Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
bruit d\'étouffement
English translation:
noise of deflation
Added to glossary by
Wyley Powell
Feb 21, 2011 14:50
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French term
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bruit d'étouffement
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This is a witness statement taken by a police officer. The person witnessed a fatal paragliding accident, saying that he saw the paraglider being carried off by the wind and he then heard ***un bruit d'étouffement du parachute***. Not sure what kind of noise a parachute makes. Unfortunately, there's no further description of the parachute.
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Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | noise of deflation |
kashew
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| 4 | sound of (a parachute) collapsing |
philgoddard
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| 3 | smothering sound |
Howard Sugar
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| 3 | candling sound |
Bourth (X)
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| 3 | he heard (the parachute) deflate (rapidly) |
Francesca Gatenby
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Proposed translations
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noise of deflation
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Howard Sugar
Italy
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smothering sound
Usually étouffement is suffocation, smothering, strangling, choking ect. I think smothering is sufficiently "flexible" to give the idea.
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philgoddard
United States
United States
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sound of (a parachute) collapsing
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Example sentence:
Although possible, it is difficult to cause the aircraft to get into a dangerous attitude, stall, or chute collapse by means of pilot control inputs
2 hrs
candling sound
Not sure there's a noise associated with candling, or whether the term is still used/understood these days. In the good old bad old days, when a chute came out of its pack but failed to open, it would trail lengthwise behind an airman like a giant candle, hence the name. Similarly, under certain air conditions (explosions nearby, possibly just atmospheric conditions), or if it got a big hole blasted in the middle, the air "inside" it would spill out and the same "candle" shape would form. It might fill again if due simply to air conditions.
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Francesca Gatenby
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Crafted linguistic solutions
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: German to English, French to English
he heard (the parachute) deflate (rapidly)
another option is to leave out direct mention of 'noise/sound' and describe the visual effect of the chute deflating
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