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CENTER PLAY [12 records]

Record 1 2021-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
CONT

Civil information does not play a major role in information dissemination. Its primary focus is on operational work through the civil-military task force(CMTF) and the German [civil-military cooperation] unit(for example, surveys of counties/opstinas; preparing Municipalities Information Reports(MIRs) for the Repatriation Information Center(RIC).

OBS

civil-military task force; CMTF: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
OBS

groupe civilo-militaire; CMTF : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • North American Football
CONT

IN: This is the basic in pattern. You go up the field then cut in toward the center of the field at a sharp angle. If on other side, just reverse it. Sometimes this is also known as a drag [pattern].

CONT

In route or drag pattern. Often today, an in route is called a drag pattern. This play requires the receiver to run a couple of steps downfield, then turn and run parallel to the line of scrimmage towards the center of the field. The drag pattern is used in the West Coast offense a lot, allowing receivers to catch the ball safely and then run after the catch. Speedy receivers who don’t mind running through linebacker territory also run in-routes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Football nord-américain
DEF

Course effectué par un joueur d'attaque qui, en courant, dépasse la ligne de mêlée et tourne à 90 degrés vers l'intérieur du terrain pour recevoir une passe.

CONT

Lexique des types de passes au football, tracé à angle droit vers l'extérieur, tracé à angle droit vers l'intérieur.

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Hearing
OBS

The Center for Hearing and Communication(CHC) founded this yearly event in 1996 to encourage people to do something about bothersome noise where they work, live, and play.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Ouïe

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bowling, Billiards and Other Ball Games
DEF

A spot in the exact center of an English billiards, carom billiards, or pocket billiards table.

OBS

The blue ball is spotted on the center spot at the beginning of play and after it has been pocketed in snooker.

Key term(s)
  • centre spot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quilles, billards et autres jeux de boules
CONT

(Au jeu du continuel (14.1).) Si la bille de choc interfère avec le replacement des billes dans le triangle, les règles suivantes s'appliquent : (...) c) Si la quinzième bille se trouve déjà sur la mouche du haut, la bille de choc est alors placée sur la mouche du centre.

OBS

mouche : petites rondelles ou petits points noirs fixés en divers endroits sur la table et servant de guides au placement des billes.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
CONT

A team comprises a center, who is usually the tallest player, two forwards, and two guards. As the names suggest, the forwards play close to their own basket to shoot and gain possession of the ball when it rebounds from the backboard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
OBS

Technique/tactique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes (Generalidades)
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Record 6 2014-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • North American Football
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

There are two main ways that the offense can advance the ball : running and passing. In a typical play, the quarterback calls the play, and the center passes the ball backwards and under his legs to the quarterback in a process known as the snap. The quarterback then either hands the ball off to a back, throws the ball or runs with it himself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Football nord-américain
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[...] dans ce mode de jeu le ballon est passé directement de la main à la main par le quarterback - aussi appelé le quart-arrière au Canada - à un autre joueur appelé running back - demi à l'attaque. Celui-ci doit alors courir avec le ballon en évitant les défenseurs adverses.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The result of hitting the tennis ball with a tennis racquet; sometimes refers to the actual placement of the ball or manner in which it is struck.

CONT

A shot is the combination of a stroke and the situation in which it is used.

OBS

"Long" is an informal expression used to indicate that a shot went out past the baseline. Important nuance: a "stroke" implies early preparation and a complete follow through. If one were to envision a stroke, one would see a series of sequences, ending with a "shot", i.e. the result of all of the above. Consequently, a "shot" is the result of the "stroke". "Shot" implies a quick, sharp movement because one is focusing on the end result, not the series of sequences leading up to it. A "blow" is rather an imprecise, general term similar in meaning to "shot". Although many would like to maintain these nuances in English, "shot" and "stroke" are often used synonymously. "Blow" is used only rarely. Note, however that although there are two possible equivalents ("coup" and "frappe") in French, neither are semantically identical to the English offerings. The Spanish term "pegada" works well as an equivalent for "shot", although technically the term more specifically refers to the actual hitting action caused by the racket coming in contact with the ball, and not to the end result [cause vs effect].

