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LAY LONG - [5 records]

Record 1 2023-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
  • Anti-pollution Measures
CONT

In the matter of street sprinkling, the city and the company fought a long court battle over who should pay for the water used to lay the dust in the streets. Nor was this an inconsiderable matter, as dust was the smog of [the 19th century. ]

Key term(s)
  • street-sprinkling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes
  • Mesures antipollution
CONT

L'arrosage des rues. Depuis 1851, il était obligatoire d'arroser [la voie publique] devant chez soi une fois par jour pendant les chaleurs. Bien évidemment, seules les maisons reliées à l'eau courante pouvaient respecter cette obligation. Dans les artères les plus luxueuses, c'était les services de la ville qui se chargeaient de cet arrosage. Cet arrosage d'été permettait de lutter contre les poussières, produites notamment par les cheminées, l'usure des pavés mais aussi les différentes industries parisiennes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
CONT

Scribers are used to lay out lines on steel and other metals.... Bent point scribers are usually with one straight point, and one long or one short bent point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Facilities and Venues
  • Volleyball
CONT

The easiest way to lay out a sand volleyball court is on the beach, but not everyone has this luxury.... Beach volleyball is an Olympic sport, and sand courts meet Olympic specifications for dimension, depth and net height. The court should be 59 feet, or 18 m, long. It should be 29 1/2 feet, or 9 m, wide, which is half the distance of its length.

CONT

The recommended sand requirements for beach volleyball court installations must have the following properties: be naturally weathered; be sub angular/rounded; not be acquired from a crushed rock source.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et sites (Sports)
  • Volleyball
CONT

Terrains de volleyball de plage. Les exigences de base nécessaires à la construction d’un terrain sont : Dimensions du terrain : 8 mètres X 16 mètres (9 mètres X 18 mètres si la majorité des parties sont jouées par des équipes de plus de 4 joueurs). Dimensions de la surface de jeu : au moins 14 mètres x 24 mètres (18 m x 26 m pour [les] compétitions officielles). [...] Un filet et un système de lignes [sont nécessaires] pour délimiter le terrain (ajustable pour les différentes dimensions du terrain).

Key term(s)
  • terrain de volley-ball de plage
  • terrain de volleyball en sable

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones y sedes deportivas
  • Vóleibol
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Record 4 2012-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
  • Legal Profession: Organization
CONT

The term "lay member" has been in use for a long time to describe tribunal members without a legal qualification, or sometimes those without a medical or other easily definable professional qualification. Even if the term is now normally absent from the legislation governing tribunal systems; it is still in common use colloquially among tribunal members, and often forms part of the language of recruitment procedure.

CONT

Non-legal members are not on tribunals just to make up the members, or to provide some balance or untutored "common sense;" nor should they feel they are representing the "person in the street" (which is the role suggested by the term lay-member).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

The first step of this program involved showing a modern day horse foot containing two long bones which come to a point and lay flat against the bigger bone... In this case, these two bones were said to be all that is left of what used to be two additional digits or toes. Today, the horse has only one digit; its hoof. The ranger went on to explain that the further one goes back in time the more digits the horse had, in fact, at one time a creature with 3 toes in back and 4 toes in front existed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Élevage des chevaux
OBS

Chez le cheval, seul le doigt III est développé, le doigt inclut les trois phalanges, et correspond ainsi au paturon, à la couronne et au sabot. La NAV désigne différemment les doigts des antérieurs (Digiti manus) et ceux des postérieurs (Digiti pedis).

Spanish

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