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English term or phrase:
fabric brief
English answer:
fabric specifications
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Deborah Workman
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fabric brief
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This procedure is describing the way, non-denim fabrics are signed off from the fabric brief till full approval
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English term (edited):
signed off from the fabric brief till full approval
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given (provisional) approval with reference to the fabric specifications pending full approval
This is my best guess.
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Hi, Selcuk. I agree with Tony M that the meaning of "brief" here is "specifications" and that there is nothing necessarily brief about a brief. I also agree with his description of "sign off". The reason I posted my own answer is that I wanted to offer you and answer for your whole phrase in English. In our two answers, you will find agreement on those points.
I did find many uses of "fabric brief" to mean men's underwear made of fabric (as opposed to what you may ask!), but this doesn't make sense given the text you've provided.
Here are further definitions of "brief" used as a noun. "Brief" used as a noun does not mean "short document" (it's related to the word "briefing" -- which refers to giving someone the essential information):
a document specifying tasks to be addressed or undertaken in a specific context
www.mos.gov.pl/mos/publikac/Raporty_opracowania/manual/glos...
A brief is critical to every project. It defines the project's base and parameters, and ensures that the designer has understood your requirements.
www.j6design.com.au/help/definitions/definitions.htm
Here is a use of "sign off against" as authorization:
Development... Define CDM with message type and filter object. Distribute model. ... comprehensively documented prior to sign-off against the functional specification. ...
www.erpgenie.com/ale/development.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages
In my proposed answer, I offered the word "provisional" in parentheses. It's not said in your source text but is implied because a "sign-off" is an approval. Evidently in this case it is not full approval, because that comes later according to your text.
I hope these notes help.
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Note added at 4 days (2007-01-23 13:23:54 GMT)
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Note that a "fabric brief" is more commonly called a "textile brief" where design and production are concerned:
General Art and Design WCC - Western Colleges ConsortiumNLN Materials Screenshot Following a textile brief ... It also explores elements of the printing process such as print specifications, colour management, ...
www.westerncc.ac.uk/nln/nln019.html - 45k - Cached - Similar pages
[RTF] Tutor DocumentationFile Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTML
Minimum machine specification. The learning objects are designed for use across a ... Following a textile brief, 3. Starting out in multimedia design, 3 ...
www.nln.ac.uk/materials/technical/technical_documentation/N... - Similar pages
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Note added at 4 days (2007-01-23 13:17:29 GMT)
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Hi, Selcuk. I agree with Tony M that the meaning of "brief" here is "specifications" and that there is nothing necessarily brief about a brief. I also agree with his description of "sign off". The reason I posted my own answer is that I wanted to offer you and answer for your whole phrase in English. In our two answers, you will find agreement on those points.
I did find many uses of "fabric brief" to mean men's underwear made of fabric (as opposed to what you may ask!), but this doesn't make sense given the text you've provided.
Here are further definitions of "brief" used as a noun. "Brief" used as a noun does not mean "short document" (it's related to the word "briefing" -- which refers to giving someone the essential information):
a document specifying tasks to be addressed or undertaken in a specific context
www.mos.gov.pl/mos/publikac/Raporty_opracowania/manual/glos...
A brief is critical to every project. It defines the project's base and parameters, and ensures that the designer has understood your requirements.
www.j6design.com.au/help/definitions/definitions.htm
Here is a use of "sign off against" as authorization:
Development... Define CDM with message type and filter object. Distribute model. ... comprehensively documented prior to sign-off against the functional specification. ...
www.erpgenie.com/ale/development.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages
In my proposed answer, I offered the word "provisional" in parentheses. It's not said in your source text but is implied because a "sign-off" is an approval. Evidently in this case it is not full approval, because that comes later according to your text.
I hope these notes help.
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Note added at 4 days (2007-01-23 13:23:54 GMT)
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Note that a "fabric brief" is more commonly called a "textile brief" where design and production are concerned:
General Art and Design WCC - Western Colleges ConsortiumNLN Materials Screenshot Following a textile brief ... It also explores elements of the printing process such as print specifications, colour management, ...
www.westerncc.ac.uk/nln/nln019.html - 45k - Cached - Similar pages
[RTF] Tutor DocumentationFile Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTML
Minimum machine specification. The learning objects are designed for use across a ... Following a textile brief, 3. Starting out in multimedia design, 3 ...
www.nln.ac.uk/materials/technical/technical_documentation/N... - Similar pages
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summarized/ short information on the fabric
O.K. From what you just sent I understand the context to be as such:
The designer is supposed to send some short information ( a summary) in writing about the product (fabric), which should be communicated to ( or shared with ) all the people involved in the process of producing this fabric. Then, they decide on the mill ( the processing plant) where the fabric should be sent for production/ manifacturing and in the end the "development is launched" which in other words means "the production or manifacturing of the fabric starts".
