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Record 1 2025-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Ventilation
  • Architecture
CONT

Active ventilation is a system that uses powered machines like fans to push and circulate air in order to ventilate a space.... Active ventilation in a roof or attic may look similar to passive ventilation systems, with soffit and ridge vents, except that active systems have the addition of a fan to push out hot air and pull in cool outside air.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ventilation (Construction)
  • Architecture
CONT

Ventilation active. Pour ventiler un bâtiment de façon active, l'utilisation de dispositifs mécaniques pour assurer la circulation de l'air est nécessaire. Les systèmes les plus courants incluent la ventilation mécanique contrôlée (VMC) et les déshumidificateurs.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Marketing
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
CONT

The professional tone is very similar to the informative and formal tones; however, it tends to have a more inviting pull to it. The word selection in this tone leans more toward confidence and sincerity. If a brand wants to show authority and trust in its brand, this is an excellent tone of voice to adopt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Commercialisation
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
CONT

Un ton professionnel [est] informatif[. Il] peut aider à renforcer la confiance des clients dans [l']entreprise et à renforcer [l']autorité dans [un] domaine.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
DEF

... any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet’s orbit around the Sun.

OBS

In theory, any planet can have Trojan asteroids, but in practice the powerful gravitational pull of Jupiter means that it absolutely dominates the Trojan population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
CONT

Les troyens représentent une classe d'astéroïdes qui partagent la même orbite qu'une planète, ils se situent juste devant ou juste derrière elle. Ils ne risquent cependant pas d'entrer en collision avec l'astre qu'ils précèdent ou poursuivent, car leurs orbites sont considérées comme stables.

OBS

La majorité des astéroïdes troyens se trouvent sur l'orbite de Jupiter.

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Nonwoven Textiles
CONT

The felting needles are a special kind of needle that have tiny barbs on the end. The barbs are going in one direction and when the needle is stabbed into the wool the barbs pull the wool in, but not back out again causing the wool fibers to tangle and their scales to lock together and felt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Nontissés (Industries du textile)
CONT

L'aiguille à feutrer est une aiguille spéciale munie de petits harpons. En poussant l'aiguille dans la laine cardée, les fibres sont mélangées mécaniquement. Elles se mêlent de plus en plus, s'accrochent les unes aux autres, la matière se densifie et devient feutre.

Spanish

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Record 5 2021-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physics
  • Ballistics
DEF

… the constant speed of a projectile after air drag and gravity pull have reached the point where the two forces cancel each other's effect on the projectile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique
  • Balistique
DEF

[…] vitesse constante d'un projectile une fois que la résistance de l'air et la gravité ont atteint le point où les deux forces annulent leur effet réciproque sur le projectile.

OBS

vitesse terminale : désignation uniformisée par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física
  • Balística
CONT

Cuando un objeto cae de una altura cualquiera, el aire empieza a chocar contra él. Cuanto más rápido se mueva el objeto, más rozamiento se producirá, hasta llegar al punto en que la fuerza de rozamiento contra el aire sea igual a la fuerza con la que el objeto cae. Es entonces cuando el sistema objeto-gravedad-aire llega al equilibrio: pese a que la gravedad terrestre intenta acelerar aún más el objeto, el rozamiento contra el aire es tan grande que no lo permite. El objeto cae entonces a una velocidad terminal.

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Record 6 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Team Sports (General)
DEF

A situation in a game where all the players allowed by the rules are on the field.

CONT

Full strength(also called 5-on-5) in ice hockey refers to when both teams have five skaters and one goaltender on the ice. The official term used by the National Hockey League(NHL) is at even strength — abbreviated EV on official scoresheets and goaltenders’ individual stats. All games start with both teams at full strength. Teams that take a penalty, go on the power play, or pull the goalie are no longer at full strength.

CONT

If the penalised team concedes a goal – called a powerplay goal – the teams return to even strength.

OBS

X-on-X : in this term, the "X" refers to the number of players allowed by the sport.

OBS

even strength : synonym of "full strength" when both teams have all their players allowed by the rules on the field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
DEF

Situation de jeu où tous les joueurs admis par le règlement du sport sont présents sur le terrain.

