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Record 1 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
DEF

A bodybuilding exercise performed by completing the following movements : lie face down on an hyperextension bench, with your thighs and knees resting on the padding and your ankles stuck under the padded braces. Cross your arms under your chest or let your hands rest on the back of your head. Keeping your back straight, lower your upper body by bending at the waist, then return to the starting position.

OBS

This exercise targets the lower back muscles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme
DEF

Exercice de musculation qui s'exécute en effectuant les mouvements suivants : installez-vous sur un banc à lombaires en appuyant vos cuisses et vos genoux sur les coussins et vos chevilles sous les supports rembourrés prévus à cet effet. Les bras croisés sur la poitrine ou les mains derrière la tête et le dos bien droit, fléchissez lentement le buste vers le bas puis remontez jusqu'à la position de départ.

OBS

Cet exercice sollicite les muscles lombaires (bas du dos).

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trimming and Embroidery
DEF

... a hard-wearing utility stitch, good for background, filling and accents. It makes a close, pebblelike face and covers the back closely. This stitch is similar to Long-Armed Cross stitch... and Long-Legged Cross stitch... ;the difference is in the direction of the slant of the long arm. In this stitch, the slant alternates from right to left with each successive row.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Passementerie et broderie
CONT

Ce point réversible a beaucoup d'analogie avec le point natté monténégrin. Comme ce dernier, il présente sur l'envers des points de croix séparés par des points verticaux, mais par contre, les points verticaux disparaissent presque entièrement sur l'endroit. Le point natté grec demande un fil bien tordu, ce qui fait bien ressortir en relief la natte formée par le point. Le plus souvent, il est employé comme point de consolidation, pour arrêter un bord qui sera effrangé ultérieurement ou simplement coupé.

Key term(s)
  • point grec

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wrought Metal Items and Antique Tools
  • Metal Forging
DEF

... a mass of iron square or octagonal in cross section, punched in the middle to receive a hickory or ash handle, with a flat face on one end and a wedge perpendicular to the handle on the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets ouvrés et outils anciens (Métal)
  • Forgeage
DEF

Marteau à tête en ligne transversale au manche; il allonge le métal sans l'élargir.

CONT

Les marteaux de devant, ou ceux qui sont placés à la forge devant l'enclume, sont aussi de deux sortes, à panne & à traverse, & ont vingt-huit à vingt-neuf lignes en quarré par la tête, sur six à sept pouces de long. Ils sont tous émmanchés de bois de cornouiller de deux piés & demi de long environ. [...] le marteau à traverse a sa panne perpendiculaire au manche.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
DEF

A large heavy hammer that is usually wielded with two hands; used for driving stakes or breaking stone.

DEF

A heavy Hammer with flat cheeks and octagonal face and neck, either double-faced or with a cross or straight pane.

OBS

These heavy smith’s hammers, sometimes weighing as much as 14 lb, are used by tree fellers for driving wedges into the saw cut, by shipwrights when driving wedges to lift the hull in the process of launching, and by wheelwrights for driving spokes into the hubs of heavy cart and wagon wheels.

Key term(s)
  • sledge

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
DEF

Désigne divers gros marteaux lourds, le plus souvent à tête carrée et à manche court, utilisés en particulier par les maçons et les tailleurs de pierres.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Herramientas manuales
DEF

Martillo pesado con mango largo, que se maneja con las dos manos. Se utiliza para hincar postes o estacas.

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Record 5 1999-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Practice
OBS

bond. To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

OBS

bond. The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond, where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond, where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maçonnerie
DEF

Action ou manière de disposer les pierres ou les briques qui composent une maçonnerie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Albañilería
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Record 6 1999-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
DEF

A cross of small size on a map face which shows positions where selected meridians and parallels intersect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

riveting hammer : A hammer usually with a feat face and cross peen used for driving rivets and beating metal.

OBS

riveting hammer; riveter: terms standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
DEF

riveteuse : Machine qui sert à poser les rivets.

OBS

marteau pour rivetage; riveteuse : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Plywood
OBS

Tapeless splicing is used to form face-veneer panels from several pieces. The backs and faces are glued to the cross bands and the core. The edges of the core are planed on the jointer. The core stock is edge glued and cut to panel size by a clipper machine.... All the plies are then ready to be glued into a sheet. Glue is applied to the sheets of veneer as they go through large rollers.... After the glue is applied to the cross-banded layers, core, face, and back panels, the press-gluing operation begins. The use of the giant hot press... is one of the crucial steps in the manufacture of plywood. Extreme pressure and controlled heat are used to cure(set) the adhesive.... After heating and pressing, skinner and trim saws cut the panel edges and stack the panels in one automatic operation....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Contreplaqués

Spanish

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Record 9 1997-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A heavy, crawler-tracked, 200-horsepower cutter loader designed for longwall faces in seams over 4½ feed thick, and takes a buttock 5 feet wide. The maximum cutting head is 7½ feet.... The cutterhead consists of seven cutter chains mounted side by side and can be moved up and down radially to cut the coal from roof to floor. It delivers the coal onto the face conveyor by a short cross conveyor. Capacity is over 400 tons per machine and over 4 tons output per man per shift.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
OBS

Cap-Breton p. 139

Key term(s)
  • mineur Dosco

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Mechanics)
  • Grinding (Machine-Tooling)
CONT

Several, usually seven, smaller diamond stones are mounted in spaced relationship across the working surface of the nib. In some types of tools more than a single layer of such clusters is set at parallel levels in the matrix, the deeper positioned layer becoming active after the preceding layer has worn away.

OBS

Intended for straight face dressing and permits the utilization of smaller, less expensive diamond stones.... The multiple point contact permits faster cross feed rates during truing...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Mécanique)
  • Meulage (Usinage)

Spanish

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Record 11 1977-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

iron cross twin law : A twin law in crystals of the diploidal class of the isometric system that is formed by interpenetration twinning of two pyritohedrons. The twin axis is perpendicular to a face of the rhombic dodecahedron.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

Macles par pénétration [...] de deux dodécaèdres pentagonaux [...] sont appelées «croix de fer» [...]

Spanish

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