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Record 1 2021-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Spawner numbers in the North and South Thompson watersheds peaked in the mid-1980’s, declined rapidly until about 1996, and have been stable or potentially increasing since then. Slightly more than half of recent estimates of the total population of 24 000 occur within the North and South Thompson watersheds.

OBS

number: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • numbers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

L'effectif des géniteurs a atteint un sommet dans les bassins versants de la Thompson Nord et de la Thompson Sud au milieu des années 1980, pour décliner rapidement par la suite jusqu'aux environs de 1996; depuis, il est demeuré stable ou pourrait avoir augmenté. Selon les estimations récentes, un peu plus de la moitié de la population totale des 24 000 saumons proviennent des bassins versants des rivières Thompson Nord et Sud.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pesca comercial
CONT

La selección de un pequeño número de progenitores puede reducir la variabilidad genética.

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Record 2 2008-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceremonial and Traditions (Military)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
PHR

Carry colour, catch the colour, change colour, order colour, slope colour by numbers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cérémonial et traditions (Militaire)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
PHR

En décomposant, à l'épaule le drapeau consacré, au pied le drapeau consacré, au port le drapeau consacré.

PHR

En décomposant, changez le drapeau consacré, saisissez le drapeau consacré.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lotteries
DEF

A form of lottery played in the United States in which one may select any three digits from 001 to 999 and bet on them to appear in a specified order or in any combination by figures regularly published in newspaper (as clearinghouse or stock market receipts, pari-mutuel payoffs, or the cards in an article on contract bridge).

OBS

numbers: plural but singular or plural in construction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Loteries
DEF

Loterie clandestine où les joueurs parient sur des numéros.

OBS

Renseignement communiqué par le Service de terminologie de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

Spanish

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