CONT

Substitution immédiate-Alignement complet.

OBS

X contre X; jeu à X contre X : pour ces termes, le «X» représente le nombre de joueurs admis pour le sport.

Spanish

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Record 7 2018-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

[An] informal influence, as with persons able to grant favors.

CONT

To have pull, influence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Recommandation, protection plus ou moins occulte que l'on accorde à quelqu'un pour lui faire obtenir un avantage, une place [...]

Spanish

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Record 8 2018-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
  • Fire-Fighting Services
CONT

Contrary to what you might think, you are not indestructible. You have been given protective clothing to ensure that you go home at the end of your shift. This clothing cannot protect you if it stays on the hook in the apparatus room. Wear your hood, pull down your helmet shroud, button your collar and wear your structure gloves.

OBS

structure glove: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • structure gloves

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
  • Service d'incendie
OBS

gant de protection pour combattre les incendies de bâtiment; gant de protection : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • gants de protection pour combattre les incendies de bâtiment
  • gants de protection

Spanish

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Record 9 2018-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing (General)
  • Clothing Accessories
CONT

The slide fastener shall have an automatic locking slider and a regular pull tab.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couture (Généralités)
  • Accessoires vestimentaires
OBS

tirette : Petite pièce, souvent ornementale, de forme et de matériaux divers, servant à manœuvrer le curseur d'une fermeture à glissière.

Spanish

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Record 10 2018-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Egg Industry
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)
CONT

To help us meet our goal, we have hired two part time employees... to grade our eggs. As they grade eggs, they record the temperature of the pack as well as pull out all dirty, cracked, broken, culls and upside down eggs. These culled eggs are labeled with their respective flock number and sent back to the farm via the tech advisor so that our producers can see exactly what we don’t want.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • culled eggs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeufs (Industrie de l'alimentation)
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)
CONT

La production totale comprend les œufs à incuber mais ne comprend pas les œufs de rebut des exploitations.

OBS

œuf de rebut : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • œufs de rebut

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Huevos (Industria alimentaria)
  • Reglamentación y normalización (Alimentación)
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Record 11 2017-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Forceps used for grasping and applying traction to or for rotation of the fetal head ...

CONT

Obstetrical forceps, also known as brain forceps, have long been in use in the medical profession... They are smoothly shaped and curved forceps having two blades and a handle designed to hold and pull the baby properly without causing any damage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Instrument comportant deux branches articulées, facilement démontable, avec mors en forme de cuillers fenestrées, pour extraire le fœtus de l'utérus.

PHR

forceps anglais, forceps munis de crochet

PHR

forceps à cuir chevelu, forceps à traction dans l'axe, forceps à traction axiale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental quirúrgico
DEF

Instrumento en forma de tenaza, que se usa para la extracción de las criaturas en los partos difíciles.

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Record 12 2017-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
OBS

To make this anchor, make three wraps with the webbing around a large solid object(in this case a tree) and then tie the free ends in a water knot with at least 2 inches of tail on each side of the knot. Now, pull the two strands of the webbing that do not have the knot in them, leaving the actual knot against the tree. The knot, normally the weakest part, is isolated by the friction against the tree and has minimal load on it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)

Spanish

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Record 13 2017-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire Warning Devices
DEF

A fire-alarm apparatus operated by pulling a handle or hook.

CONT

Alarm systems.... Buildings protected by automatic sprinklers or detectors are not required to have manual pull stations.

OBS

"to pull the box (to)" (citizen) : actionner l’avertisseur; (fire department) : actionner la sonnerie d’alerte.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alarme-incendie
DEF

Appareil public ou privé à manœuvre manuelle permettant d'alerter un poste de secours contre l'incendie avec localisation automatique du point d'appel.

DEF

Appareil destiné à transmettre un appel au poste de pompier en cas d'incendie et qui indique à ceux-ci l'endroit d'où part le signal.

