oliver

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Определение oliver в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь: küçük çekiç; ayak çekici
oliver sign: (Tıp) olıver işareti

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Определение oliver в Турецкий язык Турецкий язык словарь
oliver stone: Müfreze, Sırdaş Radyo, Doğum Günü 4 Temmuz gibi filmleriyle tanınmış ABD'li sinema yönetmeni

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Определение oliver в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A male given name; A patronymic surname; Drunk, pissed; A paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance; A surname derived from the given name; given name, male; Cromwell Oliver Davis Benjamin Oliver Jr. Ellsworth Oliver Evans Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Heaviside Oliver Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. Howard Oliver Otis Oliver King Joseph Oliver Perry Oliver Hazard Plunket Saint Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Selznick David Oliver Stone Oliver Tambo Oliver Winchester Oliver Fisher Wolcott Oliver Laurel Stan and Hardy Oliver Oliver Norvell Hardy Jr; {i} one of the twelve knights of Charlemagne; male first name; family name; {i} triphammer operated by the foot; An olive grove; An olive tree; A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot; United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
Oliver Twist: Drunk, pissed
Oliver Twist: The main character in the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist: a novel by Charles Dickens about a poor boy called Oliver Twist. The most famous scene in the book takes place in the workhouse when Oliver holds out his bowl and asks for more food, but is punished instead. He runs away to London and then lives with Fagin, the leader of a group of young thieves who include the Artful Dodger (1837-38). the main character in the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Oliver Chesler: {i} The Horrorist, New Yorker who is known for his inventive electronic music
Oliver Cromwell: (1599-1658) English general and statesman (defeated the forces of Charles l in the English civil war)
Oliver Cromwell: an English military and political leader who led the army of Parliament against King Charles I in the English Civil War. After defeating the King, he made a republic (=a country without a king or queen) called "the Commonwealth", and ruled as Lord Protector until his death (1599-1658). born April 25, 1599, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Eng. died Sept. 3, 1658, London English soldier and statesman, lord protector of the republican Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1653-58). He was elected to Parliament in 1628, but Charles I dissolved that Parliament in 1629 and did not call another for 11 years. In 1640 Cromwell was elected to the Short and the Long Parliament. When differences between Charles and Parliament erupted into the English Civil Wars, Cromwell became one of the leading generals on the Parliamentary side, winning many notable victories, including the Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. He was among those who brought the king to trial and signed his death warrant. After the British Isles were named the Commonwealth, he served as the first chairman of the Council of State. In the next few years he fought against the Royalists in Ireland and Scotland and suppressed a mutiny inspired by the Levelers. When Charles II advanced into England, Cromwell destroyed his army at Worcester (1651), the battle that ended the civil wars. As lord protector, Cromwell raised his country's status once more to that of a leading European power and concluded the Anglo-Dutch War. Though a devout Calvinist, he pursued policies of religious toleration. He refused the title of king offered to him by Parliament in 1657. After his death he was succeeded by his son Richard Cromwell
Oliver Ellsworth: born April 29, 1745, Windsor, Conn. died Nov. 26, 1807, Windsor U.S. politician, diplomat, and jurist. He served in the Continental Congress (1777-83) and coauthored the Connecticut Compromise (1787), which resolved the issue of representation in Congress. In 1789 he became one of Connecticut's first U.S. senators. He was the chief author of the Judiciary Act (1789), which established the federal court system. He was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1796; ill health forced his resignation in 1800
Oliver Evans: born Sept. 13, 1755, near Newport, Del. died April 15, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. inventor. Evans began early to apply himself to industrial problems. He invented an improved carding device for use in the newly mechanized production of textiles. In 1784 he built a flour mill, for which he created the first continuous production line in any industry: all movement was automatic, power being supplied by waterwheels, and grain was passed by conveyors and chutes through the stages of milling and refining to emerge as finished flour. His high-pressure steam engine (patented 1790) deserves to share the credit for the invention often given solely to Richard Trevithick. His Amphibious Digger (1805), a steam-engine scow that could run on both land and water, was the first powered road vehicle to operate in the U.S. His Mars Iron Works (founded 1806) made more than 100 steam engines for use with screw presses for processing cotton, tobacco, and paper
