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HEAD STICK [25 records]

Record 1 2024-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling and Illumination (Air Transport)
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
  • Airborne Forces
CONT

... swing your glow stick in circles as fast as you can with the circles facing the direction of where you want to signal. This creates a very unnatural full circle of light called a buzz saw. It is absolutely unmistakable in a nighttime setting.

CONT

While moving off the [drop zone], the parachutist must stay alert and look for injured parachutists. Should they find an injured parachutist, they are to alert the [drop zone] controller by lighting a strobe or glow stick and waving above their head, creating a buzzsaw. They are to assist the injured parachutist until medical aid arrives.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation (Transport aérien)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
  • Forces aéroportées

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
DEF

A stick strapped to the head and worn by persons with motor disabilities to enable them to complete touch-related or pressure-related tasks such as typing and dialling telephones.

OBS

head pointer: not to be confused with the optical pointing device that is attached to the side of a person’s head and used to activate keys of a specially designed keyboard and a computer screen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
DEF

Bâton fixé par un bandeau sur le front de personnes, qui ont perdu l'usage de leurs mains, afin de leur permettre d'appuyer sur les touches d'un clavier et de composer des numéros de téléphone.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ayudas técnicas para personas minusválidas
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Record 3 2014-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
CONT

Our reading has indicated that the over-the-shoulder shot can indicate both a simple overhand shot (i.e., above the shoulder) and a shot in which the shooter swings the stick both behind the back and over the shoulder.

OBS

The upper hand of the shooter is in a position over his shoulder... [and] follows through in a vigorous throwing motion with a snap of the wrist as the lower hand pulls down hard on the butt end of the handle. The body weight transfers from the rear to the front leg... The head of the stick actually ends up pointing to the ground because the body follow-through is so complete.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
DEF

Tir exécuté en abaissant le bâton de l'épaule vers le bas.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
DEF

Complete shell and skin of a snapping-turtle, 12-14 inches long, with head and neck stretched and held by stick splints to form a handle.

OBS

This rattle is usually beaten edgewise on a bench placed midway between the fires in the Longhouse. It is used formally in the Great Feather Dance and in the performances of the Wooden false Face Society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
CONT

[...] le chanteur principal et son assistant s'assoient d'ordinaire sur un banc et battent le rythme avec l'extrémité en bois d'un hochet en corne de vache sur le corps d'un hochet carapace de tortue. Les hochets carapace de tortue sont beaucoup plus larges et plus lourds que les hochets en corne de vache, donc il se peut qu'il n'y ait pas de hochet carapace de tortue lors des rassemblements. Dans ces cas-là, les musiciens utilisent parfois le banc lui même comme instrument.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts
CONT

The rod puppet or stick puppet is supported by a rod held in one hand, while the other hand operates the rods attached to the puppet's hand. Rod puppets are full-length figures supported by a rod running inside the body to the head. These figures are manipulated from below; separate thin rods move the hands and the legs when necessary, allowing the individual joints to move in a relatively natural manner making the figure appear lifelike.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
DEF

[Marionnette] dont la manipulation se fait par le bas à l'aide de tiges.

OBS

Habituellement, une tige centrale supporte la tête tandis que deux autres tiges plus petites actionnent les bras. Dans certains cas, la tige centrale peut être cachée par le costume de la marionnette. Souvent, le torse et les bras ne sont pas fixés à la tige centrale qui supporte la tête, ce qui permet de mouvoir la tête séparément du corps. Dans d'autres variantes, le torse et les bras de la marionnette sont fixés, tout comme la tête, à la tige centrale. Dans un tel cas, certains auteurs préfèrent le terme marotte.

Key term(s)
  • marionnette à tige

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts
CONT

This French term designates an evolved form of the marotte. One of the manipulator’s hands supports the central rod, while the other hand is an integrated part of the marotte and becomes the puppet’s hands.

OBS

In some cases, the hands of a second manipulator become the puppet’s hands.

OBS

marotte : A single-rod puppet with no controls for the legs or arms. Originally, a medieval jester's stick or sceptre topped by a small head clad in cap an bells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
DEF

Type de marotte où une des mains du manipulateur devient la main de la marionnette, faisant ainsi partie intégrante de la marionnette (l'autre main du manipulateur tient la tige centrale).

