A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

defaut 122 defournement
defaut de la cuirasse, break;
de I'epaule, hollow of the shoulder;
d' execution, defect of workmanship;
faire , (law) to fail to appear;
defonctionnement, (art., sm. a.} failure of any
part of the mechanism to work properly;
de soudure, (met.) defect in welding, defective
welding.
defection, f., defection, disloyalty.
defectueux, a., defective, imperfect.
dependable, a., defensible, susceptible of defense.
defendant, a., defending; (fort.) flanking;
& son corps , guardedly, timorously.
defendeur, m., (law) defendant.
defendre, v. a., to defend, protect, maintain, uphold,
support; to shelter, screen; to prohibit,
forbid;
se , (man.) to refuse to obey, to resist, to make
a show of resistance (of a horse).
defense, f. defense; protection; prohibition; (of
marine mines;
guerre de . defensive warfare, defensive war;
ligne de , (siege, etc.) line of defense;
h la mine, (siege) defense by mining, by subterranean
warfare;
mobile, (siege) operations by the mobile
troops of the defense; (s. c. defense) operations,
defense, etc., by torpedo boats, mobile torpedoes,
etc.;
mobile de terre, (s. c. defense) use of land
troops (infantry, field artillery, etc.) in seacoast
defense;
passive, (mil.) mere defense, passive defense;
peripherique, (fort.) system of defense in
which it is sought to arrest the enemy on the
frontier itself by means of forts;
place de , (fort.) fortified position ready to
sustain a siege;
defenseur, m., (law) counsel for defense; (mil.) de-
fending troops, the defender.
defensif, a., defensive, pertaining to the defense.
defensive, f., (mil.) defensive;
active, v. offensive;
offensive, the offensive-defensive;
passive, pure defensive, passive-defensive.
deferler, v. n., (of the sea) to break, to form breakers.
deferre, m., (/err.) shoe that has been cast; old
horseshoe; (hipp.) horse that has cast a shoe.
deferrer, v. a., to take off, remove, irons; (fan.)
to unshoe a horse;
se , (farr.) to cast a shoe, to lose a shoe.
deferrure, f., act of removing irons; (farr.) act or
operation of unshoeing.
defi, m., challenge.
deficit, m., shortage, deficit.
defler, v. a., to challenge, defy;
la chaine, to stand clear of a chain.
defilateur, m., (fort.) defilading instrument.
boats) fender; (law) defense; (man.) resistance,
countermove (on the part of the horse); (mil.)
defense, protection; (fort.) defensive work,
(sometimes) outwork; (in pi. generally) defensive
works, fortifications, (more esp.) outworks;
(siege) defense;
absolue, (fort.
ing on its own fire;
s accessoircs. (fort.) accessory defenses, i. e.,
obstacles (exclusive of ditch);
active, (mil.) defense involving a return to
the offensive;
ccntrale, centralist, (fort.) system of
defense in which no attempt is made to stop
the invader at the frontier by forts, but in
which reliance is placed on a fortified center
outside of the enemy's lines of operations, and
serving as a point of support to the national
army;
continentale, (s. c. fort.) land defense, landside
defense, of a s. c. work;
- s continentales, (s. c. fort.) land defenses (in
a s. c. work, to repel land attack);
cuirassee, (fort., nav.) armored protection;
directe, v. absolue;
exterieure, (siege) defender's operations
beyond the position avancee, q. v.;
'exterieure active, (siege) operations carried on
by the mobile troops of the defense, beyond
the permanent works, against the outer works,
positions, etc., of the attack;
fixe, (s. c. defile, m., (top., etc.) defile, strait, narrow path;
(hence, mil.) any narrow passageway, as a
dike, bridge, street, etc.; (mil.) march past;
(fort.) passage around a traverse.
defilement, m., (fort.) defilade, defilement; act of
defilading;
d l:n, defilade against shots falling at a slope
of l:n;
par la cr&te (les cretes)
defense) defense by guns and sub-
et par le terreplein, v.
par la masse couvrante;
horizontal, defilade in direction;
indice de v. s. v. , indice;
par la masse couvrante, defilade by lowering
the surface to be covered (parapet being assumed);
plan de , plane of defilade;
par le relief, direct defilade, defilade in altitude;
par la surface h couvrir, defilade by raising
the parapet to the plane of defilade (surface
to be covered being- given) ;
par le terreplein, defilade by lowering the
terreplein;
par le trace, v. "horizontal;
par des traverses, defilade by traverse;
vertical, v. par le relief.
defiler, v. a. n., (fort.) to defile, defilade; to protect
from enfilade; (hence, in gen.) to cover, to protect
(as, by an embankment, r. r. cut, etc.);
(mil.) to march past; (art.) to file off (as teams);
au l:n, (fort.) to defilade against trajectories
of a slope of l:n; .
- la parade, (mil.) to march past, to pass in
review; (mil. slang) to die;
se , (mil.) to get under cover;
en tiroir, (mil.) to change front, when in
column, by the march of divisions through
one another from the rear.
deflagration, f., deflagration.
deflexion, f., deflection, deviation.
defoncement, m., staving, staving in, beating in.
defoncer, v. a., to stave, beat, or knock in; to
break up, dig up, a road; (mil.) to break up the
enemy, throw him into disorder.
deformable, a., deformable.
deformation, f., deformation, strain, change of
form, set; (art. sm. a.) upsetting of a projectile;
(art.) relative displacement of parts of a guncarriage
(in recoil-checking) ;
affut d , (art.) generic term for a gun-carriage
in which a relative displacement of the parts
takes place in checking the recoil;
elastique, change of form, strain, within the
elastic limit;
des places, (siege) defensive siege operations;
radiale, (fort.) system of defense in which
arresting forts are
placed on the lines the
enemy must follow in his invasion, or in his
attempts to reach the capital;
rapprochee, (siege) close defense, defensive
operations when the enemy is close to the
work or position; (in a defensive battle) defense
at close quarters;
rcciprogue, relative, (fort.) reciprocal
defense, defense in supporting relations (e. g.,
when a work or part of a work supports
another);
sous-marine, (s. c. permanente, permanent
defense) submarine desouterraine,
(siege) defense by mining.
set.
detormer, v. a., to alter, change, the form of
anything;
se to , undergo a change of form, to be strained,
to acquire a set.
defournement, m., uncharging, drawing (of a
charge from a furnace, of a batch of bread from
an oven, etc.).