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Record 1 2025-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farming Techniques
  • Cropping Systems
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Summer fallow is the practice of keeping land free of all vegetation throughout one season for the purpose of storing a part of the rainfall of that period in the soil for the use of crops the following year. Summer fallow has been practiced in various parts of the world for several centuries, and to a limited extent in some sections of western United States since the country was settled. It is a common practice in the light-rainfall sections of Canada and of the Pacific Northwest at the present time.

OBS

This practice is optional in some areas but necessary in the drier cropland areas of the West. Other types of fallow, such as cropland planted to soil improvement crops but not harvested, and cropland left idle all year, are not included in cultivated summer fallow.

OBS

cultivated summer fallow; summer fallow: designations extracted from the "Glossaire de l’agriculture and reproduced with the permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques agricoles
  • Systèmes de culture
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

«jachère d'été» signifie une terre en jachère qui est cultivée ou aménagée de façon à garder le sol humide et à empêcher le sol d'être entraîné par le vent (summerfallow).

CONT

La jachère d'été a pour but de stocker l'eau du sol et d'accumuler l'azote des nitrates dans le sol pour la campagne suivante.

OBS

jachère d'été : désignation extraite du «Glossaire de l'agriculture» et reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques [OCDE].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas agrícolas
  • Sistemas de cultivo
  • Producción vegetal
CONT

La cobertura del suelo por rastrojos en la zona semiárida permite disminuir la evaporación del agua del suelo durante el barbecho de verano, lo que provoca un mayor contenido de agua en el perfil, especialmente en las profundidades 0-10 y 10-20 cm.

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Record 2 2012-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The adjudication of differences between States by a tribunal through the application of orderly methods of procedure.

OBS

It is frequently resorted to [international arbitration] after other peaceful methods of settlement have failed.

OBS

Arbitration differs from conciliation, enquiry and mediation in that the "award" of the arbitrator is final and binding on the parties to the dispute.... Arbitration differs from judicial settlement in that the parties to an arbitration are left free to choose the members of the tribunal, to define the dispute, and, if they so agree, to lay down in advance the rules, principles or legal system that shall be applied. The distinctions in the terminology... are not always followed in the practice of States.

OBS

international arbitration; arbitration: terms reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Commerce extérieur
CONT

L'arbitrage international a pour objet le règlement des litiges entre les États par des juges de leur choix et sur la base du respect du droit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho internacional público
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Institución jurídica internacional que tiene por objeto arreglar los litigios entre los Estados mediante la sumisión a unos árbitros designados por ellos.

CONT

El arbitraje internacional tiene por objeto la solución de diferendos entre Estados, por medio de una sentencia obligatoria, pronunciada por jueces de su propia elección y basada en el derecho. El arbitraje es un medio apropiado para la solución de las controversias jurídicas, como las relativas a interpretación y aplicación de tratados.

OBS

Es una regla bien establecida en derecho internacional que ningún Estado está obligado a someter sus controversias con otro Estado al arbitraje o a otro medio de solución pacífica sin su consentimiento.

OBS

arbitraje internacional; arbitraje: términos y definición reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 3 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Martial Arts
CONT

Judo. Judo fighters train in a variety of ways. The basis is daily randori(free practice) in which competitors seek to throw each other without the tension of contests.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

Pratique de combat, proche du pancrace antique, dans laquelle les adversaires associent lutte au corps à corps et échanges de coups.

OBS

Généralement, la plupart des termes japonais en judo s'emploient au masculin, mais il y a des exceptions.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Servitude resulting from inability to pay debts. Translation: péonage. The word péon appeared in French before 1880 as a borrowing from Spanish. Petit Robert (p. 1397) gives "paysan pauvre (qui n’a pas de cheval); the notion of poverty can be captured in one term.

OBS

A syntagma that uses the noun debt and the derivative peonage (peon, noun, borrowing from Spanish; -age, combining form). The term refers to the poor agricultural workers of Brazil who are semi-slaves of the landowners.

