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HALF BLOCK [11 records]

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

A steel bed plate with its upper surface in two halves at different levels, but parallel and carefully ground plane. Between the two halves the adzing cutter block rotates, so that its blades project above one half and are level with the other half.

OBS

"Truing machine", derived from an undocumented record, is not shown as a synonym because its usage could not be confirmed.

Key term(s)
  • truing machine
  • planer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
DEF

Machine servant à dégauchir, sorte de raboteuse mécanique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engines (Motor Vehicles)
  • Motors (Machinery)
  • Bearings and Bearing Systems (Mechanical Components)
CONT

On these main bearings, the upper bearing half is installed in the counterbore in the cylinder block.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteur (Véhicules automobiles)
  • Moteurs mécaniques
  • Paliers, coussinets et roulements (Composants mécaniques)
CONT

Les paliers sont montés avec des demi-coussinets en bronze régulés ou avec des roulements à billes ou à aiguilles.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
  • Body Movements (Sports)
CONT

... if a team builds an Open Stairstep with an extra grip by the point or tail(making a sidebody instead of a stairstep), and then executes most of the inter before dropping the extra grip just prior to building the Compressed Stairstep, then half the team has done the inter of a Zig Zig-Marquis(a faster block!) instead of Open-Compressed Stairstep.

OBS

A docking manoeuvre in relative work.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
  • Mouvements du corps (Sports)
CONT

Les parachutistes, par équipes de quatre ou de huit, doivent, avec leur parachute ouvert, réaliser ensemble et dans un temps limite de 3 à 4 min le plus grand nombre de figures imposées (escalier, pyramide, tour...)

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Any stroke in which the ball is hit on the fly before it bounces.

OBS

In modern tennis the server often rushes to the net to volley the return beyond the receiver’s reach, hence the term "serve-and-volley".

OBS

In English the term "volley" can either mean the actual stroke or motion whereby the ball is hit before it bounces, or it can mean the result of such an action. In French, two terms (volée/balle volée) are needed to render this reality. Plural: volleys.

PHR

Aggressive, angled, approach, backhand, block, compact, crisp, cross court, decent, deep, deft, dive, drive, drop, effective, erratic, firm, first, follow-up, forehand, full-swing, half, high, killer, lefthand, lob, loose, low, makeable, midcourt, no-frills, one-handed, pick-up, precision, punch, putaway, quickfire, reflex, set-up, swing, touch, two-handed, weak, winning volley.

PHR

To hammer, mishit, nail, net, play, punch, put away a volley. To knock off the volley.

PHR

To pull a volley wide. To pop a volley up.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup qui consiste à prendre la balle avant le rebond, ou par extension, le résultat de cette action.

OBS

Parfois il est nécessaire d'étoffer en français, selon le sens du message anglais : exécuter le geste de la volée.

CONT

La volée peut être effectuée basse (avec une bonne flexion des genoux, et c'est souvent alors une volée amortie) ou haute (en opposition).

PHR

Volée agressive, amortie, en angle, d'approche, basse, bien claquée, de coup droit, chop, coupée, courte, croisée, décroisée, frappée, gagnante, haute, longue, molle, profonde, rapide, de revers.

PHR

Amortir, appuyer, bloquer, couper, exécuter une volée.

Spanish

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

Golpe ejecutado al vuelo, sin botar la pelota en el suelo.

CONT

... en las zonas donde hay una mayor cantidad de pistas rápidas, por ejemplo, las de hierba, de cemento, de parquet, era y sigue siendo muy decisivo el golpe de la volea para ganar puntos.

PHR

Volea a contrapié, agresiva, al centro, a los pies, alta, angulada, baja, colocada, corta de aproximación, cruzada, definitiva, a discreción, de desbordamiento, de desplazamiento, elemental, ganadora, larga, paralela, de preparación.

PHR

Intercambio de voleas.

PHR

Colocar, dirigir, ejecutar, interceptar, realizar una volea.

PHR

Jugar una volea con decisión.

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Record 5 2012-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
OBS

half block : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie
OBS

demi-bloc : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Road Transport
  • Transport of Goods
CONT

Road closed due to spilled load of garbage... Tons of trash spilled and refuse was strewn for about half a block.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports routiers spéciaux
  • Transport de marchandises
PHR

Déversement sur la voie publique.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Construction
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction mécanique
  • Techniques industrielles

Spanish

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Record 8 1989-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

BLOCKS is able to provide reasons for its statements in terms the student can understand. In the second half of the dialogue, for instance, when BLOCKS points out the redundancy of the student's block(his "measurement" in SOPHIE’S terminology), it can actually lead him to appreciate why his block could not provide any new information, given his current set of hypotheses. This interactive "entrapment" is typical of the Socratic style adopted for the tutor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Risque de l'optimisation itérative d'aboutir à un minimum local ou à un circuit dont tous les circuits voisins accessibles par la transformation utilisée sont de longueur supérieure. L'algorithme de Metropolis permet de sortir des minima locaux.

Spanish

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Record 9 1988-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique

Spanish

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Record 10 1988-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

in a Doric frieze, a slightly projecting, rectangular block occurring at regular intervals and having two vertical grooves(glyphs) and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Ornement en relief qui sépare les métopes dans la frise dorique et qui se compose de deux canaux entiers (glyphes) et de deux demi-canaux (donc trois glyphes). Les cannelures sont à section triangulaire ou circulaire, l'intervalle entre les canaux est le listel. Cet ornement a été utilisé dans le mobilier aux époques où celui-ci copie l'architecture (Renaissance-Louis XVI).

Spanish

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