CONT

En dehors des liaisons téléphoniques, d'autres moyens matériels donnent l'alarme et l'alerte : les boutons d'alarme répartis dans les locaux et reliés au standard; les avertisseurs d'incendie (avec bris de glace) reliés au standard de l'établissement, et, dans certains cas, au centre de sapeurs-pompiers [...]

OBS

Il ne semble pas exister, en français, de terme spécifique pour désigner l'avertisseur actionné à l'aide d'un levier, par bris de glace ou que l'on ouvre à l'aide d'une clé. On pourrait peut-être proposer, si cette précision était absolument nécessaire, «poste manuel d'alarme-incendie», ou «borne d'alarme-incendie» (à levier, à bris de glace ou fermé à clé).

Spanish

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Record 14 2016-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ground Equipment (Airports)
  • Baggage Handling
CONT

Baggage tugs are a diverse set of highly maneuverable vehicles used primarily to pull dolly trains between terminal and the aircraft. They are also used for general transport around the ramp area. As such, they are the workhorses of the passenger baggage loading and unloading operations. Some baggage tugs have enclosures for the operator during severe weather, while others have small storage areas to carry tools or small pieces of luggage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de piste (Aéroports)
  • Traitement des bagages

Spanish

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Record 15 2014-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
CONT

Overflows... have been designed for delicate knitted and woven fabrics made of natural and synthetic fibres. They are also found in the carpet sector. The main difference between jet and overflow machines remains in the fact that in jet machines the fabric is transported by the bath flowing at high speed through the nozzle, while with overflows the fabric is transported by the gravitational force of the liquor overflow. A winch(usually not motor driven) is located in the upper part of the machine and the fabric hangs over it. A longer length of textile hangs from the exit side of the winch than from the inlet side. Gravitational forces pull the longer length of textile downward more strongly than the shorter. The fabric is therefore soaked in the bath without any tension(transportation is very gentle).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
OBS

Les machines overflow [...] ont été conçues pour les tricots et les tissus délicats, à base de fibres naturelles et synthétiques. On les utilise également dans le secteur du tapis. La différence principale entre les machines de type jet et overflow est que dans les premières, l'étoffe est transportée par le bain entraîné à haute vitesse à travers la tuyère, alors que dans les machines overflow, ce transport est assuré par le débordement du bain. Une tournette (généralement non entraînée par un moteur) est disposée dans la partie supérieure de la machine, sur laquelle l'étoffe est placée en porte à faux, en ce sens que le poids de la matière textile est plus grand à la sortie de la tournette qu'à l'entrée. Du fait de la pesanteur, l'étoffe est immergée dans le bain sans subir la moindre tension (le transport se fait tout en douceur).

Spanish

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Record 16 2013-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
CONT

Rescuers must sometimes lift or pull an object to free a victim. Several rescue tools have been developed to assist in this task. These include tripods, winches, come-alongs, chains, pneumatic lifting bags, and block and tackle systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)
CONT

Les sauveteurs doivent parfois lever ou tirer sur un objet pour libérer une victime. Ils ont à leur disposition plusieurs outils pour le faire : trépieds, treuils, palans à levier, chaînes, coussins pneumatiques de levage et palans à moufles.

Spanish

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Record 17 2012-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
DEF

A static line training exercise wherein the jumper pulls a ripcord handle from the pocket in order to demonstrate his ability to do so.

CONT

After these two jumps you do a "dummy pull"-that is you pretend that you don’t have a static line(though you will have) and pull a dummy ripcord handle to show that you would open your parachute if you weren’t on a static line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
CONT

Exercez-vous sur votre procédure d'ouverture avec simulation de «Poignée Témoin» (PT).

Spanish

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Record 18 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
DEF

A basic parachute training where the first parachute jump is a freefall descent from at least 10,000 ft with an instructor holding on to each side of the student parachutist.

CONT

Another method for a first jump is called Accelerated Freefall or AFF. With AFF, you actually jump out of an airplane at about 12, 000 ft(3658 m) and free fall for about 40 seconds before you pull the ripcord to open the parachute. During the freefall you have to maintain an aerodynamic body position. To ensure that all procedures are followed correctly, two instructors hold you from the time you jump until parachute opens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
CONT

La PAC est en passe de devenir la voie royale d'accession à l'art de la chute libre [...] la méthode PAC [consiste] à emmener, pour son premier saut, un élève à 4000 mètres [...] encadré et solidement tenu au harnais par deux instructeurs [...]

