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engine handles

French translation: manettes/leviers de commande des moteurs

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English term or phrase:engine handles
French translation:manettes/leviers de commande des moteurs
Entered by: B D Finch

15:08 Dec 22, 2015
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Ships, Sailing, Maritime / survey report of incident
English term or phrase: engine handles
The Captain of this last boat, at the end, for the referred lack of command of the engine handles, was not able to stop, in time, its yacht.
Catherine GEFFRAY
Local time: 08:18
manettes/leviers de commande des moteurs
Explanation:
See my previous comment on the very poor quality of English here. I assume that the writer meant the "engine control levers".

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Note added at 32 mins (2015-12-22 15:40:33 GMT)
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If you google "engine handles", you will probably find that the only instance of "handles" not being a verb is this one:
download.shipsim.com/Extremes/docs/.../Manual_ShipSimExtremes.pdf
"you need to register your copy of Ship Sim Extremes on the shipsim.com forum. ..... the ship and control the engine handles directly, using the mouse pointer ..."
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 08:18
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2manettes de commande du moteur
FX Fraipont (X)
3 +3manettes/leviers de commande des moteurs
B D Finch
4boîtier de commandes moteur
Antoine Dequidt


  

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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
manettes de commande du moteur


Explanation:
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FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 08:18
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 340

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  B D Finch: You pipped me to the post!
0 min
  -> thanks ;-)
agree  Chakib Roula
1 hr
  -> merci!
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
manettes/leviers de commande des moteurs


Explanation:
See my previous comment on the very poor quality of English here. I assume that the writer meant the "engine control levers".

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Note added at 32 mins (2015-12-22 15:40:33 GMT)
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If you google "engine handles", you will probably find that the only instance of "handles" not being a verb is this one:
download.shipsim.com/Extremes/docs/.../Manual_ShipSimExtremes.pdf
"you need to register your copy of Ship Sim Extremes on the shipsim.com forum. ..... the ship and control the engine handles directly, using the mouse pointer ..."

B D Finch
France
Local time: 08:18
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  GILLES MEUNIER: leviers de commande des moteurs
4 mins
  -> Merci Gilou
agree  Chakib Roula
1 hr
  -> Merci Chakib
agree  FX Fraipont (X)
2 hrs
  -> Merci FX
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
boîtier de commandes moteur


Explanation:
Terme employé pour les boîtiers regroupant les leviers de gaz et d'inverseur des moteurs marins.


Antoine Dequidt
France
Local time: 08:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 86
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