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DECANTING [8 records]

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Record 1 2021-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Distilling Industries (Food Ind.)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

Wet distillers grain is produced from decanting of whole stillage to approximately 30% to 40% solids.

OBS

wet distiller’s grain; wet distillers’ grain; wet distillers grain: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • wet distiller's grains
  • wet distillers' grains
  • wet distillers grains

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distillerie (Alimentation)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

drêche humide de distillerie; drèche humide de distillerie : désignations habituellement employées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • drêches humides de distillerie
  • drèches humides de distillerie

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wine Service
DEF

The act of separating the wine from its sediment to preserve its brilliance in the glass or to allow the wine to breath.

CONT

The most important reason for decanting is that this process allows you to separate the wine from any sediment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service des vins
DEF

Opération fort délicate qui a pour but de transvaser le vin de sa bouteille d'origine dans une carafe [...] pour le séparer de ses dépôts.

CONT

Vous devez procéder à une [...] décantation pour séparer le vin des lies.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicio de vinos
DEF

[Proceso que] consiste en pasar el contenido de una botella de vino a un recipiente de vidrio o cristal con diferentes objetivos.

CONT

[...] el objetivo fundamental de la decantación, consiste en separar al vino de los residuos que se forman producto de la guarda en botella. [...] Otro objetivo de la decantación es “airear” al vino, sobre todo el que lleva mucho tiempo guardado en la botella que puede desarrollar algo de aromas de encierro. [...] Un tercer objetivo está orientado a acelerar la suavización de los taninos que se producen naturalmente con la guarda en botella, producto de una oxigenación más violenta producida durante el proceso de decantación.

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Record 3 1997-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucking (Road Transport)
  • Automated Materials Handling
DEF

Operation of decanting, by gravity, the contents of a tank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Camionnage
  • Manutention automatique
DEF

Action de transvaser, par gravité, le contenu d'une citerne.

Key term(s)
  • dépotage gravitaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte por camión
  • Manipulación automática de materiales
DEF

Acción de transvasar, por gravedad, el contenido de un tanque.

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Record 4 1997-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucking (Road Transport)
DEF

Operation of decanting the contents of a tank by pressurizing the interior.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Camionnage
DEF

Action de transvaser, par surpression intérieure, le contenu d'une citerne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte por camión
DEF

Acción de transvasar, mediante sobrepresión interior, el contenido de un tanque.

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Record 5 1995-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
CONT

Decanting wine... is... recommended for two reasons : 1) to remove natural but muddying sediment that occurs in red wine after six or seven years in the bottle;...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

Au long des ans les vins rouges laissent un dépôt au fond des bouteilles. Le décantage a pour but de séparer le liquide clair de son résidu.

Spanish

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Record 6 1985-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
CONT

Serving measures are divided into two categories : a) transfer measures, such as carafes, flasks, jugs, pitchers, bottles, which are used solely for decanting specific volumes of beverages, b) drinking measures....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
CONT

Les mesures de service sont divisées en deux catégories. a) les mesures de transfert, telles que carafes, flacons, brocs, cruches, bouteilles, qui sont utilisées uniquement pour transvaser des volumes déterminés de boissons; b) mesures à boire (..)

Spanish

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Record 7 1984-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Fatty Substances (Food)
CONT

During the processing of olives, vegetable water or black liquor is obtained as a waste product.... The black liquor always retains a proportion of oil, and in efficiently managed olive oil mills is not allowed to run to waste but flows into a series of intercommunicating decanting tanks, called settling or bilge tanks, or vats. In these vats, the oil collects on the surface of the water and is gathered during and after the processing of the olives.

Key term(s)
  • settling vat
  • bilge vat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Corps gras (Ind. de l'aliment.)
DEF

Bassin de décantation et de fermentation des margines qui libèrent ainsi les traces d'huile qu'elles retenaient encore.

Spanish

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Record 8 1981-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
OBS

Apparatus used for decanting wine from the lees.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
OBS

Appareil servant à transvaser du vin d'une bouteille dans une autre ou à enlever les dépôts dans une bouteille.

Spanish

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