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  • attack: An offence against life and limb in which a person participates in an attack on one or more other persons which causes death or injury to a person attacked or another.
    Category: Defense

  • attack: activities undertaken to contain a fire by cooling, smothering, applying fire retardants, or removing the fuel in the firepath.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • attack: 1)in transactional processing:offensive operation or behaviour;2)in computer security:the realization of a threat
    Category: General

  • Attacking: the aggregate of actions to limit the spread of a fire
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • attacks: A group of offences which includes provocation and incitement to violate military duties,forgery of military orders or instructions,disruption of military service.
    Category: Law

  • attacks: An offence against the will of the people in which a person by the use of violence or the threat of seriously detrimental consequences prevents a voter from exercising his right to vote or to sign a petition requesting a referendum or initiative,or in which a person coerces a voter into exercising his voting rights or into voting in a particular way.
    Category: Law

  • attacks: An offence against the state and national security in which a person maliciously removes,damages or acts in an insulting manner towards a Swiss national emblem which is displayed by a public authority,and in particular the coat of arms or the flag of the Confederation or a canton.
    Category: Law

  • attacks: An offence against the state and national security in which a person carries out an act which is intended to disrupt or alter the constitutional order of the Confederation or the cantons in an unlawful manner.
    Category: Law

  • attacks: An offence against the state and national security in which a person carries out an act with the aim of violating or endangering the independence of the Confederation,or of endangering the independence of the Confederation by bringing about the interference of a foreign power in federal affairs,or enters into a relationship with the government of a foreign state or its agents with the aim of bringing about a war against the Confederation.
    Category: Law

  • counterattack: are offensive action made on attacks..
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • counterattack: attack by a part or all of a defending force against an enemy attacking force,for such specific purposes as regaining ground lost or cutting off or destroying enemy advance units,and with the general objective of denying to the enemy the attainment of his purpose in attacking.In sustained defensive operations,it is undertaken to restore the battle position and is directed at limited objectives
    Category: Defense

  • helitack: a crew of fire-fighters equipped and trained to jump from a helicopter to fight fires in areas where helicopters cannot land
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • stack: a part of a library that is designed and equipped primarily for storage of stock; especially one that is separate from e.g. reading rooms, and to which access by library users is restricted
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • stack: the products of combustion leave the furnace through vents and pass through flues to the stack
    Category: Environment

  • stack: a unit stack of timber or fuelwood of 108 stacked ft3(3.0 stacked m3)
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stack: to put up packages one on top of the other
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • stack: A metal trunk through which the combustion gases are led from the uptakes to the open air.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stack: the truncated upper part of the blast furnace,widening from the throat at the top to the lintel at the bottom.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • stack: a number of aircraft in the holding pattern at different altitudes or flight levels awaiting their turn to land at an aerodrome
    Category: Transport

  • stack: essais nucléaires; radioactivité.
    Category: Physics

  • stack: each pressure tube contains...stacked fuel assemblies.
    Category: Physics

  • Stacke: for the complete drainage of the middle-ear cleft
    Category: Medicine

  • stacked: qualifies a component having a multilevel structure
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • stacker: platform or fork which can be raised and lowered in a vertical support, by winch or rack systems; for stacking sacks, crates, casks, etc.
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • stacker: a receptacle for holding punched cards after they have passed through a machine.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • stacker: a machine employed to arrange timber in stacks or load it on vehicles
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stacking: storage or carriage of ITUs on top of each other
    Category: Transport

  • stacking: piling casks one tier above another in an orderly manner and keeping them in place with wooden blocks or wedges.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stacking: a procedure during cell mounting in which plates and separators are stacked alternately in a box before the connecting strap is cast
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • stacking: a procedure for aircraft waiting to land at an airport or aerodrome, whereby they fly a given pattern at heights separated by 1 000 feet and descend only to the next lower level when instructed by air traffic control .
    Category: Transport

  • stacks: bottles of wine arranged horizontally in layers
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • tack: ..also the lower forward corner of a sail
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • tack: the resistance of an adhesive to traction while it still is in a condition of viscous or plastic flow
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • tack: term used to describe surface adhesiveness of rubber compound before cure.The ability of tread rubber to stick to casing
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • tack: the forward lower corner of a sail.
    Category: Transport

  • tack: the property of an adhesive that enables it to form a bond of measurable strength immediately after adhesive and adherend are brought into contact under low pressure
    Category: The chemical industry

  • tacking: to change from one tack to another with the bow passing through the eye of the wind
    Category: General

  • tacking: short welds made at points on the welding line, for the purpose of holding the pieces to be welded until the actual welding operation is well under way.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • tacking: short welds made at points en the welding line, for the purpose of helding the pieces to be welded until the actual welding operation is well under way.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • tackle: a combination of ropes and blocks working together,or any similar contrivance affording a mechanical advantage to assist in lifting or controlling a weight or applying tension on board ship.Tackles vary in design according to their different uses,every form or adaptation having its own specific name
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries



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