CONT

Keeping your feet wide apart is an important key to maintaining good balance and positioning while moving from shot to shot.

CONT

Since his injury in the first set, he has lost a lot of sting in his shots.

PHR

Shape, strength of shot. Barrage, range, string of shots.

PHR

Shot bounces. Shot drifts wide. Shot has no pace on it. Shot will go/sail long.

PHR

Accurate, aggressive, angled, approach, bread-and-butter, buggywhip, chip, cinch, crafty, cross-court, crummy, decisive, deep, defensive, delicate, down-the-line, down-the-T, drop, extraordinary, fantastic, fast, floating, floppy, follow-up, forcing, gutsy, hard, hard-to-read, high-risk, inside-out, kill, laser, looping, loose, low, low-percentage, low-risk, mammoth, midcourt, off-centre, offensive, outside-in, passing, percentage, power, pressure, recovery, risky, safe, set-up, shallow, sharp-angled, short, showoff, sloppy, soft, spin, strong, tactical, topspin, touch, tough, tricky, two-handed, underspin, varied, vicious, wide, winning, wrongfooting shot.

PHR

Irretrievable key shot.

PHR

To admire, angle, anticipate, attack, baby, block, bungle, center, chop down, conceal, cut off, develop, dip, direct, flatten out, go for, guide, handle, hit, hold, improvise, intercept, lean into, line up, make, meet, miss, move into, muff, muscle, net, place, play, pop up, practice, pull off, put away, retrieve, rifle, run down, rush through, send, set up, smack, spray, step into, take, target, telegraph, time, track, underspin, unleash a shot.

PHR

To add pep to a shot. To approach behind a shot. To be cute with a shot. To react to a shot. To scoop down for a shot. To put one’s whole body behind shot. To get one’s weight behind/into the shot. To mix up shots. To stream together shots.

PHR

To raise a shot high. To telegraph shop direction. To whip a shot up/down the line.

PHR

Crushing shots. Filing one’s body into a shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Rien pour embarrasser François dont la régularité des coups en fond de terrain et la grande ténacité font de ce jeune joueur le champion canadien des 14 ans et moins.

CONT

[...] ses coups assenés du fond du court avec cette insolente précision qui blanchit les lignes.

PHR

Coup d'approche, d'attaque, en angle, audacieux, de base, de contre-attaque, coupé, croisé, décentré, décisif, défensif, déguisé, dévastateur, époustouflant, d'expert, explosif, faiblard, fantaisiste, fatal, de grande classe, lourd, mal ajusté, offensif, plat, précis, puissant, raté, retenu, risque, souple, spectaculaire, tordu.

PHR

Puissance, tempo d'un coup. Déroulement du coup. Gamme, production des coups.

PHR

Anticiper, appuyer, centrer, ralentir, rater, tourner un coup.

PHR

Assurer un bon centrage d'un coup. Laisser aller ses coups.

PHR

Sortir des coups impressionnants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Efecto de jugar a pegar golpes a una pelota.

CONT

Cualidades que debe poseer un buen servicio [...] Variación constante de la pegada (plana o con efecto).

CONT

Vuelta a la posición de espera tardía, lo que hace dejar un hueco en el que nuestro adversario dirigirá su próximo tiro.

PHR

Tiro angulado. Golpe definitivo, defensivo, estático, violento.

PHR

Un golpe lleva efecto.

PHR

Angular un tiro.

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Record 8 2010-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
  • Paddle Sports
  • Tourism Publicity
DEF

A narrow spreader that strengthens and maintains the canoe’s shape at the stern.

CONT

To play in rapids, we tie inner tubes under the center and the stern thwarts of the canoe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
  • Sports de pagaie
  • Stimulation du tourisme
DEF

Étroite barre transversale qui renforce et maintient la forme du canot sur l'arrière.

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

A play by which a team, in two successive throws, tries to place a guard on both sides of the house, at mid-point between the centre line and the side line.

