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SOFT [12 records]

Record 1 2017-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Human Diseases
OBS

SOFT is a self-funded ... non-profit, volunteer organization incorporated in 1980. SOFT has helped families for over three decades and is recognized as a primary source of information about trisomy 18, 13 and related disorders.

OBS

SOFT is a network of families and professionals dedicated to providing support and understanding to families involved in the issues and decisions surrounding the diagnosis and care in Trisomy 18, 13 and other related chromosomal disorders. Support can be provided during prenatal diagnosis, the child’s life and after the child’s passing. SOFT is committed to respect a family’s personal decision and to the notion of parent-professional relationships.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Maladies humaines

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Materials Engineering
  • Strength of Materials
DEF

As a texture characteristic, describes a product which displays slight resistance to deformation.

OBS

soft: Term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie des matériaux
  • Résistance des matériaux
DEF

En tant que caractéristique de la texture, qualifie un produit qui offre, lors de la mastication, une légère résistance à la déformation.

OBS

mou : Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO et par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Plant Breeding
  • Botany
OBS

Characteristic of bread wheat kernels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Amélioration végétale
  • Botanique

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Soft neurological signs in learning-disabled children.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Signes neurologiques accessoires chez les enfants atteints de troubles de la scolarité.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
DEF

[Said of] wines that display on the palate a soft, silky, and well-rounded texture, absent of roughness or harshness. Opposite of astringent.

CONT

A wine without an appreciable level of tanin, thus virtually no astringency, should be described as smooth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
DEF

[Se dit d'un] vin souple et agréable, qui glisse bien dans la bouche.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

Soft and hard commitments; soft and hard encumbrances.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Engagements préalables et fermes.

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textiles: Preparation and Processing
  • Pigments and Colours (Arts)
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
OBS

A colour is: soft.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Apprêt et traitements divers (Textiles)
  • Pigments et couleurs (Arts)
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)
CONT

Une couleur douce; une couleur estompée; un vert doux, un gris estompé.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
CONT

Should a figure as large and as "soft" as a pension benefit obligation even be disclosed in notes to financial statements?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité

Spanish

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Record 10 1980-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
OBS

(1) As applied to negatives, prints and developers -- having low-contrast characteristics. (2) As applied to lighting -- diffused or reflected light, or light from a broad source giving indistinct shadows and subdued highlights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
OBS

1) Caractéristique des émulsions ou des révélateurs produisant peu de contrastes. 2) Dans le cas de l'éclairage, désigne un éclairage diffus ou réfléchi, ou celui d'une source étendue donnant des ombres peu marquées (opposé à éclairage dur).

Spanish

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Record 11 1979-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
OBS

A term used loosely by drillers for a post. Cretaceous sedimentary rock (typically unconsolidated sandstone or shale) that is drilled relatively rapidly and that produces samples difficult to classify as to exact depth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

(BAULIG. Univ., vol. 8, p. 19) On peut différencier les grès d'après [...] leur degré de cohésion - grès "tendres" qui s'effritent facilement [...]

Spanish

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Record 12 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Types of Paper
OBS

the paper grades are usually classified by each maker according to his own ideas (...) No. 1: soft

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Sortes de papier
OBS

on trouve (...) cinq gradations courantes convenant à l'immense majorité des négatifs: --, spécial, normal, dur, extra-dur.

Spanish

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