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FUSILLER [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
DEF

Post an antagonistic message intended to criticize and insult someone for something they have written [or posted].

CONT

[Internet] users who espouse unpopular positions in discussions risk being "flamed" - or subjected to violent verbal abuse, often in capital letters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
DEF

Adresser à un ou plusieurs internautes un message électronique à caractère agressif ou malveillant.

OBS

Incendier un individu ou un groupe consiste à le dénigrer dans un article féroce, en réaction à un article qu’il a posté.

OBS

incendier : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 8 décembre 2002.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Comunicaciones colaborativas y sociales
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Record 2 1995-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
DEF

a detachment detailed to carry out a sentence of death by shooting.

CONT

By the middle of the nineteenth century, when a firing squad assembled, it was often the case that one man would randomly be given a blank bullet. Whether each member of the firing squad could tell if he had the blank or not ... was irrelevant. Each man could go home that night with the certainty that he could never be accused, for sure, of having played a role in the killing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

groupe de soldats chargé de fusiller un condamné à mort.

Spanish

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