A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

partie 311 pas
partie morte, (fort.) dead space;
nulle, drawn game; (in races) dead heat;
- occupante, (adm.) tenant; - plaignante, (tow) plaintiff;
-(s) prenante(s), (adm.) person(s) who receive(s)
issues (clothing, etc.); public creditors;
prendrefi-, (law) to sue;
-s, proceder par petites to proceed, work, advance,
etc., by degrees;
publique, legal designation of the pu
ministry, as representing the public; solici
general; - seertie, (mil.) the spy service of a staff;
&, en,simple,
by single entry (bookkeeping).
partir, m., (man.) start (of a horse).
partir, v. n., to go, leave, set out, proceed, start,
spring, to sail (of a ship); to go off (of a shot,
a firearm); to be carried away (of a spar, etc.);
- Men de la main, (man.) to take the gallop as
soon as the hand slackens;
faire-un coup, to fire a shot; - juste, (man.) to take the gallop with the
leading foot; - de la main, (man.) to take the gallop easily;
- du pied droit (gauche), to step off with the
right (left) foot;
- de piedferme, (man.) to pass from the walk
to the gallop.
partisan, m., partisan; (mil.) partisan, guerrilla;
(in pi.) raiding party;
guerre de-s, v. s. v. guerre.
of a horse's
parure, f., adornment; (hipp.) parings
foot;
chevaux de meme - ,
same size.
well-matched horses, of
parvenu, m., (mil.) ranker.
pas, m., pace, step, footstep; stride, gait, progress;
precedence; threshold of a door, step before an
entrance; strait; obstacle, bad place, in a road,
etc.; (lop.) narrow, difficult, pass in a valley
or mountain; (carp.) notch (as for the foot of a
rafter); (con*.) going of a stair; (cord.) turn of a
rope; (lech.) pitch (of a screw, of a gearing);
thread of a screw, turn of a screw; (art., sm. a.)
pitch (of rifling); (mus.) march.
I. Military, manege; II. Technical, artillery;
III. Miscellaneous.
I. Military, manege; - accelere, (mil.) quick step, quick time (0.75,
128 to the minute); the call for qunk time;
aller au-, to go at a walk;
-, allongement du (mil.) lengthening of the
step; (man.) walking out; - allonge, (mil.) stepping out;
allonger le - . (mil.) to step out, lengthen the
step; (man.) to walk out; - d'armes, (mil.) post that one undertakes to
defend (obs.); - en arriere, (mil.) back step;
au - , (mil.) at a walk; "step!" (to troops
marcliing in line, when they lose the step);
call for walk; - averti, (man.) regular, well- marked stepping
of a horse (sort of gait between a walk and slow
trot); - cadence, (mil.) cadenced ste~>;
changer de-, (mil.) to change the gait;
changer le-, (mil.) to change tep;
- de charge, (mil.) charging pice (0.75, 140 to
the minute; cadenced, as a rule; may be as
fast as possible, according to circumstances);
cheval de-, pacer; - complcl, (man.) completed tep (i. e., all the
motions made between two successive and
identical positions of a given member);
h- comptes, (man.) gradually; - de consent, (man.) hign step with fore legs;
contre--
, (mil.) short step or half step (to
recover the step); - de course, running step, run, v. - gymnaslique;
pas de cote, (mil.) side step; (man.) side step;
d'ecolc. (mil.) short step, balance step; (man.)
well-marked walk (sort of gait between a walk
and a slow trot);
ecoute, (man.) regular, uniform step;
espagnol, (man.) an air in which the horse,
at a walk, gives all the extension possible to
each of his fore legs;
etalonner le , (mil.) to find the average length
of one's step or pace;
to walk a horse;
faire aller au ,
faire les cent , (mil.) to do sentry duty;
faux , (man.) stumble;
gymnastique, (mil.) double time (0.80, 170
to the minute); call for same; double step;
hater le , to hasten, to hurry, the march;
longueur du , (mil.) length of the stop;
marcher au , to walk, pace, move at a walk;
marquer le , (mil.) to mark time;
mettre au to walk a , horse;
se mettre au , (mil.) to take step;
ordinaire, (m?7.) marching step, ordinary
step or pace;
ouvrir le , (mil.) to begin marching;
passer d'un & un autre, (mil.) to change the
gait;
raccourdr le , (mil.) to shorten step;
redouble, (mil.) double-quick;
reglementaire, (mil.) regulation step;
releve, (man.) high step, high action;
remettre un cheval au , (man.) to come down
to a walk;
retrograde, step backward;
rompre le , (mil.) to break, or lose, or get out
of, step, as in crossing a ponton bridge;
de route, (mil.) the route step (1 kilometer
in 11 to 12 minutes);
saccade, irregular pace.
II. Technical, artillery:
b, I'anglaise, v. carre;
au de , (sm. a., art.) making one turn
in. . . . ;
carre, square thread;
constant, (art., sm. a.) uniform twist (also
of a screw, of a propeller);
de la corde, mean pitch;
court, fine thread, low pitch;
des dents, (mach.) pitch of teeth;
diametral, (mach.) diametral pitch;
double , double thread (screw);
& droite (gauche), right- (left-) handed twist;
d'ecrou, thread of a nut;
d'engrenage, pitch of a gearing;
d 'entree, (art., sm. a.) initial pitch;
final, (art., sm. a.) final twist;
du ftanc directeur, (art., sm. a.) twist of the
driving edge;
& gaz. gas thread;
hauteur du d'une vis, pitch, one complete
turn, of a screw;
de I'helice, pitch of the propeller;
inclinaison du des rayures, (art., sm. a.) angle
of rifling;
initial, (art., sm. a.) initial twist;
long, coarse thread, steep pitch;
distance in which
projectile makes one turn;
moyen, v. de la corde;
multiple, multiple thread (screw);
progresstf, (art., sm. a.) increasing twist;
raccourci, short twist?
de(s) rayure(s), (art., sm. a.) twist of rifling;
d'une roue dentee, (mach.) pitch of a toothed
wheel;
de Sellers, Sellers's thread;
simple, single thread (screw);
& la sortie, final pitch;
uniforme, (art., sm. a.) uniform twist;
gui va & droite (gauche), (art., sm. a.) right-
(left-) handed twist;
variable, (art.) varying pitch;
de vis. furrow of a screw; pitch, thread;
de vis americaine, United States standard
thread; ~
longueur du , (art., sm. a.)