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HARD EDGE [19 records]

Record 1 2023-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

An assembly of spheres, discs, or cylindrical rollers attached along the forward edge of the lower panel of a trawl to protect it on hard or uneven ground.

CONT

The footrope was linked to a bobbin line with 150 mm ... diameter rubber disks, lead weights, chains and steel cable ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
DEF

Chapelet de sphères, de disques ou de cylindres placé le long du bourrelet et servant à la protection de la partie inférieure du chalut sur des fonds durs et irréguliers.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Pesca comercial
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Record 2 2022-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Rectangular flat otter board. This is the widely used otter board for bottom trawling … The board is assembled by joining planks [of hard wood] and fixing them together with long bolts or mild steel straps. A wide metallic shoe is used to prevent digging into the mud and is rounded off at the leading edge so that it can ride over obstructions. … these boards are hydrodynamically not very efficient and also not suitable for rough grounds as they [cannot] slide over obstacles.

Key term(s)
  • flat rectangular otterboard
  • rectangular flat otterboard

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pesca comercial
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Record 3 2019-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

An assembly of spheres, discs, or cylindrical rollers attached along the forward edge of the lower panel of a trawl to protect it on hard or uneven ground.

CONT

The footrope was linked to a bobbin line with 150 mm ... diameter rubber disks, lead weights, chains and steel cable ...

OBS

In French, the term "ligne de sphères" designates an assembly of spherical bobbins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Ligne de sphères. Chapelet de sphères placé le long du bourrelet et servant à la protection de la partie inférieure du chalut sur [des] fonds durs et irréguliers.

OBS

En anglais, les termes «bobbin line» et «bobbin wire» désignent un chapelet composé de rouleaux pouvant avoir diverses formes, p. ex. : sphères, disques ou cylindres.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pesca comercial
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Record 4 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finishing (Machine-Tooling)
  • Sanding and Polishing of Metals
DEF

A tool, variously shaped, with a hard smooth rounded end or surface(as of steel, ivory, or agate) used in smoothing, polishing, turning an edge, or other manipulation by rubbing.

CONT

Burnishers are used for smoothing and polishing metal surfaces. They are made of polished, hard steel, and are oval in cross section, with tapered, straight, or curved blades.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finition (Usinage)
  • Sablage et ponçage des métaux
DEF

Outil en forme d'olive ou composé d'un empilage de disques sur un mandrin, et ayant un diamètre un peu supérieur à celui d'un alésage, que l'on passe de force à l'intérieur de celui-ci pour en atténuer les aspérités.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Safety Equipment (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
CONT

The Volvo V40 will be fitted with a pedestrian airbag as standard, the company has confirmed... It is designed to protect pedestrians from injuries caused by the V40's hard structure under the bonnet, the windscreen's lower edge and the A-pillars.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
DEF

Coussin gonflable de grande taille qui se déploie à l'extérieur de l'habitacle, entre le capot et le pare-brise, en cas de choc frontal avec un piéton, et qui sert principalement à protéger la tête du piéton.

Key term(s)
  • coussin gonflable protège-piétons
  • sac gonflable protège-piétons
  • coussin gonflable pour piétons
  • airbag pour piétons

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Steel
DEF

(Portmanteau word from carbon and alloy), an alloy containing cobalt, tungsten, and carbon.

OBS

This alloy is extremely hard, harder than steel; it is used to cut steel, porcelain, quartz, and other material. Its hardness is little affected by heat, and it retains a sharp cutting edge even at red heat.

OBS

A trademark of Carboloy Inc.

Key term(s)
  • Carboloy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Acier
OBS

Les forets en carbure de tungstène, ou en Carboloy 883 donneront les meilleurs résultats.

OBS

Avec le carbure de tungstène, le cobalt forme le Carboloy, matériau dur utilisé pour couper et usiner l'acier.

OBS

Carboloy® : Marque de commerce de Carboloy Inc.