CONT

La deuxième technique de premier saut est la progression accompagnée en chute ou PAC. En progression accompagnée en chute, vous sautez seul d'un avion à environ 3 600m (12 000 pieds) d'altitude et chutez pendant près de 40 secondes, avant de tirer la poignée d'ouverture du parachute. Lors de cette chute libre, vous devez adopter une position corporelle aérodynamique. Pour assurer la sécurité de vos manipulations, deux instructeurs sont accrochés à vous depuis le saut jusqu'à l'ouverture de votre parachute.

CONT

Dernière trouvaille en date, la PAC. Derrière cette appellation barbare de la progression accélérée en chute, le moyen d'apprendre, en sept sauts et sept jours à se débrouiller seul.

Spanish

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Record 19 2011-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reprography
  • Engraving and Printmaking (Arts)
CONT

My copygraphic prints are artworks related to the so-called "new images, "generated through photo-electronic technologies. I synthesized them by projecting intense light perturbations through glass debris in a color laser photocopy machine. I work to extend its possibilities beyond those known. In short, it could be described as [the projection of] an evanescent sculpture... Usually titled using the term "scan, "my copygraphies are to art what tomography is to neurology : slices with no thickness, but with deep implications. Abstract textures obtained have an evocative power different than for figuration : they pull to [the] surface subconscious states. This art goes to the heart and is an invitation to relax through its imagination freeing abstraction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reprographie
  • Gravure d'art
OBS

Les copies de copigraphes, et leur procédé de génération de l'image sur le photocopieur à partir d'un grain de poussière, d'un point de toner, anticipent le clonage à partir d'une cellule, d'un gène. On découvre que les clones, pas plus que les photocopies, ne sont des copies exactes.

PHR

Estampe copigraphique sur aluminium.

Spanish

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Record 20 2011-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Disabled Sports
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
CONT

Courses for the sit-ski category can not follow FIS homologation rules due to the fact that sit-skiers have no use of their lower body, and pull themselves forward with poles from a sitting position(on their sledge).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports adaptés
  • Ski et surf des neiges
CONT

Lennea, qui participe dans la catégorie de ski assis, était très heureux de courir au niveau le plus élevé [...]

Spanish

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Record 21 2010-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

A hold that is grasped sideways.

DEF

... diagonal or vertical edges you can pull sideways on, either toward your body or away from it.

CONT

... side-pulls are very secure. You usually have to counter balance with your feet, pressing them into the rock as you pull on the side-pull hold. This is called opposition and is used a lot in climbing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

[...] pour utiliser une prise verticale, il est nécessaire d'exercer une traction perpendiculaire à cette prise; celle-ci ne pouvant être équilibrée par la simple gravité, le grimpeur devra créer une force qui contrebalance par exemple par une poussée des pieds en sens contraire. [...] il grimpe en opposition.

Spanish

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Record 22 2009-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

The resistance of the snow cover to the action of forces acting to cause grains to slide past one another.

CONT

Shear strength [is] a measure of the bond strength or resistance to slippage between two adjacent snow layers. In a snow slab, the slope parallel component of gravity tends to pull the slab downhill while friction and cohesion(shear strength) between snow surfaces act to hold the slab in place. Slippage between the slab and its undersurface can result, and avalanching can result if gravity induced shear stress between layers exceeds the shear strength bonding snow layers together and the tensile, compressive and flank strengths of the slab are not sufficient to hold it in place. Snow layers composed of surface hoar, low density snow, graupel have very low shear strength.

CONT

The shear strength of the December 12 surface hoar is increasing. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]

OBS

shear strength: term officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Contrainte tangentielle à une surface qui provoque la rupture d'un élément du manteau neigeux suivant une surface appelée surface de glissement.