CONT

There are two main defenses against the side(corner guard) draw game : 1. Peel-Remove the side guards and roll away with your shooter. 2. Play a center guard...

OBS

draw (noun): The fact of positioning a delivered rock, usually in the house, without having touched another rock along the way nor having put out an opponent’s rock before coming to rest.

OBS

side guard, corner guard: Each of the possible guards laying at mid-point between the centre line and the side line to protect one of the sides of the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Jeu par lequel une équipe tente, en deux lancers successifs, de placer une garde de chaque côté de la maison, à mi-chemin entre la ligne médiane et la ligne de côté.

CONT

Forcer l'adversaire à une partie de lancers de placement latéraux.

OBS

placement, lancer de placement : Le fait de positionner la pierre lancée, habituellement dans la maison, sans qu'elle ne touche une pierre en route ni ne sorte une pierre adverse avant de parvenir à s'immobiliser.

OBS

garde latérale, garde de côté : Chacune de deux gardes possibles placée à mi-chemin entre la ligne médiane et la ligne de côté pour protéger l'un ou l'autre des côtés de la maison.

Spanish

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Record 10 2004-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Astronautics
OBS

The Payload Support Center(PSC) is being implemented at the CSA [Canadian Space Agency] to conduct payload activities such as communication protocols verification and procedure validation & verification. The PSC will support crew training and mission simulations. The results of the PSC and DFL tests will be used in the final certification of a payload. In addition, the PSC will play an important role during the on-orbit operation of a payload. The payload flight backup unit or engineering model will be installed in the PSC and will be available to help the payload operators in case of any on-orbit problem. By using a duplicate of the payload in the PSC, the operators, with the help of the technical team, will be able to duplicate the situation and determine the proper corrective procedures. Those procedures will then be either forwarded to the on-orbit crew or to the ground operations personnel to correct the anomaly. The PSC includes the EXPRESS Rack Simulator, the Suitcase Simulator(when required), a workbench area for payload developers and a connection to the CSA Payload Telescience Operations Center(PTOC).

OBS

Payload Support Center; PSC: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Astronautique
OBS

[...] le Centre de soutien de mission de charges utiles (PMSC) qui se situe au Centre spatial John H. Chapman de l'Agence spatiale canadienne à Saint-Hubert, Québec [...] se compose du Centre de soutien de charges utiles (PSC) et du Centre de télé-exploitation de charges utiles (PTOC). Le PSC a été mis sur pied pour appuyer les activités de certification et d'intégration des charges utiles canadiennes. L'installation permet aux développeurs de charges utiles, aux chercheurs principaux et au personnel chargé de l'exploitation au sol de suivre une formation sur le fonctionnement de leurs charges utiles, de vérifier les procédures d'exploitation et les protocoles de communications, de simuler des missions et d'appuyer des opérations de charges utiles en temps réel à partir de leur poste d'exploitation au sol. Le PSC servira également à l'intégration des échantillons et à des tests de vérifications d'échantillons.

OBS

Centre de soutien des charges utiles; PSC : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Key term(s)
  • PSC

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The Solar Array Module Plasma Interactions Experiment(SAMPIE) is a Space Shuttle experiment designed by NASA Lewis Research Center(LeRC) to investigate and quantify high voltage plasma interactions. SAMPIE results will play a key role in the design and construction of high voltage space power systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace

Spanish

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Record 12 2001-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
OBS

Crossing the center line. A player may put his hands under the net in order to play a low ball near the net, provided that he does not obstruct an opposing player. Under no circumstances may a player move on to the opposing court before the referee or the umpire has whistled to denote the end of a point or an interruption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
OBS

Passage de la ligne centrale. Pour lui permettre de jouer une balle basse près du filet, un joueur peut passer les mains sous le filet à condition qu'il ne gêne pas un adversaire. En aucun cas un joueur ne peut pénétrer sur le terrain adverse avant que l'un des arbitres n'ait sifflé la fin du jeu ou une interruption.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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