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Record 1 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

The driven volley with under-spin will see the ball bounce lower, offering less chance of an attacking reply, but the margin for error - with no top spin to bring the ball down - is small indeed.

CONT

If you yourself are forced wide, with your opponent moving to cover a sideline return, a cross court response can put you back in the rally.

CONT

[The lob] is going to be used more often in doubles than singles matches, usually as a defensive ploy, and is often the best answer to aggressive net play from the opposition.

PHR

Casual, sloppy, solid, tactical reply. Level of reply.

PHR

To execute, pick off a reply. To induce/put away a weak reply. To have no reply.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

recevoir la réplique = to face (un adversaire).

CONT

Ivanisevic, servant alors un peu moins bien, a été une proie facile pour Sampras. Les répliques de l'Américain ont été trop brillantes pour le Croate qui n'a pas été en mesure de gagner un seul jeu dans le troisième set face à un joueur de grande classe, qui l'a crucifié pour conclure victorieusement en moins de deux heures.

CONT

[Si vous êtes] trop près du filet, [vous pourrez avoir comme conséquence] , moins de temps pour réagir, risque de toucher le filet, [et vous facilitez] la riposte de votre [adversaire].

CONT

Le smash est la réplique au [...] lob.

PHR

Réplique infaillible.

PHR

Riposte à un lob.

PHR

Faire la réplique.

Spanish

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

El jugador inferior ha restado en paralelo y un poco corto, quedando a merced de una respuesta cruzada y angulada.

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Record 2 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The smallest scoring unit in Tennis, each having individual names: "15" for the first, "30" for the second, "40" for the third, and "game" for the last, "deuce" being called if both sides reach 40, and "advantage", server or receiver, on the next play(s).

OBS

A point is scored by a player when his/her opponent fails to return the ball properly. To win a game from deuce, a side must win two consecutive points.

PHR

Aggressive, big, championship, close, crunch, decisive, easy, game, grinding, long, match, nicely-played, pressure, set, set-up, short, sloppy, style, tentative, textbook, turning, well-played point.

PHR

Point stands. Points accumulate. Points won at the net.

PHR

Close, dictator, pace of a point. String of points.

PHR

To award, close out, construct, control, develop, dictate, dominate, donate, earn, end, finish, give up, lose, play out, score, secure, think out, tilt, win a point. To battle for point. To take control of a point. To concede, replay, set up, win the point. To accumulate, give away, string together points.

PHR

To stay, to be in the point. To get back into the point. To reel off straight points. To win a lot of free points. Her backhand keeps her in the points.

PHR

To make an opponent play every point.

PHR

To be points away from winning. To play a point over again.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Au tennis, l'élément de base pour établir le score (ou la marque), chacun ayant un nom propre : le premier se dit «15», le deuxième, «30», le troisième, «40», et le dernier, «partie», «égalité» étant annoncé si les adversaires en viennent à 40, et «avantage», serveur ou receveur, sur les jeux subséquents.

CONT

Les points sont comptés en jeux et manches.

OBS

Un joueur marque un point lorsque son adversaire ne peut renvoyer la balle en jeu. Lorsqu'on en vient à égalité, un joueur ou une joueuse (en simple) ou une équipe (en double) doit marquer deux points consécutifs pour remporter la partie.

PHR

Point décisif, facile, immanquable, mérité, bien orchestré, perdu.

PHR

Point marqué sur fautes non provoquées.

PHR

Acquisition d'un point. Attribution, construction de points. Décompte des points.

PHR

Point de match. Un point demeure.

PHR

Engager, faire, finir le point. Perdre, rejouer, travailler un point. Conquérir, marquer les points.

PHR

Faire mériter un point. Être dans le point. Conclure rapidement les points.

Spanish

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

Modo de contar los tantos o puntos.

CONT

Se juega un tie-break («muerte súbita»), o desempate, cuando en un set hay empate a seis juegos; el primer jugador que marque siete puntos, con una diferencia de dos puntos, gana el set.

CONT

¿Pierde el tanto un jugador que, al pretender una devolución, traspasa la prolongación imaginaria de la red? [..] antes de darle a la pelota [...] después de darle a la pelota [...] No pierde el punto en ninguno de los dos casos, siempre que evite invadir el campo de su adversario, delimitado por las líneas de juego.

