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"Republic
of Padania":
capital
Venice, proclaimed by Umberto Bossi, head of Northern League, Sept. 1996
/ palier
= bearing (mech.)
/ Panelausfälle
= panel attrition (stat.)
/
Papierschneidmaschine =
paper cutting
machine (using
wheel or blade) / sas PARAFE
= e-gate (border control, FR) / paramétrer
= configure, customize (IT)
/ concurrence parasitaire = parasitic competition (intell.
property) / parcours
du vent = run of the wind (meteo.)
/ parent de référence =
custodial parent /
pari à cotes
= fixed-odds bet; paris
à cotes =
fixed-odds betting / paris-fourchette
= spread betting / pari mutuel
=
pari-mutuel bet; paris mutuels
= pari-mutuel betting ("the Tote") /
pari pré-match
= ante-post bet, paris
pré-match =
ante-post betting / pariteit-systeem
=
par
value system, par value peg system, adjustable peg system (IMF)
/ fonds de partage
=
ethical
investment funds / participations
=
equity investment
(EU:
EIB)
/ cession de
participations
= joint ventures, placing
contracts (by public bodies in
private
sector
e.g.) / section de passage
= inside diameter (pipes)
/ passager
clandestin = free rider (int.
trade) / passe
de fond =
first
pass (welding)
/ passé = off (cream e.g.)
/ passerelle =
walkway / passiver =
passivate (treatment of pipes)
/ Patent:
to file
a patent
application; to lay open to public inspection; to grant a patent; the
grant of
a patent; to lodge opposition to the grant of a patent; patentee; to
use,
dispose of a patent; the making, using, exercising or vending of a
patent; to
revoke, cancel, attack a patent; maintain a patent in force /
patronage; patronnage = (church) youth club / lutte
contre la pauvreté
= poverty reduction; poverty alleviation / seuil de pauvreté
= poverty threshold; poverty line. (Eurostat
defines the
"risk-of-poverty threshold" as "60% of the national median equivalised
disposable income (after social transfers)")
/ pavillon
de complaisance
=
flag of convenience (shipping)
/ Pelztierhaltung
= fur farming
/ pérennité
= sustainability; continuance / permis
à points = penalty
points licence
(EU
transport)
/ persönlichkeitsbezogene
Kurse = assertiveness training
courses (women's educ. e.g.)
/ Persönlichkeitsrecht = moral rights (copyright
etc.) / perte
de puissance
= loss of (statistical) power
/ pertinence
= relevancy (info
retrieval) / pertinence,
efficience,
efficacité
see
E
"the three e's"
/ petites
collections, véhicules
incomplets = countable knocked
down (automotive)
/ persen
=
baling (waste plastics)
/ Perspex =
polymethyl
methacrylate: "Plexiglas":
used in e.g. hip replacements to cement bone implants
/ persradio's
=
news-only radio stations
/
réseaux physique
= land-based network (as
opposed to
online
e.g.) / pied
de lingot =
crop (steelm.)
/ pied noir:
Europeans sent by French to
settle in Algeria
and forced
to flee after war of independence, some 10 000 failed to escape and
were
killed; source:
The
Times
/
piége à l'emploi
= unemployment trap
/ pile
à combustible =
(nucl.)
fuel cell / pincement
de veine
= squeezing of the (gas) stream
(pipes)
/ pixel
= picture
cell element (computer
monitors) / plafond
indicatif =
indicative
ceiling (trade)
/ plaquettes de
dûreté =
hardness reference plates: plates
of a
fixed, standard hardness, used to test the hardness of steel being
manufactured
/ plateforme
de force = force platform (erg.)
/ plateforme
multimodale =
multi-modal
hub (transport)
/ plenum
(ventilation) system = air is
heated and comes into an internal or
deep
central room of a building via ductwork and a system of grilles
/ pli
=
layer (flexible hose)
/ Comité européen de technologie de la plongée
=
European Diving Technology Committee / plongée
d'intervention =
bounce
diving / démolition et refection des poches
de coulée =
breaking up and
replacing of casting ladle linings (steelm.)
/ Podest =
staging (working
platform supported by legs, like stepladder only flat)
/ poïkilotherme
= cold-blooded; poikilothermic (animals)
/ le point n'est pas pris
= this item was not taken (minutes,
etc.)
/ technologie de pointe
=
leading-edge technology; cutting-edge technology / pôle
de competitivité =
competitiveness
cluster; cluster of excellence (commerce,
educ.) / pôle
européen Jean Monnet
= Jean
Monnet European Centre of Excellence (universities)
/
=
controversy /
politieke radio's =
politically-controlled
radio stations / pommeau
de
douche à bas volume d’eau
= low
water-use spray tap (plumbing)
/ magasin
populaire =
variety store
(comm.)
/ poriewater
= pore water (hydrol.)
/ portage
= tideover
(allowance,
e.g., whilst unemployed) /
surface de portée =
bearing
surface (engineering)
/ portée
mâle sur portée femelle =
male/female facing (pipe
fittings,
plugs) / portrait-robot = identikit
picture / poste
d'utilisation
= user point (gas
in
steelworks) / traveilleur posté
= shift worker / audit a posteriori
= ex-post audit / étude des postes
= job
analysis / pourriel = spam (email) / pouvoirs
opérationnels
= executive powers / Präzisionskontrolle
= precision check; precision test (math/stat.)
/ emploi précaire; travail précaire
= insecure; casual; precarious (job, employment, work)
/
prégardiennat
= playgroup / Vergabe im Preiswettbewerb
= automatic award procedure (EU
procurement)
/ prejudiciële
beslissingen
=
preliminary rulings (EU;
European
Court of Justice) / prélèvement
automatique = direct debit (banking)
/ prélèvements sur recettes: (defined:
portion of French
budget that goes to local authorities and the EU): French
sources
translate this as "levies on revenue"; suggest better translation would
be "charges against revenue" / en présentiel
= in the classroom setting
(conventional training, as opposed to e-learning) / Président-Directeur-Général
= chairman
&
managing director; chief executive officer (comm.)
(ITI)
/ presse-étoupe =
gland
(valve)
/ Pressen =
compaction (hard metals)
/ niveau de pression
acoustique = sound pressure
level / prêt
subordonné =
subordinated
loan (lower priority for
repayment) / document de prévision
= foresight
paper / prévision
technologique = "technology
foresight" / prilltoren
= prilling towers (air
pollution:
prills = granules or
needle-shaped aggregates of material usually
fertilizer) (ITI)
/ le
fait du Prince
= (defined)
"acte
arbitraire d'un gouvernement" / Prodcom
=
Eurostat product statistics / Produktion
(industr.)
= usually
"fitting and assembly" as contrasted with "manufacturing"
(Fertigung) / proefproject
= pilot project / projecteur de
profil
= section projector / Profilbretter
= purpose-made board (timber)
/ progressivité des
droits = tariff escalation (trade)
/ protective
clothing:
penetration = through seams, around zips etc.;
permeability
=
gases etc. through actual material; airtight; liquid-tight; leak
tightness / protocole
d'accord = memorandum of
understanding (intergovernmental
or
EU-government, i.e. not yet a formal agreement)
/ Prozentrang =
percentile (math/stat.: also
used to mean simple percentage)
/ pruimtabak
= smokeless tobacco (i.e.
chewing
tobacco and snuff) / puissance
acoustique = sound power / Pümpel
= (sink) plunger
/
robinet de purge
= blow valve /
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last
updated: 26 February2025
