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NEW BALLS [7 records]

Record 1 2013-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
DEF

Three goals scored by one player in one game.

OBS

A player who scores three goals in one game is said to have fashioned a hat trick. In hockey's infancy, a hat would be passed among the fans to collect money for a three-goal scorer. In later years, fans greeted such a performance by flinging their hats onto the ice. The expression hat trick may have derived from cricket. As a reward for taking three wickets with three successive balls, the bowler received a new hat from his team.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
DEF

Au hockey, exploit qui consiste à marquer trois buts au cours du même match.

OBS

Il doit sûrement arriver dans le hockey européen aussi qu'un joueur marque trois buts dans la même partie. Il n'en reste pas moins que l'«institutionnalisation» de cet exploit est propre aux Anglo-Américains et qu'il faut bien que les francophones d'Amérique dénomment cet exploit «institutionnalisé» pour lequel il n'y a pas d'appellation dans le français européen [sauf le «coup de trois»!].

CONT

Tout joueur qui aspire au championnat des marqueurs doit réussir quelques tours du chapeau pendant la saison.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hockey sobre hielo
DEF

Tres goles marcados por el mismo jugador en un solo partido.

OBS

Triplete o tripleta son alternativas en español para sustituir al anglicismo "hat-trick", que se refiere al hecho de que un mismo jugador marque tres tantos en un mismo encuentro. [...] Además, se recuerda que si se emplea la palabra inglesa "hat-trick", esta se puede escribir con o sin guion, pero siempre en cursiva o, si no se dispone de este tipo de letra, entrecomillada.

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Record 2 2012-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Team Sports (General)
  • Various Sports (General)
DEF

Three successive performances of a feat by the same individual in a contest.

OBS

The oldest use is probably in cricket, where a hat trick is the dismissal by the bowler of 3 batsmen with 3 consecutive balls, for which the bowler apparently received a bonus of new hat. The term is widely used in hockey and soccer to indicate the scoring of 3 goals by one individual in a single game. Originally the hat trick was the scoring of 3 consecutive unanswered goals, but they need not be consecutive or unanswered to qualify as a hat trick today. The term has also been used of a jockey's riding a winner in 3 consecutive races or winners in an annual race for 3 consecutive years. A notable exception to the 3 successive performances which characterize a hat trick in other sports is its occasional use in baseball to mean that a player has hit for the cycle-a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
  • Sports divers (Généralités)
DEF

[Réalisation d'un] joueur qui marque trois fois dans la même partie, de l'athlète qui remporte trois victoires.

OBS

Au cricket, le bowler qui mettait dehors trois joueurs de suite recevait une cape neuve. [sens : un chapeau neuf].

OBS

Au Canada, c'est le terme de hockey sur glace «tour du chapeau» que l'on utilise pour signifier un exploit semblable dans d'autres sports. L'expression s'utilise dans tout sport où des buts se comptent comme au soccer, en hockey sur glace et sur gazon, en ringuette, ou des victoires s'additionnent comme en cyclisme, en course automobile, au tennis, en natation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes (Generalidades)
  • Deportes de equipo (Generalidades)
  • Deportes diversos (Generalidades)
DEF

Hecho de que un mismo jugador marque tres tantos en un mismo encuentro.

OBS

Triplete o tripleta son alternativas en español para sustituir al anglicismo "hat-trick", [...] si se emplea la palabra inglesa "hat-trick", esta se puede escribir con o sin guion, pero siempre en cursiva o, si no se dispone de este tipo de letra, entrecomillada.

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Record 3 2012-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A surgical instrument with two blades and two handles that is designed to hold small absorbent pads. It is used for blunt dissection and hemostasis.

OBS

[The sponge-holding forceps] is used for blunt dissection and hemostatis.

OBS

While sponge forceps have proven useful in a variety of new surgical techniques, their primary arena has traditionally been gynecological, surgical female sterilization, and abortion procedures. This is because sponge forceps have the ability to grip and manipulate tissue during examinations and minor surgeries with a minimum of damage and trauma.... Surgeons consider them standard thoracic instruments when performing lung surgeries such as bullectomies. The blunt tips these devices offer prove excellent tools to grasp and collapse the lung and manipulate lung tissue for complete exploration.... Surgeons will also use sponge-holding forceps with tonsil wipes to treat pleural abrasions, and they will often use them in colposcopy operations to hold dry or moist cotton balls. The tong-like tips of sponge forceps make them excellent tools when handling sponges, gauzes, or sensitive medical supplies.

OBS

Sponge forceps can be straight or curved. Sponge forceps can have smooth or serrated jaws. Used to atraumatically hold viscera (bowel and bladder).

