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VAJILLA [6 records]

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Record 1 2024-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Eating Utensils and Cutlery
  • Goldsmithing and Silversmithing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couverts et coutellerie
  • Orfèvrerie et argenterie
DEF

Ensemble des pièces (vaisselle, couverts et accessoires) en argent ou en métal argenté servant aux usages de la table.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cubiertos y cuchillería
  • Orfebrería
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Record 2 2010-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dishes
DEF

Cups, plates, bowls, etc., made of baked clay.

CONT

upstairs we could hear screaming and smashing crockery.

OBS

Dishware.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisselle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vajilla
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Record 3 2006-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nonferrous Metals and Alloys - Various
DEF

A silver-white alloy composed of 52-80% copper, 10-35% zinc, and 5-35% nickel; sometimes also contains a few percent of lead and tin.

OBS

The German silver name was changed to nickel silver around World War I for patriotic reasons.

OBS

argentan: Early name for nickel silver.

OBS

silveroid: 66% copper, 24% zinc, and 10% nickel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Métaux et alliages non ferreux divers
DEF

Alliage de cuivre, de zinc et de nickel qui imite l'argent.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Metales y aleaciones no ferrosos - Varios
DEF

Aleación de la cual existen varias fórmulas, especialmente la que es a base de cobre (60%), cinc (20%) y níquel (20%), de color y aspecto parecido al de la plata.

OBS

Usado para reemplazar a [la plata] en la fabricación de cubiertos, vajilla y obras de orfebrería.

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Record 4 2006-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dishes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisselle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vajilla
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Record 5 2005-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
DEF

A contrivance or machine for washing dishes (as by means of jets of cleaning solution and water).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
CONT

Le lave-vaisselle. Il est destiné au lavage automatique de la vaisselle. [...] l'eau est dispersée sur la vaisselle soit par jets fixes projetés sur un panier tournant, soit par jets rotatifs.

OBS

lave-vaisselle : Cette expression, adoptée par le Conseil international de la langue française, remplace avantageusement la périphrase «machine à laver la vaisselle». L'expression «laveuse à vaisselle» n'a pas passé, par crainte de la confusion avec «laveuse de vaisselle», qui désigne une personne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparatos domésticos de limpieza y mantenimiento
DEF

Máquina para lavar automáticamente la vajilla y los cubiertos.

CONT

La máquina lavaplatos consta de una cuba de cierre estanco provista de unos cestos metálicos a modo de cajones adecuados para disponer en ellos los cubiertos y las piezas de vajilla de distintas formas y tamaños. [...] El lavado se obtiene mediante aspersión de agua caliente a presión efectuada por uno o varios molinetes o brazos giratorios. Esa misma agua, una vez filtrada, es reciclada determinado número de veces. Un programador permite escoger la presión y temperatura, así como la duración de las distintas fases del ciclo [...]

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Record 6 2004-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ornamental Glassware
  • Glass Manufacturing
DEF

The colourless transparent glass, such as Bohemian potash-lime glass, Venetian cristallo, English lead glass, and Continental crystal glass, that resembles rock-crystal.

OBS

It is a term used loosely for all fine glass, especially glass made for the dinner-table decorated with faceting ... Today glass called and made with lead must contain at least 24% lead oxide; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Verrerie d'art
  • Fabrication du verre
CONT

Le nom de cristal ne s'applique aujourd'hui qu'à une seule espèce de verre : celui qui renferme du silicate de plomb, [Minium de plomb 31,6%] à qui il doit un éclat, une pureté et une transparence, que ne possède pas le verre ordinaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cristalería decorativa
  • Fabricación del vidrio
DEF

Vidrio muy límpido que se usa especialmente para labores talladas.

CONT

Vajilla de cristal de Bohemia.

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