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GATEHOUSE [8 records]

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Record 1 2023-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vehicle Parking
CONT

Self-serve parking. Several of [the university's] most popular parking lots are self-serve, allowing you to skip the gatehouse and pay on the spot. Some have pay machines where you enter your stall or license plate number.

OBS

self-service: Being a retail commercial enterprise or a service in which the customers or users help themselves ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stationnement
OBS

libre-service : Technique de vente qui implique que le client se sert lui-même.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

gatehouse : an item in the "Structures" class of the "Built Environment Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

cabine de barragiste : objet de la classe «Constructions» de la catégorie «Éléments du bâtiment».

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
  • Archaeology
DEF

A barrier made of strong balks of wood sliding through grooves and exactly closing the passage in a gatehouse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
  • Archéologie
DEF

Ensemble de pièces de bois suspendues au-dessus d'une porte et pouvant être descendues devant celle-ci pour la fermer : c'est une sorte de herse dont tous les barreaux verticaux pourraient être manœuvrés séparément.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Dams and Causeways
OBS

gatehouse : any house connected with a gate, as a gatekeeper's lodge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Barrages et chaussées
DEF

Professionnel chargé de la manœuvre des vannes de barrage.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Design
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Security
DEF

A tower built over or which contains a gate leading to a fortress.

CONT

The formidable twin-towered gatehouse on the north wall was the main entry point into the inner courtyard. Immediately before the gatehouse are the remains of the Middle Gate Tower, the last line of defense before the gatehouse was breached. If attackers advanced to this point, they would have been met by a rain of arrows from this tower.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conception architecturale
  • Types de constructions
  • Sécurité
DEF

Tour de fortification abritant l'entrée d'une forteresse.

CONT

Cet édifice, fortifié au cours du XVème siècle, présente une tour porche de plan carré flanquée de deux tours d'angles percées de canonnières.

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Architectural Design
  • Construction Engineering (Military)
DEF

A sort of "barbican" for a Keep, it protected the entrance, which was usually on the second story, and contained a grand stair and additional chambers (often a chapel).

OBS

Barbican : Additional defenses in front of a gatehouse whose purpose was to restrict access to the main gate. Often contained drawbridges and parapets from which defenders could shoot down into the roadway.

OBS

Donjon or keep - The inner stronghold of a castle, usually found in one of the towers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Conception architecturale
  • Génie construction (Militaire)
DEF

Ouvrage extérieur de fortification en maçonnerie ou en bois, percé de meurtrières, protégeant un point important, tel qu'un pont, une route, un passage, une porte.

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
  • Archaeology
DEF

Opening in gatehouse porch ceiling and/or wall to allow attackers, trying to force gate or portcullis, to be attacked without means of retaliation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
  • Archéologie
DEF

Ouverture pour le tir fichant, percée dans le couvrement du passage entre la porte et la herse ou dans un surplomb au-dessus et en avant de la porte.

Spanish

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Record 8 1992-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

In the course of time the gatehouse became detached from the house, on the outer side of an entrance courtyard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
DEF

La première cour, à l'entrée d'un édifice.

Spanish

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