CONT

La résistance au cisaillement de la couche de givre de surface du 12 décembre augmente. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

résistance au cisaillement : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 23 2007-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Counter-Measures (Military operations)
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

After launch, and as the ASCM [anti-ship cruise missile] nears the target, distraction cartridges are fired at ranges up to 4. 5 km to disturb the range and accuracy of the missile's guidance system. However, should the missile have already locked on to the ship in its final attack phase, seduction chaff is deployed to provide point defense and a means sometimes in coordination with other on-board EW [electronic warfare] equipment, to "pull" the seaker away from the ship to the chaff cloud.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contre-mesures (Opérations militaires)
  • Guerre électronique
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

Source : ministère de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

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Record 24 2005-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
  • Geochemistry
DEF

A sulphide deposit formed in a sedimentary basin by the submarine venting of hydrothermal fluids and whose principal ore minerals are sphalerite and galena.

CONT

The world's largest, single lead-zinc orebody occurs at Sullivan, British Columbia. The host rocks are late Precambrian argillites.... This deposit appears to be syngenetic and the lead-zinc minerals form an integral part of the rocks in which they occur. They are affected by sedimentary deformation such as slumping, pull apart structures, load casting, etc.... Beneath the central part of the orebody there is a roughly funnel-shaped zone of brecciation and tourmalinization which extends downwards... In places, the matrix of the breccia is heavily mineralized with pyrrhotite... This zone may have been a channelway up which solutions moved to debouch on to the seafloor, to precipitate the ore minerals among the accumulating sediment. If this was the case, then Sullivan could be called a sedimentary-exhalative deposit.

CONT

Zn-Pb-Ag sedimentary-exhalative deposit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
  • Géochimie
DEF

Amas sulfuré formé dans des bassins sédimentaires par l'exhalaison sous-marine de fluides hydrothermaux et dont les principaux minéraux métallifères sont la sphalérite et la galène.

CONT

On peut distinguer trois types d'environnement géotectonique exprimé par la composition de la pile volcanique : les gisements en environnement mafique, [...] les gisements associés à un volcanisme bimodal, [...] les gisements Sedex (sédimentaire-exhalatif; Carne et Cathro, 1982), avec des encaissants clastiques ou carbonatés et des roches généralement basiques : c'est le type Beshi, Mer Rouge ou Guyamas, associé à des rifts; [...]

CONT

[...] les gîtes minéraux résultant de l'établissement d'équilibres, on peut aboutir à un même équilibre par des voies différentes, des gisements de même paragenèse résultant de processus différents. Parmi les exemples de convergence, citons : les gisements sédimentaires chimiques exhalatifs et les gisements hydrothermaux; [...] etc.

CONT

Gisement exhalatif de zinc-plomb-argent dans des roches sédimentaires (gisement sedex).

Key term(s)
  • gisement exhalatif encaissé dans des roches sédimentaires
  • gîte exhalatif dans des roches sédimentaires

Spanish

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Record 25 2005-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

Leather or nylon headgear, with attachments for side reins and lunge line, worn by the horse when it is being lunged.

CONT

A cavesson resembles a heavy, well fitting halter and is the preferred headpiece for longeing(lungeing) English horses. "Breaking" cavessons are generally made of stout leather with heavy metal nosepieces and have straps to fasten them securely and keep them in position because during "breaking" it is often necessary to tug or pull quite hard on the line to control the horse. Lighter, simpler cavessons are also available for the very young horse, the already-trained horse, for use with a bit or bridle, and for use as a dropped noseband.

OBS

The traditional cavesson is made from leather but nylon cavessons are also available. A longeing (lungeing) cavesson has a padded noseband with a jointed metal nosepiece that usually has 3 swivel-mounted rings attached to it. Generally the middle ring is used for longeing (lungeing) unless a horse carries his head to the outside of the circle extremely. In that case, the inside cavesson ring can be used to bend the horse inward on the longeing (lungeing) circle. The side rings are also used for side rein attachment or long line attachment.

