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Fabienne Denoncin
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29 March 2007

I need help for technical tanslation, how can I translate :
une chambre de tirage (BTP), it is a hole to catch and to pull cable.
thanks in advance
Fabienne

9 comments

  • User since 2006
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    29 March 2007

    'pull pit'
    is the way I'd translate 'chambre de tirage'.


    Last time I boarded the Eurotunnel with my car I had some troubles with the British Transport Police (BTP) and so far I didn't know the it shared anything with the French Bâtiment et Transport Public (BTP) namely an abbreviation.


    Anyway I'm not a specialist in laying cables neither along railway tracks or roads nor inside buildings floors. However when I have to pull wire cables through preboxed ducts, I think to myself (in English for I'm a English learner along the GymGlish) that the place where the pull through has to be worked out is called a cable pulling pit.


    But according to my researches the term usually used is simply "pull pit".
    In French: chambre de tirage
    In Dutch: trekkamer (possibly copied from the French)
    In English: pull pit (they always want to be self-sufficient! lol)


    In support of my translation I hand you over this pointer.
    Go to http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1573112
  • User since 2006
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    29 March 2007

    Amazing!
    Until now I knew that preachers climbed up the pulpit to deliver sermons.
    I didn't know that cable layers went down the pull pit to pull cables through.
  • User since 2006
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    30 March 2007

    Thank you very much for your prompt reply !
    Best regards
    Fabienne
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    5 April 2007

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  • User since 2007
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    24 April 2007

    Hello i have a question
  • User since 2006
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    24 April 2007

    From habib66:
    Hello i have a question

     


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  • User since 2007
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    11 June 2007

    with gymglish lessons I'm try to speak and to understand english words the main problem I have his pronunciation


    Thank for your help
  • User since 2007
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    14 Sept. 2007

    Hello
    I don't know the english name for " planche contact". could somebody help me ? I did not find in the dictionnary (harrap's).thanks a lot
  • User since 2006
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    16 Sept. 2007

    To Vlakipum
    I suppose your "planche-contact" is about photographs printed by contact without any enlargement.
    For my part, until now, I've said "contact sheet" but according to my research, I'd rather say "contact plate" or "contact print".


    Webster: "contact print" (def.: a photographic print made with the negative in contact with the sensitized paper, plate or film.)


    Wordreference.com: "contact plate" (http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/printing%20)


    N.B. First meaning of "plate" : smooth flat thin piece of material.

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