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vue

English translation: upstand

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
French term or phrase:vue
English translation:upstand
Entered by: Ruth Tanner

15:33 Aug 7, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / landscaping services - kerbs and gutters
French term or phrase: vue
This word appears in a list of terms used by a company engaged in urban planning and landscape engineering.

Plan des bordures
- Bordure béton type P1
- Bordure anti-stationnement
- Bordure en pierre calcaire arasée
- Bordurette granit avec vue de 25cm
- Bordure avec vue de chaque côté
- Volige métallique / bois
- Emmarchement

I've found a diagram (no connection with the client) that shows what a "vue" is: https://www.wikitp.fr/bordures-et-caniveaux/les-differentes-... If anyone can tell me what this is in English, I would be grateful!
Ruth Tanner
Australia
Local time: 00:52
upstand
Explanation:
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kerb-your-en...
30 Aug 2013 - In terms of kerbs, it is the height (kerb upstand from the carriageway)

http://www.pavingexpert.com/edging07.htm
"They come in three heights; 150mm, 200mm and 250mm. In most situations, the 150mm depth are adequate, although the 200mm versions are often specified when an upstand is required. The 250mm edgings are rarely used, their use being restricted to those situations where 100mm or so of upstand is required or there is a need to provide a deep root barrier. "
(See the picture beside the above text)

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kerb-your-en...
"Dropped kerbs are and should be laid with an upstand in some situations such as where a vehicle crossing is provided between the carriageway and the footway - the upstand provides tactile information to blind and partially-sighted people that this is the edge of the footway and it gives information to drivers (a small bump) that they are leaving a carriageway area. The upstand in this situation should be around 25mm (although 15mm to 40mm is the often used range)."
(This webpage shows various examples.)

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I understand "vue" here to mean the exposed part of the kerb (i.e. the part that is seen/visible).

"Bordure avec vue de chaque côté" to mean that there is an upstand on either side.

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2019-08-08 18:18:05 GMT)
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http://www.pavingexpert.com/edging5.htm
"It is usual to leave 100-125mm of 'check', or 'upstand', on the 250 or 300mm high units, and 25-40mm on the smaller, 150mm high units, although there is some variation amongst local highway authorities. As mentioned earlier, the surfacing level never exceeds the watermark of the kerb, and is usually kept 25mm or even more below it. "

See the illustration next to the above text, which clearly shows the heights of upstands on half-battered kerbs.
Selected response from:

B D Finch
France
Local time: 16:52
Grading comment
Thanks, BD!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1batter
kashew
4 +1upstand
B D Finch
3 -1boder with pictures taken from both sides
Raoul COLIN (X)
3 -2edge course/edge unit/edging kerb
Hilary McGrath


Discussion entries: 8





  

Answers


3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
vue
boder with pictures taken from both sides


Explanation:
what I would propose

Raoul COLIN (X)
Local time: 16:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: can't see why you would need to introduce any "pictures" (taken from wherever!) in this story?
3 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -2
edge course/edge unit/edging kerb


Explanation:
Description refers to haunching, with diagrams that resemble yours.

Example sentence(s):
  • The final task, once a satisfactory alignment is achieved, is to haunch the edgings. Depending on how the edge course is to be used, it may be haunched on just one edge or on both. Where the edge course is being used a simple demarcation strip, having hau

    Reference: http://www.pavingexpert.com/edging08.htm#haunch
Hilary McGrath
France
Local time: 16:52
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: you are looking at the right place, but you selected the wrong term.
35 mins
disagree  B D Finch: No, it doesn't refer to haunching.
19 hrs
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1 day 5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
batter


Explanation:
There are various : chamfer, bull-nose etc

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Note added at 1 jour 8 minutes (2019-08-08 15:41:54 GMT)
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Splay is another strong possibility.

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Note added at 1 jour 10 minutes (2019-08-08 15:44:17 GMT)
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May or may not be the distance above ground level.

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Note added at 1 jour 12 minutes (2019-08-08 15:46:43 GMT)
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- vue de chaque côté - later in list seems to favour my "chamfer"

kashew
France
Local time: 16:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 509

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: I think that "batter" would be expressed as an angle. On the Asker's ref. this is clearly shown as a height. Though the kerb is battered, the dimension is that of the (battered) upstand. The kerb shown isn't splayed.
1 hr
  -> Yes, I see, so the diagram I saw is wrong or at best ambiguous.
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
4 days
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
upstand


Explanation:
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kerb-your-en...
30 Aug 2013 - In terms of kerbs, it is the height (kerb upstand from the carriageway)

http://www.pavingexpert.com/edging07.htm
"They come in three heights; 150mm, 200mm and 250mm. In most situations, the 150mm depth are adequate, although the 200mm versions are often specified when an upstand is required. The 250mm edgings are rarely used, their use being restricted to those situations where 100mm or so of upstand is required or there is a need to provide a deep root barrier. "
(See the picture beside the above text)

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kerb-your-en...
"Dropped kerbs are and should be laid with an upstand in some situations such as where a vehicle crossing is provided between the carriageway and the footway - the upstand provides tactile information to blind and partially-sighted people that this is the edge of the footway and it gives information to drivers (a small bump) that they are leaving a carriageway area. The upstand in this situation should be around 25mm (although 15mm to 40mm is the often used range)."
(This webpage shows various examples.)

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2019-08-08 17:40:02 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

I understand "vue" here to mean the exposed part of the kerb (i.e. the part that is seen/visible).

"Bordure avec vue de chaque côté" to mean that there is an upstand on either side.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2019-08-08 18:18:05 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

http://www.pavingexpert.com/edging5.htm
"It is usual to leave 100-125mm of 'check', or 'upstand', on the 250 or 300mm high units, and 25-40mm on the smaller, 150mm high units, although there is some variation amongst local highway authorities. As mentioned earlier, the surfacing level never exceeds the watermark of the kerb, and is usually kept 25mm or even more below it. "

See the illustration next to the above text, which clearly shows the heights of upstands on half-battered kerbs.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 16:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 915
Grading comment
Thanks, BD!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: Hi again!
6 hrs
  -> Hi! Nice to see you back.
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