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CROSS HAIR [4 records]

Record 1 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
DEF

The act of using street gang signs, signals and symbols to show affiliation to the gang.

CONT

... people of similar tastes and lifestyles converge on a Website that [displays] key signals. Gang members using such sites may be signalling and, thus, provoking visitors to join the gang.

OBS

Gangs often establish distinctive, characteristic identifiers including graffiti tags, colors, hand-signals, clothing, jewelry, hair styles, fingernails, slogans, signs such as the swastika, the noose, or the burning cross, flags, for example, the Confederate flag, secret greetings, slurs, or code words and other group-specific symbols associated with the gang's common beliefs, rituals, and mythologies to define and differentiate themselves from rival groups and gangs. As an alternative language, signs, symbols, and slurs in speech, graffiti, print, music, or other mediums communicate specific informational cues used to threaten, disparage, taunt, harass, intimidate, alarm, influence, or exact specific responses including obedience, submission, fear, or terror.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
DEF

Utilisation de signes, de signaux et de symboles caractéristiques d'un gang de rue pour prouver son appartenance à ce gang.

CONT

[...] les personnes partageant des goûts et des modes de vie analogues convergent vers un site Web qui [expose] les principaux signalements d'appartenance. Les membres d'un gang qui utilisent ces sites peuvent signaler leur appartenance et inciter les visiteurs à joindre le gang.

CONT

C’est davantage sur le plan de l’affichage et de l’intimidation que les vêtements des détenus font sourciller [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
DEF

A sulfur cross bond which holds the chains of amino acids together in order to form a hair strand.

OBS

sulfur bond; S-bond: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
OBS

liaison soufre; pont de soufre : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
CONT

For angle measuring or line prolongation, the foresight is the angle measurement on the graduated horizontal circle of the instrument(set or to be read and recorded) when the vertical cross hair of the instrument is visually coinciding with the foresight point or with a marker in the vertical plane through the foresight point and the center of the instrument.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
OBS

point de visée. [...] la lunette [d'un théodolite] peut être dirigée à volonté sur un point de visée [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Forces
CONT

Range is determined by simply laying the cross hair reticle of the aiming telescope on the target and pressing the fire button on top of the unit(rangefinder).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forces terrestres
CONT

Il suffit, pour déterminer la distance, de superposer l'image de la cible et le réticule à fils croisés de la lunette de visée et d'appuyer sur le bouton de déclenchement, disposé sur le dessus de l'instrument.

OBS

Il s'agit du télémètre à laser Simrad LP7.

Spanish

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