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OPPOSING SIDE [15 records]

Record 1 2024-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
CONT

Crossover occurs when light passes from one screen, through the film, and exposes the opposing side of the film. This light travels a larger distance than normal and will result in greater divergence and unsharpness.

Key term(s)
  • cross-over

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychological Warfare
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Intelligence (Military)
DEF

A... conflict between opposing sides..., each of which seeks to defeat... the enemy through informational effects in the information sphere..., while resisting or reducing such effects on one's own side.

CONT

Information confrontation is becoming an independent type of warfare in which information is appearing as a resource, means, and objective. In war, information resources and means become specialized tools for defeating the enemy, [and] depriving [the enemy] of the ability to resist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre psychologique
  • Guerre électronique
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
CONT

La «confrontation de l'information» est le terme utilisé dans les cercles stratégiques et militaires russes pour décrire leur approche de l'utilisation de l'information en temps de paix et en temps de conflit [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Field Hockey
DEF

An outdoor game played on a closely cut grass or hard dirt surface with a ball by two opposing teams of 11 players on each side, using hooked or bent sticks.

OBS

field hockey: official term of the Pan American Games.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur gazon
OBS

En plus de se pratiquer sur glace ou sur gazon, le hockey se joue de plus en plus à l'intérieur, sur parquet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hockey sobre hierba
DEF

Deporte entre dos equipos, consistente en introducir en la portería contraria una pelota [...] impulsada por un bastón curvo en su parte inferior, y que se practica en un campo de hierba [...]

OBS

hockey sobre césped: término oficial de los Juegos Panamericanos.

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Record 4 2013-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
OBS

Ordinarily a privilege is held by a person, who can assert or waive it. (Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 446)

OBS

[Legal professional privilege] may... be waived by the client(though not by the solicitor), either expressly or impliedly-e. g. by the client being examined by his counsel as to the privileged matter.... Similarly the privilege is waived if a copy of the privilege document is sent to the opposing side.(Phipson, 13th ed., 1982, p. 305)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

renoncer à un privilège : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Parliamentary Language
DEF

A person who changes his or her political party or principles; a person who goes over to the opposing side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
DEF

[Personne] qui abandonne son parti ou son groupe pour en ralier un autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
CONT

La actual campaña electoral es el reino del pastelero, la feria de los voltearepas, el bazar de los chaqueteros, el carrusel de los tránsfugas. Difícilmente se hallará en la historia latinoamericana un elenco comparable que haya sacado provecho de tan distintos grupos políticos, que haya saltado de partido en partido con tanta desvergüenza y que carezca tan palmariamente de convicciones estables.

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Record 6 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Either the area close to the left sideline or the area close to the right sideline of a tennis court. Sometimes used to refer to the side from which a stroke is initiated, as in the phrase, "he is steady on both wings", i.e. he is consistent on both the backhand and on the forehand sides.

OBS

Warning : the term "side" is both generic and ambiguous in tennis. Depending on the perspective of the person using the term, it can either mean the area to the left or right of him, or the area on the other side of the net(=end). To avoid ambiguity, qualify the term "side"(the opposing side=el campo de su adversario) or use the term "wing", depending on the circumstance. Compare with "end".

CONT

[Seles] creamed the ball off both sides with the same old vengeance ....

CONT

It’s his forehand side that can break down, but his opponent can fire from both wings very effectively.

CONT

That side is as solid as rock. She hit well on both sides.

CONT

You may feel you’re leaving yourself unprotected on the flanks....

PHR

Backhand, forehand, open, strong, weak side.

PHR

To hit cleanly on both sides. To hit off both sides. To overload a side.

PHR

Side that cracks under pressure.

PHR

Backhand/forehand side has deserted him.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Terme générique pour désigner l'aire de jeu de long de la ligne de côté du simple ou du double sur un court de tennis.

CONT

Agrandissez la zone de tir du côté faible de l'opposant.

