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MOUVEMENT ORIGINAL [6 records]

Record 1 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A type of topspin serve hit with a combination of topspin and sidespin. The ball not only takes a high bounce, it also flies in a direction opposite of what one would normally expect it to.

CONT

An exageration of the topspin serve turns the service into a kick service or "American twist". A right-hander's American twist serve puts left-to-right spin on the ball. Such a serve can present difficulties for the receiver, particularly on grass where the bounce could be tricky.

OBS

The "kick serve" is also called the "kicker". It became known as the "american twist" or "american twist serve" in the first Davis Cup match in 1900 when the finalists, Holcombe Ward, a Harvard man, and his college friend, Dwight Davis, used the stroke they had developed to beat their English opponents.

CONT

If the kick serve is correctly delivered it can often be followed in so as to make your next shot the volley you might have tried on a successful power serve ... Try to mix the angle of [your] serves and watch for weaknesses in your opponent, e.g., a backhand to a high-kicking serve is not easily played at club standard.

Key term(s)
  • American twist service

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Service brossé où la balle rebondit haut et dans la direction opposée à son mouvement original.

OBS

On l’appelle aussi à tort «service lifté».

OBS

Termes connexes : service brossé ou service lifté (ou service à effet toppé).

Key term(s)
  • service lifté
  • service brossé
  • service à effet toppé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 2 2000-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facsimile
  • Telegraph Equipment
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

In faccimile transmission, distortion due to movements of the transmission or reception equipment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécopie
  • Appareils de télégraphie
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Défaut de reproduction causé par le mouvement irrégulier du mécanisme de transmission ou de réception du cylindre.

DEF

rotation ou mouvement irrégulier du mécanisme de transmission ou de réception du cylindre qui se manifeste par une reproduction irrégulière de lignes qui sont régulières et nettes dans l'original.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religious Sects - Various
DEF

member of Hutterian Brethren, Anabaptist sect that found refuge from persecution in Moravia and the Tirol .... The community, which acquired the name of its charismatic leader, Jakob Hutter ..., still survives, mostly in the western sections of the United States and Canada .... In colonies of 60 to 150 persons, they operate collective farms ("Bruderhof") and ... remain aloof from outside society, taking no part in politics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultes divers
CONT

Issue du courant pacifiste et communautaire de l'anabaptisme du XVIe siècle, la secte des huttériens(ou huttérites) [...] est restée fidèle [...] à son idéal religieux primitif, [...] à sa structure initiale, ainsi qu'au dialecte et même aux costume de son milieu original. Elle fut fondée [...] par un pasteur anabaptiste tyrolien, Jakob Hutter, torturé et brûlé comme hérétique en 1536. Le mouvement huttérien groupait alors des milliers de frères répartis dans des fermes communautaires [...]. Après l'écrasement de l'anabaptisme militaire à Münster en 1535, les huttériens s’installèrent à Austerlitz [...]. Au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, [...] ils émigrèrent en grande partie au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 4 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

the set is statable in any of its linear aspects: prime, inversion, --, and retrograde-inversion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

(...) série(...) constituée(...) de quatre formes différentes(...) : le mouvement original(...) rétrograde renversé--simple et le simple renversement

Spanish

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Record 5 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

the set is statable in any of its linear aspects: --, inversion, retrograde, and retrograde-inversion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

(...) série (...) constituée (...) de quatre formes différentes d’une même petite figure de trois sons: le -- (...) rétrograde renversé (...) rétrograde simple et le simple renversement

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

the set is statable in any of its linear aspects: prime, inversion, retrograde, and --.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

(...) série(...) constituée(...) de quatre formes différentes(...) : le mouvement original,(...)--,(...) rétrograde simple et le simple renversement

Spanish

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