CONT

As late as 1960, millions of workers were subject to so-called debt peonage: forced to buy food and other necessities from their employers at prices that exceeded their wages, they remained in penury forever.

OBS

This social neologism is a pleonasm, since the accepted meaning of peonage incorporates the notion of semi-slavery due to inability to pay debts. Random House gives for peonage : 2. The practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, as to work off a debt.(p. 1677). Debt peonage, therefore, will join free gift among the many pleonasms in our language.

Key term(s)
  • peonage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

The YBAM is a non-profit association that brings together lawyers and attorneys having less than 10 years of practice, all of whom are registered in Montreal at the Bar of the Province of Quebec. Our mission is twofold. On the one hand, we strive to protect and promote our members’ interests. The YBAM continues to be the main and unavoidable stakeholder for upholding the interests of members. On the other hand, we provide free of charge legal consulting and legal education services to various lawyers of society, and set up and coordinate non-profit and charitable activities. Thus, we aim at making the judicial system more widely accessible and at contributing to the public wellbeing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

L'AJBM est une association plus que centenaire qui regroupe les avocates et avocats de 10 ans et moins de pratique inscrits à la section de Montréal du Barreau du Québec. Notre mission est double. D'une part, nous veillons à défendre et promouvoir les intérêts de nos membres. Ainsi, l'AJBM demeure l'intervenant majeur et incontournable en ce qui concerne la défense et la promotion des intérêts de ses membres. D'autre part, nous fournissons de façon bénévole des services de consultation et d'information juridique auprès de différents segments de la population et organisons des activités de bienfaisance. Nous visons ainsi à améliorer l'accessibilité à la justice et contribuer au bien-être collectif.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Physical Geography (General)
  • The Earth (Astronomy)
DEF

That part of the atmosphere above the friction layer, in which the air motion is affected negligibly by surface friction.

CONT

Free atmosphere [is] in meteorology, the part of the troposphere above the planetary boundary layer. It is free of the influence of the earth’s surface and, on the average, slightly stable.

CONT

The base of the free atmosphere is usually taken as the geostrophic wind level. In practice it is observed that the geostrophic wind level is often between 1 and 2 km, and it is assumed that this marks the upper limit of frictional influence of the earth's surface. The geostrophic wind level may be considered to be the top of the Ekman layer and planetary boundary layer, that is, the base of the free atmosphere.

OBS

free atmosphere: Here, winds are not directly retarded by surface friction. Clouds occur most frequently in this portion of the troposphere (the exceptions are fog and clouds that impinge on or develop over elevated terrain).

OBS

free atmosphere: Sometimes called free air.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)
  • Terre (Astronomie)
DEF

Partie supérieure de la troposphère, située entre la couche d'Ekman et la tropopause, dans laquelle le mouvement de l'air n'est presque pas touché par le frottement de surface.

CONT

Les forces de frottement [...] traduisent la friction turbulente de l'air sur le sol. Leur action se fait ressentir très près du sol dans une zone appelée la couche limite atmosphérique (CLA). On divise ainsi schématiquement les basses couches de l'atmosphère en deux parties distinctes avec près du sol la CLA et loin de l'influence du sol, à plusieurs centaines de mètres d'altitude, l'atmosphère libre.

CONT

La troposphère. [...] Divisée en 2 couches, la première jusqu'à à peu près 3000m subit les facteurs géographiques. (Fortes turbulences, températures irrégulières, concentration de toutes les impuretés). La deuxième couche est l'atmosphère libre qui s'étend jusqu'à la tropopause.

OBS

[La] couche de frottement [...] s'étend du sol jusqu'à une hauteur essentiellement variable en fonction des aspérités du sol mais que l'on peut estimer entre 600-1000m.

