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POINTED AWAY [7 fiches]

Fiche 1 2024-02-29

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
CONT

In an anchorage where there is little or no current or tidal stream, and in reasonably calm weather, a ship may be pointed to lie at an angle with the line of her cable by putting a spring on her cable. First heave in a shackle or so of cable. Now lead a hawser [...] out through the aftermost quarter fairlead, then for’ard and outboard of all, and shackle it with a joggle shackle to the cable outboard of the hawsepipe, thereby forming a spring. Then belay the hawser and veer the cable, and the ship's head should pay off away from the side on which the spring is rove until pointing in the required direction. Alternatively the hawser may be brought to an after capstan and hove in as the cable is veered.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Espagnol

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Fiche 2 2015-08-14

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Ballistics
  • Guns (Land Forces)
DEF

The condition in which the projectile always points to the right of the trajectory.

OBS

Because the trajectory is continually falling away, the nose of the precessing projectile will point above the trajectory more so than below it. The result is that a certain degree of force is continually being exerted under the nose of the projectile. The dominating gyroscopic effect is to keep the nose of the projectile pointed to the right.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Balistique
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
DEF

État du projectile qui pointe toujours vers la droite de la trajectoire.

OBS

La trajectoire descendant continuellement, l'avant du projectile, en mouvement de précession, pointe plus au-dessus qu'au-dessous de la trajectoire. Une certaine force s'exerce alors sans cesse sous l'avant du projectile. L'effet gyroscopique dominant est de maintenir l'avant du projectile pointé vers la droite.

OBS

lacet d'équilibre : terme et définition uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Espagnol

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Fiche 3 2013-03-05

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Ultrasonography
  • Cardiovascular System
CONT

When the Doppler beam is pointing towards the direction of blood flow a positive Doppler shifted signal is observed, but once the Doppler beam is pointed away from the direction of blood flow a negative Doppler shifted signal is seen. The smaller the angle between the Doppler beam and blood vessel, the larger the Doppler shifted signal. Very small signals are produced as the Doppler beam angle approaches a 90° angle.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Ultrasonographie
  • Système cardio-vasculaire
CONT

Les systèmes Doppler actuels sont toujours couplés; une même sonde sert à l’imagerie et à l’émission du faisceau Doppler. L’image Doppler couleur se superpose en temps réel sur la coupe échographique.

Espagnol

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Fiche 4 2011-06-07

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Engraving and Printmaking (Arts)
  • Intaglio Printing
DEF

An engraving process in which a design is hand-cut directly onto a burnished copper plate with a steel or diamond point, no acid being used.

OBS

The image is scratched out of the copper surface with a very finely pointed instrument which creates a heavily burred line. The line is more shallow than the engraved line but its burr is more distinct. The burr is not scraped away. It catches ink and, when printed, creates lines of velvety richness. Because the burr wears down quickly, only a very limited number of good impressions can be pulled. The drypoint engraving is one of the intaglio techniques.

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • dry point engraving

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Gravure d'art
  • Impression en creux (héliogravure)
OBS

Le trait est creusé dans le cuivre avec un instrument bien affûté qui soulève une barbe abondante. Il est moins profond que dans la taille au burin, mais sa barbe, qui sera conservée, est plus forte. Celle-ci a pour fonction de retenir l'encre et, lors de l'impression, elle confère au trait une sorte de velouté. La fragilité de la barbe limite cependant le tirage. La gravure à la pointe sèche est un des procédés de la gravure en creux.

Espagnol

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Fiche 5 2007-11-14

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Milking Equipment (Agriculture)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
CONT

During the first seconds of milking as well as during the end of milking the milk flow is low, reaching a value of a few hundred grams of milk per minute. During the high flow phase the milk flow reaches values typically of 3-6 kg milk per minute. The system vacuum level is usually kept at a constant level throughout milking. However, the ideal situation is a milking machine which is adapted to the variation in milk flow during the complete milking and to the different udder quarters.

CONT

With most conventional units, the claw outlet should be pointed in a lightly downward direction to facilitate milk flow into the milk hose and away from the cow.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Traite mécanique (Agriculture)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
CONT

Lors des premières secondes de la traite ainsi qu'à la fin, le débit du lait est très bas (quelques centaines de grammes de lait à la minute).

CONT

Des dispositifs de fin de traite évitent de soumettre les trayons au vide quand le débit du lait diminue.

Espagnol

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Fiche 6 1993-11-09

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Planets
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
CONT

generally, these tails are pointed away from the sun and may reach lengths of almost 100 million miles.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Planètes
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
CONT

Peter Apian établit ensuite nettement que la queue de la comète de 1531 est grossièrement opposée au Soleil.

Espagnol

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Fiche 7 1991-10-10

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

A reduction in output or expenditure (rate, amount or number) which is bitterly received by the public: similar to "cutback", but more pejorative.

CONT

What I (and I suspect 90% of my fellow-readers) find truly scandalous in the Peter Kormos flap is that, at this time of anemic business activities and emaciated corporate profits - not to mention hospital cutbacks and pension clawbacks - somebody is actually being paid $60,000 per annum out of the public purse to monitor sexism in beer ads.

OBS

This neologism is a compound. It is formed by putting together a word(claw) and a combining form(-back). Compounds are formed of various parts of speech, and often a compound differs in part of speech from its components(for example : claw(verb) + back(adverb)=clawback(noun]. A compound may appear to be quite self-explanatory, but often it holds a specialized meaning. Semantically, a clawback is a cutback taken several steps further. The words resemble each other, but the connotations are quite different : while a "cutback" might meet some public resistance, a "clawback" gives the impression of something virtually torn from the hands of the public and dragged away. "Claw" gives the idea of a vulture, and includes all of its negative implications. It should also be pointed out that "clawbacks" rhymes with "drawbacks", and while the latter is never actually seen, the reader likely makes a psychological connection between the two words, amplifying the effect of the former.

OBS

"Clawback" may be what is often termed a "nonce word" - a new word that is coined specifically for the occasion, a coinage which may soon disappear. Nonce words are formed with existing elements in the language, its standard words, combining forms, and affixes. Nonce words are often playful or fanciful coinages, many are puns, or are humorous.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Espagnol

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