Spanish

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

campo: término genérico.

CONT

Durante el saque, el jugador debe colocarse, alternativamente, en el lado derecho e izquierdo de su campo [...]

CONT

Casi ninguno de los principiantes, cuando comienzan a ejecutar movimientos por el drive y por el revés, observan esta especie de «miedo» a realizar la volea por el lado del revés [...]

CONT

¿Puede el jugador que efectúa el saque, en un partido de individuales, colocarse en la parte de la línea de fondo, y detrás de ella, situada entre las líneas que delimitan lateralmente el campo para individuales y las que lo delimitan, asimismo lateralmente, para los partidos de dobles?

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Record 7 2011-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

UN Emergency Force II and latterly UN Disengagement Force fulfilled a third typoogy of interpositioning-that of a buffer zone designed to secure a strip of neutral territory between two opposing armies, occupy it and demilitarize it so that there is an established cordon sanitaire into and trough neither side can pass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Historical Names
  • War and Peace (International Law)
OBS

The War of the Spanish Succession(1701-1714) was a major European conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the last Spanish Habsburg king, Charles II. Charles had bequeathed all of his possessions to Philip, duc d’Anjou-a grandson of the French King Louis XIV-who thereby became Philip V of Spain. The war began slowly, as the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I fought to protect his own dynasty's claim to the Spanish inheritance. As Louis XIV began to expand his territories more aggressively, however, other European nations(chiefly England and the Dutch Republic) entered on the Holy Roman Empire's side to check French expansion(and, in the English case, to safeguard the Protestant succession). Other states joined the coalition opposing France and Spain in an attempt to acquire new territories, or to protect existing dominions. The war was fought not only in Europe, but also in north America, where the conflict became known to the English colonists as Queen Anne's War.

OBS

Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713) was the second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought between France and Great Britain in North America for control of the continent and was the counterpart of War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations historiques
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
OBS

La guerre de Succession d'Espagne a opposé de 1701 à 1714 la France et l'Espagne et, à travers lui, la domination en Europe. Dernière grande guerre de Louis XIV, elle a permis à la France d'installer un monarque français à Madrid. Rappelons que, de nos jours, cette dynastie rêgne toujours à Madrid.

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
CONT

UNEF(United Nations Emergency Force II) latterly and UNDOF(United Nations Disengagement Observer Force) fulfilled a third typology of interpositioning-that of a buffer force designed to secure a strip of neutral territory between two opposing armies, occupy it and demilitarize it so that there is a cordon sanitaire through which neither side can pass.

OBS

An interstate operation, though it could be used as a means of keeping two military forces apart within a State, while negotiations for a ceasefire or armistice are in progress.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
OBS

Il s'agit d'une force qui vient s'interposer entre deux États ou plus (elle peut servir aussi à séparer deux forces militaires qui s'affrontent à l'intérieur d'un État), pendant que se déroulent les négociations pour un cessez-le-feu ou un armistice.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Display Technology
CONT

The ElectroPhoretic Image Display (EPID) is a non-emissive display concept based on the transport of charged pigment particles in a colloidal suspension. The charged pigment particles are transported by means of an applied electric field. This phenomenon is commonly known as electrophoresis.

OBS

Two plates with electrodes are placed opposing each other, leaving a certain distance in between by using spacers, and a suspension composed of a dyed solvent and suspended charged pigment particles is enclosed between the plates. When a voltage difference is impressed between the two electrodes... the pigment particles migrate to one side and then either the light color of the pigment or the dark color of the dyed solvent can be seen according to the polarity of the impressed voltage difference.

Key term(s)
  • EP display

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'affichage (Ordinateurs)
CONT

[...] le HP 110 devait être à l'origine le premier ordinateur à utiliser la technologie d'affichage électrophorétique développée (en partie) dans les laboratoires de recherche de Xerox à Palo Alto (Californie). Cette nouvelle technologie, faiblement dissipatrice en termes de consommation électrique [...], devrait être proposée ultérieurement.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

To put the ball into play, from the service area behind the end line, by hitting it over the net into the opponents’ court.

