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Record 1 2014-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Cattle Raising
OBS

gnat : Any of various small two-winged flies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Élevage des bovins

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
DEF

A highly miniaturized robot.

CONT

Microrobots, weighing next to nothing, could be sent on planetary-exploration trips or on trouble-shooting missions to inaccessible areas inside nuclear submarines. Or they could be used for surveillance and other military missions.

CONT

Imagine a robot the size of a gnat. Its mission; a trip through the body's vascular system to correct a heart defect. Until recently, such machines have been the stuff of science fiction. Now, in a handful of laboratories around the world, scientists are crafting devices that may one day undertake just such fantastic voyages. These mini-robots are the building blocks of a revolutionary new technology : micromachines.

Key term(s)
  • minirobot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
Key term(s)
  • micro-robot

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
DEF

A species of parasitic nematodes widely distributed throughout central Africa and also found in northern South America, southern Mexico, and Guatemala.

OBS

Its intermediate host and vector is the blackfly or buffalo gnat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
CONT

Chez les vers ronds, ou némathelminthes, de très nombreuses espèces sont parasites de l'homme: la classe des nématodes comprend les filaires (Dracunculus medinensis, Onchocerca volvulus responsables des filarioses, mais aussi les ascaris et les oxyures.

Spanish

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Record 4 1992-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Phraseology
DEF

Any of a large group of insects with 2 transparent wings, including the housefly, gnat, and mosquito.

OBS

Group: a business, cloud, community, fare, grist, rabble or swarm of flies. Cry/Sound: buzz.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Phraséologie
DEF

Nom vulgaire de nombreuses espèces d'insectes de l'ordre des Diptères, du sous-ordre des Brachycères. Un grand nombre de mouches sont nuisibles à l'agriculture et au bétail, et certaines, entomophages, transmettent des germes de maladies infectieuses souvent graves [...] Parmi les espèces les plus communes, la mouche domestique (Musca domestica) omnivore, est répandue dans le monde entier.

OBS

Une mouche bourdonne (bruit fait avec ses ailes).

Spanish

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