Working horn
French translation: klaxon en état de marche
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| 13:04 Aug 30, 2017 |
| English to French translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Industrial Lift Trucks | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 12:51 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | avertisseur fonctionnel |
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| 4 | avertisseur sonore en état de marche |
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| 3 +1 | klaxon en état de marche |
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| working horn avertisseur sonore en état de marche Explanation: ;) |
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peer agreement (net): +1| working horn avertisseur fonctionnel Explanation: - |
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peer agreement (net): +1| working horn klaxon en état de marche Explanation: I think this is separate from and specifically as distinct from the 'audible warning device' ('avertisseur [sonore]') used for reversing. This is the kind of horn (like a car) that can be deliberately operated manually by the operator. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 heures (2017-08-31 09:45:25 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Marcombes's peer comment below has made me think some more about this. There is indeed some potential ambiguity here as to the meaning of 'working' — clearly, the reversing 'beeper' will operate (annoyingly!) whenever the truck is reversing; however, applying the same principle to whenever the truck is 'working' — i.e. doing anything at all, as suggested by some contributors — seems to me implausible: just imagine a busy warehouse with a constant cacophony of hooters all the time! Whence my suggestion that it simply means the truck must have a horn, and it must be working; but not knowing exactly what this document is intended for, that doers seem rather a curious item to include, and rather out of line with the other items. I don't know, Asker, if you can work out from other phrasing elsewhere in your wider document if there is any greater likelihood of one or the other interpretation? |
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