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GAME AS SERVICE [5 records]

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Record 1 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

In general, the result of winning a game against the server. More specifically, from the perspective of the server, a loss of a service game. If the server loses the game, he is broken, sometimes in spirit as well as fact.

CONT

... Sampras pulled off the first break of the match in the third game of the second set, broke again two games later, and slowly took control.

OBS

Sometimes colloquially called "breaker". Although "service" and "serve" are synonyms, one does not say "serve break". Compare with "break service", the verb.

PHR

An insurance break.

PHR

To be down, be up a service break. To throw a service break away.

Key term(s)
  • serve break
  • break of service
  • breaker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

[Fait de] prendre le service de l'adversaire sans perdre le sien, d'où un avantage de 2 jeux. Se dit lorsque le serveur perd la partie servie.

OBS

Les expressions «faire la brèche» ou «créer la rupture» sont proposées en équivalent de «faire le break».

Key term(s)
  • bris

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 2 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Any stroke that for some reason is replayed without penalty. In an average game, only two types of let are encountered : 1) when called solely in respect of a service that one service only shall be replayed; 2) when called under any other circumstance, the point shall be replayed. For instance, a serve that nicks the top of the net, then bounces in the proper service court is to be replayed. By extension, also a call made by the umpire or by one of the players to indicate that a point should be replayed because of a stray ball rolling across the court. Sometimes the term "let" is mistakenly referred to as a "net serve". A "let" is also played if, for instance, the receiver of a service is not ready to start; if one player involuntarily hinders his opponent; or if a player is hindered in playing by an external agency.

CONT

Service lets. If, during t he serving process a let is called because the ball served touched the top of the net and fell in the service area, that serve, and that serve only is taken over again.

OBS

Caution: If the ball touches the net on a service, the net judge will call "net", or sometimes "filet"(French Open). The umpire, however, will call "let", since "let" is the official call he must make. This distinction is not always upheld in social play, where informally one hears the following expressions: "two", "take two", or "play two", i.e. take two serves since the first one touched the net (and landed in), "play one", "take one", "second serve", i.e. first serve touched the net and landed out. Moreover, for precision, the term "let" is sometimes qualified: service let.

PHR

To call, claim, play a let.

PHR

Service let.

PHR

Let call.

Key term(s)
  • service let

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup ou service à rejouer.

CONT

Le let au service. Si la balle de service touche le filet et retombe en jeu, on ne rejoue que ce service. Dans tous les autres cas, le let implique la reprise du point.

CONT

[...] l'arbitre de chaise [...] est assisté de dix personnes, sans compter le juge de faute de pied et celui au filet chargé d'annoncer les balles let ou celles passant à travers ou sous le filet.

OBS

[...] l'arbitre [...] ordonne de rejouer le point quand un joueur a été gêné dans l'exécution d'un coup pour une raison indépendante de sa volonté; [... ou quand une] balle d'engagement, tombée dans la surface après avoir touché le filet, est à rejouer. [...]

OBS

«Let» : mot anglais prononcé par l'arbitre pour indiquer qu'un point est à rejouer, parce que la balle a touché le filet ou pour toute autre raison.

OBS

On ne dit «net» qu'à propos d'une balle de service qui touche la bande du filet. Mais le fait de rejouer le point est appelé un «let». Normalement, c'est le juge de filet qui dit «filet» ou «net» et l'arbitre ordonne un «let». S'il n'y a pas de juge de filet, l'arbitre devrait annoncer «net-let». Habituellement, il se contente de dire «let». Dans tous les cas autres que le service où il faut rejouer un point, la balle est annoncée «let». Voir aussi «net», «filet», ou «balle net».

PHR

Annoncer, jouer, réclamer let.

Key term(s)
  • let au service
  • nul

Spanish

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

Un punto que se vuelve a jugar.

CONT

[...] cuando la jugada se declare nula con respecto únicamente a un servicio, solamente se volverá a jugar este servicio.

CONT

El saque deberá ser considerado nulo (let).

CONT

En caso de pelota nula, la jugada no cuenta para nada y el que saca deberá servir de nuevo, pero una pelota nula no invalida una falta precedente.

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Record 3 2010-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Federal Administration
  • Penal Administration
  • Sociology of the Family
OBS

Correctional Service of Canada. The Women in the Shadows program(Fredericton, New Brunswick) allows the wives of inmates to meet weekly for fellowship and support. The meetings vary from "game nights" and picnics to focusing on specific common struggles to spiritual centring. Confidential emergency help(such as money, food and clothes) is also available through local religious organizations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Administration fédérale
  • Administration pénitentiaire
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

Service correctionnel du Canada. Le programme Les femmes dans l'ombre de Fredericton (Nouveau-Brunswick) permet aux épouses des détenus de se rencontrer chaque semaine pour participer à des activités et s'offrir un soutien mutuel. On organise des «soirées de jeux» et des pique-niques, ainsi que des rencontres spirituelles et des réunions axées sur des problèmes communs. Les femmes peuvent aussi obtenir à titre confidentiel une aide d'urgence (comme de l'argent, de la nourriture et des vêtements) auprès d'organisations religieuses de la localité.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Team Sports
OBS

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.

OBS

The ICC Mission :as the international governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council will lead by :-Promoting and protecting the game, and its unique spirit-Delivering outstanding, memorable events-Providing excellent service to Members and stakeholders-Optimising its commercial rights and properties for the benefit of its Members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sports d'équipe

Spanish

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Record 5 1990-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Toys
OBS

Listed as a "game" in the "recreational artifacts "category by the Canadian Parks Service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et jouets
OBS

La forme même du mot que l'on ne retrouve d'ailleurs dans aucun dictionnaire anglais ou français, nous porte à croire qu'il s'agit d'une graphie amérindienne qu'il faut conserver telle même si nous ne savons pas de quel "jeu" il s'agit.

Spanish

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