CONT

The opposing teams face each other. One side serves the ball over the net, and then each team in turn is allowed to play it three times with hands or arms before returning it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

Mettre le ballon en jeu, de la zone de service derrière la ligne de fond, en l'envoyant par-dessus le filet, dans le camp adverse.

CONT

Un haut filet sépare les deux équipes qui se font face. L'une des deux effectue le service, c'est-à-dire qu'elle envoie au-dessus du filet dans le camp adverse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 12 2000-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

That area of the tennis court across the net; territory belonging to one’s opponent.

OBS

Warning : the term "side", although more common than "end", is both generic and ambiguous in tennis. Depending on the perspective of the person using the term, it can either mean the area to the left or right of him(=wing), or the area on the other side of the net. To avoid ambiguity, qualify the term "side"(the opposing side=el campo de su adversario) or use the terms "wing" or "end", depending on the circumstance. Other related phraseology : zone, near court, far court, serving team, receiving team.

CONT

At the beginning of each game ensure that all the ball are at the Server’s end.

PHR

opposing end, opposite side.

OBS

side: also used in badminton.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Terme connexe : court adverse. Dans certains contextes, on peut se servir du terme «côté», p. ex.: Un tirage au sort détermine le choix du côté et du droit de servir ou de relancer. D'autre façon de formuler: l'autre côté, p. ex.: Le joueur qui gagne le «toss» peut choisir de recevoir ou de servir, ou encore un des côtés du court, diriger la balle chez l'adversaire.

CONT

[...] le territoire adverse mesure au total 11,9 m par 8,2 m.

CONT

[La balle] file en direction de la zone adverse, mue par une vélocité et un effet de rotation qui commencent à inquiéter votre [adversaire].

CONT

[...] si vous ratez régulièrement votre première balle parce que vous voulez absolument passer un boulet, vous ramenez alors bien inutilement la pression du jeu dans votre camp.

CONT

Au début de chaque jeu, on doit simplement s'assurer que toutes les balles sont du côté du serveur.

PHR

camp/territoire/zone adverse.

OBS

camp, côté demi-court : termes employés aussi au badminton.

Spanish

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

Parte del terreno de tenis separada y de un lado de la red.

OBS

Término genérico. Se puede decir también «(cambiar de) lado de pista», «pista contraria» (= otro «lado» de la red), pelota que cayó a nuestro «terreno».

CONT

Durante el saque, el jugador debe colocarse, alternativamente, en el lado derecho e izquierdo de su campo [...]

CONT

[El jugador] no pierde el punto [...], siempre que evite invadir el campo de su adversario, delimitado por las líneas de juego [...] El jugador que saca pretende que el «que resta» esté dentro de las líneas que delimitan su campo [...]

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Record 13 2000-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Team Sports
DEF

A team sport consisting of teams of seven that attempt to tag and capture the opponents who invade their territory.

CONT

The Kabaddi playing area is 12. 50m X 10m divided by a line into two halves. The side winning the toss sends a "raider" who enters the opponents’ court chanting "kabaddi-kabaddi". The raider's aim is to touch any or all players on the opposing side and return to his court in one breath. The person whom the raider touches will then be out. The aim of the opposing team will be to hold the raider and stop him from returning to his own court until he takes another breath.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports d'équipe
CONT

L'un des sports traditionnels du Pakistan est le kabaddi : un groupe de joueurs luttent et courent tout en répétant le mot kabaddi sans reprendre leur respiration.

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Team Sports (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 15 1985-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coupling Systems (Railroad)
DEF

That portion of the coupler head opposite the knuckle. The guard arm guides a mating coupler into position during a coupling operation and forms one side of the pocket into which the opposing couple knuckle fits while two cars are coupled.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Attelages (Matériel de chemin de fer)

Spanish

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