Oliver Fisher Winchester: born Nov. 30, 1810, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 11, 1880, New Haven, Conn. U.S. manufacturer of guns and ammunition. He initially set up a factory to manufacture dress shirts, and his success enabled him to purchase the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. (1857), which became the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. (1867). His chief gun designer, B.T. Henry, created the lever-action Henry repeating rifle (patented 1860). Widely used in the American Civil War, it was the forerunner of a long line of Winchester guns, including the famous Model 73, a favourite weapon of settlers in the American West
Oliver Goldsmith: an Irish poet and writer of novels, including The Vicar of Wakefield, and plays, including She Stoops to Conquer (1728-74). born Nov. 10, 1730, Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, Ire. died April 4, 1774, London, Eng. Irish-born British essayist, poet, novelist, and dramatist. Goldsmith attended Trinity College in Dublin before studying medicine in Edinburgh. Settling in London, he began writing essays, some of which were collected in The Citizen of the World (1762). In 1764 he became an original member of Samuel Johnson's famous Club. He won a reputation as a poet with The Traveller (1764), confirmed by his famous pastoral elegy The Deserted Village (1770). The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) revealed his skill as a novelist. The charming farce She Stoops to Conquer (1773) was his most effective play. Noted for his exceptionally graceful, lively style, Goldsmith was a friend of many literary lights of his day, who agreed that he was one of the oddest personalities of his time
Oliver Hardy: Laurel and Hardy
Oliver Hazard Perry: born Aug. 20, 1785, South Kingston, R.I., U.S. died Aug. 23, 1819, at sea U.S. naval officer. The older brother of Matthew Perry, he entered the navy in 1799 and served in the West Indies and the Mediterranean. In 1813 he was ordered to Erie, Pa., to assemble a naval squadron to challenge British control of the Great Lakes in the War of 1812. With 10 small ships, he engaged six British warships in Lake Erie (Sept. 10, 1813). After his flagship was disabled, he was rowed to the Niagara, from which he won the battle by sailing directly into the British line, firing broadside. In reporting the British surrender he wrote, "We have met the enemy and they are ours
Oliver Heaviside: born May 18, 1850, London, Eng. died Feb. 3, 1925, Torquay, Devon English physicist. In 1902 he predicted the presence of the ionosphere. Since Arthur Kennelly (1861-1939) had made a similar prediction, the ionosphere was long known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer. Heaviside's work on telephone theory made long-distance service practical. In his Electromagnetic Theory (1893-1912) he postulated that an electric charge would increase in mass as its velocity increased, anticipating one aspect of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. He also developed the system of mathematical transforms known as Heaviside calculus
Oliver O Howard: born Nov. 8, 1830, Leeds, Maine, U.S. died Oct. 26, 1909, Burlington, Vt. U.S. Army officer. He graduated from West Point and served in the American Civil War as a major general of Maine volunteers, fighting at Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He commanded the Army of the Tennessee (1864) and marched with William T. Sherman through Georgia. During Reconstruction he was named commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. He helped found Howard University (1867), which was named in his honour, and served as its president (1869-74). He resigned to return to military service, fighting against the Indians (1877) and later serving as superintendent at West Point (1880-82)
Oliver Otis Howard: born Nov. 8, 1830, Leeds, Maine, U.S. died Oct. 26, 1909, Burlington, Vt. U.S. Army officer. He graduated from West Point and served in the American Civil War as a major general of Maine volunteers, fighting at Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He commanded the Army of the Tennessee (1864) and marched with William T. Sherman through Georgia. During Reconstruction he was named commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. He helped found Howard University (1867), which was named in his honour, and served as its president (1869-74). He resigned to return to military service, fighting against the Indians (1877) and later serving as superintendent at West Point (1880-82)
Oliver Sacks: born July 9, 1933, London, Eng. British-U.S. neurologist and writer. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 to study neurology at the University of California, and in 1965 he joined the faculty at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Many of his books relate case histories of neurologically damaged people. His empathy with those afflicted with strange conditions, including Tourette syndrome, amnesia, and autism, has been the hallmark of his writings. His book Awakenings (1973), about the long-term effects of sleeping sickness, was filmed in 1990; other books include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1986) and An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