PHR

Adjudicar, conceder, conseguir, ganar, hacer, marcar, perder un punto.

PHR

Defender, terminar el punto. Jugarse todo el punto.

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Record 3 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The result of hitting the tennis ball with a tennis racquet; sometimes refers to the actual placement of the ball or manner in which it is struck.

CONT

A shot is the combination of a stroke and the situation in which it is used.

OBS

"Long" is an informal expression used to indicate that a shot went out past the baseline. Important nuance: a "stroke" implies early preparation and a complete follow through. If one were to envision a stroke, one would see a series of sequences, ending with a "shot", i.e. the result of all of the above. Consequently, a "shot" is the result of the "stroke". "Shot" implies a quick, sharp movement because one is focusing on the end result, not the series of sequences leading up to it. A "blow" is rather an imprecise, general term similar in meaning to "shot". Although many would like to maintain these nuances in English, "shot" and "stroke" are often used synonymously. "Blow" is used only rarely. Note, however that although there are two possible equivalents ("coup" and "frappe") in French, neither are semantically identical to the English offerings. The Spanish term "pegada" works well as an equivalent for "shot", although technically the term more specifically refers to the actual hitting action caused by the racket coming in contact with the ball, and not to the end result [cause vs effect].

CONT

Keeping your feet wide apart is an important key to maintaining good balance and positioning while moving from shot to shot.

CONT

Since his injury in the first set, he has lost a lot of sting in his shots.

PHR

Shape, strength of shot. Barrage, range, string of shots.

PHR

Shot bounces. Shot drifts wide. Shot has no pace on it. Shot will go/sail long.

PHR

Accurate, aggressive, angled, approach, bread-and-butter, buggywhip, chip, cinch, crafty, cross-court, crummy, decisive, deep, defensive, delicate, down-the-line, down-the-T, drop, extraordinary, fantastic, fast, floating, floppy, follow-up, forcing, gutsy, hard, hard-to-read, high-risk, inside-out, kill, laser, looping, loose, low, low-percentage, low-risk, mammoth, midcourt, off-centre, offensive, outside-in, passing, percentage, power, pressure, recovery, risky, safe, set-up, shallow, sharp-angled, short, showoff, sloppy, soft, spin, strong, tactical, topspin, touch, tough, tricky, two-handed, underspin, varied, vicious, wide, winning, wrongfooting shot.

PHR

Irretrievable key shot.

PHR

To admire, angle, anticipate, attack, baby, block, bungle, center, chop down, conceal, cut off, develop, dip, direct, flatten out, go for, guide, handle, hit, hold, improvise, intercept, lean into, line up, make, meet, miss, move into, muff, muscle, net, place, play, pop up, practice, pull off, put away, retrieve, rifle, run down, rush through, send, set up, smack, spray, step into, take, target, telegraph, time, track, underspin, unleash a shot.

PHR

To add pep to a shot. To approach behind a shot. To be cute with a shot. To react to a shot. To scoop down for a shot. To put one’s whole body behind shot. To get one’s weight behind/into the shot. To mix up shots. To stream together shots.

PHR

To raise a shot high. To telegraph shop direction. To whip a shot up/down the line.

PHR

Crushing shots. Filing one’s body into a shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Rien pour embarrasser François dont la régularité des coups en fond de terrain et la grande ténacité font de ce jeune joueur le champion canadien des 14 ans et moins.

CONT

[...] ses coups assenés du fond du court avec cette insolente précision qui blanchit les lignes.

PHR

Coup d'approche, d'attaque, en angle, audacieux, de base, de contre-attaque, coupé, croisé, décentré, décisif, défensif, déguisé, dévastateur, époustouflant, d'expert, explosif, faiblard, fantaisiste, fatal, de grande classe, lourd, mal ajusté, offensif, plat, précis, puissant, raté, retenu, risque, souple, spectaculaire, tordu.

PHR

Puissance, tempo d'un coup. Déroulement du coup. Gamme, production des coups.

PHR

Anticiper, appuyer, centrer, ralentir, rater, tourner un coup.

PHR

Assurer un bon centrage d'un coup. Laisser aller ses coups.

PHR

Sortir des coups impressionnants.

Spanish

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

Efecto de jugar a pegar golpes a una pelota.

