Bacon

Bacon, Nathaniel 1647-1676.

English-born American colonist who led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), in which a group of frontiersmen captured and burned Jamestown in an attempt to gain reforms and greater participation in the government of Virginia.

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Bacon, Roger Known as "Doctor Mirabilis." 1214?-1292.

English friar, scientist, and philosopher whose Opus Majus (1267) argued that Christian studies should encompass the sciences.

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Ba·con ¹  (bkn), Francis. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626.

English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.

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Bacon ², Francis 1909-1992.

Irish-born British painter best known for his portraits in which subjects are distorted and invested with feelings of terror.

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ba·con  (bkn)

n.

The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən]

n

1. (Cookery) meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and usually smoked

bring home the bacon Informal

a.  to achieve success

b.  to provide material support

save (someone's) bacon Brit informal to help (someone) to escape from danger

[from Old French bacon, from Old High German bahho; related to Old Saxon baco; see back¹]

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Bacon [ˈbeɪkən]

n

1. (Biographies / Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626) M, English, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, POLITICS: statesman, WRITING: essayist) Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist; described the inductive method of reasoning: his works include Essays (1625), The Advancement of Learning (1605), and Novum Organum (1620)

2. (Biographies / Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) M, British, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Francis. 1909-92, British painter, born in Dublin, noted for his distorted, richly coloured human figures, dogs, and carcasses

3. (Biographies / Bacon, Roger (?1214-1292) M, English, RELIGION: monk, MISC: scholar, SCIENCE: scientist) Roger. ?1214-92, English Franciscan monk, scholar, and scientist: stressed the importance of experiment, demonstrated that air is required for combustion, and first used lenses to correct vision. His Opus Majus (1266) is a compendium of all the sciences of his age

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bacon - back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried cut of pork - cut of meat from a hog or pig side of bacon, flitch - salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon bacon strip - a slice of bacon bacon rind - the rind of bacon Canadian bacon - from a boned strip of cured loin
	2.	Bacon - English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) Roger Bacon
	3.	Bacon - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) 1st Baron Verulam, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans

Translations

bacon [ˈbeɪkən] N → beicon m (Sp), tocino m (LAm), panceta f (Arg)
bacon and eggs → huevos mpl con tocino
to bring home the bacon (= earn one's living) → ganarse las habichuelas
to save sb's bacon → salvar el pellejo a algn

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n (= meat) (lean) → bacon m; (fatty) → lard m
bacon and eggs → des œufs au bacon
a rasher of bacon → une tranche de lard
to bring home the bacon (= earn money) → faire bouillir la marmite > (= achieve one's goal) → décrocher la timbale >
to save sb's bacon (British) → sauver la peau à qn >

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bacon

n → durchwachsener Speck; bacon and eggs → Eier mit Speck; to save somebody’s bacon (inf) → jds Rettung sein; to bring home the bacon (inf: = earn a living) → die Brötchen verdienen (inf)

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → pancetta
bacon and eggs → uova fpl con pancetta

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bacon [ˈbeɪkən] n → pancetta
bacon and eggs → uova fpl con pancetta

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bacon

n bacon [ˈbeikən]

the flesh of the back and sides of a pig, salted and dried, used as food. spek لَحْم من فَخْذ الخَنْزير бекон slanina bacon der Speck μπέικον tocino peekon گوشت باریک شده ونمک زدۀ پهلو وپشت خوک؛ بیکن pekoni bacon קוֹתלֵי חָזִיר सूअर मांस slanina angolszalonna daging punggung babi yang diasin, ham beikon pancetta affumicata ベーコン 베이컨 rūkytas/sūdytas bekonas speķis; bekons dendeng babi bacon bacon, (salt) flesk boczek, bekon bacon bacon; slănină бекон slanina prekajena slanina slanina bacon ส่วนเนื้อด้านหลังและข้างของหมูที่ใส่เกลือรมควัน domuz eti 燻肉，培根 копчена свиняча грудинка سؤر کا گوشت thịt lợn muối xông khói 咸肉, 熏肉

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Bacon → لحم خنزير مقدد slanina bacon Speck μπέικον tocino pekoni bacon slanina pancetta ベーコン 베이컨 bacon bacon bekon bacon бекон bacon เนื้อด้านหลังและส่วนนอกของหมูที่ใส่เกลือรมควัน domuz pastırması thịt lợn muối xông khói 咸肉