OBS

couche d'Ekman: Cette couche s'étend entre huit cents mètres et une dizaine de kilomètres d'altitude.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física de la atmósfera
  • Geografía física (Generalidades)
  • Tierra (Astronomía)
DEF

Parte de la atmósfera, por encima de la capa de rozamiento, en la que la influencia del rozamiento en la superficie sobre el movimiento del aire es despreciable.

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Record 7 2003-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

The advantage of the foaming slag practice in the electric arc furnace steelmaking has become increasingly clear. As main feature, submerging the arc(s) in the slag can enhance the heat transfer between the arc(s) and the melt... The foaming can be difficult to control properly since the evolution of the chemical and physical conditions in the slag/steel system that affect foam height is generally unknown. Presently, the slag height and the foam formation is still estimated in most of the installations by subjective acoustic and visual means of the furnace operator, the operating practices being either rigidly pre-established or let to the free interpretation of furnace operators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
CONT

Les installations alimentées par un four électrique à arc font appel à toutes les techniques permettant de réduire la consommation d'électricité (soufflage d'oxygène, injection de charbon et de chaux, pratique du laitier moussant, post-combustion, préchauffage des ferrailles, etc).

Spanish

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Record 8 2002-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

The allocation policy that always allocates from the largest free block.

OBS

Commonly implemented using a size-ordered free block chain(largest first). In practice, this tends to work quite badly because it eliminates all large blocks, so large requests cannot be met.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Politique d'allocation [qui] recherche le plus grand bloc d'espace mémoire disponible.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Método para manejar los espacios correspondientes a huecos (áreas no usadas) en la memoria virtual, por el que se escoge el menor de los espacios disponibles en donde pueda caber el segmento que se necesita, para así dejar mayor espacio para otros segmentos.

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Record 9 1999-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Political Geography and Geopolitics
CONT

Frontier zones may serve several purposes. The smallest, of a few metres only, will be to mark the frontier, and will involve the destruction of all natural or artificial protrusions from the surface of the earth. Others may be of several kilometres width, and provide for a customs free zone, or, for example, that doctors and midwives may be permitted to practise their profession in the territory adjoining that of their own practice. Such zones are formed in the interests of the local populations on each side of the frontier, in an effort to palliate the disruptive effect of the political frontier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Géographie politique et géopolitique
DEF

zone frontière : Bande de territoire longeant la frontière et soumise à certaines obligations, dans l'intérêt de la défense nationale.

Spanish

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Record 10 1996-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • Sports (General)
OBS

(Give/take) a rain check : the old practice of allowing spectators a free second visit to a game that has been rained out and re-scheduled...

OBS

In this context, "rain check" refers to the ticket or card issued as proof of purchase of the particular game ticket.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Sports (Généralités)
OBS

Dans le domaine du sport, coupon remis au spectateur d'une manifestation interrompue par la pluie et qui l'autorise à assister sans payer de nouveau à la reprise du match.

Spanish

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Record 11 1982-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physics of Solids
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

In practice, therefore, additional flocculating energy will be needed to modify the internal cohesive forces of the sludge, to break down colloidal stability and to free part of the bound water, which must then be removed by some form of mechanical drier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique des solides
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

En pratique, il sera [...] le plus souvent nécessaire de disposer d'une énergie complémentaire de floculation pour modifier les forces de cohésion internes de la boue, pour casser la stabilité colloïdale, pour libérer une partie de l'eau liée, évacuée ensuite par un moyen mécanique d'essorage.

Spanish

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Record 12 1982-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
CONT

The equation [in which A and B + H[ plus] are involved in a reversible chemical reaction], used in the... Bronsted-Lowry definition, does not represent a reaction that can be observed in practice, since the free proton, H[ plus]+, can be observed only in gaseous systems at low pressures. In solution, the proton always is attached to some other species, commonly a solvent molecule.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
CONT

L'ion hydrogène H[plus], ou proton, est le noyau de l'atome d'hydrogène. Il ne semble pas que le proton puisse exister à l'état libre dans un solvant comme l'eau.

Spanish

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