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FLOOR GUIDE [8 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Hardware
DEF

Grooved formed in a floor to receive a sliding door or partition and to direct its displacement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quincaillerie du bâtiment
DEF

Rainure formée dans le plancher pour recevoir une porte ou une cloison coulissante, et diriger son déplacement

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Artículos de ferretería para la construcción
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Record 2 2011-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Elements
  • Materials Storage
CONT

Warehouse floor marking consists of several design types which are used to identify storage areas, keep clear zones, fire exits and walkways for pedestrians. Pedestrian walkways are most often used to guide people and ensure vehicles and pedestrians are kept separated. This is in an effort to reduce the potential for accidents and injuries.

Key term(s)
  • walk-way
  • walk way
  • pedestrian walk-way
  • pedestrian walk way

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments du bâtiment
  • Stockage
DEF

Allée réservée à la circulation des piétons.

CONT

Contrôle des protections piétons au-dessus d'un passage piéton contre l'effondrement des charges.

Key term(s)
  • passage piétons

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Floors and Ceilings
  • Urban Housing
OBS

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Research highlights; technical series, Ottawa, 2004.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Planchers et plafonds
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
OBS

Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, Le point en recherche; série technique, Ottawa, 2004.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forms Design
  • Trade Fairs, Exhibitions, and Shows
DEF

A guide for exhibition attendees that lists exhibitors and indicates their location on the show floor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimés et formules
  • Salons, foires et expositions (Commerce)
DEF

Guide destiné aux participants dans lequel on dresse une liste des exposants et de l'emplacement de leur stand.

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The initial piece of equipment lowered to the ocean floor once a mobile, offshore drilling rig has been positioned on location. It serves as an anchor for the guidelines and as a foundation for the permanent guide base. It has an opening in the center through which the bit passes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

[Plaque] descendue avec un tube de grand diamètre et posée au fond de la mer dès le début d'un forage en mer; c'est sur cette plaque que viendra ultérieurement se fixer la structure-guide permanente [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

Lines(usually four) attached to the temporary guide base and permanent guide base that serve as a means to accurately position equipment(as the blowout preventers) on the ocean floor when an offshore well is being drilled.

OBS

guide lines; guidelines: terms rarely used in the singular (guide line; guideline).

Key term(s)
  • guide line
  • guideline

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Ensemble de câbles permettant de guider des modules d'exploitation entre une barge de service et une station sous-marine.

CONT

L'installation ou le chargement de modules se fait avec des «lignes guides», quatre câbles qui servent à guider les modules depuis une barge de service jusqu'à la station sous-marine.

CONT

[...] élimination des câbles-guides au profit de caméras de télévision et de dispositifs acoustiques pour le guidage des équipements vers le fond. C'est le système dit de «réentrée» qui, à l'aide d'un sonar à balayage rotatif débouchant à l'extrémité inférieure du tube prolongateur permet une localisation de la tête de puits munie de réflecteurs sonar [...]

OBS

câbles(-)guides; câbles de guidage; lignes guides; lignes de guidage : termes rarement utilisés au singulier.

Key term(s)
  • câble-guide
  • câble guide
  • câble de guidage
  • ligne guide
  • ligne de guidage

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service Operation
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
  • Machinery
OBS

base plate: Term officially approved by the Postal Mechanization Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation postale
  • Timbres et oblitération
  • Machines
OBS

plaque de fond: Terme uniformisé par le comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie de la mécanisation postale.

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-12-02

English

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

Partial threshold weatherstripping consists of a length of material, triangular in cross-section,(usually metal with a vinyl or closed-cell foam gasket) fastened to the floor on the exterior side of the door. When closed, the door butts against the strip, thus creating a seal even if there is no threshold directly beneath the door. In CATIR-E, 1983, no. 4, p. 33(Canadian Tire "Winter Shopping Guide"), this type of weatherstripping is described as a bumper.

French

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

Dans le "Guide des achats d'hiver 1983-84" de Canadian Tire, on emploie le mot "butoir" pour décrire ce type de coupe-bise.

Spanish

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