Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
main screw augur
French translation:
vis d'Archimède principale
Added to glossary by
Bridget Jean
Dec 17, 2007 13:52
16 yrs ago
English term
United Kingdom
main screw augur
English to French
Tech/Engineering
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
Turn switch on for main screw augur, this is located on large control panel, when main screw switch is in the on position dust collector will turn on automatically
Cest dans le cadre de transbordement d'un produit chimique d'un conteneur dans une citerne pour expédition
Cest dans le cadre de transbordement d'un produit chimique d'un conteneur dans une citerne pour expédition
Proposed translations
(French)
| 4 | vis d'Archimède principale |
Daniel Marquis
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| 3 | vis sans fin principale |
Tony M
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Proposed translations
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vis d'Archimède principale
On trouve effectivement l'expression « screw augur » pour un convoyeur à vis. Cette vis est habituellement une vis d'Archimède.
Voir les deux sites ci-dessous : le premier en français, le deuxième en anglais.
Proposition très plausible.
Voir les deux sites ci-dessous : le premier en français, le deuxième en anglais.
Proposition très plausible.
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Comment: "Merci daniel, il s'agit bien d'un convoyeur à vis"
1 hr
vis sans fin principale
We've had this before in FR > EN, I think.
I suspect 'main screw' is just what it is labelled, but someone is trying to be very precise in then describing it (correctly!) as an auger (augur is a very common spelling mistake, compounded by the fact that the word does actually exist, albeit with a different meaning, and so spell-chckers won't reject it).
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Note added at 1 day19 hrs (2007-12-19 08:57:44 GMT) Post-grading
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Note that on the occasions when I have heard this term used by people working in the industry, they habitually call it a 'vis sans fin', and look completely blank when I tell them that its proper technical name is 'vis d'Archimède', which they seem never to have heard of!
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Note added at 1 day19 hrs (2007-12-19 09:00:46 GMT) Post-grading
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This is kind of supported by the number of Google hits each receives: some 19,000 for 'd'archimède' and 79,000 for 'sans fin' (of course, those figures don't take into account red herrings).
This rather plaintive quote from Wikipedia confirms the usage:
Vis d'Archimède - Wikipédia
La vis d'Archimède, parfois abusivement appelée vis sans fin, est un dispositif qu'Archimède aurait mis au point lors d'un voyage en Égypte, permettant aux ...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_d'Archimède
I suspect 'main screw' is just what it is labelled, but someone is trying to be very precise in then describing it (correctly!) as an auger (augur is a very common spelling mistake, compounded by the fact that the word does actually exist, albeit with a different meaning, and so spell-chckers won't reject it).
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Note added at 1 day19 hrs (2007-12-19 08:57:44 GMT) Post-grading
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Note that on the occasions when I have heard this term used by people working in the industry, they habitually call it a 'vis sans fin', and look completely blank when I tell them that its proper technical name is 'vis d'Archimède', which they seem never to have heard of!
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Note added at 1 day19 hrs (2007-12-19 09:00:46 GMT) Post-grading
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This is kind of supported by the number of Google hits each receives: some 19,000 for 'd'archimède' and 79,000 for 'sans fin' (of course, those figures don't take into account red herrings).
This rather plaintive quote from Wikipedia confirms the usage:
Vis d'Archimède - Wikipédia
La vis d'Archimède, parfois abusivement appelée vis sans fin, est un dispositif qu'Archimède aurait mis au point lors d'un voyage en Égypte, permettant aux ...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_d'Archimède
Note from asker:
| Merci Tony |
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Ce n'est pas une faute d'orthographe mais c'est du côté de auger que vous trouverez le + de solutions