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Record 1 2022-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
OBS

The back slide... is used to counter and stop the forward momentum of a delta, or to simply move backward in the air away from a target.

Key term(s)
  • backslide

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
OBS

[La glissade arrière] est utilisée pour arrêter l'élan d'un delta ou simplement reculer devant une cible dans l'air.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Architecture
CONT

Retractable roofs can slide back to open or forward to close depending on severe weather conditions. These retractable roofs have been installed in the stadiums to keep everyone cool in such a way that they don’t overburden the energy and water usage which is needed for cooling [in Qatar].

CONT

Retractable roofs come in different designs based on the application. Each type must adopt a smart design so that the system can move hundreds of thousands of kilograms of steel, glass, cladding, ceiling materials, and the related mechanical and electrical services within a short period.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Architecture
CONT

Même si […] le scénario d'un toit rétractable sur le Stade olympique semble plus lointain que jamais, l'architecte […] persiste et signe. Selon le concepteur du stade, il ne saurait être question de mettre sur son œuvre autre chose qu'un toit ouvrant.

CONT

Le toit escamotable […] est composé de 11 poutres d'acier […] Il sera déployable en 15 minutes environ, laissant pénétrer la lumière naturelle, tout en améliorant la performance acoustique pendant les matchs et en cas de pluie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Techos (Elementos de edificios)
  • Arquitectura
CONT

Una de las innovaciones con las que cuenta el [estadio] es un techo retráctil espectacular que se puede abrir y cerrar en cuestión de minutos. [...] El sistema de engranaje permite que en un lapso de 8 minutos se pueda cerrar por completo la cubierta para evitar que la lluvia o el mal tiempo impidan que se celebre un encuentro […]

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Record 3 2014-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
CONT

The snowshoe-skis, made by Hive, have a sliding binding : spikes and toe crampons provide traction on for uphill trekking; then slide back and swing away to provide the downhill glide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Ski et surf des neiges
CONT

Le ski-raquette est un nouveau produit hybride qui, comme son nom l'indique, se situe entre la raquette et le ski hors-piste.[...] Le ski est court, d’une bonne largeur et muni de peaux de phoque synthétiques intégrées à la base du ski permettant ainsi des montées plus faciles et le contrôle de la vitesse lors des descentes. 
Le ski-raquette est muni de fixations polyvalentes s’adaptant à tous les genres de bottes de randonnée ou de raquette. On peut aussi choisir des fixations qui s’ajusteront à une botte plus performante de style télémark 75 mm offrant un meilleur confort au talon et plus de support au niveau de la cheville.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roller Skating and Skateboarding
CONT

To perform a "power slide" a pair of gloves is essential. As the rider comes in to do a power slide he crouches and then places a hand on the ground(his right if he wishes to turn to the right). He then twists his body in the desired direction, extending his legs as he does so and meanwhile making sure that his feet remain firmly on the board. The wheels slide crossways over the ground and when the turn is completed the rider draws the board back underneath him.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Patin à roulettes et planche à roulettes
DEF

Virage effectué en dérapant sur les quatre roues et en prenant appui d'une main ou des deux mains sur le sol pour pivoter.

CONT

Le «powerslide» consiste à virer en force en dérapant.

OBS

powerslide : anglicisme au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A specific stance or location of a person on a tennis court determined by a given situation, or by extension, location of a part of the hand on a tennis racquet.

OBS

The Spanish term "puesto" is only used in contexts relating to one’s location on a tennis court. The term "posición" is more generic; hence it may be used for instance in reference to one’s hand on the shaft of a racquet.

CONT

Always consider the returns which will be most likely from the serve you are attempting so that you can cover the right angle and get to the correct position on the court.

PHR

Advantageous, balanced, beginning, body, center, choked-up, commanding, court, Eastern forehand, firm-footed, fixed-wrist, hitting, ideal, ideal volley (IVP), mid-court, off-center, racket-face, ready, up-and-down, volley, waiting, well-balanced, wrist position.

PHR

To assume, gain, recover a position. To run to a position. To get back, slide, stroll position. To defend, maintain, retain one’e position. To be out of position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

La position de départ [du service] : Il existe plusieurs variations possibles. Que l'on pense à [John] McEnroe (position très fermée) ou à [Boris] Becker (position très ouverte).

PHR

Position agressive, d'attente, décalée, de départ, nonchalante, (non) stratégique, stressante.

PHR

Justesse de sa position.

PHR

S'emparer d'une position (d'attaque).

Spanish

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

Antónimo: (ser) descolocado.

CONT

Passing-shot [cuando está] en buena posición.

CONT

En caso de cruce, su compañero deberá permutar su puesto.

PHR

Una posición «semi de lado».

