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Record 1 2018-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
  • Ecosystems
OBS

peat : a firm brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Incendies de végétation
  • Écosystèmes
OBS

tourbe : matière spongieuse issue de la décomposition de végétaux dans certains marécages et utilisée comme combustible.

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
CONT

Cut circles out of bread slices... bake bread circles on a baking sheet... until golden... spread a heaping teaspoon of mushroom mixture on top of each toast round... sprinkle 3 tablespoons cheese over crostini, dividing evenly. Decorate with olive halves, pepper strips... bake until tops are light brown... serve hot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
  • Plats cuisinés
OBS

canapé : Tranche de pain sur laquelle on dresse certains mets. Canapé au saumon. Œufs sur canapés.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Summer fruit tortrix moth....-Adult : wingspan 17 to 19 mm in the male, 19 to 22 mm in the female. Head and thorax beige. Fore-wings of male reddish yellow ochre with rust-coloured pattern in the shape of an oblique median strip widening out into a triangular shape at the base. In the female, brownish colour with darker pattern. Hind wings light grey in the male, and brown-grey in the female...-Larva : 18 to 22 mm. Greenish yellow to olive green. Head and thoracic plate glossy brown in the young caterpillar, turning honey-yellow later. Thoracic legs light brown/chestnut.

OBS

Host plants: the caterpillar can develop on many species of forest tree, but prefers apple or, secondarily, pear, cherry, plum, or apricot and red currant.

OBS

[The] preferred scientific name [is] Adoxophyes orana.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Tordeuse Capua de la pelure. [...] - Adulte : 17 à 19 mm d'envergure pour le mâle, 19 à 22 mm pour la femelle. Tête et thorax beiges. Ailes antérieures du mâle jaune ocre rougeâtre avec des dessins roux qui forment une bande médiane oblique s'élargissant en une tache triangulaire à la base. Chez la femelle, coloration brunâtre avec des dessins plus ternes. Ailes postérieures gris clair chez le mâle et gris brun chez la femelle [...] - Larve : 18 à 22 mm. Jaune verdâtre à vert olive. Tête et plaque thoracique brun brillant chez la jeune chenille puis jaune miel. Pattes thoraciques brun clair.

CONT

La tordeuse de la pelure, plus communément appelée capua (Adoxophyes orana), est un ravageur secondaire en vergers des pommiers et poiriers, parfois de cerisiers et pruniers, mais qui vit également aux dépens de nombreuses autres plantes-hôtes.

OBS

Le nom scientifique le plus utilisé est Adoxophyes orana.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Animales dañinos para los cultivos
  • Insectos, ciempiés, arañas y escorpiones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 4 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Restaurant Menus
OBS

(...) it is impossible to translate the culinary term poêler literally. To poêler, meat or poultry is placed in a good fitting pan or fireproof casserole on sliced pot herbs, seasoned, melted butter poured on top and roasted in oven with the cover on. Shortly before meat is done, cover is taken off to allow the top side to get brown. Moderate temperature is essential for pan roasting. As soon as the meat is browned, it is taken out of the pan, the fat is poured off and the residue deglaced with wine, stock, gravy or sauce and used for making the sauce.

OBS

pan-roasting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Menus (Restauration)
DEF

Cuire dans une casserole fermée, avec un corps gras.

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
CONT

This disease starts out as a black to purple leaf spot. As the disease progresses, the fungus works its way to the plant's base and attacks the roots and crown. Basal tissues near the ground become dark brown and rot. This stage is called melting out because the grass gradually thins and "melts out" the diseased area. The turf appears yellowish, thin and shabby with irregular patches of dead grass. When these areas are raked, the dead grass plants are easily removed.

Key term(s)
  • helminthosporium melting out

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
OBS

helminthosporiose : Maladie causée par un champignon du genre helminthosporium.

Key term(s)
  • helminthosporiose

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Silk (Textiles)
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
  • Pigments and Colours (Arts)
CONT

... because Ancient Madder is always beautiful, and what's more, it's being rediscovered. For the benefit of people who are not ancient, Madder is a deep, saturated rusty red dye that's derived from the Rubia plant. And fashion people apply the same term to other autumn shades-brown, navy, etc.-that are compatible with Madder.... but G. J. Cahn has an update : he's bringing back Ancient Madder... He's showing lightened-up tints in patterns that bring out Ancient Madder's modern best for Spring 1998.

DEF

Ancient madder: A term used for goods printed with madder colors in characteristic small, or foulard-type patterns or paisley designs. These may be identified by the standard colors which are used, which comprise only dull red, dull green, chocolate brown, dull medium blue and soft yellow.

OBS

Madder: A red dye, too, was extracted from the root of the madder plant. Madder, also used today as a dyestuff, was known from an antiquity ...

