billet

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English - English
to lodge soldiers, usually by order
A short informal letter

However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet.

a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge

17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.

to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house
A written order to quarter soldiers
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
{v} to quarter soldiers, settle, fix upon
{n} a small letter, ticket, small log of wood, ingot
{i} official order to provide housing for a soldier; soldier's housing; sailor's bunk; job
A semi-finished steel form that is input material for manufacturing "long" products: bars, channels or other structural shapes Billets are normally two to seven inches square
Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position
lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
(illustrated)
- A bar of steel or iron that is in an intermediate manufacturing stage
An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round
a semi finished product, hot rolled or forged with a maximum cross-sectional area of 232 sq mm ; it is normally used as the raw material for the production of deformed reinforcing bars
{f} provide housing for a soldier
The preliminary material for the production of seamless stainless steel tubes is delivered in bars with a certain diameter Of these preliminary material bars, billets with a certain length are sawn off, according to dimension and length of the desired finished tubes, which are pressed to seamless stainless steel tubes on the extruding press
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap
A short piece of wood that will be used to make a bow limb, or half of a bow spliced at the handle
Describes a mill product that is generally round or round-corner squared (RCS) and runs from 4" in diameter or larger A billet product has been hot worked by either forging, extruding or rolling process These products are primarily used as starting stock for subsequent forging or extrusion processes
a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
A billet is a house where a member of the armed forces has been billeted. a private house where soldiers are living temporarily (billette, from bulle , from bulla; BILL). to put soldiers in a private house to live there temporarily
A solid chunk of metal, usually in the form of a slab or a piece of cylindrical stock Commonly cut into usable parts by CNC machinery
A semi-finished form of stainless steel that is used for long products such as bars and forgings Billets are normally two to seven inches square
To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge
A bar of semi-finished steel or iron about 1-1/2 to 4 in square
A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence
A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle
A section of steel used for rolling into bars, rods and sections It can be a product of the ingot route, or increasingly today produced directly by continuous casting
a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
A semi-finished steel form that is used for "long" products: bars, channels or other structural shapes A billet is different from a slab because of its outer dimensions; billets are normally two to seven inches square, while slabs are 30-80 inches wide and 2-10 inches thick Both shapes are generally continually cast, but they may differ greatly in their chemistry
A bone or antler tool used for flaking
A small stick of wood, as for firewood
A strap which enters a buckle
A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron
A place where someone, especially a soldier, is assigned to be lodged
Manufacturing : Solid piece of metal, not necessarily aluminum, formed by being extruded through an opening (rather than cast)
A baton or club, of material other than rock, used to detach flakes from an objective piece by percussion It is usually made of antler, wood, or bone
A solid semi-finished round or square product that has been hot worked by forging, rolling or extrusion For seamless tubular products, the billet is heated and pierced to form a tube hollow
Also used fig
Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses
(1) a compressed cylinder of PTFE Hose resin, from which raw tubing is extruded Also called a preform (2) a solid piece of material from which a fitting is manufactured
A little "club" used to strike an edge on stone in order to shape it by the removal of flakes Traditionally made of antler there are currently many knappers who use billets made of copper Advantages and disadvantages of the two billet materials are often a matter of debate Click here to see a picture Actually, only those made of wood should be called "billets " The antler ones are more accurately referred to as "batons " But you'll rarely here that at a knap-in
If members of the armed forces are billeted in a particular place, that place is provided for them to stay in for a period of time. The soldiers were billeted in private homes
A small paper; a note; a short letter
provide housing for (military personnel)
Note, in French
billet barge
a large motorbike with multiple chrome (or similar) cosmetic modifications
billet-doux
A love letter
Billet reading
This is the reading of sealed written materials, which is akin to psychometry. Billet is the French word for letter
billet-doux
{i} love letter
billeted
US, past of billet
billeting
{i} act of providing housing for a soldier
billeting
US, present participle of billet
billets
plural of billet
billets
third-person singular of billet
every bullet has its billet
each bullet is meant for a specific target
billet
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