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CROSS RIVER [11 records]

Record 1 2024-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
CONT

By placing the hatchery tanks in a pond near the river, the [angler association] designers... created a moat to protect their [fish] stock. In order to assail the fish tanks, a would-be thief must cross 10 feet of moat, which stays at a cool 12-13 [degrees Celsius] even in the hottest part of the summer at a depth of three feet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Acuicultura
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Record 2 2012-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

A legal document giving permission for one person or business to use land owned by another person for a stated purpose.

CONT

An example of a right-of-way easement would be when the general public is allowed to cross over private property to access a shoreline. In Maine, often people are unaware that the reason they are able to reach a shoreline(be it the ocean, a lake, or a river), is because of a legally established right.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
DEF

Servitude établie par loi donnant droit de passage à une personne sur la propriété d'un autre sans avoir au préalable son autorisation.

OBS

L'expression «servitude réelle de passage» est utilisée dans le cas où l'on veut atteindre un lac, un cours d'eau, une plage ou la mer. La loi permet à une personne d'y avoir accès en utilisant le passage sur la propriété de quelqu'un sans son autorisation écrite au préalable.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A landform that can result when a natural (or artificial) levee is breached, usually during a flood, in one location.

CONT

A crevasse splay is a geographical feature which forms when an overloaded stream breaks a natural or artificial levee and deposits sediment on a floodplain. This breach can cause large deposits that spread in a pattern similar to that of a river delta. In other words, coarser sediment is deposited first, close to the breach while finer sediment is carried farther to the edges of the crevasse splay. In cross section, the crevasse splay will result in graded deposits which may look like a Bouma sequence.

CONT

Crevasse splays are essentially small lobate deltas forming within the framework of the larger delta. They consist of relatively thin, lens-like masses of sediment, showing small-scale prograding coarsening-upward sequences ...

OBS

crevasse splay: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Corps silto-sableux provenant de l'épandage du matériel fluvio-deltaïque, s'étalant en bordure de chenal au travers de brèches entaillées dans les levées des chenaux distributaires, et formant des éventails dans l'embouchure des deltas.

CONT

Les faciès argileux sont interprétés comme des dépôts de plaine d'inondation soumise épisodiquement à des épandages de crevasses («crevasse splay») lors des crues, par rupture de levées.

OBS

crevasse évasée; crevasse divergente : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

A warm moist southeast wind from the sea on the French Mediterranean coast and in the Maritime Alps, especially frequent in spring and autumn.

OBS

In the Rhône delta it blows also from the south. The marin is associated with depressions that cross southern France or northern Spain and the Gulf of Lions. Generally, it is strong and regular, sometimes violent and turbulent in hilly country as the ayalas in the Massif Central; it is very humid, cloudy with hill fog, and often rainy(unless unaccompanied by fronts, when it is the marin blanc). The heavy rains, which may continue for one or two days on the mountain slopes, cause dangerous river floods. On the western slope of the Cévennes it becomes the autan. In the southern Cévennes the marin is called the aygalas. On the coast of Catalonia(northeast Spain) and Roussillon(southern France) it is the marinada and generally occurs with a depression centered over or south of the Gulf of Gascony.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Vent chaud et humide du sud-est venant de la mer sur les côtes méditerranéennes françaises et dans les Alpes maritimes, spécialement fréquent au printemps et à l'automne.

OBS

Les sources consultées, ne nous ont pas permis de déterminer le genre de «marinada».

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Decorations
OBS

The Legion d’honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur is a French order established by Napoléon Bonaparte, First Consul of the First Republic, on May 19, 1802. It is the premier order of France, and its award is one of great distinction, with various titles depending on degree, such as Chevalier, Officier and Grand-Croix or Grand Cross. The order's motto is Honneur et Patrie(Honour and Fatherland), and its seat is the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur on the left bank of the River Seine in Paris.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décorations militaires
OBS

Ordre national hiérarchisé créé par Bonaparte en 1802 pour récompenser les services civils et militaires.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Field Engineering (Military)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

The ribbon bridge is a floating, modular asset with an integral superstructure and floating supports. Individual bays are joined to form rafts or bridges in support of river crossing operations. Ribbon bridges and rafts provide the maneuver commander with a reliable and responsive means to cross wet gap obstacles from the march... The ribbon bridge system consists of three major components : Bridge transporters, interior bays, Ramp bays. Although BEBs are not a component of the ribbon bridge system, boats are required for the propulsion of ribbon rafts, as well as for the assembly and anchorage of ribbon rafts and bridges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie (Militaire)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
DEF

Pont de conception américaine qui se déplie sous la poussée de l'eau au moment de son lancement.

OBS

Voir la Revue internationale de la défense, no 8, p. 1419.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Geography (General)
  • Glaciology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

Piling up of frazil under an ice cover on a river, which reduces the cross section of stream flow.

Key term(s)
  • hanging ice dam

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)
  • Glaciologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Accumulation des paillettes de glace en suspension dans l'eau sous la couverture de glace d'une rivière, provoquant une réduction de la section d'écoulement.

Key term(s)
  • barrage suspendu

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geografía física (Generalidades)
  • Glaciología
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Acumulación de hielo pastoso bajo la cubierta de hielo de un río, que reduce la sección transversal del curso de agua.

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Record 8 1996-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Yako, a people of the Cross River region of eastern Nigeria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue du groupe Bénoué-Congo de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée par les Yako, peuple habitant la région de la rivière Cross à l'est du Nigeria.

Spanish

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Record 9 1995-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Mbembe, a group of peoples living along the middle Cross river in Nigeria

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue du groupe Bénoué-Congo de la famille nigéro-congolaise parlée par les Mbembe, groupes ethniques vivant le long du cours moyen de la rivière Cross au Nigeria

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
DEF

A place used by caribous to cross a road or a river during their migration.

OBS

caribou: Any of several subspecies of reindeer found in northern North America; plural: "caribou" or "caribous".

OBS

crossing: A place at which a street, river, etc. may be crossed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
DEF

Endroit - route, champ, rivière, ou autre - où passent les caribous au cours de leur migration.

OBS

passage : Endroit par où l'on passe.

OBS

Au Canada, on emploie souvent le terme "traverse" pour indiquer un endroit où l'on passe. L'usage a consacré "passage" en ce sens.

Spanish

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Record 11 1977-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
CONT

The mask(...) is similar to a triple-faced "Nkang" helmet mask in the National Museum, Lagos, which came from Nkum on the Cross River near Ikom(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
CONT

[Parmi les divers articles de danse employés par les Mambilas, on compte:] les trompes, (...) les costumes en rafia, les sommets de coiffure et les masques-heaume.

Spanish

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