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ALTERNATE BASE [8 records]

Record 1 2022-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Sea Operations (Military)
DEF

A base providing the facilities and activities required for the support of escort units for short periods of time.

OBS

alternate escort operating base : designation and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
DEF

Base disposant des installations et des services nécessaires au soutien de bâtiments d'escorte pour de courtes périodes.

OBS

base de remplacement pour escorteurs : désignation et définition normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de barcos
  • Operaciones marítimas (Militar)
DEF

Base que posee las instalaciones y medios necesarios para el apoyo a unidades de escolta, durante cortos períodos de tiempo.

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Record 2 2017-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Military Finances
OBS

"Base controller" is an alternate spelling, but it is not used in the Canadian Forces.

OBS

base comptroller; B Compt: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Finances militaires
OBS

contrôleur de la base; Contr B : désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Mediterranean mustard is an erect, canescent, biennial or perennial growing to some 3’ tall. The stems are branched both from the base and above, and are covered with fine gray-white hairs. The leaves are alternate with the basal ones being from 1-1/4" to 4" long in a rosette, lyrate-pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe and several pairs of somewhat separated smaller leaflets or lobes, and the upper cauline leaves reduced, sessile, dentate to lobed, and not clasping the stem. The flowers are in many terminal racemes and are similar to most of the mustards we have in Southern California, with four sepals, four light yellow petals about 3/16" long, and six stamens, four long and two short.

OBS

Mediterranean mustard ... formerly had the Latin name Brassica geniculata ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Faux rapistre blanchâtre : [...] Hauteur: 40 à 90 cm. Plante velue et blanchâtre. [...] - Feuilles vert blanchâtre. Feuilles inférieures divisées, pennatifides à lobes terminaux plus grands et ornés de petites proéminences cartilagineuses blanches et aplaties. Feuilles supérieures, lancéolées, simples. [...] - Plante consommée en salade dans certaines régions d'Italie.

OBS

roquette bâtarde; Hirschfeldia incana : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Agricultural Economics
CONT

Using a Boerner-type divider, divide the uncleaned sample to obtain a representative portion.

CONT

The Boerner divider divides the sample as it flows down the sides of an inverted cone into 36 pockets around the perimeter of the base of the cone. The alternate pockets merge to form two equal streams deposited into brass pans below.

OBS

Term(s) used at the Canadian Grain Commission in the field of cereal terminology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Économie agricole
OBS

Terme(s) en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains dans le domaine céréalier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Molinería y cereales
  • Economía agrícola
DEF

Aparato constituido por un alimentador, una serie de tubos distribuidores y un recipiente que sirve para distribuir los granos dividiendo la muestra en dos porciones representativas.

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Record 5 2000-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction Materials
CONT

In building penetration-macadam pavement, a base, usually of crushed stone or gravel, is constructed in layers and firmly compacted by rolling. Often during the rolling, water is applied to make what is termed a water-bound base, or macadam. Then, the keyed and wedged fragments in the upper portion of the base are bonded in place by working alternate applications of bituminous material and choke stone into the surface voids.

CONT

Penetration macadam construction is a surface treatment that is generally regarded as being a more heavy-duty type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de constr. (Voies de circulation)
DEF

Pierre concassée ou agrégat passé au crible, lié par le bitume, le liant étant appliqué après le compactage de l'agrégat.

CONT

Construction des couches de base en macadam traité par pénétration [...] On notera [...] que le premier épandage de liant joue dans une certaine mesure le rôle de couche d'accrochage pour les couches successives de gravillons et de liant [...]

OBS

macadam goudronné : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Knitted and Stretch Fabrics
DEF

A warp-knitted fabric so produced that elongated underlaps that are firmly anchored in the ground fabric by means of overlaps, protrude from the technical reverse side.

OBS

For the formation of the elongated underlaps(plush loops), the front guide bar carries the pile yarn and either laps around the needles and the points of a point bar or(when the base fabric is knitted on alternate needles) around the remaining needles of the needle bar.

OBS

antonyms: plush fabric (warp-knitted) loop pile fabric (tucked-in) loop-raised fabric (velvet/tricot, brushed).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tricot et tissus extensibles

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
OBS

The most rugged terrain of the Appalachians is in eastern Québec(...) particularly along the South Shore [of the St-Lawrence river], where narrow forest-covered or base rock ridges alternate with shallow, alluvium-filled valleys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
OBS

Les reliefs les plus accidentés des Appalaches culminent dans l'est du Québec (...) particulièrement sur la Côte Sud [du fleuve St-Laurent], où des crêts étroits de roc nus ou couverts de forêts alternent avec des vallons évasés et remplis d'alluvions.

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baskets and Basketmaking
CONT

The new techniques... are chain pairing, plait(braid) borders and packing.... Chain pairing. To prevent oval work from twisting, an equal number of pairing and reverse pairing rounds are put on the base. If these techniques are used on alternate rows they form a chain pattern which is extremely attractive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vannerie
CONT

Les techniques nouvelles (...) sont le travail en super alternée, le bord natté et la façon de relever un bord du panier (travail en pignon). (...) Tressage en super alternée. Pour empêcher les ouvrages ovales de se vriller, il faut faire une clôture en super et une en super inversée ayant un nombre égal de tours. Lorsque l'on alterne les rangées, on obtient un motif en super alternée qui est extrêmement attrayant.

Spanish

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