OBS

There are many varieties of sponge forceps: Ballenger sponge forceps; Bergmann sponge forceps; Bozeman sponge forceps; Fletcher sponge forceps; Foerster sponge forceps; Foerster sponge holding forceps; Foerster sponge (ring) forceps; Heine sponge holding forceps; Javerts ring forceps; Rampley sponge forceps; Rampley sponge holder; Rampley sponge holding forceps; etc.

OBS

The terms sponge holder and sponge stick, even if corrects, are much more used in other domains than the medical one. Using the adjective surgical is a way to avoid any confusion: surgical sponge holder; surgical sponge stick.

CONT

The use of an extension such as a sponge forceps, rather than hands, to handle or touch contaminated items or to handle or touch sterile items.

CONT

The sponge clamp has two opposing circular jaws with transverse serrations used to hold a folded gauze sponge during preparation or blotting of the surgical are

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

L'utilisation d'un instrument, tel qu'une pince porte-éponge, plutôt que les mains, pour manipuler ou toucher du matériel contaminé ou pour manipuler ou toucher du matériel stérile.

OBS

Le terme pince porte-tampon est également utilisé pour désigner un accessoire de proctologie.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A tennis official who sits on one side of the net and is responsible for calling let serves.

CONT

The Net Umpire makes a call of "net, "followed by a hand signal, when a served ball touches the net in passing over it.... The Net Umpire ensures that the balls are ready to be changed at the proper time, checks the new balls for defects, and performs the ball change.

CONT

At important events linesmen and net-cord judges assist the umpire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Au tennis, dans les tournois majeurs, officiel qui prend position à l'une des extrémités du filet et dont le rôle est de juger les balles qui le touchent; dans les tournois mineurs, ce rôle revient à l'arbitre.

CONT

Le juge du filet appelle les «nets» ou les «filets», tient un double de la carte de pointage et s'occupe des changements de balles.

CONT

Les dépendances permanentes comprennent non seulement le filet, les poteaux, les piquets, la corde ou le câble, la bande et la sangle, les estrades fixes ou amovibles, les sièges et les chaises qui entourent le terrain, leurs occupants, mais aussi toutes les autres dépendances qui entourent ou surplombent le terrain, l'arbitre, le juge de filet, les juges des fautes de pied, les juges de lignes et les chasseurs de balles quand ils occupent leur place respective.

OBS

Officiels de l'arbitrage : 1 juge-arbitre, des arbitres de chaise assistés de juges de lignes, de fautes de pied, de filet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 5 2011-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
DEF

A boy or a girl chosen by a baseball team to retrieve loose or foul balls from the play area, bring new balls in to the umpire, or have charge of extra balls used in practice or drills during the local games of the team who hired him or her.

OBS

Distinguish from "bat boy" or "bat girl" responsible for the baseball bats during the same games.

OBS

The 1997 edition of the Gage Canadian Dictionary gives "ball boy" and "ball girl" in two words, but "batboy" in one word.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
DEF

Jeune rattaché(e) à un club et chargé(e), durant les parties locales, de ramasser les balles fausses ou les balles échappées sur le terrain, de remettre de nouvelles balles à l'arbitre et de fournir les balles nécessaires durant les périodes d'exercice, d'échauffement ou de réchauffement.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec le/la préposé(e) aux bâtons.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

A person in charge of recovering dead balls that are outside or inside the playing area, in order to give a new ball to the server who will execute the next serve.

CONT

Six ball boys will be used who will be placed outside the playing area (about 8 m from the end lines and about 4/5 m from the side lines) in the following manner: a) one at each of the 4 angles (1) (3) (4) and (6); b) one behind the scorekeeper (2); c) one behind the first referee (5) (Each ball boy may use a chair).

CONT

At the start of the match, a ball will be placed on the scorekeeper’s table and others will be given to the ball boys (1) and (4) who are the only ones authorized to give the ball to the server.

Key term(s)
  • ballboy
  • ball-boy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

Personne en charge de récupérer les ballons morts qui se trouvent à l'intérieur ou hors du terrain, afin d'acheminer un nouveau ballon au serveur devant effectuer le prochain service.

CONT

On utilise six ramasseurs de balles qui sont placés à l'extérieur du terrain de jeu (à 8 mètres environ des lignes de fond et 4/5 mètres des lignes latérales) [...]

CONT

Si le ballon se trouve hors du terrain, il sera récupéré par un des ramasseurs de balles et transmis au ramasseur qui aura auparavant remis le sien au joueur devant effectuer le prochain service.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 7 2000-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

If a ball change is inadvertently missed by the players or the umpire, if the match is officiated, then it must be taken at the beginning of the next game in which the player(or team) who would have received new balls is to serve.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Il n'existe pas de règles précises sur la fréquence des changements de balles [...] dans la plupart des tournois importants, on change de balles après les neuf premiers jeux et, par la suite, après chaque séquence de 11 jeux.

Spanish

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