CONT

Cualidades que debe poseer un buen servicio [...] Variación constante de la pegada (plana o con efecto).

CONT

Vuelta a la posición de espera tardía, lo que hace dejar un hueco en el que nuestro adversario dirigirá su próximo tiro.

PHR

Tiro angulado. Golpe definitivo, defensivo, estático, violento.

PHR

Un golpe lleva efecto.

PHR

Angular un tiro.

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Record 4 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Set of strokes and movements in which the principal objective is to maintain an exchange between two players (or two teams in doubles) for as long as possible. The successful player(s) not only wins the rally (play), but the point as well.

OBS

By extension, the term "play" is sometimes used as a synonym of "game," as in the phrase, "In women’s play, top-seeded defending champion Arantxa Sanchez Vicario routed Conchita Mart­nez."

PHR

Aggressive, consistent, continuous, flawless, gallery, gutsy, night, serve-and-volley, singles, sloppy, superb play.

PHR

Stoppage in play.

PHR

To dictate, dominate, hold up play. To read the play.

PHR

To have no play on the ball. To keep the ball in play.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Neuvième joueur au classement junior [,il] a entrepris en lion l'ultime manche, multipliant les jeux spectaculaires pour rapidement prendre les devants.

PHR

Jeu continu, spectaculaire.

PHR

Régularité dans le jeu.

PHR

Améliorer, arrêter, entraver, interrompre, perturber, retarder, suspendre le jeu.

PHR

Jeu au filet.

PHR

Style de jeu.

Spanish

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

La pelota está en juego hasta que no se ha decidido el tanto.

PHR

Juego demorado, interferido, suspendido.

PHR

Interrupción en el juego.

PHR

Mantener la pelota en juego.

PHR

Suspender un juego.

PHR

El juego se reanuda.

PHR

Juego que se está desarrollando.

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Record 5 2011-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Records Management (Management)
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

Institutions with sloppy record keeping practices or an arcane approval process often reported higher costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des documents (Gestion)
  • Travail et emploi
CONT

Les institutions dont les pratiques de tenue des dossiers laissent à désirer ou qui utilisent un processus d'approbation archaïque sont souvent celles qui déclarent des coûts de traitement élevés.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Food Industries
DEF

Ground beef cooked in a seasoned sauce (as chili) and usually served over a bun.

OBS

A trademark of Sloppy Joe's Bar.

Key term(s)
  • Sloppy Joe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
OBS

Sloppy Joe : Marque de commerce de Sloppy Joe's Bar.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Stall. Occurs when the wings are no longer capable of producing sufficient lift to counteract the effect of gravity on the aircraft’s mass. Symptoms of an Approaching Stall: - loss of horizon; - reduced wind noise; - dropping of indicated airspeed; - slack controls, and; - buffeting (vibrations, may be absent during flight in precipitation).

Key term(s)
  • slack controls
  • sloppy controls

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
CONT

Comme l’avion était en pilotage automatique, l’équipage de conduite n’a remarqué aucun signe de décrochage imminent ni aucun signe de réduction de la vitesse, comme une augmentation du cabré, des changements d’assiette, une augmentation de l’angle d’attaque et des commandes molles.

Key term(s)
  • commandes molles

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-12-21

English

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

In racing, may be rated and reported by abbreviations, in North America : ft : fast, gd : good, sy :sloppy, sl : slow, my : muddy, hy : heavy, f : frozen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

L'état de la piste de course peut être décrit par des abréviations, en Amérique du Nord : ft : rapide, gd : bonne, sy : détemprée, sl : lente, m : boueuse, hy : très boueuse, f : gelée.

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-03-12

English

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

Describing the condition of a race track at a particular moment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
OBS

Décrit la condition d'une piste de course à un moment donné.

Spanish

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Record 10 2007-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coining
DEF

The name given to the category into which coins are referenced or graded, called, advertised, priced, and sold where in fact they belong to an inferior category. Even if the coins have some of the characteristics of the superior category, it remains a sloppy and unprofessional grading practice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Monnayage
DEF

Désignation de toute catégorie dans laquelle, à des fins strictement lucratives, on a classé une pièce dont l'état de conservation la rattache à une catégorie inférieure; même si la pièce a certaines caractéristiques de la catégorie supérieure, la pratique demeure déloyale.