OBS

Dans certains cas, les mains d'un deuxième manipulateur deviennent les mains de la marionnette.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts
CONT

The marotte is the most elementary form of rod puppet. Originally, the word "marotte" referred to a jester's stick : a wand topped with a head that was trimmed with particoloured ribbons and bells. Today, the term "marotte" refers to a puppet controlled from below with a single central rod. In French, the term "marotte" can be used even when other rods are added to control the arms, as long as the head and limbs of the marotte are fixed to the central rod and move on the same axis as the stick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
CONT

La marotte est la forme la plus élémentaire des marionnettes à tige. À l'origine, le mot « marotte » désignait le bâton de bouffon, un sceptre surmonté d'une tête garnie de rubans bigarrés et de grelots. De nos jours, le terme « marotte » désigne une marionnette manipulée par le bas à l'aide d'une seule tige centrale. En français, on peut utiliser le terme « marotte » même lorsque d'autres tiges s'ajoutent pour contrôler les bras, du moment que la tête et les membres de la marotte sont fixés à la tige centrale et bougent dans l'axe du bâton.

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

The ability of the patient to accurately localize the point touched with the head of a pin or orange stick when he opens his eyes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Capacité de localiser un stimulus perçu à la surface des téguments.

OBS

Le terme «topognosie» a été privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Above-Ground Transmission Systems (Electr.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canalisations aériennes (Électricité)

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
DEF

A drum consisting of a hollow brass or copper hemisphere and a parchment top that can be tuned by adjusting the tension using screws around the circumference.

OBS

[Kettledrums] are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. Unlike most drums, they produce a definite pitch when struck, and can be tuned, often with the use of a pedal.

OBS

The term « timpani» is an Italian word and is the pural of «timpano». The plural form has been adopted in the English language and appears as such in reference dictionaries. The term «timpani» can refer to either one kettledrum or to a set of two or more kettledrums; it can therefore be used with a plural or singular verb. The English plural form «timpanis» is also sometimes used.

Key term(s)
  • timpano

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
DEF

Instrument à percussion, sorte de tambour formé d'un bassin hémisphérique en laiton couvert d'une peau tendue (dont la tension est réglable par des vis) sur laquelle on frappe avec des baguettes, et qu'on utilise généralement par paires accordées à des sons différents.

Spanish

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Record 11 2009-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
CONT

Timpani are typically struck with a special type of drumstick fittingly called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. Timpani sticks are used in pairs. They have two components : a shaft and a head. The shaft is typically made from wood-usually hickory, cherry, birch, persimmon, or maple-or bamboo, but may also be made from aluminum or graphite. The head of the stick can be constructed from a number of different materials, though felt wrapped around a wood core is the most common. Other core materials include felt and cork, and other wrap materials include leather. Sticks can also have exposed wood heads. These are used as a special effect and in authentic performances of Baroque music.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
OBS

La plupart des baguettes sont en bois tandis que leur extrémité est recouverte de feutre, de flanelle, de bois, de liège, d'éponge, ou d'autres matériaux. La tête des baguettes peut également être de différentes tailles.

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Diamond Industry
DEF

A small U-shaped rest mounted on a bruter’s block designed to hold the bruter’s stick.

CONT

Immediately in front of the tray is the wooden saddle which is mounted on a T piece which in turn can be swivelled and locked into the required bruting position. The bruting machine is often likened to that of a lathe and the purpose of the saddle is similar to that of a tool rest. The saddle is U shaped and specially designed to hold the head of the bruting stick and to facilitate all the necessary movements of the stick when bruting.

OBS

Part of a bruting machine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Industrie diamantaire
DEF

Petite pièce en U, située sur le bloc de positionnement, qui sert d'appui au bâton de débrutage.

OBS

Pièce d'une machine de débrutage.

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
CONT

The head of a stick is made from wood or plastic and is then strung with nylon or leather vertical thongs cross-woven with gut or nylon strings. The shaft may be constructed from aluminum, fiberglass, plastic, or wood... The head of the goalkeeper's stick is significantly larger than the heads of other sticks.