"Yarn should be exist(ing) and dye stuff should be decided" = means that they should also decide on the type of the yarn/ thread to be uses to produce this fabric, which - they are saying -should already exist. The dye ( the material that gives the fabric different colors) is also another matter they should decide on: what material they should use to dye the fabric.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
Mimoza
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Note added at 58 mins (2007-01-18 21:34:38 GMT)
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"Sign off" means - agree in writing to start manifacturing the product. So, this procedure describes the whole process that involves the production of the non-denim fabrics: from the first brief ( short summary ) they receive from the designer till the final approval to start producing it.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-01-19 00:12:21 GMT)
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brief
The designer is supposed to send some short information ( a summary) in writing about the product (fabric), which should be communicated to ( or shared with ) all the people involved in the process of producing this fabric. Then, they decide on the mill ( the processing plant) where the fabric should be sent for production/ manifacturing and in the end the "development is launched" which in other words means "the production or manifacturing of the fabric starts".
"Yarn should be exist(ing) and dye stuff should be decided" = means that they should also decide on the type of the yarn/ thread to be uses to produce this fabric, which - they are saying -should already exist. The dye ( the material that gives the fabric different colors) is also another matter they should decide on: what material they should use to dye the fabric.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
Mimoza
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Note added at 58 mins (2007-01-18 21:34:38 GMT)
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"Sign off" means - agree in writing to start manifacturing the product. So, this procedure describes the whole process that involves the production of the non-denim fabrics: from the first brief ( short summary ) they receive from the designer till the final approval to start producing it.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-01-19 00:12:21 GMT)
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brief
Peer comment(s):
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Tony M
: Note that "brief" doesn't necessarily suggest that this is in any way a summary or a short document / "brief" means a set of instructions (cf. briefing), it doesn't mean "short"
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Tony, I am sorry, I didn't say "document" I said "information".To me this seems like a list of "to do"s for the company. I would not make any sense of "Fabric brief from designer" other than "brief information sent by the designer describing the fabric
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cahier des charges du tissu
"brief" here has the sense of "specification"
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-18 21:56:54 GMT)
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There is nothing (necessarily) about "a brief" that suggests it is a short or summarized document.
"to sign off" means usually to authorize, or in this case, I would imagine, it means "to give provisional approval for..." — although the sentence is fairly cryptic, I would understand this to mean something along the lines that once the basic specifications in the fabric brief are met, the fabrics development is halted and the samples can be passed on for final approval.
Clearly, this is pure conjecture, we'd need to know quite a bit more about the actual procedures used by this company in order to know exactly what is going on.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-01-18 23:16:33 GMT)
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Although the website below is from India, and the quality of the EN is not exactly irreproachable, it does illustrate just one use of "brief" in the context of fabric design:
http://www.vaishalidesigns.com/process.shtml
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-01-19 00:14:23 GMT)
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Of course the word "brief" comes originally from the idea of "short" — but it has for a long time lost a lot of the original meaning, and is very often used in the wider sense of "instructions", as in this definition (one of many!) from NS OED:
"gen. A set or summary of instructions etc.; an appointed task; esp. a set of instructions for carrying out a military operation."
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Note added at 4 days (2007-01-23 10:40:00 GMT)
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Sorry, I inadvertently answered as if this were EN > FR (my usual pair), and have only just spotted my mistake!
Anyway, my interpretation stands, though it is only based on extrapolation
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-18 21:56:54 GMT)
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There is nothing (necessarily) about "a brief" that suggests it is a short or summarized document.
"to sign off" means usually to authorize, or in this case, I would imagine, it means "to give provisional approval for..." — although the sentence is fairly cryptic, I would understand this to mean something along the lines that once the basic specifications in the fabric brief are met, the fabrics development is halted and the samples can be passed on for final approval.
Clearly, this is pure conjecture, we'd need to know quite a bit more about the actual procedures used by this company in order to know exactly what is going on.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-01-18 23:16:33 GMT)
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Although the website below is from India, and the quality of the EN is not exactly irreproachable, it does illustrate just one use of "brief" in the context of fabric design:
http://www.vaishalidesigns.com/process.shtml
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-01-19 00:14:23 GMT)
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Of course the word "brief" comes originally from the idea of "short" — but it has for a long time lost a lot of the original meaning, and is very often used in the wider sense of "instructions", as in this definition (one of many!) from NS OED:
"gen. A set or summary of instructions etc.; an appointed task; esp. a set of instructions for carrying out a military operation."
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Note added at 4 days (2007-01-23 10:40:00 GMT)
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Sorry, I inadvertently answered as if this were EN > FR (my usual pair), and have only just spotted my mistake!
Anyway, my interpretation stands, though it is only based on extrapolation
Peer comment(s):
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Ken Cox
: You're probably right, and perhaps the term is trade jargon (too much clutter in the google hits to determine this readily), but I have a tiny suspicion of a questionable translation or usage, given the rest of the English.
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Thanks, Ken! I think it is just slightly sloppy, telegraphic EN, nothing to me specifically suggests a translation.
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