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HOT LINER [4 records]

Record 1 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Internet and Telematics
Key term(s)
  • hot liner

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Technicien qui dépanne les utilisateurs au téléphone.

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collection Items (Museums and Heritage)
  • Antique Ceramics (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

A type of veilleuse, the upper unit of which is a covered bowl in which the food is warmed over a flame from the godet housed within the pedestal beneath. The bowl itself is sometimes provided with a liner for hot water, making it a bain-marie. These are of larger diameter than the type of veilleuse where the upper unit is a teapot. The pedestal usually has two handles(masks, scrolls, or loops) and two hooded vents, or pierced holes, for air circulation. The bowl generally has two lateral handles and a cover.

Key term(s)
  • food warmer
  • pap warmer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets de collection (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Céramique ancienne (Muséologie et Patrimoine)

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Restaurant Equipment
DEF

Enclosed container of water with jar(liner) set into top. Urn water is heated by gas, electric or steam. A measure of hot water at proper temperature is poured over measured bed of coffee grounds contained in a filtering unit. Beverage collects in jar and is discharged through bottom connection to draw-off faucet. Urn water is not used for coffee making. Equipped with water inlet valve to fill urn body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Restaurants)
OBS

Distributrice à café dans les cafétérias commerciales.

Key term(s)
  • distributrice à café

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Thermonuclear fusion
  • Atomic Physics
DEF

A liner in a "pulsed system" which surrounds a hot, dense plasma and implodes at the same time. As it collapses the liner acts as a piston on the enclosed plasma, which it compresses and confines by inertial forces and by a high magnetic field produced in the plasma by converting the kinetic energy of its implosion into magnetic energy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Fusion thermonucléaire
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

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