French: ...ne dépassant pas les limites libresEnglish translation: not exceeding the limit allowed 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | ...ne dépassant pas les limites libres | | English translation: | not exceeding the limit allowed | | Entered by: | gabuss |
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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Hazardous materials | | French term or phrase: ...ne dépassant pas les limites libres | The context is the transportation of hazardous materials and the exact sentences (which appears to be a set expression) is as follows:
"(Transport) ne dépassant pas les limites libres"
Is anyone familar with this expression?, and if so, what exactly does "libre" refer to in this context?
Many thanks in advance for your help! |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseemekadavid: 3:41pm Jul 21, 2006: is this context in relation to a regulation or to the physical container for transporting the materials?
Sinead Healy: 7:23am Jul 25, 2006: Clarification requested from customer - All of your feedback is extremely helpful thank you so much! In the meantime, I have asked the customer to clarify the exact subject of "limites libres" although I must admit the solutions provided by Mactrad and Gabuss are already very workable here, I will keep you posted! Thanks so much again!
Graham macLachlan: 8:12am Jul 26, 2006: How strange, we all put "not exceeding", but only my answer contained the three words "maximum" "total" and "quantity", indeed Gabuss put "limit" and "allowed"...
Sinead Healy: 8:27am Jul 26, 2006: My apologies!!! - You are of course right Mactrad!! My intention was to award the 4 points to you and not to Gabuss! - I just got the boxes mixed up :-(
I'm really sorry about this, do you know if there is anyway of reassigning points??
Graham macLachlan: 9:00am Jul 26, 2006: I thought that might have been the case, I think you can change your decision, however Gabuss has now entered it into the glossary... in any case, don't waste your time if the process is too complicated!
Sinead Healy: 11:51am Jul 26, 2006: Does anyone know how to reassign points? - Unfortunately I awarded the points to the wrong person, does anyone know how you go about reassigning points? Many thanks!
emekadavid: 11:50am Jul 28, 2006: i think the points should go to mactrad. talk to the moderators at the bottom of the page, they'd put in the word to the programmers who can do that quite easily. honestly, mactrad's answer is what i would have chosen if i had checked my proz earlier.
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| Note from asker to answererAs I haven't received a response from the customer, I am going to with a slight variation of this option - "not exceeding maximum total quantity", many thanks again for your help!
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| not exceeding the (clearance) gauge
Explanation:
"limite libre" (libre = clear - geddit!) is a telescoped (i.e. engineer's) way of referring to the more noble gabarit d'espace libre, which may be translated as structure or clearance gauge, structure gauge being the size of say a tunnel and clearnance meaning the clear room through which the vehicle can pass - 6 of one and half a dozen of the other...
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Note added at 17 mins (2006-07-21 15:49:22 GMT)
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what they mostly likely would say would be: that is not an out-of-gauge load
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| not exceeding the limit allowed
Explanation:
to simplify so as to adapt it to all contexts
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| Note from asker to answerer| As I haven't received a response from the customer, I am going to with a slight variation of this option - "not exceeding maximum total quantity", many thanks again for your help! |
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