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English term or phrase:	highway Drawings
French translation:	plans de voirie
Entered by:	Captain Haddock

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11:50 Feb 4, 2012

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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Road Construction and Planning and design

English term or phrase: highway Drawings

How to say highway Drawings in French. Its actually related to Highway engineers who plan and built roads across countries.

Plan de l'autoroute?

Dessins de l'autoroute?

Schéma de l'autoroute?

Conception de l'autoroute?

Veuillez m'aider s'il vous plait

Captain Haddock KudoZ activity Questions: 77 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 0 India
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plans de voirie

Explanation:
:)

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www.cg09.fr/v2/detail_questions.asp?THEME=575
"Vos questions · Infos Routes · Transports départementaux · Marchés publics ... plans de voirie, d'urbanisme, de travaux aux bâtiments publics,..."

www.usirf.com/content/download/1415/14120/file/Acte
"Si le code de la route impose aux usagers des règles de circulation .... références plus spécifiques aux plans de voirie et d'espaces publics ..."

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B D Finch
France
Local time: 13:22

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Merci beaucoup B D Finch
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5 +3

plans de voirie

B D Finch

plans d'autoroute

Kelly Harrison

Summary of reference entries provided

Roads [notice culturelle]; highway; motorway; voirie

Isabelle Brucher

Discussion entries: 9

Kelly Harrison

13:54 Feb 4

OK OK! Zoot alors... Je les envoie ou?

B D Finch

France

@Kelly

13:42 Feb 4

You owe me a tenner:

"What is the Public Highway?
The public highway generally consists of the road surface - the carriageway, and the pavement - the footway."
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/highways/openingup

"31 Mar 2011 - The Corsa driver then turns away and strikes the first lorry, wrecking her car. ... Grampian Police had to close the road for six hours while highway workers ..."
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../A90-lorry-driver-came-face-face-car...

The Highways Agency was created in 1994.

Kelly Harrison

13:32 Feb 4

Yes but I bet it's been called the Highways Agency for centuries. If you can find a viable example of highways being used as a word to describe "roads" I'll send you a tenner ;o)

B D Finch

France

Not obsolete at all

13:29 Feb 4

The word "highway" is a correct and current term in UK English, particularly in the context of engineering or construction.

www.highways.gov.uk/

Kelly Harrison

13:25 Feb 4

Highway is a very old and obsolete word for road, and I have never seen or heard it used in modern literature or conversation. I suppose back then all roads might as well have been motorways since they were the only way of getting from lands end to bognor regis...

B D Finch

France

@Kelly

12:55 Feb 4

Thanks, I didn't realise that the meaning of 'highway' was different in US English. The Asker will need to decide which version of English he wants. In British EN, a 'highway' is any road open for free public use. Dick Turpin was a highwayman because he robbed people on the King's highway and it definitely didn't have separate carriageways, central reservations, tollbooths or any of the other stuff you associate with 'autoroutes'/motorways, which are strictly out of bounds to horses, even Black Bess.

Kelly Harrison

12:45 Feb 4

Motorway is English, highway is American't...

B D Finch

France

'highway' does not ='autoroute'

12:43 Feb 4

'autoroute' = 'motorway'
I've also changed this to EN>FR.

Mark Bossanyi

Bulgaria

12:09 Feb 4

Shouldn't this be in the EN>FR forum?

Answers

52 mins confidence:

highway drawings plans d'autoroute

Explanation:
The first thing that comes into your head is usually the right answer ;o)

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Note added at 53 mins (2012-02-04 12:43:51 GMT)
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même oubliez le s - plan d'autoroute

Kelly Harrison
Local time: 13:22
Native speaker of:

English

55 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

highway drawings

plans de voirie

B D Finch
France
Local time: 13:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

Grading comment

Merci beaucoup B D Finch

Reference comments

5 hrs

Reference: Roads [notice culturelle]; highway; motorway; voirie

Reference information:
Grand Robert & Collins 2012 en ligne:

1) Roads [notice culturelle]

Les Britanniques et les Américains n'utilisent pas les mêmes termes pour désigner les différents types de routes.

En Grande-Bretagne, les routes nationales sont des « A-roads » ou « trunk roads », les routes secondaires des « B-roads ».

Dans la première catégorie, certaines sont des quatre voies séparées par un terre-plein central : elles portent alors le nom de « dual carriageways » (le terme américain équivalent est « divided highways »).

Les autoroutes (« motorways ») sont gratuites.

Aux États-Unis, le terme générique pour une autoroute est « superhighway »,

mais l'on distingue les « interstate highways », qui vont d'un État à l'autre - certaines étant gratuites (« freeways »), les autres payantes (« toll roads » ou « turnpikes ») -

et les « expressways », qui sont les autoroutes urbaines ou périurbaines.

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2) highway ['haɪweɪ]

1. noun

a) (US “main road”) ▶ grande route , ▶ route nationale

b) (also public highway) ▶ voie publique

■ the king's or queen's highway : la voie publique
■ through the highways and byways of Sussex : par tous les chemins du Sussex

2. compounds
◆ highway code (Brit) : code de la route
◆ highway patrol (US; also state highway patrol) : police de la route
◆ Highways Department (Administration) : administration des Ponts et Chaussées
◆ highways engineer : ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées

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3) motorway ['məʊtəweɪ] Brit
1. noun
▶ autoroute f

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Grand Robert de la langue française 2012 en ligne:

voirie [vwaʀi] n. f.

1. Ensemble des voies aménagées et entretenues par l'administration publique.
➙ Voie (publique)

2. (1283). Admin. Entretien des voies, des chemins.

Ex.: Déviation pour travaux de voirie.

— (1590). Par ext. Partie de l'administration publique qui s'occupe de l'ensemble des voies de communication, de leur établissement, de leur entretien…

Grande voirie (routes nationales et départementales).

Petite voirie (chemins vicinaux…).

Voirie urbaine, voirie rurale.

Permission de voirie : autorisation de mettre en place une installation (kiosque, étalage…) sur la voie publique.

Contravention de voirie.

— Service de voirie : entretien, nettoyage des rues, des places publiques. Enlèvement quotidien des ordures, balayures…, dans les villes.

Isabelle Brucher
Belgium
Native speaker of:

French

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Asker: Merci beaucoup à Isabelle Brucher

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Feb 4 - Changes made by B D Finch:
Language pair	French to English => English to French

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