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clump [11 records]

Record 1 2021-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cotton Industry
CONT

All groups must have large masses and clumps of fibers broken up. This is opening.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie cotonnière
CONT

Des tourbillons d'air [servent] comme agent d'épuration, de transport et d'ouverture des flocons. Le traitement mécanique et brutal des flocons n'est plus utilisé.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
DEF

The aggregate to stems issuing from the same root, rhizome system, or stool, with particular reference to Bamboos and the larger grasses.

Key term(s)
  • tuft of shots

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Ensemble des rejets d'une même souche.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Silvicultura
DEF

Conjunto de tallos que salen de la misma raíz, rizoma o cepa.

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Record 3 2006-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

A dense mass of mussels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Masse de moules.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
DEF

[A piece] of lead to separate the ink duct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
OBS

Pièce de plomb servant à diviser l'encrier en compartiments.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)
  • Landscape Architecture
DEF

A close bunch of plants grouped, arranged, or growing together.

CONT

Clusters of low-growing late-blooming chrysanthemums at the front lead off the border's final show of the year.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Floriculture
  • Architecture paysagère
DEF

Ensemble de plantes fleuries ou d'arbustes, dans un parterre.

CONT

Les rosiers pourraient être remplacés par des massifs de fleurs annuelles de même couleur et hauteur.

CONT

Un massif de tulipes.

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

An isolated, generally dense, group of trees.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Au sens large, tout groupe d'arbres croissant très près les uns des autres.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
Key term(s)
  • Canada Land Use Monitoring Program
  • CLUMP

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours
Key term(s)
  • PSUTC

Spanish

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Record 8 1996-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Layout (Graphic Arts)
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
DEF

Interlinear spacing material used for whiting out and for printing footlines. Clumps are made of lead and are usually from 6 to 12 points thick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maquette et mise en page
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
DEF

Pièce de métal de longueur et d'épaisseur variables, mais de même hauteur que les blancs; sert à l'impression de grands blancs, de pages blanches et, en imposition, à garnir les formes.

OBS

En imposition, le terme «garniture» est préféré.

Spanish

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Record 9 1996-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
OBS

i.e. balling up of snow under the ski

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
OBS

accumuler de la neige sous le ski

Spanish

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Record 10 1996-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
OBS

of snow under ski

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
OBS

neige sous le ski

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Outfitting of Ships
OBS

Source: Transport Canada specifications.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armement et gréement
OBS

crapaud d'amarrage, de mouillage : de Kerchove, Dict. des termes et locutions maritimes, Encycl. of Nautical Knowledge.

Spanish

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