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Word equivalent to "prestation" in French in the administrative field
I'm searching for an English word which could have the same meaning than the word "prestation" in french, in the sense of "some service (paid or not) that has been executed by an ...
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What do we call the stream-like leftovers of water sticking to a glass surface?
From a Russian document:
Лабораторная посуда считается чистой, если вода, стекающая по стенкам, не оставляет капель или «ручейков».
Translation:
Laboratory glassware is considered clean when the ...
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What do we call the spike in the cap of an ointment/cream tube?
I'm translating a text about an antifungal cream sold in aluminum tubes. The plastic cap of each tube has a spike in it used to break the foil/seal in the neck of the tube.
I'm not sure what these ...
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Translation for German word "Kür" as in "Pflicht und Kür"
I am trying to find a crisp translation of the German phrase "Pflicht und Kür. deepl.com yields "Duty and freestyle" as translation for "Pflicht und Kür" which irritated me.
In my (business) context "...
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"Dasometry": is this a common word in English? Is there more common alternative?
I am looking for a word that groups all measurements done in the trees or forest, like Tree height, Diameter at breast height, Basal Area, Volume, crown diameter, etc.
In Spanish we have the word "...
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is "predatory capitalism" a correct word? [closed]
Jean Ziegler invented the German word Raubtierkapitalismus for huge companies without ethics and morality. For example Amazon, Google and Facebook.
What are similar words in English? Best would be a ...
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What do I call this "heel fixture" used for attaching a pallet rack column to the floor?
I'm translating a text about a pallet racking system. One sentence goes like this:
Крепление стеллажей к полу осуществить через металлические подпятники с помощью химических анкеров.
Attach the racks ...
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Studying to become a teacher? [closed]
In the German language we have a word if you are studying to become a teacher (called 'Lehramt'). I was wondering whether there is a term for that discipline in the English language as well because I'...
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Word for a single tunnel within a "tunnel complex" or the complex itself
I would like to differentiate between a tunnel (i.e. the Channel Tunnel) and one of its 'sub'-tunnels.
For example the Channel Tunnel is a 'tunnel complex' consisting of three 'sub'-tunnels - one ...
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Term of Art Designation for a Tightrope Walker's Balancing Pole
One hot and humid summer day--7 August 1974, to be precise--my father, in a tone of unusual excitation, bellowed for me to join him in our living room where he directed my attention to the television ...
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Person who is responsible for the political guests in the kingdom?
I'm from Georgia, and I need help with a specific word. In one of the history books I found the word mestumre, and in a translation from Georgian it means a person who is responsible for the special ...
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Words that mean "obsessed with theory" and "obsessed with data"
I'm looking for one-word terms to describe someone obsessed with theory and someone obsessed with data. We use the Spanish terms 'teoricón' and 'datoso' which roughly translate to 'theorophile' and '...
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Idiomatic currency exchange terminology
I am using a currency exchange announcement as an example in an article I am writing, and I would like to make sure I have the Russian/English vocabulary nailed down. The English glosses are not ...
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English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日) — "sunshine filtering through leaves"
Is there an English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日), which means the sunshine filtering through the leaves of a tree (or trees)?
It is made up of three kanji and the hiragana particle れ. The first ...
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What is the proper English term for polycopié (de cours)?
In French, several universities use polycopiés instead of course books for teaching.
The term polycopié can be translated as handout. Is it correct to use it in this case, in which a polycopié ...
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