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Additives
DEF

A natural beer flavor prepared by spray-drying beer with maltodextrin, which removes water and alcohol, concentrating the flavor of beer in a free-flowing powdered form.

CONT

Beer Buds can be used in a variety of applications. Its dry form makes it especially suited to seasoning blends and dry mixes. It boosts notes in seasonings such as taco, nacho and sloppy joe. Other applications include beer nuts or pretzels and pizza crust.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Additifs alimentaires
OBS

Proposition par analogie avec poudre d'ail et poudre d'oignon.

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

The trend toward prepacked chip-and-dip snack solutions began last year with Frito-Lay's launch of Tostitos Chips & Salsa snack and Frito Sloppy Joe and Scoops. The company has since added a Scoops and chili and a Scoops and cheese dip offering to its Healthy Combos line and recently added a Ruffles & French Onion Dip snack kit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Winemaking
CONT

"Tired". A wine that is not holding up well. The old zip has gone. Past its prime, the wine lacks vitality and muscle to sustain it. The fruit has all but vanished. Tannin and/or acid are petering out. The wine cannot develop or improve. A tired wine is sometimes attributable to old age, sometimes not : poor storage, sloppy vinification methods, faulty handling along the line of distribution could be the cause, among other factors. Other descriptions : faded, old, exhausted, dull, flat, played out, uninteresting.

CONT

A harsh, tired wine lacking in fruity character.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Industrie vinicole
DEF

Se dit d'un vin qui a souffert d'un voyage ou d'un soutirage.

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shipping and Delivery
CONT

... the company's sloppy order fulfillment process was infuriating its retailers, who responded by cutting its shelf space...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Expédition et livraison
CONT

[...] le problème tenait aux exigences observées dans l'expédition des commandes; elles exaspéraient les détaillants, qui réagissaient en réduisant la place du produit sur leurs linéaires [...]

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A badly hit tennis ball, as in a ball that goes off the frame of the racquet.

OBS

Related phraseology : woodie [slang], to frame, forehand tends to fly, sloppy shot, miscue, sprayed error, to muff a shot.

Key term(s)
  • mis-hit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Balle non ou mal contrôlée qui aboutit dans les bâches (ou toiles) de fond de court, ou dans les tribunes.

CONT

La [prise] western permet de taper fort dans la balle en la gardant dans le court, mais elle exige un placement parfait sous peine de «toiles» spectaculaires.

OBS

Termes connexes : bois, boiser, maladresse.

Spanish

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Record 17 1996-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Data Transmission

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission de données

Spanish

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Record 18 1995-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Related phraseology : streaky player, to be flat, to get sloppy, erratic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Phraséologie connexe : jouer au yo-yo avec son tennis.

CONT

[Elle] a été erratique sur le terrain.

Spanish

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Record 19 1993-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
CONT

Check to see how well the car steers and responds in sharp turns. The steering should not be loose or sloppy; the car should respond immediately.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
CONT

Essayez la direction et voyez comment elle se comporte en virage serré. Elle doit réagir sans hésitation et avec précision.

Spanish

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Record 20 1987-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Helicopters (Military)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
OBS

Term officialized by the ATSC - Helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hélicoptères (Militaire)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

Terme uniformisé par le CUTA - Hélicoptères.

Spanish

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Record 21 1982-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
  • Aeroindustry
OBS

helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
  • Constructions aéronautiques

Spanish

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Record 22 1981-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Tractors
  • Mechanical Construction
CONT

Torsion-bar draft control is much more sensitive and accurate than other hitches that sense with a bending bar or have erratic springs and sloppy linkages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tracteurs agricoles
  • Construction mécanique
CONT

La commande du contrôle d'effort à barre de torsion est beaucoup plus sensible et plus précise que sur les autres attelages qui utilisent une barre de flexion ou des ressorts et des attelages peu précis.

Spanish

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Record 23 1978-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

Methods for microbiological analysis of waters. Sloppy agar tubes provide a natural oxygen gradient and the bacteria appear as a thin, sharply-defined band of opaque white material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
OBS

Cette gélose renfermant 5 à 6 fois moins d'agar que la gélose nutritive classique, est utilisée pour l'étude de la mobilité des bactéries.

Spanish

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