Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
repères fils et câbles
English translation:
wire and cable markers or tags
Added to glossary by
Susan Gastaldi
Feb 9, 2007 05:41
17 yrs ago
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French term
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Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, French to English
repères fils et câbles
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Electronics / Elect Eng
liste du petit matériel et consommables
In a list of equipment needed for an electrical maintenance project - can't tell you more as don't understand it - details of contract concern number of people, working hours etc. but doesn't say exactly what the people do except maintain electrical installations. Can anyone help with this term? (not in a sentence, just one term in a list). Many thanks
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | wire and cable markers |
Tony M
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| 3 +1 | wire and cable reference marks |
Raymonde Gagnier
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| 3 +1 | cable marker |
Johannes Gleim
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Proposed translations
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3 hrs
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wire and cable markers
If this is a list of, for example, small consumables, then this would be the most usual term
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Note added at 9 hrs (2007-02-09 15:20:20 GMT) Post-grading
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Yes, as Bourth so rightly says, in a different field and on a different scale, "wire/cable tags" would be appropriate too.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2007-02-09 15:20:20 GMT) Post-grading
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Yes, as Bourth so rightly says, in a different field and on a different scale, "wire/cable tags" would be appropriate too.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks, Tony - have also taken into account Bourth's helpful comment and added tags too for the glossary."
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Raymonde Gagnier
Canada
Canada
Native in French
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English
Canada
Also a narrator/je suis aussi narratrice
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian) 
, English
Works in: English to French
Related KudoZ points
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12
wire and cable reference marks
It could also mean "wire and cable locating", for example, locating the underground cables...
Peer comment(s):
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David Goward
: or "wire & cable identification"
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Thanks!
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Bourth (X)
: "Cable tags" to make it clear we're not talking about the cable coding printed into the insulation.
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Thank you Bourth
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Tony M
: "reference marks" would be a highly unlikely term in (what appears to be) the given context
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Thank you for your input Tony!
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3 hrs
Johannes Gleim
Specializes in field
40 years Engineer, 20 years translations
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, French to German, and 6 more.
Related KudoZ points
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165
cable marker
is my proposal (not versy specific, but the context is also poor)
Peer comment(s):
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Kevin Harper
: Cf. "repère de cable" in Ernst (Dictionnaire générale de la technique industrielle)
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Merci
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