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Record 1 2018-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique and Obsolete Weapons
  • Cutting and Thrusting Weapons
DEF

A curved bar or plate on a sword hilt which protects the knuckles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes anciennes
  • Armes blanches
DEF

Branche de la monture d’une arme blanche destinée à protéger la main.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
CONT

A correction fluid is an opaque, [usually] white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text. Once dried, it can be written over. It is typically packaged in small bottles, and the lid has an attached brush (or a triangular piece of foam) which dips into the bottle. The brush is used to apply the fluid onto the paper.

CONT

Paint Snopake opaquing fluid over your typing error, type correction right over the smooth, hard, white surface.

OBS

Tipp-Ex is a trademark for correction products. It has become so popular that it has become an English genericised trademark: to tippex or tippex out means to erase, either generally or with [a] correction fluid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
DEF

Préparation fluide, le plus souvent blanche, dont on recouvre les fautes, dans un texte écrit à la main ou dactylographié, afin de pouvoir, après séchage, écrire par-dessus pour les corriger, présentée le plus souvent dans un pot muni d’un applicateur(pinceau, éponge ou tampon) ou incorporée dans un crayon.

OBS

Les correcteurs liquides sont commercialisés sous de nombreux noms de marque, parmi lesquels on peut citer : Tipp-Ex, Liquid Paper, Snopake, Wite-Out. On commet une faute en les utilisant comme des noms communs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo y artículos de oficina
DEF

Líquido que permite tapar con una capa blanca lo escrito y volver a escribir encima.

OBS

La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, explica que el término "típex" (en minúscula, con tilde en la "i" y con una sola "p") es adecuado para utilizarlo de forma genérica.

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Record 3 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Card Games
DEF

(1900): a hand in bridge or whist containing no ace and no card higher than a nine.

CONT

Charles Anderson Worseley, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, English nobleman said to have bet a thousand to one against the dealing of such a hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de cartes
DEF

Main ne contenant aucune carte supérieure au neuf.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
DEF

An occupational disorder seen sometimes in those who use vibratory tools, and apparently caused by the multitude of concussions. The hands are painful and dark blue in color, but blanch on exposure to cold

CONT

The stress of continued exposure to vibration causes injury to fingers (vibration-induced white fingers) and hands (dead hand).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)

Spanish

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