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Dec 10, 2008 16:26
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English term
France
purloin
English to French
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
Drilling or welding to structural steelwork will be undertaken only if permitted by the structural steelwork designer, e.g. fixing to ***purloin*** in ancillary buildings.
Quelqu'un sait-il ce qu'est cette chose? ou peut-être s'agit-il d'une faute de frappe, mais je ne vois pas laquelle.
Merci d'avance
Quelqu'un sait-il ce qu'est cette chose? ou peut-être s'agit-il d'une faute de frappe, mais je ne vois pas laquelle.
Merci d'avance
Change log
Dec 15, 2008 09:12: Tony M changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/569379">Rodolphe Thimonier's</a> old entry - "purloin"" to ""panne""
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English term (edited):
purlin
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panne
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As Gilles has already pointed out, this is almost certain to be a typo; since the word 'purlin' is relatively uncommon, it probably wouldn't appear in a spell-checker (it's not in the MS Word dic, for example), and so 'purloin' would be offered as a 'correction'
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Note added at 9 mins (2008-12-10 16:35:12 GMT)
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Oh, and while I was typing the above, Rémy suggested it too!
As Gilles has already pointed out, this is almost certain to be a typo; since the word 'purlin' is relatively uncommon, it probably wouldn't appear in a spell-checker (it's not in the MS Word dic, for example), and so 'purloin' would be offered as a 'correction'
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Note added at 9 mins (2008-12-10 16:35:12 GMT)
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Oh, and while I was typing the above, Rémy suggested it too!
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Proelec
: I agree.
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Merci, Proelec !
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Jonathan MacKerron
: anything with 'loin' in it has got my vote...
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Thanks, Jonathan! (don't tell me you're getting as bad as me! All that girding...)
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kashew
: hi!
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Thanks, J (or should I say k?)! Hi!
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C. Mouton
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Merci, Cécile ! :-)
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Béatrice (X)
: Logical
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Merci, Béatrice !
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purlin
panne n. f.
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