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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...

  3. Liaison (French) - Wikipedia

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    This can help disambiguate between word uses: un précieux insolent /œ̃ pʁe.sjø ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃/ (pronounced without liaison) could mean "an insolent member of the précieuses literary movement" (précieux can be a noun), but with liaison un précieux insolent /œ̃ pʁe.sjø.z‿ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃/ can only refer to a precious insolent person ...

  4. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Also used to mean that "you move" as in grouille pas (ne bouge pas), meaning "don't move". Same thing in Europe: grouille-toi, grouille tes puces (literally, "Shake your fleas") guidoune: prostitute, badly dressed woman, effeminate man jaser: to chat lutter: hit with a car Can be used as follows: J'ai lutté un orignal meaning "I hit a moose".

  5. Inspection of documents - Wikipedia

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    In pre-trial discovery during a lawsuit, parties may have the right to inspect documents that are relevant to the case. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In civil cases , the concept of "documents" has been interpreted broadly, and it generally includes any item that contains descriptive information, including electronic records.

  6. Canadian French - Wikipedia

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    The use of the preposition pour ("for") after the verbs demander ("ask [for]") and chercher ("search/look [for]") is also a syntactic anglicism. Morphological anglicisms are literal translations (or calques) of the English forms. With this kind of borrowing, every element comes from French, but what results from it as a whole reproduces ...

  7. Inspection - Wikipedia

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    Maintenance check of electronic equipment on a U.S. Navy aircraft. An inspection is, most generally, an organized examination or formal evaluation exercise. In engineering activities inspection involves the measurements, tests, and gauges applied to certain characteristics in regard to an object or activity.

  8. Design for inspection - Wikipedia

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    Design for inspection (DFI) is an engineering principle that proposes that inspection methods and measurement instruments used to certify manufacturing conformity, should be considered early in the design of products.

  9. First article inspection - Wikipedia

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    A First Article Inspection (FAI) is a production validation process for verifying that a new or modified production process produces conforming parts that meet the manufacturing specification detailed in technical or engineering drawings.