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TABLE SETTING [7 records]

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Record 1 2012-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Misleading Pictorial Representations. For example, a package that is correctly labelled as containing 4 plastic place mats that also has a picture of a table setting with 6 plastic place mats may, without further qualification, be in violation of the Act.

OBS

misleading pictorial representations: term usually used in plural in this context.

Key term(s)
  • misleading pictorial representation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Illustrations trompeuses. Par exemple, un emballage qui est correctement étiqueté comme contenant quatre napperons de plastique et sur lequel figure l'image d'une table avec six napperons peut, s'il ne contient aucune autre indication, contrevenir à la Loi.

OBS

illustrations trompeuses : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • illustration trompeuse

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

This electronically controlled measuring device, suitably mounted on the table and the saddle, indicates the table travel.... A digital readout box resembles the odometer on an automobile dashboard and indicates the distance travelled by a series of number visible through a glass front on the box. This arrangement permits quick and accurate setting of the machine table.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Verify that both captain's and first officer's stall warning shakers, speakers, and lights activate within tolerance for each flap, slat, and vane setting, given in angle-of-attack vane deflection table....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

tableau de position girouette : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 4 1983-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Table Setting (General)
DEF

china, glassware, silver, and other utensils used for setting a table or serving food and drink.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service de table (Généralités)
CONT

Articles de cuisine, coutellerie et articles de table (...)

Spanish

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Record 5 1978-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Table Setting (General)
DEF

a small usu. rectangular table mat on which a place setting is laid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service de table (Généralités)
DEF

Petit linge de table servant à protéger ou décorer la table ou la nappe.

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glassware
  • Packaging in Glass
OBS

--articles of glass, esp. glasses for a table setting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets en verre
  • Emballages en verre
OBS

--verres, gobelets, assiettes, tasses, y compris les récipients à ouverture large comme les bocaux à conserves.

Spanish

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Record 7 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Eating Utensils and Cutlery
CONT

Capacity is sometimes rated by table setting which include place settings and serving pieces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couverts et coutellerie
CONT

Capacité. Elle s'exprime en couverts [...] Le couvert normalisé ne comporte que les accessoires de la table [...] et de service.

Spanish

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