OBS

Printing: ... Mention should be made of the real ancient madder process of hand-block printing, which is perhaps the most beautiful of all (an example will be found in the silk foulard) It is an English process ...

OBS

Madder printing, usually associated with British tie silks of deep, subtle coloring and bloom, is a modern extension of the mordant-printing technique. It is so named because madder was originally used for the dye coloring ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Soieries
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)
  • Pigments et couleurs (Arts)
OBS

Quelques notes concernant le madder : la teinture et l'impression naturelle de la soie au madder sont maintenant abandonnées. C'est un procédé qui utilisait des colorants naturels comme la garance et qui pouvait combiner simultanément certains traitements pour donner au-delà de l'aspect brillant, du gonflant et un toucher. Les cravatiers anglais utilisaient beaucoup ce traitement madder pour la soie.

OBS

[...] Ensuite, il y a l'exemple du madder qui a été largement utilisé en France pour la teinture des uniformes militaires. Les racines du madère [madder] doivent être recueillies lorsqu'elles ont trois ans [...] Ce que nous avons trouvé dans les teintures naturelles est qu'elles ont une bonne résistance à l'eau et à la transpiration mais que leur solidité à la lumière est épouvantable [...]

Key term(s)
  • imprimé au madder

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
DEF

Any blight disease of plants caused by bacteria, including common bacterial blight, halo blight and fuscous blight.

OBS

Symptoms variable; dark, water-soaked spots or streaks often develop on leaves and stems that later turn gray, brown, reddish-brown or black. Spots may even drop out leaving ragged holes. Leaves may wither and die early.(How to Control Plant Diseases in Home and Garden, p. 50).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
DEF

Maladie des plantes transmise par des bactéries [qui] cause la mort des feuilles, des taches sur les gousses de haricots, ou la décoloration de la semence.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Government Programs (Non-Canadian)
  • Foreign Trade
OBS

Originally the idea of the late U. S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue(TABD) was conceived to promote closer commercial ties between the U. S. and European Union. Brown, together with his counterparts in the European Commission, Martin Bangemann and Sir Leon Brittan, created the dialogue system as a mechanism to encourage public and civil society input to fostering a more closely integrated transatlantic marketplace. The dialogue system, which includes separate dialogues for consumers, environment and business, was a key part of the governments’ 1995 New Transatlantic Agenda(NTA), which laid out a plan to enhance overall transatlantic economic and political relations. The TABD's goal is to help establish a Barrier-Free Transatlantic Market which will serve as a catalyst for global trade liberalisation and prosperity. Unified markets are needed to create a business environment which will stimulate innovation and economic growth, more investment and create new jobs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes gouvernementaux non canadiens
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
CONT

Alexeev used to single out only three Great Races : Europoid or in the more obsolete terminology "white", Mongloid or "yellow"(in fact ranging from very white in the northern Siberian Evens to dark brown in some Indonesian populations) and Equatorial where he would lump Black Africans, Negritos of Andamans and other Southeast Asian islands i. e. Papuans, Australians etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Type qui présente les caractères de la race blanche.

Spanish

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Record 10 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
  • Food Industries
CONT

This is particularly troublesome on lemons, navels, and Parson Brown oranges. Injury to the peel ruptures the oil glands, releasing peel oil which is toxic to surrounding healthy tissue. The injury appears as irregularly shaped yellow, green, or brown spots in which the oil glands of the peel stand out prominently because of the slight sinking of the tissues between them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arboriculture fruitière
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
DEF

Chez les agrumes, nécrose de la peau du fruit, provoquée par le liquide caustique qui s'échappe des glandes à essence à la suite de leur rupture due le plus souvent à un coup d'ongle au moment de la cueillette.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fruticultura
  • Industria alimentaria
CONT

Oleocelosis (Oil spotting, Oleocellosis): cosechar y manejar naranjas muy turgentes puede dar lugar a la liberación de aceite que daña los tejidos circundantes. Por lo tanto, las naranjas no deberían ser cosechadas cuando se encuentran muy turgentes, en las primeras horas de la mañana o inmediatamente después de lluvias o de riegos.

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Record 11 2001-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Mammals
CONT

The short-faced bear(Arctodus simus) seems to have been mainly a flesh-eater and was by far the most powerful land predator during the Ice Age in North America. It may have attacked bison, deer, and horses... this species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico... The short-faced bear became extinct some 10, 000 years ago, perhaps partly because some of its large prey died out earlier, and partly because of competition with the smaller, more herbivorous brown bears that entered North America from Eurasia. The short-faced bear(Arctodus simus), sometimes called the "bulldog", was the largest land carnivore in North America during the ice age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Mammifères
CONT

Surtout carnivore, semble-t-il, l'ours à tête courte (Arctodus simus) fut le plus puissant prédateur terrestre durant la période glaciaire en Amérique du Nord. [...] Cette espèce hantait les plateaux herbeux de l'Ouest nord-américain, de l'Alaska au Mexique [...] L'ours à tête courte disparut il y a 10,000 ans, peut-être jusqu'à un certain point à cause de la disparition d'une partie de son gros gibier, et aussi de la concurrence de l'ours brun, plus petit et davantage herbivore, arrivé d'Eurasie en amérique septentrionale.

