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HOOK SERVE [4 records]

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Record 1 2017-10-31

English

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

Lip chains serve the same purpose as a leather strap but will last longer. They also are easier to attach because they hook into the lip strap loops. Clamp the hooks down tightly after making certain that both chains are lying flat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

... the stroke that starts play.

CONT

[His] serve has lost its bite.

OBS

The server stands behind the baseline and has two tries to send the ball into the diagonally opposite service court.

OBS

Any motion, including underhand or sidearm is permissible, however, the overhead or overarm stroke is by far the most common. (The terms "overarm service" and "roundarm service" are rarely heard today.) There are basically three types of service: 1) the flat service; 2) the slice service; 3) the spin service. Note that the term "serve" is ambiguous in English. On the one hand it may refer to the result of going through (e.g. he can hit a very hard "serve"); finally, it may even refer to one of the two attempts allowed to complete a service (e.g. he is about to make his second "serve" - French: deuxième balle de service). On this last note, at Wimbledon, England, one hears the chair umpire call out "first service", rather than "first serve".

PHR

Awesome, big, break, cannonball, curving, deep, dodgy, down-the-center, easy, effortless, explosive, fault, first, high-bouncing, hook, huge, kick, killer, left-handed, let, long, medium-paced, over-powering, patty-cake, percentage, power(ful), return, returning, second, short, sliced, slow spin, smoking, smooth, solid, spin, spun, strong, technically sound, thunderbolt, underhand, unreturnable, well-placed, well-timed, whopping, wide serve. Return of serve. Serve and volley.

PHR

To break, return serve. To slice, take a serve. To rush one’s serve. To struggle with one’s serve. To take something/a little bit off one’s serve.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup utilisé pour introduire le point.

CONT

Pour le débutant, le service constitue une mise au jeu souvent difficile, mais représente chez le bon joueur un coup d'attaque lui permettant normalement de gagner le jeu sur son service.

CONT

[Elle] fait partie de la nouvelle génération des joueuses qui frappent très fort au coup droit et au revers et elle possède un excellent service.

CONT

Quand le service s'annonce bon, la trajectoire de la balle ressemble à celle d'un ballon d'hélium !

CONT

[...] vos services auront plus de mordant, de meilleurs effets et seront mieux contrôlés.

OBS

Le serveur, placé de profil derrière la ligne de fond, a droit à des essais pour envoyer la balle dans le carré de service situé en diagonale.

PHR

Service appuyé, constant, déficient, en dessous, énorme, foudroyant, gagnant, de gaucher, impeccable, imprenable, en pousse-balle, redoutable, rythmé, travaillé. Bon, gros, long, puissant service.

PHR

Service au trois quarts de la vitesse possible.

PHR

Bloquer, frapper, livrer, rabattre, récupérer, remettre, retourner un service. Conserver, gagner, passer, perdre, remporter son service. Recevoir le service. Tenir service. Varier ses services.

PHR

Décocher le service le plus rapide. Faire un service gagnant. Mesurer le service d'un adversaire. Prendre le service de l'adversaire. Se présenter au service pour le match.

Spanish

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

El servicio es el golpe más difícil del tenis por la perfecta coordinación de movimientos que exige, por lo tanto, está sujeto a multitud de amaneramientos y errores.

OBS

El servicio es el golpe más difícil del tenis, exige mucha coordinación de movimientos.

CONT

"... su servicio no era gran cosa, me adelanté para presionarle y las cosas empezaron a marchar muy bien" [Muster].

PHR

Servicio a 3/4 de velocidad, ascendente, bueno, (muy) colocado, potente, rápido, válido. Un servicio cae buena, con efecto. Servicio se zambulla en la pista contraria.

PHR

Devolución, ejecución del servicio. Devolvedor(a), falta de servicio.

PHR

Colocar, efectuar, ejecutar, realizar, recibir un servicio. Devolver el servicio.

PHR

Orden de saque.

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Record 3 2011-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Security Devices
DEF

A loop of wire or a metal hook fastened to a sloping roof to serve as a snow guard.

CONT

[Snow guards appear under many forms. The following context was taken on an illustration of different snow-catching systems.] Aluminium snow hook: complete with 1 ground tile. Aluminium snow fence: deliverable in all colours, length 1.5 m = 1 piece. Aluminium round wood holder, complete with 1ground tile deliverable in all colours. Snow-catching nose, red, other colours upon inquiry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
CONT

Les compléments de toiture. Une couverture [...] est complétée par un certain nombre d'accessoires, fonction du plan et de l'équipement. [...] On citera : [...] les crochets garde-neige : répartis uniformément sur la couverture, ils empêchent le glissement de celle-ci qui fond alors régulièrement [...]

CONT

[Les] arrêts de neige [...] doivent être adaptés au profil des tuiles et répartis de façon uniforme sur toute la surface de la couverture. [Ces dispositifs] peuvent être [...] associés aux éléments de couverture ou à leur support, [p. ex.] crochets arrêts de neige [fixés par] accrochage simple sur la tuile [ou par] clouage sur liteau, [ou être] indépendants (type barres à neige), [fixés] sur la charpente et non sur le support de la couverture.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
CONT

the roundhouse, or hook serve is definitely the most difficult of the accepted serving skills to learn and even very experienced players have difficulty in developing it to a high degree of... accuracy.

CONT

There are 3 basic kinds of serve : the underarm serve, the tennis(or overhead) serve, and a kind of side serve or "hook serve" as it is known.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
CONT

Le service balancier : un bras envoie la balle un peu en avant et au-dessus de la tête; l'autre, s'élevant latéralement, vient la frapper.

CONT

le service balancier est une arme redoutable pour ceux qui savent l'utiliser. Il est difficile à diriger, bien peu peuvent atteindre un adversaire déterminé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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