Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
toiture à redent partiel
English translation:
northlight roof
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translator2012
Apr 15, 2009 09:39
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French term
Native in: Romanian 
toiture à redent partiel
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
construction
Toiture à redent partiel avec une pente de 10 % sur les bâtiments de stockage.
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Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | northlight roof |
Bourth (X)
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| 2 +1 | partially stepped roof/gable end |
Vicky James
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Proposed translations
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northlight roof
Not quite sure what they mean by "partiel" though. Maybe only part of the total roof area is northlight roofing, the rest having a constant slope of 10°?
Toiture à redans ou toiture à redents:
série de toitures à deux versants, dont l'un, en général exposé au nord dans l'hémisphère boréal, comporte un vitrage et présente une pente plus forte que l'autre versant.
(Anglais: sawteeth roof).
http://definition.ptidico.com/redan-ou-redent.html
TOITURE A REDENTS : nom français correct pour désigner les sheds.
SHED Comble à redents successifs, parallèles, à pente forte d'un côté et moyenne ou faible de l'autre, en usage surtout pour les toitures de locaux industriels ... ; en général, les faces à pente raide sont vitrées et exposées au Nord pour éviter l'effet de serre ...
G.B : sawtooth roofing, northlight roofing
[Dicobat]
northlight roof, sawtooth r. A factory roof with rows of steel lattice girders running across the building from one side to the other, carrying sections of sloping roofing on triangular half-trusses from the top of one girder to the bottom of the next ... In the southern hemisphere they are built facing south
[Scott/Penguin Dict of Bldg]
Toiture à redans ou toiture à redents:
série de toitures à deux versants, dont l'un, en général exposé au nord dans l'hémisphère boréal, comporte un vitrage et présente une pente plus forte que l'autre versant.
(Anglais: sawteeth roof).
http://definition.ptidico.com/redan-ou-redent.html
TOITURE A REDENTS : nom français correct pour désigner les sheds.
SHED Comble à redents successifs, parallèles, à pente forte d'un côté et moyenne ou faible de l'autre, en usage surtout pour les toitures de locaux industriels ... ; en général, les faces à pente raide sont vitrées et exposées au Nord pour éviter l'effet de serre ...
G.B : sawtooth roofing, northlight roofing
[Dicobat]
northlight roof, sawtooth r. A factory roof with rows of steel lattice girders running across the building from one side to the other, carrying sections of sloping roofing on triangular half-trusses from the top of one girder to the bottom of the next ... In the southern hemisphere they are built facing south
[Scott/Penguin Dict of Bldg]
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30 mins
partially stepped roof/gable end
or crowstepped
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Roof
Roof shapes
* Flat
Flat roof
A flat roof is a type of covering of a building. In contrast to the sloped form of a roof, a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal. Materials that cover flat roofs should allow the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination....
* Lean-to
Lean-to
A lean-to is term used for two similar, yet different types of building.It can be a free standing structure of three walls and a sloping roof....
* Skillion roof
Skillion roof
A skillion roof is normally a single sloping roof surface, not attached to another roof surface. Skillion roofs are sometimes called a shed roof, a flat roof, in the UK and Australia....
single-sloped, lean to, or shed roof
* (Asian traditional style)
* Ridged
o Pitched or gable
Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns....
d
+ Shaped gable
+ Dutch gable – a hybrid of hipped and gable
+ Crow-stepped gable
Crow-stepped gable
A Stepped gable, or Crow-stepped gable is a stair-step type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in a step pattern above the roof as a decoration and as a convenient way to finish the brick courses....
(also called corbie step) gable
+ Salt-box
According to Termium:
corbiestep Source, record 5, corbiestep
SPECIFIC
crowstep Source, record 5, crowstep
SPECIFIC
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redent Source, record 5, redent
MASC, GENERIC
redan Source, record 5, redan
MASC, GENERIC
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DEF – A series of steplike projections along the slope of a gable wall. Source, record 5, Definition 1 - corbiestep
DEF – Décrochement en plan ou en élévation dans une construction (ex. : les pignons d'architecture flamande, les fondations en gradins dans des terrains inclinés ou de résistance variée). Source, record 5, Definition 1 - redent
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Roof
Roof shapes
* Flat
Flat roof
A flat roof is a type of covering of a building. In contrast to the sloped form of a roof, a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal. Materials that cover flat roofs should allow the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination....
* Lean-to
Lean-to
A lean-to is term used for two similar, yet different types of building.It can be a free standing structure of three walls and a sloping roof....
* Skillion roof
Skillion roof
A skillion roof is normally a single sloping roof surface, not attached to another roof surface. Skillion roofs are sometimes called a shed roof, a flat roof, in the UK and Australia....
single-sloped, lean to, or shed roof
* (Asian traditional style)
* Ridged
o Pitched or gable
Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns....
d
+ Shaped gable
+ Dutch gable – a hybrid of hipped and gable
+ Crow-stepped gable
Crow-stepped gable
A Stepped gable, or Crow-stepped gable is a stair-step type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in a step pattern above the roof as a decoration and as a convenient way to finish the brick courses....
(also called corbie step) gable
+ Salt-box
According to Termium:
corbiestep Source, record 5, corbiestep
SPECIFIC
crowstep Source, record 5, crowstep
SPECIFIC
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redent Source, record 5, redent
MASC, GENERIC
redan Source, record 5, redan
MASC, GENERIC
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DEF – A series of steplike projections along the slope of a gable wall. Source, record 5, Definition 1 - corbiestep
DEF – Décrochement en plan ou en élévation dans une construction (ex. : les pignons d'architecture flamande, les fondations en gradins dans des terrains inclinés ou de résistance variée). Source, record 5, Definition 1 - redent
Peer comment(s):
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mimi 254
: crowstep/corbiestep
33 mins
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Thanks, Mimi!
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Bourth (X)
: Possible, if they actually mean "pignon à redents", but it would be uncommon and prob. excessively expensive for an industrial roof.
1 hr
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I agree.
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