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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

curette

English answer:

assembly points

Added to glossary by Lavinia Pirlog
Jan 18, 2009 17:58
15 yrs ago
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English term

curette

English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering shopping centre
This stage of the preliminary study will include the following documents:
- Descriptive and justificative memory;
- Sketches;
- Planning of the stations and ***curettes*** locations;
- Definition of anti-fire compartimentation
Responses
3 assembly points
4 collection points
1 demolition/excavation

Discussion

Gary D Jan 19, 2009:
Agreed, Andrew, it is either something like this or something to do with the equipment.
Either way the wrong word was used for any layperson, or for that matter, anyone else to understand. A definite case of verbal sabotage of a perfectly good word.
Andrew Mason Jan 19, 2009:
This could well be 'courettes' in which case we are talking about small courtyards which would fit the context I think.
Gary D Jan 19, 2009:
Just throwing up another idea. Curettes are instruments or classed as equipment, I wonder if stations, are where the Fire alarm, fire extinguisher and fire hose are located, and the "curette" is the other equipment, like the axe and glass breaker. It all seams to point toward a fire safety station.
Ken Cox Jan 18, 2009:
With Tony M. For starters, the 'memories' of the first item are probably memos (brief studies).
Lavinia Pirlog (asker) Jan 18, 2009:
It may be, yes, one of the contracting parties is Portuguese. Anything is possible. And I am getting 'Lost in translation' here. :) Thanks, Tony.
Tony M Jan 18, 2009:
Is it possible this EN document originating from a translated FR document? The labnguiage sounds decidely suspiciously non-native to me, and has a dsitinct whiff of FR about it. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a typo for the FR word 'courette', which seems to have missed getting translated...

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assembly points

IF - a big IF - we are talking about courettes, I think we would say 'Assembly points' rather than collection points
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collection points

Assembly and collection points to scoop/gather, collect together.

I think there could be a better choice of word, as it sounds like someone is trying to be clever beyond their education.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-01-19 04:09:09 GMT)
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curettage: basically means collection, cleaning out.
curettage samples - collected samples by scraping, gathering, etc

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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-01-19 04:26:27 GMT)
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"anti-fire compartimentation" this is another example of how they have used the incorrect words.

Should be "Fire prevention compartmentalization" [categorization(s)]
curette;
I am sure they are talking about meeting points. In the case of a fire where everyone meets in safety, and they can account for everyone.
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2 days 2 hrs

demolition/excavation

"currette"- excavation; " location"-site, - some kind of exclusively professional language
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