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WHEEL OPENING [6 records]

Record 1 2024-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Doors, Windows and Openings (Building Elements)
DEF

A circular window, especially one divided into compartments by mullions radiating from a centre, or filled with tracery suggestive of the petals of a rose.

OBS

The term rose window was not used before the 17th century and comes from the English flower name rose.... The name "wheel window" is often applied to a window divided by simple spokes radiating from a central boss or opening, while the term "rose window" is reserved for those windows, sometimes of a highly complex design, which can be seen to bear similarity to a multi-petalled rose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouvertures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Baie circulaire à réseau évoquant le dessin d'une fleur.

OBS

La rose est une fenêtre ou une partie comprise dans le réseau d'une fenêtre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Puertas, ventanas y aberturas (Elementos de edificios)
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Record 2 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
  • Weapon Systems
DEF

A porte tache, or flask carrier, was a strap designed to carry a powder flask and a bullet pouch, and sometimes a spanner for wheel locks. Normally this strap was attached to the waist belt on the right side and hung straight down. It was most popular during the late years of the sixteenth century and the opening years of the seventeenth.

OBS

porte tache

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

Il y eut, dans le domaine des munitions et de l'équipement, d'autres progrès, intimement liés à l'apparition de la platine à rouet. (...) Dans certains cas, la manivelle était montée sur la poire à poudre elle-même (...) Une courroie, appelée "portetache", devint d'un emploi généralisé; elle se boutonnait autour de la ceinture et pendait à la droite du tireur; tout le long se trouvaient des crochets, des poches et des agrafes pour y accrocher le sac à balles, la manivelle et la poire à poudre, de façon à en faciliter le port.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooling and Ventilating Systems
  • Occupational Health and Safety
CONT

Receiving hoods are positioned to catch contaminants that are discharged from an operation in a predictable direction. Examples of receiving hoods include canopies located over a hot process in which hot exhaust fumes rise to the hood level by their own buoyancy, and hoods located adjacent to grinding wheels to catch the stream of dust generated by the spinning wheel. Receiving hoods may physically resemble capture hoods, but they differ with respect to the principle used for contaminant capture. Capture hoods operate at a higher flow rate to generate the air velocities necessary to capture contaminants from a source some distance from the hood opening. Receiving hoods, on the other hand, are positioned to catch the stream of contaminants delivered to them by forces intrinsic to the operation.

OBS

Hood designs can be placed into three broad categories based on the methods used to capture contaminants: exterior hoods, receiving hoods, and exhaust enclosures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de refroidissement et de ventilation
  • Santé et sécurité au travail

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Sports (General)
  • Cycling
CONT

Lead out : to intentionally sacrifice one's chances in order to create a windbreak and creating an opening for a rider behind. A racing tactic whereby one rider races at high speed to give a head start to the rider on his/her wheel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports divers (Généralités)
  • Cyclisme
CONT

Frischknecht a fait une attaque qui a assez bien été pour lui donner une avance de quelques secondes sur ses rivaux.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pottery
OBS

A hole is made down the centre of the ball with the thumb of the right hand, or with both thumbs together .... The hole must run as true as the clay .... ... Ideally, the hole inside should go to within ½ inch (about 1 cm) of the wheel-head.

OBS

After you have centered the clay and formed a depression, open up the clay by pulling it toward you with one hand while the other hand remains steady.

OBS

Opening up is a step in throwing a piece on the wheel.

Key term(s)
  • opening-up

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poteries
OBS

[...] ébaucher le vide du pot. [...] On élargit le diamètre de ce creux lentement, jusqu'à ce que l'on obtienne le diamètre correspondant au diamètre intérieur du pied du pot.

OBS

[...] on introduit l'index droit et le pouce gauche au centre de la balle sans atteindre la girelle car il faut faire un fond à votre objet. Puis avec la main gauche à l'intérieur et la droite à l'extérieur, élargissez le fond avec les mêmes doigts. Le doigt qui fait le fond va légèrement creuser l'intérieur de l'objet de manière à faciliter la montée du cylindre [...]

OBS

Le creusage est une des différentes étapes du tournage de la pièce.

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
DEF

Brick manufactured by forcing raw clay in a rectangular opening which produces a long clay ribbon which is cut to the appropriate length by means of wires on a rotary wheel which are forced through the ribbon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie

Spanish

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