stringfellow also received a cash prize for one of his engines, which was the lightest practical power unit at the Exhibition. Although Stringfellow's models never achieved a really successful flight, his designs showed the way for others to follow. Several of his models are preserved in the Science Museum in London.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society 1868.
    Bibliography
    Many of Stringfellow's letters and papers are held by the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.
    Further Reading
    Harald Penrose, 1988, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow, Shrewsbury. A.M.Balantyne and J.Laurence Pritchard, 1956, "The lives and work of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (June) (an attempt to analyse conflicting evidence).
    M.J.B.Davy, 1931, Henson and Stringfellow, London (an earlier work with excellent drawings from Henson's patent).
    "The aeronautical work of John Stringfellow, with some account of W.S.Henson", Aeronau-tical Classics No. 5 (written by John Stringfellow's son and held by the Royal Aeronautical Society in London).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Stringfellow, John

  • 18 Wyatt, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Textiles
    [br]
    b. April 1700 Thickbroom, Weeford, near Lichfield, England
    d. 29 November 1766 Birmingham, England
    [br]
    English inventor of machines for making files and rolling lead, and co-constructor of a cotton-spinning machine.
    [br]
    John Wyatt was the eldest son of John and Jane Wyatt, who lived in the small village of Thickbroom in the parish of Weeford, near Lichfield. John the younger was educated at Lichfield school and then worked as a carpenter at Thickbroom till 1730. In 1732 he was in Birmingham, engaged by a man named Heely, a gunbarrel forger, who became bankrupt in 1734. Wyatt had invented a machine for making files and sought the help of Lewis Paul to manufacture this commercially.
    The surviving papers of Paul and Wyatt in Birmingham are mostly undated and show a variety of machines with which they were involved. There was a machine for "making lead hard" which had rollers, and "a Gymcrak of some consequence" probably refers to a machine for boring barrels or the file-making machine. Wyatt is said to have been one of the unsuccessful competitors for the erection of London Bridge in 1736. He invented and perfected the compound-lever weighing machine. He had more success with this: after 1744, machines for weighing up to five tons were set up at Birmingham, Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Liverpool. Road construction, bridge building, hydrostatics, canals, water-powered engines and many other schemes received his attention and it is said that he was employed for a time after 1744 by Matthew Boulton.
    It is certain that in April 1735 Paul and Wyatt were working on their spinning machine and Wyatt was making a model of it in London in 1736, giving up his work in Birmingham. The first patent, in 1738, was taken out in the name of Lewis Paul. It is impossible to know which of these two invented what. This first patent covers a wide variety of descriptions of the vital roller drafting to draw out the fibres, and it is unknown which system was actually used. Paul's carding patent of 1748 and his second spinning patent of 1758 show that he moved away from the system and principles upon which Arkwright built his success. Wyatt and Paul's spinning machines were sufficiently promising for a mill to be set up in 1741 at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, that was powered by two asses. Wyatt was the person responsible for constructing the machinery. Edward Cave established another at Northampton powered by water while later Daniel Bourn built yet another at Leominster. Many others were interested too. The Birmingham mill did not work for long and seems to have been given up in 1743. Wyatt was imprisoned for debt in The Fleet in 1742, and when released in 1743 he tried for a time to run the Birmingham mill and possibly the Northampton one. The one at Leominster burned down in 1754, while the Northampton mill was advertised for sale in 1756. This last mill may have been used again in conjunction with the 1758 patent. It was Wyatt whom Daniel Bourn contacted about a grant for spindles for his Leominster mill in 1748, but this seems to have been Wyatt's last association with the spinning venture.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London (French collected many of the Paul and Wyatt papers; these should be read in conjunction with Hills 1970).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (Hills shows that the rollerdrafting system on this 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 of the early mills).
    E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, although it is now out of date).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a more recent account).
    W.A.Benton, "John Wyatt and the weighing of heavy loads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 9 (for a description of Wyatt's weighing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Wyatt, John

  • 19 Austin, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. 1789 Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish contributor to the early development of the power loom.
    [br]
    On 6 April 1789 John Austin wrote to James Watt, seeking advice about patenting "a weaving loom I have invented to go by the hand, horse, water or any other constant power, to comb, brush, or dress the yarn at the same time as it is weaving \& by which one man will do the work of three and make superior work to what can be done by the common loom" (Boulton \& Watt Collection, Birmingham, James Watt Papers, JW/22). Watt replied that "there is a Clergyman by the name of Cartwright at Doncaster who has a patent for a similar contrivance" (Boulton \& Watt Collection, Birmingham, Letter Book 1, 15 April 1789). Watt pointed out that there was a large manufactory running at Doncaster and something of the same kind at Manchester with working power looms. Presumably, this reply deterred Austin from taking out a patent. However, some members of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce continued developing the loom, and in 1798 one that was tried at the spinning mill of J.Monteith, of Pollokshaws, near Glasgow, answered the purpose so well that a building was erected and thirty of the looms were installed. Later, in 1800, this number was increased to 200, all of which were driven by a steam engine, and it was stated that one weaver and a boy could tend from three to five of these looms.
    Austin's loom was worked by eccentrics, or cams. There was one cam on each side with "a sudden beak or projection" that drove the levers connected to the picking pegs, while other cams worked the heddles and drove the reed. The loom was also fitted with a weft stop motion and could produce more cloth than a hand loom, and worked at about sixty picks per minute. The pivoting of the slay at the bottom allowed the loom to be much more compact than previous ones.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Rees, 1819, The Cyclopaedia: or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, London.
    A.P.Usher, 1958, A History of Mechanical Inventions.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London.
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester.
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Austin, John

  • 20 bring about

    причинить; вызвать, привести к чему-либо

    The accident was brought about by John’s carelessness.

    The heavy spring rains brought about the flood.

    What brought about the quarrel?

    Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов > bring about

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