Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
assaut des vagues
English translation:
the pounding of the waves
Added to glossary by
nicole GELISTER
Apr 22, 2010 20:07
14 yrs ago
French term
United Kingdom
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
assaut des vagues
French to English
Other
Environment & Ecology
sea wall construction
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | the pounding of the waves |
Jack Dunwell
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| 4 | wave energy |
Drmanu49
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| 3 | the surge |
Euqinimod (X)
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| 3 | tidal erosion/ impact |
Verginia Ophof
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Proposed translations
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22 hrs
Selected
the pounding of the waves
"Higher" authorities are, finally, restrictive of original thought, conservative, protective and imbued with a wish to place in aspic. Without freedom of thought, we are nothing. Says I.
How incredibly boring to be offered some other source which has NOT been proven to be at all universally definitive!
Who knows here, where we apply our best efforts with few points of reference.
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Note added at 22 hrs (2010-04-23 18:27:26 GMT)
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I'm sorry, I've just seen that Clanola has already given this answer. I now pass to support him/her
How incredibly boring to be offered some other source which has NOT been proven to be at all universally definitive!
Who knows here, where we apply our best efforts with few points of reference.
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Note added at 22 hrs (2010-04-23 18:27:26 GMT)
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I'm sorry, I've just seen that Clanola has already given this answer. I now pass to support him/her
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Claire Nolan
: So interesting to read your 'explanation'. Refreshing!
27 mins
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Clanola. May I direct all good thinking persons to your original response, which for some unknowable reason has been replicated. Me, I'm back to Albinoni and Ugolino. Everything is NEW!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "merci"
7 mins
wave energy
The beach slowly disapear and the sea reach the villages. Many people think that by building sea wall or other big wave breaker they will stop the erosion, ...
www.giliecotrust.com/en/biorock-project.html
The traditional 'hard' defence is the sea wall. In the past sea walls were vertical and deflected the energy of the waves away from the coast. ... cliffs were so unstable that the houses at the top were under threat of destruction. ...
www.georesources.co.uk/coastman.htm -
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Note added at 8 mins (2010-04-22 20:16:15 GMT)
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or destructive power
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Beach management that reduces the ability of our natural dune seawall to build ... We have just witnessed the incredible natural destructive power of two major .... This has the very useful benefit of causing the waves to expend more ...
texascoastgeology.com/beach.pdf
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Floods - SADHYA - Photoblog.com
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1 Apr 2010 ... We had high drama yesterday, when the sea broke the sea wall and flooded ... are really frightening with the destructive power of the sea. ...
www.photoblog.com/SADHYA/2010/04/01/floods.html - En cache
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BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION
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'On this area the 1930 floods destroyed houses, broke in the east wall of the schoolhouse, ... c) DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF OCEAN WAVES. [pp. 261-265] .... 'The present status of knowledge of the sea floor in the Pacific Ocean area is such ...
www.biblestudymanuals.net/k29.htm
www.giliecotrust.com/en/biorock-project.html
The traditional 'hard' defence is the sea wall. In the past sea walls were vertical and deflected the energy of the waves away from the coast. ... cliffs were so unstable that the houses at the top were under threat of destruction. ...
www.georesources.co.uk/coastman.htm -
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Note added at 8 mins (2010-04-22 20:16:15 GMT)
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or destructive power
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Beach management that reduces the ability of our natural dune seawall to build ... We have just witnessed the incredible natural destructive power of two major .... This has the very useful benefit of causing the waves to expend more ...
texascoastgeology.com/beach.pdf
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Floods - SADHYA - Photoblog.com
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1 Apr 2010 ... We had high drama yesterday, when the sea broke the sea wall and flooded ... are really frightening with the destructive power of the sea. ...
www.photoblog.com/SADHYA/2010/04/01/floods.html - En cache
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BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION
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'On this area the 1930 floods destroyed houses, broke in the east wall of the schoolhouse, ... c) DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF OCEAN WAVES. [pp. 261-265] .... 'The present status of knowledge of the sea floor in the Pacific Ocean area is such ...
www.biblestudymanuals.net/k29.htm
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
writeaway
: based on what? here's the original posting of this question: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/environment_ecol...
2 hrs
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Based on refs stated above, my last inclination being destructive power. I had not seen the initial posting and that does not change my last suggestion.
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16 hrs
the surge
Could be appropriate.
21 hrs
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Belize
Native in English
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
tidal erosion/ impact
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