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Debrief
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[1] to interrogate personnel returning from a mission to determine the conduct and results of the operation. [2] to remove the bark from a felled tree when making a spar or mast.
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Interrogate, английский
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Decco, английский
To take a look at something. adopted by the british army from the hindi dekko = look, and thence to the royal navy. decidee’s monster: in april 1904, the officer commanding screw-gunboat decidee submitted the following official report to the flag officer commanding the french indochina station. i was standing on the bridge when my attention was directed to a round dark mass in the water some three hundred meters to port. i took it to be a rock but, on seeing it move, presumed it to be an enormous turtle four or five meters in diameter. soon afterward it rose out of the water, and from the undulatory movement that followed, i understood i was in the presence of an enormous sea monster, shaped like a flat-bodied serpent about one hundred feet in length. it appeared to have a soft black skin covered with marbled spots, and the head, which rose about sixteen feet out of the water, closely resembled that of an enormous turtle with huge scales. it blew two jets of water to a height of about fifty feet. it moved slowly through the water at a speed of about eight knots, and when one hundred and fifty meters from the gunboat, plunged beneath it like a submarine, reappearing on the surface about four hundred meters away. a number of the officers and crew watched the monster, which gradually disappeared from view. after it had gone lieutenant lagresville, one of the officers of the gunboat, said that when cruising off this coast in 1898, in the gunboat avalanche, he had seen a similar— possibly the same—creature. (see also appendix.)
Debacle, английский
- This word for a sudden downfall or utter defeat has french nautical origins. debacler meaning to clear (literally unbar) referred to the break-up of ice on a river or navigable channel.
- Ледоход; вскрытие ледового покрова
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