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Terminology record for jetty


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Record No.: 246/en/453
Author: ELAD D. F.
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Last updated: 2023-03-14 00:00:00


🇫🇷 FRENCH
DOMAINE
Marine navigation FISHTERM subject field hierarchy     (Hiérarchie : Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > Marine navigation)
River navigation FISHTERM subject field hierarchy     (Hiérarchie : Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > River navigation)
VEDETTE * Jetée statut : recommandé
PARTIE DU DISCOURS nom féminin
ÉTYMOLOGIE Jetée
SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005).
DÉFINITION Construction qui s’avance dans l’eau pour protéger un port ou limiter le chenal.
PLURIEL Jetées ;

SOURCE DE DÉFINITION Fishterm

🇬🇧 ENGLISH
SUBJECT FIELD
Marine navigation FISHTERM subject field hierarchy     (Hierarchy: Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > Marine navigation)
River navigation FISHTERM subject field hierarchy     (Hierarchy: Fisheries > Aquatic navigation > River navigation)
TERM * Jetty status: recommended

* pier (noun)
status: accepted
* dock (noun) status: accepted
PART OF SPEECH noun
PLURAL Jetties ;

Piers ;

Docks ;

ETYMOLOGY Late Middle English: from Old French jetee, feminine past participle of jeter ‘to throw’; frequentative of jacere ‘to throw’. Borrowing from Anglo-French getté, ‘overhang or pier’; from Old French jeter, ‘to cast’; from Late Latin jectare, ‘to cast’.
ETYMOLOGY SOURCE
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
DEFINITION a structure at a dock or pier that extends out into the water, controls coastal changes and protects the harbour.
DEFINITION SOURCE
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).

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