PHR

lacrosse stick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
DEF

Bâton courbé par le bout, dont on se sert à certains jeux, pour pousser une balle, une pierre.

CONT

[La crosse] est en bois, en aluminium ou en plastique et le filet est en cuir, en lin ou en nylon. Les attaquants ont une crosse plus courte que les défenseurs mais le cadre demeure sensiblement le même. Seule la crosse du gardien possède un cadre beaucoup plus large.

PHR

bâton de jeu de crosse

Spanish

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Record 14 2002-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
OBS

... the head of the stick goes no lower than the shooter's belt... [and] below the shoulder.

OBS

A lateral shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
DEF

Tir exécuté en balançant le bâton à la hauteur de la taille.

OBS

Un coup latéral.

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
CONT

The techniques are the same in the underhand shot as the three-quarter-arm and sidearm shots, except that the head of the stick takes a path at or below the knees.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
DEF

Lancer effectué alors que le bâton se déplace sur un plan plus bas que la ceinture.

Spanish

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Record 16 2002-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
CONT

To do this, he puts the back of his stick on top of the ball and applying pressure draws it quickly backward. As the head of the stick comes off the top of the ball, the stick drops to the ground, and the ball continues rolling into the stick. The stick is then picked up.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
CONT

Lorsque la balle est immobile au sol, on peut la récupérer [...] à la cuillère (en imprimant un mouvement de recul à la balle, par une pression de la lèvre du panier sur celle-ci).

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
CONT

A dance staff is a long stick held in one hand by many dancers as they dance. It may be decorated with beadwork, feathers, and colored tape and often has objects attached to it, such as an eagle's foot or head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones

Spanish

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Record 18 1999-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Field Hockey
OBS

Facilities/equipment.

Key term(s)
  • stick head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur gazon
OBS

Installations/matériel.

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Arts
DEF

stick figure.

OBS

stick figure : a drawing representing a human or animal pose by single lines for all parts but the head which is shown usually as a circle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts plastiques
OBS

Terme proposé par un professeur du département d'Art graphiques de l'Université Laval, pour désigner un personnage dessiné en quelques traits surmontés d'un cercle.

OBS

bonhomme : Figure humaine dessinée ou façonnée grossièrement.

Spanish

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Record 20 1986-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Toys (General)
DEF

A child's plaything which consists typically of a stick having an imitation horse's head at one end and sometimes wheels at the other and which the child straddles and pretends to ride.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
OBS

Ce jouet n'a plus la faveur des enfants.

Spanish

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Record 21 1985-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
DEF

Indian artifact made of a stone head mounted on a stick to mash berries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole

Spanish

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Record 22 1982-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electrical Components
  • Occupation Names (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrotechnique
  • Composants électrotechniques
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 23 1981-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electrical Components
  • Occupation Names (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrotechnique
  • Composants électrotechniques
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 24 1979-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

pass reception. The receiver has his head up, watching the puck and his stick flat on the ice as a target. As the puck reaches the stick blade, the blade is cupped over to cradle the puck, and the blade is allowed to "give" a little by relaxing the wrists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

réception de la passe. Le joueur qui reçoit la passe a la tête haute, observe la rondelle et son bâton est posé à plat sur la glace pour servir de cible. Au moment où la rondelle touche la lame du bâton, celle-ci est inclinée de façon à contrôler la rondelle et le joueur fait reculer légèrement la lame en relâchant les muscles des poignets.

Spanish

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Record 25 1979-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

pivot. i) turn head and shoulders to lead the body through the pivot; ii) the turning leg is lifted rotated outward, and placed on the ice in the desired direction; iii)(...) the weight remains on the other leg for the push off to propel him in the desired direction; iv) the stick, being held with two hands, is brought around to the turn direction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

pivot. i) tourner la tête et les épaules et le bâton de façon à amorcer le mouvement; ii) la jambe est levée en rotation externe et placée sur la glace dans le sens voulu; iii) (...) le poids du corps demeure sur l'autre jambe pour pousser afin de propulser le corps dans le sens voulu; iv) le bâton, tenu à deux mains, est ramené de côté dans le sens voulu.

Spanish

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