CONT

Stubben 1085 Crank Caveson Bridle ... Stubben’s crank caveson comes with a single roller buckle which tightens the chinstrip from both sides, providing equal pressure all around.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Licol renforcé à l'avant, sur le dessus duquel on attache la longe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
PHR

Cabezón de trabajo a cuerda.

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Record 26 2004-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
  • Airborne Forces
CONT

After these two jumps you do a "dummy pull"-that is you pretend that you don’t have a static line(though you will have) and pull a dummy ripcord handle to show that you would open your parachute if you weren’t on a static line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
  • Forces aéroportées
DEF

Poignée factice placée sur un parachute à ouverture automatique et destinée à juger de l'aptitude d'un para au saut à ouverture commandée.

CONT

On dote le parachute de l'élève d'une Poignée Témoin (PT) placée là où sera placée la future poignée d'ouverture du [parachute] principal.

Spanish

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Record 27 2003-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
CONT

If [the bees] have the tendency to want to swarm, make splits(divide the hive into two or several) or pull several frames of brood which you can add to weak hives and put several frames of fresh foundation frames right into the middle of the brood area. This exercises their wax-producing glands and consumes their swarming energies.

OBS

Split: A split is taking some frames of brood and bees from the strong overwintered colony in the spring and making up a new hive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
CONT

Lorsqu'on dispose d'un certain nombre de reines, on peut diviser une ruche F.H. en portion de 5 à 6 cadres, chaque portion recevra une reine, sauf celle qui possède la reine régnante. La seule précaution qu'il faille prendre c'est de ne pas constituer des colonies trop faibles qui seraient alors vouées à la mort n'étant pas capables de se défendre.

Spanish

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Record 28 2003-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Track and Field
CONT

O’Brien technique: In 1952, American Parry O’Brien began his throws with his back to the shot put fan. Because this gave him an extra quarter-turn, it increased his propulsion and improved his performances by about 1m.

CONT

The Glide technique is usually favored by larger throwers who have trouble spinning within the small shot circle. They also benefit from the longer pull gained from the power position of the Glide technique.

OBS

Shot put.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Athlétisme
CONT

Technique O'Brien : En 1952, l'Américain Parry O'Brien innove en commençant ses lancers dos à l'aire de réception. Grâce à l'acquisition d'un quart de tour supplémentaire, il augmente sa force de propulsion et accroît ses performances d'environ un mètre.

OBS

Poids en translation (O'Brien).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Atletismo
OBS

Peso.

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Record 29 2003-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Customs and Excise
  • Air Safety
CONT

Commercial cargo at Blaine travels through a new fourteen million-dollar facility. At this facility, a commercial truck with a container full of foreign goods can have its cargo cleared and entered into the U. S. in less than a minute. That same conveyance can be selected for inspection and required to back up to the loading dock or old to pull ahead to the mobile X-ray vehicle.

CONT

... we showed our immigration cards to pass on to the flight waiting room. Since we passed through all these points relatively quickly, we had to wait an hour or so before boarding. When it was finally time to board, we walked outside, ran our bags through a security X-ray vehicle, and proceeded to the jet.

Key term(s)
  • mobile X-rays vehicle
  • mobile X ray vehicle
  • mobile X rays vehicle
  • mobile truck X rays

French

Domaine(s)
  • Douanes et accise
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
CONT

[...] au 1-6-1999, la douane employait 20 005 agents, utilisait 23 avions, 8 hélicoptères, 68 bateaux, 2 216 véhicules dont 257 motos, 7 véhicules à rayons X, 2 camions de surveillance radar, 262 équipes «maître-chien» pour la détection des stupéfiants et des explosifs.

Spanish

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Record 30 2002-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques
  • Advertising
CONT

In this text I will primarily be talking about the push and pull concepts of information. The web is(mostly) a pull medium : the user clicks links to weave an individual path through available sites and searches actively for information. A good metaphor for the web is a library where anyone can leave their own papers and books on shelves for others to pick up. Many traditional information purveyors have however been trying to implement push into webspace, since then they can also push advertising and so be able to charge sponsors. The increasing use of sponsor graphics and banners on sites with high hits is another expression of this.

