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tableautiste
= control room operative (anyone
who mans a console) / Tafel = food bank (social)
/
Taktfahrplan
= clock-face timetable; Taktung
= clock-face scheduling (transport)
/ Tarifbeschäftigte
im öffentlichen Dienst =
public employees (DE)
/
Tarifvertrag
für den öffentlichen Dienst =
Public Service Pay Scale Agreement (DE)
/ Tauchrohr
=
submerged nozzle,
pouring tube (steelm.)
/ Tautliner =
registered name, virtually generic term for a
curtain-sided
body, a curtain-sider: a box
body with movable side curtains which
run in
tracks and provide side access for loading/unloading... Pull-tight
vertical
straps stabilize the side curtains."
(transport:
ITI)
/ taxe
professionnelle = business tax (ITI)
/ taxes d'effet
équivalent = charges
of equivalent effect (agreements
with EFTA countries) / technologie
codifiée = "coded"
technology / technologie
incorporée =
"physical" technology /
technologieoffen
= technology-neutral (not
favouring one
technology
over another, in aid measures, etc)
/ Teerölsand
= tar sand: "Sandstone
containing highly viscous asphalt left as a residue from evaporation of
the
light fractions of crude petroleum at surface seepages. The asphaltic
sandstone
is mined in open pits and heated to melt the asphalt, which is then
refined to
recover gasoline and other products. World
recoverable
resources: 300 billion barrels Canada,
29 billion barrels USA,
70 billion barrels Venezuela."
/ Teilschnittmaschine =
sectional cut
heading machine (coalm.)
/
télécharger
= to download (computers)
/
telecheric
mining =
mining using remote control
methods
(NS)
/
télédétection,
teledetectie =
remote sensing /
formulae for temperature
conversion:
Fahrenheit = 9/5
x Centigrade + 32; Centigrade = Fahrenheit - 32 x 5/9 /
tenge
=
currency of Kazakhstan (source:
The
Times)
/ taux de
tension
= ratio of job seekers to jobs available (employment)
/ térrasse,
installé en = with a back baffle installed (ventilation,
filters) / tertiaire = commercial (of
premises) / avis
à tiers
détenteurs =
garnishment /
tige
=
stem (valve e.g.)
/ timbre de dimension =
stamp duty / tir
à air
comprimé = pneumatic
firing (coalm.)
/ tiroir =
module (IT)
/ Tischfräsmaschine =
moulding
machine (woodworking)
/ titre
hypothécaire nominatif =
registered
mortgage bond /
TKÜ
= Telekommunikationsüberwachung
= telecom surveillance;
(tele)phone tapping if definitely phone calls
only, not emails etc. / toetsingskader
= review framework; framework
for review;
system of tests and checks (EU)
/ Togolese
(adj. for Togo)
/ tonnes nettes
= tonnes net weight /
brûlage
du CO en torchère =
flaring off, e.g. "CO will
be flared off " (steelm.)
/ European Convention for
the Prevention
of Torture 1989
/
tourbillon = eddy (gas
flow in pipe e.g.) / tournant
=
plug, ball plug (valve)
/ freier Träger =
independent
promoter (business
e.g.) / traite = bill of exchange; draft
/ traite bleue: unresolved query -
?banker's acceptance; is the
document blue?? / traject
= pathway (educ.)
/ impôt sur la transmission = inheritance tax / Trankharz
=
saturating resin / transigeren
=
compromise, settle out of court / transitaire
=
forwarding agent / Transportbahn
= haulage line
(coalm.)
/ étude transversale
= cross-sectional
study, survey (stat.)
/ travail
noir =
undeclared work, "moonlighting" (employment
in the "black economy", i.e. deliberately
concealed from tax
& social security authorities, and punishable in law)
/ trémie
= shaft (and
pit, of an elevator)
/
plan de trésorerie
=
treasury
cash management plan (development)
/ treuhänderisch
tätige Gesellschaften = "trusts" / Trommelförderseil
= drum hoist (coalm.)
/ tronconique =
in the shape of a truncated cone / tufo
(Italian)
=
tufa (geol.:
NB not same as "tuff", see US
Bureau of Mines
glossary online / biens sous tutelle
= "merit goods" (trade,
devel. aid)
/ tweede-kansonderwijs
= second chance education (adult
educ.) /
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Last updated: 25 April 2022
