TERMIUM Plus^®

Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Most hollowbody [electric guitars] and many semi-hollows carry a floating bridge, a bridge that is mounted on a wooden base which in turn is not permanently attached to the top of the guitar, but held in place by the downward pressure of the strings.  2, record 1, English, - floating%20bridge

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A piano bridge is a thin section made of wood that runs perpendicular to the strings. Pianos generally have 2 bridges; the short bridge for the lower bass section and the long bridge for the tenor and treble sections.  1, record 2, English, - piano%20bridge

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

[A] piano bridge transfers tone from the strings to the soundboard. The soundboard is a wooden diaphragm that amplifies the piano tone.  1, record 2, English, - piano%20bridge

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A long horizontal member which ties together the heads of trestles in wooden trestle bridges or provides support under a rail, parallel to it, in a steel railway bridge.  2, record 3, English, - stringer

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The ordinary framed bridge ... is composed of two vertical trusses, a floor system, upon which the roadway or railroad is directly supported, a certain amount of bracing and the end bearings. The floor system consists of longitudinal beams called stringers which transfer the effects of the moving loads to transverse beams known as floor beams.  4, record 3, English, - stringer

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Poutre longitudinale entrant dans la composition de l'ossature du tablier des ponts [...]  3, record 3, French, - longeron

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Disposé parallèlement aux poutres principales, le longeron relie entre elles les pièces de pont et forme un quadrillage avec ces dernières. Dans les ponts-rails, dont la couverture du tablier est formée d'une simple-tôle, les longerons supportent directement, par interposition d'une longrine en bois, les rails de la voie ferrée.  3, record 3, French, - longeron

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Repair work closes Songo lock drawbridge for five weeks.... We need to remove and replace the deteriorated wooden bridge deck.... Barnard says once the new deck is in place, crews will install a new "running strip" on top of the deck, running the length of the bridge, to protect the deck from damage by snowplows.  2, record 4, English, - running%20strip

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Deck construction. ... Running strips shall be between 38 and 50 mm wide and the spacing between each strip shall be between 75 and 100 mm. Running strips shall be minimum 12 mm thick. Strips shall allow smooth passage of cars and trucks, while restricting the crossing of cattle.  3, record 4, English, - running%20strip

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Fixed bridges ... In certain types of construction, the deck and the main load-carrying superstructure members are made to participate in carrying the load in order to make the bridge more economical than ordinary stringer or girder bridges with a concrete deck.  1, record 5, English, - stringer%20bridge

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Stringer or stringer beam : A long horizontal member which ties together the heads of trestles in wooden trestle bridges or provides support under a rail, parallel to it, in a steel railway bridge.  3, record 5, English, - stringer%20bridge

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

See record "stringer".  2, record 5, English, - stringer%20bridge

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Longeron : Pièce secondaire d'un tablier de pont. (Les longerons peuvent s'appuyer sur des pièces de pont ou sur des entretoises.)  2, record 5, French, - pont%20%C3%A0%20longerons

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A frame made from angle iron, mounted on small rubber tires, with bridge truss construction. It is capable of carrying two people on seats that are mounted on wheels that move sideways. The float glides on wooden rails, the length of green-houses, over tobacco seedbeds. While passing over seedbeds of new tobacco seedlings, operators pull the green plants and place them in a container prior to their transfer to tobacco fields for final planting.  1, record 6, English, - plant%20pulling%20float

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish