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UNDER SLICE [5 records]

Record 1 2014-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A backward rotation imparted on the ball by brushing the racket face down and under the ball, causing it to stop abruptly or bounce backward upon making contact with the court surface.

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

[A slice is a] shot hit with a mixture of back- and side-spin.

OBS

Note that the racket moves in a plane that is downward from a line drawn perpendicular to the hitting surface. "Back-spin," "underspin" and "underslice" all refer to a particular spin added to the ball. "Chop," "slice" and "chip" are more specific terms since they refer to particular shots. Sometimes all of these terms are mistakenly used as synonyms.

PHR

Backspin effect.

PHR

To apply, impart, supply backspin. To produce a backspin.

Key term(s)
  • under slice

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Volée chop. Tête de la raquette à la même hauteur que la main. Pauline choisit de descendre verticalement sa raquette à l'impact, afin d'effectuer une volée avec effet arrière.

CONT

Frottement de haut en bas. L'effet obtenu est appelé coupé, ou slicé ou chopé.

OBS

Selon certains experts, il y a une nuance entre «coupé», «slicé» et «chopé» en fonction de l'angle auquel la raquette fait contact avec la balle.

Spanish

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

Efecto que consiste en que la pelota gira en sentido inverso mientras avanza en su trayectoria.

OBS

Sirve para controlar la pelota; una pelota cortada se golpea de arriba abajo. Es un golpe muy recomendado para las subidas a la red, sobre todo de revés; [...] Cuando queramos pasar a un adversario que sube a la red no debemos utilizar nunca el golpe cortado, ya que resulta lento, sino el plano o liftado.

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Record 2 2011-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Type of underspin in which the ball appears to bounce back in the direction from which it came.

OBS

The term "overspin" is usually used in reference to excessive underspin, although technically it could also refer to "topspin", but in practice it rarely does. Depending on surface and atmospheric conditions(i. e the wind), the chop and the cut(imparting spin horizontally under the ball rather than imparting spin vertically downwards as in the slice) can make the ball skid, bounce low or stop.

PHR

Slice with excessive underspin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

[Rotation si prononcée qu'elle] fait rebondir la balle en arrière, parfois jusqu'à repasser seule par-dessus le filet.

CONT

Amortir l'impact en cassant légèrement le poignet en arrière et en ouvrant un peu le tamis. Cela permet d'annuler la vitesse de la balle et de la couper pour lui imprimer un effet rétro (ou contraire) en lui donnant juste assez de puissance pour qu'elle aille «mourir» dans le court adverse.

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cultivating and Tilling Equipment
DEF

A round, flat, steel disk, sharpened on the edge and suspended on a shank and yoke from the beam of a plow, so constructed that it can be adjusted up and down for depth and side ways for width of cut [that] cuts the furrow slice loose from the furrow wall, especially when plowing under heavy plant growth with a moldboard plow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Motoculteurs et motobineuses
OBS

coutre : Pièce travaillante d'un corps de charrue. Le coutre tranche verticalement la bande de terre à retourner en amorçant la muraille [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Motocultores y motobinadoras
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Record 4 2005-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Extraction Procedures - Various (Mining)
DEF

A method of caving in which a thick block of ore is partly cut off from surrounding blocks by a series of drifts, one above the other, or by boundary shrinkage stopes.

OBS

[This block] is then undercut by removing a slice of ore or a series of slices separated by small pillars underneath the block. The isolated, unsupported block of ore breaks and caves under its own weight. The broken ore is drawn off from below, and as the caved mass moves downward, due to continued drawing of broken ore from below, it is broken further by pressure and attrition. The overlying capping caves and follows the broken ore downward.

OBS

Block Caving [or] block caving method: so called because mining occurs sequentially in segments or blocks 60 to 150 m (200 to 500 ft) on a side in all three directions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'extraction divers (Exploit. minière)
DEF

Variante de la méthode d'exploitation par foudroyage. L'amas de minerai est découpé en blocs de dimensions importantes. Le minerai se désagrège spontanément par foudroyage et descend en masses. Le soutirage se fait dans un réseau d'entonnoirs ménagés à la base du bloc.

CONT

Le foudroyage par blocs [...] consiste à sous-caver un bloc de minerai de plusieurs dizaines de mètres de hauteur pour provoquer son foudroyage. [...] La base du bloc est découpée en entonnoirs, au-dessus des cheminées de soutirage qui permettent au minerai foudroyé de descendre par gravité dans les niveaux de raclage horizontaux. Le foudroyage est amorcé par le dépilage d'une tranche de minerai à la base du bloc et progresse dans la masse du minerai, puis dans les terrains stériles de recouvrement.

Key term(s)
  • découpage en massifs d'abatage
  • exploitation par abattage par le tir après sous-cavage

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Papermaking Machines
  • Paper Manufacturing Processes
DEF

A plastic-covered, sometimes perforated board located under the paper machine wire between the breast roll and first table roll. It is used to eliminate the sag caused by impact of the stock jet from the slice and to improve flow onto the wire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines à papier
  • Fabrication du papier
DEF

Support plein, percé de trous ou encore formé de lames assemblées avec des entretoises, situé à la sortie de la caisse d'arrivée pour y retarder l'égouttage de la pâte.

OBS

On trouvera aussi le terme «marbre» sous l'article 8.3.4.3 de CTD-1.

Spanish

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