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Record 6 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

A sway-backed horse is one with a concave back. Swayback is due to underdevelopment of the loin muscles, or it may be hereditary. A deep swayback slopes forward, causing the saddle to slide onto the shoulders and giving the rider a poor seat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Se dit d'un quadrupède, en particulier d'un cheval, présentant une défectuosité de la ligne du dessus, qui se creuse.

CONT

Le cheval ensellé a le dos plus ou moins concave. C'est un signe de faiblesse des muscles des reins.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 7 2011-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Photography
CONT

The cut film holder accepts two sheets of film, one in each side. It has a dark slide on each side to prevent light from reaching the film. There are two types of cut film holders, one for use with the Graflex type back and the other for the Graflok back. They are practically identical. A slot is cut in each edge of the long dimension side of the Graflex holder to permit locking it on the camera. The Graphic holder has no slots. It is held in place on the camera beneath the focusing panel by the springs of the Graflok back.

OBS

A trademark of Graflex Inc.

Key term(s)
  • Glaflex holder

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Photographie
OBS

Graflex èxposant MC : Marque de commerce de Graflex Inc.

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Photography
CONT

The cut film holder accepts two sheets of film, one in each side. It has a dark slide on each side to prevent light from reaching the film. There are two types of cut film holders, one for use with the Graflex type back and the other for the Graflok back. They are practically identical. A slot is cut in each edge of the long dimension side of the Graflex holder to permit locking it on the camera. The Graphic holder has no slots. It is held in place on the camera beneath the focusing panel by the springs of the Graflok back.

OBS

A trademark of Graflex Inc.

Key term(s)
  • Graphic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Photographie
OBS

GraphicMC : Marque de commerce de Graflex Inc.

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing Notions
  • Clothing (General)
DEF

A device used to fasten and unfasten two adjoining edges of material, as on the packet of a dress, the fly of a pair of trousers, etc.: it consists of two rows of interlocking tabs which are joined or separated by sliding a part up or down.

CONT

The zip fastener was invented in Chicano in 1893 by Whitcomb Judson and in it early stage was more a hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Zip-fasteners did not come into general until the 1930s, when the zipper beat the button fly in the 1937, following the discovery that zippers made it easier for children to dress themselves. During that period they had campaigns praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young. The first commercial production of zip-fasteners was when Whitcomb Judson started together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device.

OBS

The zippers date back to the 1890s when this new invention was called a slide fastener. The name zipper wasn’t coined until the 1920s when this closure became more widely used in everyday sportswear.

OBS

Such was the fate of trade-marks such as "Zipper," "Escalator," "Cellophane," and "Dry Ice." Who remembers that the correct terms are "slide fastener" and "moving staircase"? This is why some companies are very vigilant about policing their marks, and preventing improper use of their trade-marks in any kind of communication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles et accessoires de couture
  • Vêtements (Généralités)
DEF

Fermeture [...] constituée de deux chaînes souples, à dents, qui engrènent au moyen d'un curseur.

OBS

fermeture éclair : [À l'origine, fermeture Éclair,] marque déposée d'une fermeture à glissière.

OBS

pluriel : Des fermetures éclair, des fermetures à glissière.

PHR

Blouson à fermeture éclair.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
DEF

Type of turn executed by shifting the weight onto your front foot.

CONT

To do a "toeside" turn, look where you want to go, shift a little more weight onto your front foot and tilt your board onto its toe edge. As the board begins to turn, gently slide your back leg downhill to steer across the hill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
DEF

Type de virage où le transfert du poids se fait sur l'avant de la planche pour tourner.

OBS

Le surfeur appui sur la pointe des pieds pour amorcer une courbe en appui avant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Esquí y snowboard
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Record 11 2006-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paddle Sports
DEF

The portion of the stroke, between the release and the catch, during which the oar is brought into position for the next stroke.

CONT

In the first part of the recovery, the rower sits up from the release, and moves slowly back up the slide towards the catch... As the rower then approaches the catch, he/she feathers the oar blade back so that the blade is perpendicular to the surface of the water.

OBS

... the body is swung forward and the legs bent to the vertical as the sliding seat is brought forward to the "front stops" (ie. towards the rear of the boat) in preparation for the next stroke.

OBS

Technique/tactics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de pagaie
DEF

Partie du coup d'aviron se déroulant hors de l'eau.

CONT

Le retour est avant tout une phase de replacement, de préparation du coup suivant mais aussi de récupération qu'il faut exploiter au maximum.

OBS

[Seconde partie du] temps préparateur ou glisseur [du coup d'aviron]. La rame, légèrement hors de l'eau, retourne à sa position de départ, le tronc, les membres inférieurs et supérieurs reviennent lentement à la position d'attaque pour recommencer un nouveau cycle.

