Glossary: European Union &
international affairs, industry, trade, development aid,
employment, social
affairs, education
& training, transport
Page F
English,
Dutch,
French,
German
To
navigate
through this
Glossary (and my others), please return to my Start
Page and use the SEARCH
BOX.
fabrique
d'église = church
administrative board, equivalent to an Anglican parochial church
council (NB not the same as a parish
council) (BE)
/
Fachausschuss
= specialist committee (EP)
/ prix facial = list price (comm.)
/ Facilitair
=
support (NL:
service,
firm, etc.) / travaux
à façon =
job work (gen.);
hire
processing (steelm.);
/ façonnier=
?
processor
(documentation)
/ faisceau d'aiguilles
combustibles = bundle of fuel
pins (nucl.)
/ falanga =
torture method involving
beating
soles of feet
/ Faltschachtel
= carton (not necessary to
say "folding carton" unless
the emphasis is on packaging technology)
/ fangen
= snatching (of machine: e.g.
when saw jams on piece of wood it is
cutting);
trapping (of clothing in a
machine) / Farbwiedergabe=
colour
rendering (TV e.g.)
/ farines animales
=
meat and bone meal
/
farandoline
= part-time day nursery (1 or 2
days a week)
(B) / Faserplatten
= fibreboard / Federation
of Acoustical Societies of Europe
/ Fédération
Internationale des Agriculteurs Biologiques =
International
Federation of
Organic Agriculture Movements / Fehlbohrung
= dry hole,
"duster" (coalm.):
an uneconomic shaft / Fehlerstrom
=
residual current (elec.,
source: product inlay) / Feinschnitt
=
fine-cut tobacco / Feldort =
road head (coalm.)
/ Feldplatte
=
magnetoresistor / ferroutage
=
piggyback transport; (combined) road/rail transport / Fertigung
= manufacturing, see also
Produktion
/ Fesselung
= restraint (of
persons: torture
e.g.);
containment (disease)
/ feuille de route
= road map (Middle
East
politics) / fiche
de notation = scoreboard (EU:
EIB)
/ fiche réflexe = checklist / fichier
d'édition et
de recherche = print
and search file (documentation)
/ figurant = extra (movie casting)
/ filiation
= bloodline (in
determining citizenship e.g.) / filière
= sector,
subsector (econ.,
industr.) / fin
de non recevoir
opposée par =
outright rejection by (in
non-legal texts) / filter
(TV broadc. see
decoder
/ franc,
marché financier
= financial franc, market: under
2-tier system rate is allowed
to float, cf. reglementé
/
Firste =
roof (coalm.);
Firstenbau =
flat-back-and-fill method; Firstenstoß
=
flat-back
face (drilled in flat holes)
/ fiscaliseren
= to give as a tax credit (social
security benefits) / Flaches
=
flat seam (coalm.)
/ in der
Fläche = country-wide; in the country;
across the board /
flambants=
high-volatile bituminous coals, NB
flame coal
is
dictionary-speak only / flashcode (FR) = QR code / fléole
des prés = timothy
grass;
Phleum
pratense (bot.)
/ Flöz
=
seam, bed (coalm.);
Begleitflöz
= rider, accompanying seam;
Flachflöz =
flat seam; Leitflöz
=
marker bed, index bed, key bed /
flux
laminaire vertical = laminar
air flow (venting system
through
hood,
cabinet in hospitals to contain infections)
/ Folie
=
slide,
overhead transparency (PowerPoint
e.g.) / fonds communs de placement =
mutual funds (fin.) / fonte
hématite =
haematite iron / fonte
phosphoreuse = phosphoric pig /
foot-lambert:
unit of luminance; 1
foot-lambert = 3.43 candela m-2
/
"the Footsie"
= popular name for the FTSE 100 share index (market
performance of top UK companies: acronym = Financial Times + (London)
Stock
Exchange, co-owners of the company FTSE International, formed 1995)
/ forclos
= time-barred (law)
/ Förderablauf
= hoisting cycles (coalm.)
/ Förderanlagen =
winding gear,
installations (coalm.)
/ Förderer
=
conveyor (coalm.);
types: Bandförderer
= belt conveyor; Bremsförderer
= braking conveyor; Gurtförderer
= belt
conveyor;
Hemmförderer
= catch chute, fishing chute; Kettenförderer
= chain scraper; Kratzförderer
=
scraper
conveyor; Panzerförderer
= armoured conveyor; Obergurtförderer
=
top-carrying conveyor;
Saigerförderer,
Seigerförderer
= vertical chute with clacks; Schneckenförderer
= screw
conveyor;
Stauscheibenförderer
= flight conveyor / Fördergerüst
= conveyance
centre (coalm.:
headframes); enges
Fördergerüst =
close cage centre / Förderkorbkette
= cage chain (coalm.)
/ Förderseil =
winding
rope (coalm.)
/ formation continue
= continuing (professional)
education (academe);
in-service training; ongoing training (typically
organised by
an
employer)
/ Formsandbinder =
moulding sand binder (foundry)
/ frais annexes =
related costs / frais
en
nature = in-kind costs / franchise
= complete free trade,
full
exemption (tariffs)
/ pyrite framboïdale =
framboid: a
microscopic aggregate of pyrite grains, often occurring in spheroidal
clusters
/ frappe =
margin (comm.)
/ Frascati Manual:
R&D document,
named
after June 1963 meeting in Italy
of national experts on R&D
(OECD)
/ Freemasonry:
useful chapter in "Jack the Ripper - the Final Solution" by S. Knight
/
freihändige
Vergabe
= negotiated procedure (EU);
negotiated
contract; contract by private treaty (made
directly between 2 parties)
/ Freiflächen
= open spaces (agri-envir.)
/ Freischußsicherung
= safety catch / fresque vidéo
= mapping / friedenskonsolidierend
=
peacebuilding (UN
etc) /
frigorie:
unit of cooling, a negative kcal, abbrev.
FG.
See
McGraw-Hill under "Ton of refrigeration" (equivalent imperial
measure) / fritter
= sinter / Fruchtfolge
= crop
rotation / Fugendichtungsmaβen
= joint sealants (building)
/ Füllerdrahten =
filler wires (coalm.)
/ funderend
onderwijs =
primary plus
secondary education / road (or street) furniture:
trees,
lamp posts,
other obstacles and features of roadside design
(source:
BBC)
/ fil fusible =
consumable electrode
wire (welding)
/ Fußleiste
= toe board (scaffolding)
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last
updated: 16 September 2024 