CONT

Dans le cas de l'ours à face courte (Arctodus simus), qui vivait en Amérique du Nord jusqu'il y a environ 10,000 ans, l'analyse morphologique de ces éléments donne lieu à des interprétations opposées.

Spanish

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Record 12 1993-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulp and Paper
CONT

The pulping reaction is stopped by extracting the hot residual liquor through screens at the periphery into a flash tank that supplies steam to the steaming vessel. The hot liquor is displaced by upward-flowing "wash liquor"(usually brown stock washer filtrate) which is injected near the bottom of the vessel and moves countercurrent to the chip flow to provide "diffusion washing". The digester is usually provided with sufficient height between the wash liquor inlet and extraction screens to allow at least 1. 5 hours for the residual liquor to diffuse out of the chips.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtes et papier
DEF

(...) filtrat provenant d'un premier lavage de pâte écrue (...)

Spanish

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Record 13 1993-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
DEF

White and brown meat extracted from the cooked whole crab(the latter mixed with bread crumbs or cereal filler), seasoned and laid out attractively in the cleaned carapace shell, marketed fresh or frozen; also canned(in Norway for canned dressed crab, minimum crab content is 90% of weight).

OBS

Similar preparation of other crustacean, e.g. dressed lobster. In U.S. dressed crab is usually whole-cooked crab with viscera and gills removed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
DEF

Chair blanche et brune extraite du crabe, après cuisson (mélangée avec de la chapelure ou des céréales) assaisonnée, puis remise dans la carapace nettoyée. Produit commercialisé frais, congelé ou en conserve (en Norvège, le contenu minimum en crabe du produit en conserve, est de 90% du poids).

OBS

Préparation analogue pour tout autre crustacé, ex. homard paré. Aux É.-U. le crabe paré est généralement cuit après avoir été vidé et éviscéré.

Spanish

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Record 14 1991-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
CONT

White roux is cooked for just a few minutes, just enough to cook out the raw taste. Cooking is stopped as soon as the roux has a frothy, chalky, slightly gritty appearance, before it has begun to color.... Blond roux.... Brown roux....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
OBS

roux. Mélange de farine et de beurre en proportions égales, cuit plus ou moins longtemps selon la couleur recherchée (blanc, blond, brun).

Spanish

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Record 15 1989-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrochemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

Usually, the population is practically wiped out by failing recruitment before the pH reaches levels low enough to kill bigger fish.... Experiments... indicate that for normal hatching and fry development there is a lower pH limit lying between pH 5. 0 and 5. 5 for salmon, between 4. 5 and 5. 0 for sea trout and of about pH 4. 5 for brown trout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrochimie
  • Chimie analytique
  • Études et analyses environnementales
CONT

Il existe une législation aux termes de laquelle un déversement doit rester dans certaines limites de température, de pH, etc., et ne doit contenir aucune substance dangereuse pour les égoutiers; dès lors, plusieurs industries doivent traiter leurs effluents avant tout rejet dans le réseau public.

OBS

Les processus biochimiques qui se déroulent dans les sols dépendent souvent de l'activité des ions H+ : d'où l'importance du pH en agriculture (amélioration du rendement des cultures quand le pH est compris entre certaines limites).

Spanish

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Record 16 1989-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Fischer, Brown, and Burton(1978; Burton, Brown, and Fischer, 1984) propose a paradigm for the design of optimal learning environments, which they call increasingly complex microworlds. The concept of microworlds created for educational purposes with the computer as a(universal simulator) is already the central theme of LOGO. Fischer et al. set out to formalize the notion of a succession of(microworlds) where the modifications at each step are meant to support learning. The idea is to start with a simplified world and to have a coach progressively add new dimensions of complexity that require an increasing mastery of basic skills. Fischer et al. present skiing instruction as a pedagogical success model that has made use of microworlds. Over the years, skiing instruction has become safer and surprisingly effective. According to the authors, the key to this success is the definition of progressive learning phases : instructors have combined technological advances with pedagogical cleverness to provide useful simplified versions of the skill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir micromonde, complexifié.

Spanish

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Record 17 1984-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clay and Clay Products (Ceramics)
DEF

Synthetic ash glaze developed by the potter Haland House.

OBS

The amount of ash used brings out the colour from white through grey and yellow to brown.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Terres et glaçures (Ind. de la céramique)

Spanish

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