Key term(s)
  • Carboloy

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-06-03

English

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

Custom ski leg with knee joints - a ski leg with two knee joints was designed for an above-knee skier. One knee joint was for walking, and the other for skiing. When the leg is used for skiing, the upper knee joint is locked and the lower knee joint is used - controlled by a compression spring - as it keeps the leg in the flexed position required for skiing. With the amputee’s weight on the coil spring, the ski knee can flex as the amputee goes down the hill but will not collapse and buckle. An adjustable ankle to permit the foot to flex to keep the ski parallel to the hill when going down the slopes was also incorporated.

CONT

Martin's ski leg is an ecto-skeletal unit designed to transmit all the energy from the leg into a conventional ski boot and to take advantage of the boot's engineering. The design has a hard block ankle and no energy storage so leaning into a turn allows pressure to be exerted on the inside or outside edge of the ski.

CONT

Ski Info ... Equipment used: prosthetic ski leg, 2 skis and poles...

OBS

Designed to be attached to a stump and to fit ski bindings.

French

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

La jambe exosquelettique (creuse) avec bloc de liaison pyramidal forme aussi la jambe de ski idéale. La cheville Activankle montée sur un pied Symes pivote au même endroit que la cheville humaine. La jambe creuse rigide transfert solidement l’énergie sur la langue de la botte de ski. Le système pyramidal permet un alignement facile et l’adaptateur rotatif donnera l’angle horizontal légèrement fermé qu’exigent les skis.

CONT

La prothèse de ski s'attache au moignon et s'insère dans les fixations de ski.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Instrument designed to cut and shape solid materials and hard tissues such as tooth and bone with a beveled cutting edge on one side.

OBS

These instruments typically consist of a manual, handheld device with a flat blade with the cutting edge at the working end; chisels may be conformed with or attached to a handle. Chisels are used mainly in clinical settings to cut and contour bones in surgical (e.g., middle ear, orthopedic), dental, and postmortem (e.g., autopsy) procedures.

OBS

An instrument modeled after a carpenter's chisel intended for cutting or cleaving hard tissue. The cutting edge is beveled on one side only; the shank may be straight or angled.

OBS

In all probability, chisels and gouges, derived from carpenters’ and masons’ tools, were utilized to amputate hands and feet as a legal punishment ... During the nineteenth century, smaller gouges and chisels with a single beveled edge were employed generally for mastoid, skull, and bone surgery.

PHR

Army, bone, chlamydia, contra-angle, middle ear, nasal, obstetric, pituitary gland, posterior, spine, symphysiotomy chisel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
OBS

Le terme anglais "chisel" désigne tant un burin qu'un ciseau. Les deux instruments peuvent être utilisés seuls ou percutés à l'aide d'un marteau. Tous deux ont une extrémité biseautée tranchante. Alors que le burin sert à entailler le périoste ou l'os, le ciseau est utilisé en chirurgie osseuse pour prélever, tailler ou trancher un greffon ou un fragment osseux.

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Video Technology
DEF

[A television] circuit that increases the speed of electrons to their respective phosphor dots.

OBS

[Scan velocity modulation] often produces an artificial "hard edge, "which is why it should be switched off for sources such as DVD and HDTV. Used in professional projectors as a form of dithering to reduce the visibility of scan lines.

OBS

[...] called [...] generically, edge enhancement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Vidéotechnique
DEF

[...] circuit [de téléviseur] réglant le mouvement du canon à électrons qui génère l'image.

OBS

La vitesse du tir du canon varie en fonction de l'image, améliorant la transition entre les zones sombres et claires.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
  • Geology
DEF

A hand tool used for breaking rock, consisting of a firmly fixed head of hardened steel with a blunt surface at one end and either a sharpened point(or pick, for breaking hard rock) or a sharpened edge(or chisel, for breaking soft rock) at the other end, and set crosswise on a handle.

OBS

It is the recognised symbol of the geologist, and his chief field instrument.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Industries
  • General Mechanics (Physics)
  • Construction Tools
DEF

A piece of hard material as wood or metal tapering from a thick back to a thin edge that can be driven or forced into a narrow opening, as to split wood, lift a weight, reinforce a structure, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du bois
  • Mécanique générale (Physique)
  • Outils (Construction)
DEF

Instrument de forme prismatique (en bois, en métal) pour fendre des matériaux, serrer et assujettir certaines choses.

