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GREEN CLEANING [5 records]

Record 1 2024-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
CONT

In 2018, Chicago procured two [multipurpose tractors] specifically for bike lane winter maintenance. [The] vehicles include a number of attachments such as drop spreaders for sand and salt, plows, rotary sweepers for bike lanes, and a power washer for cleaning green alleys, which will promote their usage for maintenance year-round.

CONT

Most rotary sweepers, when observed from the right side, will rotate clockwise (counterclockwise when viewed from the left). Debris is propelled forward. Some rotary sweepers have a reverse broom rotation, which makes it easy to use against a building, while the tractor backs up and "pulls."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cleaning and Maintenance Services
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
  • Anti-pollution Measures
CONT

Green cleaning refers to using cleaning methods and products with environmentally friendly ingredients and procedures which are designed to preserve human health and environmental quality.

Key term(s)
  • ecofriendly cleaning

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sanitaires et d'entretien
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
  • Mesures antipollution
CONT

Le nettoyage écologique représente [...] bien plus que la simple décision de choisir des produits verts. En effet, le principal objectif de l'implantation d'un programme de nettoyage vert [est d'obtenir] un bâtiment plus propre et plus sain tout en ayant le plus petit impact possible sur l'environnement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
CONT

The Austoft 7000 harvester is a chopper harvester with a cleaning system. This harvester is used to cut green cane(with leaves). It cuts one row of cane at a time. The cane is fed between the crop dividers and cut at the root zone by base cutter blades. The cane is then fed through the roller train and is cut by the chopper drums into small cane pieces of 10 to 12".... In ideal conditions, the harvester can cut nearly 400 tonnes of sugarcane per day.

OBS

chopper harvester: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’agriculture” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)
OBS

Canne à sucre.

OBS

récolteuse-tronçonneuse : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
DEF

[The] removal of roughage material [from grains] in a sieving process.

CONT

Scalping : In this process, an airscreen cleaner is used immediately after harvest to remove large volumes of green material, which may cause heating. A scalper can also remove largevolumes of sticks, stems, hulls and other inert material. Scalping makes other cleaning operations more efficient.

OBS

Not to be confused with bolting which consists of sifting mill stocks (usually flour) to remove unwanted particles like bran and unreduced endosperm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
DEF

Opération qui consiste à tamiser les grains afin d'en extraire toutes les impuretés ou les particules non désirées.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec le blutage qui consiste à tamiser la mouture (généralement la farine) pour en extraire les particules non désirées comme le son et l'albumen non réduit.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

The recycling of the solvent perchlorethylene used in dry cleaning.

CONT

The cleaning solvent perchlorethylene (commonly known as "perc") is used in dry cleaning, although it is a suspected carcinogen that contaminates groundwater and landfill sites when dumped. Technology is available that allows dry cleaning to reclaim most of the fluid for reuse.

OBS

The formation of the neologism dry greening appears to be a play on words in the form of a rhyme. This is a form of class-maintaining derivation as the new lexeme replaces "clean" in "dry cleaning" with "green" based on the new concept of a green transition characteristic of the late 1980s.

OBS

As no French equivalent was immediately found for this neologism, it is quite feasible to propose a translation. Based on the existing translation of "dry cleaning" and the "virage vert" of the 1990s as discussed in the article entitled "Les écolos au supermarché" in the November 1989 issue of L’Actualité, the following proposition can be made: le nettoyage à sec "vert". This signification of "vert" has also evolved in modern journalistic language, but has yet to be incorporated into current dictionaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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