OBS

Technique/tactique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de remo
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Record 12 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Scenic Design
  • Variety Shows and Circuses
CONT

HOLIDAY LIGHT SHOW PROJECTOR. Just put this projector in your yard, choose a slide, plug it in and stand back to watch as any one of the eight holiday themes for year round use, flutter across an area up to 60 feet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Scénographie
  • Spectacles de variétés et Cirque

Spanish

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Record 13 2004-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
CONT

During the slide after the release of a rock, the curler's trailing leg is his or her back leg with the grip-sole shoe as opposed to the "sliding leg, ""lead leg" or "front leg" with the crepe or teflon slider or sole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
CONT

Au cours de la glissade suivant le lâcher d'une pierre, la «jambe de traîne» d'un curleur ou d'une curleuse est celle dont la chaussure à ce pied est munie d'une semelle antidérapante, à l'opposé de la «jambe de glissade», «jambe de glisse» ou «jambe avant» dont la chaussure est munie d'une semelle de crêpe ou de téflon.

Spanish

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Record 14 2002-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
CONT

Drafting... In the front top roller, only few fibres remain in the strand and these exhibit a tendency to slide apart. Additional fibre guidance is therefore necessary. Therefore rubbercots with hardness levels of the order 80 degrees to 85 degrees shore are mostly used at the back roller and 63 degrees and 65 degrees at the front roller.

CONT

The percentage of fibres not gripped by either the front or back rollers of a drafting system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Filature (Textiles)

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
CONT

During the slide after the release of a rock, the curler's trailing foot is his or her back foot with the grip-sole shoe as opposed to the "sliding foot, ""lead foot" or "front foot" with the crepe or teflon slider or sole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
CONT

Au cours de la glissade suivant le lâcher d'une pierre, le «pied de traîne» d'un curleur ou d'une curleuse est celui dont la chaussure est munie d'une semelle antidérapante, à l'opposé du «pied de glissade», «pied de glisse» ou «pied avant» dont la chaussure est munie d'une semelle de crêpe ou de téflon.

Spanish

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Record 16 1999-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

[The result of] a rock [being] delivered with just enough weight for it to come to lay in the back of the 12-foot ring or barely slide through the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Lancer de pierre avec juste la pesanteur nécessaire pour qu'elle s'arrête dans la partie arrière de la maison après l'avoir presque traversée intégralement, immobilisée à l'intérieur du cercle de 12 pieds, ce qui la laisse encore en jeu.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
CONT

Sound slide shows. The commentary to a slide show at home or the lecture accompanying a set of slides can also be recorded on tape and played back, together with the progress of the images on the screen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
CONT

Projecteur de diapositives. [...] Relié à un magnétophone, cet appareil sert à la réalisation et/ou à la présentation de montages photographiques sonorisés (audiovision).

Spanish

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Record 18 1999-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
DEF

Light tight container fitted with a slide front. Designed to hold one(single holder) or two(double or double book form holder) photographic plates or sheet films and fitting on the back of plate cameras in the place otherwise occupied by the focusing screen.

Key term(s)
  • plate-holder

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
DEF

Réceptacle plat et étanche à la lumière utilisé pour le positionnement d'un ou deux films-au-format.

Spanish

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Record 19 1997-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Forming
  • Presses (Machinery)
DEF

A vertical crank press that can be inclined so that the bed will have an inclination generally varying from 0° to 30°. The formed parts slide off through an opening in the back.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Formage des métaux
  • Presses (Machines)
OBS

Type très courant de presse à col-de-cygne. Traduction de l'anglais, rarement utilisée telle quelle en français.

Spanish

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Record 20 1987-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

An engine lathe whose cross slide moves back and forth to perform plunge, traverse and tracing cuts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
DEF

Tour parallèle dont le chariot transversal est animé d'un mouvement de va et vient périodique et qui peut travailler indifféremment en plongée, en chariotage ou en copiage.

OBS

Définitions anglaise et française rédigées par le Comité interentreprises de la terminologie de l'usinage et des machines-outils.

Spanish

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Record 21 1986-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

A steady attached to the back of the slide rest of a lathe, which embraces the work behind the tool and follows it along with the rest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
DEF

Lunette boulonnée sur le traînard et accompagnant l'outil. Elle évite la flexion de la pièce face à l'outil.

Spanish

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Record 22 1985-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
DEF

Sheet film or plate holder fitting to the camera back. A double dark slide carries two sheets, exposed in turn by reversing the dark slide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie

Spanish

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Record 23 1985-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
CONT

[Loading the Film Holder. ]... Before replacing the septa in the compartment, be sure that the counter slide is pushed all the way back against the end of the compartment; otherwise the septa cannot be positioned properly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie

Spanish

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Record 24 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting Techniques
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
OBS

Emergency carries.(Use when no help available). Put arm over your back. Slide your arm under his back. Lean into abdomen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvres d'intervention (incendies)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
OBS

pack strap carry : port sur le dos.

Spanish

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