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Jan 21, 2010 11:31
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French term
fil d'eau
French to English
Medical
Medical: Pharmaceuticals
Packaging machine
This is a phrase that crops up repeatedly but doesn't always appear in the same context so difficult to come up with the correct answer. here's the complete sentence. TIA.
Manque de rapport au fil d’eau de la remplisseuse pendant 1H30.
Manque de rapport au fil d’eau de la remplisseuse pendant 1H30.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | while the filler is running or in operation |
Drmanu49
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| 2 +1 | stream of water |
liz askew
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| 1 +1 | the filler's pipe/ the pipe of the filler |
Ahmed Alami
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| 2 | filler operation |
blavatsky
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Proposed translations
12 mins
while the filler is running or in operation
IMO
Note from asker:
| Is this running water underneath the filler, to wash away any spillages? |
+1
32 mins
Ahmed Alami
Morocco
Morocco
Morocco
Sworn Translator/Traducteur Assermenté
Native in: Arabic 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, French to Arabic
French term (edited):
fil d'eau de la remplisseuse
the filler's pipe/ the pipe of the filler
This is how I understood it
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
SJLD
: yes, I think "fil d'eau" is a water pipe here - at least some sort of conduit
2 hrs
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Thank you :)
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2 hrs
stream of water
par un fil d'eau noire - WordReference Forums - [ Translate this page ]
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par un fil d'eau noire French-English Vocabulary / Vocabulaire ... Dans ce cas 'un fil d'eau (noire)' se traduit par 'a stream of (black) water'. ...
forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1200575 - Cached
Decathlon - produits de pêches lignes de pêche et accessoir
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-01-21 14:09:05 GMT)
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or
flow
??
Translation au fil de l'eau in the Business French-English dictionary - [ Translate this page ]
au fil de l'eau translation French - English : au fil de l'eau 1 a continuous-flow2 adv on a continuous-flow basis … . French - English, business dictionary ...
dictionary.reverso.net/business.../au%20fil%20de%20l'eau - United States
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-01-21 16:41:40 GMT)
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remplisseuse = filling machine??
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fKQOsaarQOIJ:www.p...
3 posts - 2 authors
par un fil d'eau noire French-English Vocabulary / Vocabulaire ... Dans ce cas 'un fil d'eau (noire)' se traduit par 'a stream of (black) water'. ...
forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1200575 - Cached
Decathlon - produits de pêches lignes de pêche et accessoir
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-01-21 14:09:05 GMT)
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or
flow
??
Translation au fil de l'eau in the Business French-English dictionary - [ Translate this page ]
au fil de l'eau translation French - English : au fil de l'eau 1 a continuous-flow2 adv on a continuous-flow basis … . French - English, business dictionary ...
dictionary.reverso.net/business.../au%20fil%20de%20l'eau - United States
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-01-21 16:41:40 GMT)
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remplisseuse = filling machine??
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fKQOsaarQOIJ:www.p...
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Kelly Walsh
: although I think that flow rather than stream might fit better here
49 mins
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Thank you!
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1 day 22 hrs
filler operation
While this term appears to be referring to a "thread of water" or "wire of water" which is not how it should be percieved it seems to relate here to poor integration with the 'mode of filling' during filling but I could be wrong
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