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posées en regard

English translation: positioned in inspection chambers

12:58 Oct 16, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering
French term or phrase: posées en regard
in the following sentence:


Les vannes d'isolement seront posées en regard.
gytrans
Local time: 06:57
English translation:positioned in inspection chambers
Explanation:
Not 'out of site out of mind' but in a protected environment where they won't get damaged.
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Bashiqa
France
Local time: 07:57
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Summary of answers provided
2 +4positioned in inspection chambers
Bashiqa
4 -1installed in manholes
kashew
2 -2in plain sight
chris collister


Discussion entries: 3





  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): -2
in plain sight


Explanation:
Common sense suggests that your isolating valves should be easily visible and accessible, but I couldn't be sure.
"Un regard" is, after all, an inspection hole/pit, so perhaps they become visible only after removing the lid of the "regard"?

chris collister
France
Local time: 07:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 120

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: Sorry, Chris, but even if that were the intention, I don't believe that's how it would be expressed in FR. Only time I've seen sthg even vaguely like that, it meant '2 things facing each other' / Logically, 'en un regard', 'cept FR wouldn't use article
15 mins
  -> Hence low confidence, but I'd have expected "dans regards" or even "en des regards" for greater clarity
disagree  Alan Douglas (X): As you yourself said, Chris, un regard is for "inspection" (an inspection chamber or manhole not inspection hole/pit). Architects and engineers have a habit of using fairly clipped language in spscifications etc.
17 hrs
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
positioned in inspection chambers


Explanation:
Not 'out of site out of mind' but in a protected environment where they won't get damaged.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 07:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 173
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Though perhaps 'installed' or 'fitted', rather than 'positioned'?
1 min
  -> Thanks. Installed would be better.
agree  Didier Fourcot: I should use installed also, but definitely "regard" is a chamber and not eye sight
4 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Cyril B.
5 hrs
  -> Why are you so sure it's not an inspection chamber?
agree  B D Finch: With "installed"
19 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
installed in manholes


Explanation:
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kashew
France
Local time: 07:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 509

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  B D Finch: Manholes are a particular type of large inspection chamber a person can get into. However, since the 1980s the term "inspection chamber" is generally preferred by UK local authorities. These ones are likely, in any case, to be much smaller.
15 hrs
  -> I stopped practising in the 80s ;-)
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