Oliver Stone: (born 1946) American screenwriter and director, winner of the 1986 Academy Award for Best Director for his work on "Platoon
Oliver Stone: a US film director and film writer whose films deal with recent US history and modern US society, often in a critical way that some people disagree with. His films include Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), about the murder of the President John F. Kennedy, and Natural Born Killers (1994) (1946- ). born Sept. 15, 1946, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. film director. He attended Yale University and served in Vietnam before studying filmmaking at New York University. He made his directorial debut with Seizure (1974) and wrote screenplays for several films marked by their rapid pace and violence, including Midnight Express (1978). He wrote and directed Platoon (1986, Academy Award), drawing on his Vietnam experience; it was followed by movies such as Wall Street (1987), Born on the Fourth of July (1989, Academy Award), JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994), and Nixon (1995), some of them noted for their anti-establishment and often controversial interpretations of history
Oliver Tambo: a South African nationalist politician, president of the ANC from 1977-90 (1917-93). born Oct. 27, 1917, Bizana, near Johannesburg, S.Af. President (1969-91) of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC). In 1944, with Nelson Mandela and others, he cofounded the Youth League of the ANC. He became the ANC's deputy president in 1958 and was forced into exile in Zambia when it was banned in 1960. He was elected ANC president in 1969 after the death of Albert Lutuli. He returned to South Africa in ill health in 1990 and yielded the party presidency to Mandela
Oliver Wendell Holmes: born Aug. 29, 1809, Cambridge, Mass., U.S. died Oct. 7, 1894, Cambridge U.S. physician, poet, and humourist. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1847 and later became dean of its medical school. He won national acclaim with his poem "Old Ironsides" (1830). From 1857 he published his "Breakfast-Table" essays in The Atlantic Monthly, later republished in such collections as The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) and The Professor of the Breakfast-Table (1860). Other works include the poem "The Chambered Nautilus" and the novel Elsie Venner (1861). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is his son
Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes: born March 8, 1841, Boston, Mass. died March 6, 1935, Washington, D.C. U.S. jurist, legal historian, and philosopher. He was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson, daughter of a Massachusetts supreme court justice. As an officer in the American Civil War, he was seriously wounded three times. He practiced law in Boston from 1867, eventually serving as an associate justice (1882-99) and then chief justice (1899-1902) of the state supreme court. In The Common Law (1881), he advanced the notion of law as accumulated experience rather than science. Appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, Holmes advocated judicial restraint, maintaining that lawmaking was the business of legislative bodies rather than the courts. In Schenk v. U.S. (1919), he articulated the "clear and present danger" test for proposed restrictions on freedom of speech. Many of his vigorous and lucid opinions, including dissenting opinions (he was known as "The Great Dissenter"), became classic interpretations of the law, and he is regarded as one of the foremost jurists of the modern age. He served until 1932
Oliver Winchester: born Nov. 30, 1810, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 11, 1880, New Haven, Conn. U.S. manufacturer of guns and ammunition. He initially set up a factory to manufacture dress shirts, and his success enabled him to purchase the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. (1857), which became the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. (1867). His chief gun designer, B.T. Henry, created the lever-action Henry repeating rifle (patented 1860). Widely used in the American Civil War, it was the forerunner of a long line of Winchester guns, including the famous Model 73, a favourite weapon of settlers in the American West
Oliver Wolcott: born Nov. 20, 1726, Windsor, Conn. died Dec. 1, 1797, Litchfield, Conn., U.S. American public official. He was a member of the Connecticut council (1771-86), a delegate to the Continental Congress (1775-76, 1778, 1780-84), and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He raised a local militia to fight in the American Revolution and led troops in the defense of Connecticut (1779). As a commissioner of northern Indian affairs, he negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. He served as lieutenant governor (1787-96) and later governor (1796-97) of Connecticut
Oliver Wolf Sacks: born July 9, 1933, London, Eng. British-U.S. neurologist and writer. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 to study neurology at the University of California, and in 1965 he joined the faculty at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Many of his books relate case histories of neurologically damaged people. His empathy with those afflicted with strange conditions, including Tourette syndrome, amnesia, and autism, has been the hallmark of his writings. His book Awakenings (1973), about the long-term effects of sleeping sickness, was filmed in 1990; other books include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1986) and An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