CONT

Assujettir avec des coins.

OBS

Pièce d'une cible mécanique.

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-04-26

English

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

A length of pipe whose bottom edge is serrated and/or dressed with a hard, cutting material that is run into the wellbore around the outside of stuck casing, pipe, or tubing in order to mill away the obstruction causing the pipe to be stuck.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 13 1995-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
  • Walls and Partitions
OBS

Quoin, coign, coin : In masonry, a hard stone or brick used, with similar ones, to reinforce an external corner or edge of a wall or the like; often distinguished decoratively from adjacent masonry; may be imitated in non-load-bearing materials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie
  • Murs et cloisons
DEF

Chaîne (...) formant la rencontre des deux murs en angle (...).

CONT

La chaîne d'angle ou d'encoignure relie deux murs en angle. (On dit parfois chaînage).

OBS

Chaîne : membre horizontal ou vertical formé de plusieurs assises ou d'une superposition d'éléments, construit avec un matériau différent ou avec des éléments plus gros que le reste de la maçonnerie sur le parement de laquelle il apparaît.

Spanish

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Record 14 1992-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)

Spanish

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Record 15 1991-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
OBS

"saw" : a manually operated or power-driven tool used to cut hard material(as wood, metal, or bone) and usually consisting of a thin flat blade or plate of tempered steel with a continuous series of teeth on the edge and mounted in a handle or frame.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
CONT

Les scies chirurgicales les plus utilisées sont les scies à lame, d'usage manuel, et les scies mécaniques rotatives. La scie de Gigli est un fil d'acier (fil-scie) qui agit de la profondeur à la surface. Les scies oscillantes sont utilisées pour sectionner les plâtres.

Spanish

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Record 16 1988-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Painting (Arts)
CONT

... this type of painting treats the whole picture surface as one unit : forms extend across the canvas from edge to edge, and therefore Hard-Edge Painting has no "figures on a field" or other depth effects. Paint is applied evenly to produce an immaculate finish, colours are restricted to two or three saturated hues and delineations between areas of colour are abrupt(hence Hard-Edge)... it developed out of the American painting that immediately preceded it rather than the European tradition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Peinture (Arts)
CONT

À la même époque aux U.S.A., en réaction contre l'expressionnisme abstrait, le mouvement du Hard Edge a prôné le retour à des formes calculées, simples et froides [...]

Spanish

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Record 17 1980-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Earthmoving
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Road Construction Equipment
CONT

Replaceable tooth type cutting edge (...) This edge is best for tough-to-penetrate and high impact loading applications.

OBS

For hard loading, protruding ripping teeth can be bolted to the [scraper bowl] cutting edge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Terrassement
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Matériel de constr. (Voies de circulation)
CONT

Bord tranchant à dents remplaçables (...) Ce type de bord tranchant est recommandé pour les applications les plus dures comportant de nombreux chocs.

OBS

Les termes lame racleuse, lame de raclage et lame de coupe sont préférables à bord tranchant.

Key term(s)
  • lame racleuse dentée
  • lame de coupe dentée
  • lame de raclage dentée

Spanish

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Record 18 1980-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
DEF

(...) [It is] made with a diagonally cut head or face and a hard steel cutting edge to cut wire or other metal object close to the surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
CONT

Pinces coupantes. La coupe des fils et des tiges de faible diamètre s'effectue avec des pinces coupantes. (...) les pinces coupantes diagonales (...) [ont] les tranchants (...) dans l'axe de l'outil.

Spanish

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Record 19 1979-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

side cross-over start.(...) ii) start with a hard push off the inside edge of the far skate which is then picked up and crossed over the other skate(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

départ sur le côté croisé. (...) ii) le départ s'effectue avec une forte poussée sur la carre intérieure de la lame du patin éloigné qui est ensuite soulevé et passé par-dessus l'autre patin.

Spanish

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