Bath Oliver: A hard dry biscuit made from flour, butter, yeast and milk; often eaten with cheese
Benjamin Oliver Jr. Davis: born Dec. 18, 1912, Washington, D.C., U.S. died July 4, 2002, Washington, D.C. U.S. pilot and administrator, the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. He graduated from West Point and in 1941 was admitted to the Army Air Corps. He organized the 99th Fighter Squadron, the first all-black air unit, and in 1943 he organized and commanded the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew 60 combat missions. In 1948 Davis helped plan the desegregation of the Air Force, and he later commanded a fighter wing in the Korean War. After retiring as lieutenant general in 1970, he was named director of civil aviation security in the U.S. Department of Transportation (1971-75). In 1998 he was awarded his fourth general's star, attaining the highest order in the U.S. military
David Oliver Selznick: born May 10, 1902, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S. died June 22, 1965, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. film producer. He trained with his father, a movie executive, before moving to Hollywood in 1926. Working for MGM, RKO, and other studios, he produced films such as Dinner at Eight (1933), King Kong (1933), David Copperfield (1935), and A Tale of Two Cities (1935). He formed his own company, Selznick International, in 1936 and produced hits such as A Star Is Born (1937). He was essential to the enormous success of Gone with the Wind (1939), overseeing its entire production with detailed memos about every aspect of the movie. He brought Alfred Hitchcock to the U.S. and produced Rebecca (1940) and Spellbound (1945). He also produced Duel in the Sun (1946), The Third Man (1949), and A Farewell to Arms (1957), which starred his second wife, Jennifer Jones
James Trevor Oliver: {i} Jamie Oliver (born 1975), British celebrity chef who has written cookbooks and has his own TV cooking shows (known as "The Naked Chef")
Jamie Oliver: {i} James Trevor Oliver (born 1975), British celebrity chef who has written cookbooks and has his own TV cooking shows (known as "The Naked Chef")
King Oliver: orig. Joseph Oliver born May 11, 1885, Abend, La., U.S. died April 8, 1938, Savannah, Ga. U.S. jazz cornetist and bandleader. Oliver grew up in New Orleans and established himself as the city's preeminent cornetist, coleading a band with trombonist Kid Ory (1886-1973) before moving to Chicago in 1918. In 1922 Oliver hired his New Orleans protégé Louis Armstrong to join him in Chicago in his Creole Jazz Band. Their recordings together, including "Dipper Mouth Blues," are jazz classics
Saint Oliver Plunket: born 1629, Loughcrew, County Meath, Ire. died July 1, 1681, London, Eng.; canonized 1975; feast day July 11 Irish prelate, the last man to suffer martyrdom for the Catholic faith in England. He was ordained in Rome, where he taught theology and represented the Irish bishops at the Holy See. In 1669 he was appointed archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland, and he worked to restore the disorganized church in Ireland. Renewed persecution forced him into hiding in 1673. In the anti-Catholic hysteria caused by the Titus Oates plot (1678), he was betrayed and imprisoned in Dublin in 1679. After a farcical trial in London, he was convicted of treason and was hanged, drawn, and quartered. His head, originally sent to Rome, is preserved at Drogheda, and his body is at Downside Abbey, near Bath
Stan; and Hardy Oliver Laurel: original names, respectively, Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Oliver Norvell Hardy, Jr. known as Laurel and Hardy born June 16, 1890, Lancashire, Eng. died Feb. 23, 1965, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. born Jan. 18, 1892, Harlem, Ga., U.S. died Aug. 7, 1957, North Hollywood, Calif. U.S. film comedians. Laurel performed in circuses and vaudeville before settling in the U.S. (1910), where he began appearing in silent movies. Hardy, son of a Georgia lawyer, owned a movie house and acted in silent comedy films from 1913. They joined Hal Roach's studio in 1926 and began performing together in early short films such as Putting Pants on Philip (1927). They made more than 100 comedies, including Leave 'em Laughing (1928), The Music Box (1932), Sons of the Desert (1933), and Way Out West (1937), and are considered Hollywood's first great comedy team. The skinny Laurel played the bumbling and innocent foil to the heavy, pompous Hardy as they converted simple, everyday situations into disastrous tangles of stupidity
a Roland for an Oliver: good fight for the one received

oliver

Расстановка переносов

Ol·i·ver

Турецкое произношение

älıvır

Синонимы

oliver twist

Произношение

/ˈäləvər/ /ˈɑːləvɜr/

Этимология

() Old French Olivier, by folk etymology shaped to look like Late Latin olivarius (“olive tree”), but probably representing a West Germanic form of Old Norse Óleifr (“ancestral + relic”) (modern Olaf and Olof), or Proto-Germanic *all + wer (“all + true”) (modern Alvar, Álvaro).