Key term(s)
  • push-pull

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes
  • Publicité
DEF

Expression désignant l'action combinée de la publicité générale et des promotions : la publicité générale «tire» le consommateur potentiel vers le produit. La promotion «pousse» l'article vers le prospect, à travers les circuits de distribution.

CONT

Technologies de vérification de la promotion et de la publicité (pousser-tirer ou "push and pull"), qui permet aux utilisateurs de contrôler leurs besoins d'information.

Spanish

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Record 31 2001-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
CONT

... the Hämmerli 280 target pistol [utilizes] advanced aerospace carbon fiber technology to create a superlatively accurate pistol with a very low bore axis and an ideally located central pivot point for extremely stable recoil and recovery characteristics.... The Häammerli 280 is also versatile.... it can readily be adapted from. 22 Long Rifle to. 32 S&W Long Wadeutter or vice-versa... Triggers are... variable for pull wieght, take-up, let-off and creep. Walnut grips have adjustable palm shelf and are available in various sizes for both right-and left-handed shooters.

OBS

Swiss-made pistol.

Key term(s)
  • Hammerli 280

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
OBS

Pistolet de fabrication suisse.

Key term(s)
  • Hammerli 280

Spanish

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Record 32 2000-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
  • Orthopedic Surgery
CONT

The dynamic compression plate is one of the most common types of plates, and can be recognized by its special oval screw holes. These holes have a special beveled floor to them with an inclined surface. If desired, this inclined surface can be used to pull the ends of the bone together as the screws are tightened.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
  • Chirurgie orthopédique
CONT

Plaque à compression dynamique ou plaque D.C.P. («Dynamic Compression Plate»). Elles sont d'apparition récente et se caractérisent par la forme particulière des trous qui permettent un glissement sphérique. Lors du serrage des vis, le segment osseux sous-jacent à la plaque se déplace dans le sens de la compression de la fracture.

Spanish

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Record 33 2000-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

To place a tennis ball in such a position on the opposing court, as to force an opponent to stretch out in order just to make contact with the ball.

OBS

"To spread somebody", "to pull/stretch somebody out wide", "to pull somebody out of position" are all closely related expressions to render the ubiquitous French term "déborder". Other quasi-synonyms : in trouble,(to be) pulled off the court,(to be) out of control, threatened(=under threat), forcing shot, ball out of reach, to move sb. around(=move sb. left and right, to run one's opponent(from) corner to corner), to run sb. around the court, to break sb. 's defenses, to be on the defensive position, to keep sb. on the defensive, to run sb. ragged, to move sb. laterally, to move sb. up and back, to keep somebody off-balance, to be off balanced, to have sb. on the ropes/strings, to have sb. on the defensive, to keep sb. off balance, to have sb. run all over the court=to run sb. all over the court=to get/have sb. on the run, to be on the run, to be out of position, to get sb. off the court, to be pressed, to be under pressure, to swing sb. out wide, not to be able to recover from a shot, to dig oneself out of trouble/a big hole,(be) stretch(ed) out(wide), be stretching for the ball, ball out of reach.

CONT

If the serve has driven your opponent wide to one side, do not hesitate to use the resulting space for your first volley.

CONT

If you are forced wide, with your opponent moving to cover a sideline return, a cross court response can put you back in the rally.

CONT

The shot landing near the sideline and between the service line and baseline takes your opponent out wide for his return, opening up the court for your next shot.

CONT

The slice delivery swerves sharply through the air before and after the bounce, staying low as it takes your opponent out of court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Annihiler les défenses et déjouer la position de l'adversaire sur le court en plaçant la balle hors de sa portée à l'aide de différents coups.

OBS

«Faire sortir du court» est une locution légèrement plus précise que «déborder» : on peut faire courir de gauche à droite quelqu'un à la recherche de la balle sans nécessairement le faire sortir du court. Phraséologie connexe : entraîner l'adversaire à l'extérieur du court, contraindre quelqu'un à un déplacement, coup d'attaque, coup de débordement/dépassement (=le passing-shot), mettre quelqu'un sous pression, mettre en difficulté, contre-attaquer, être (complètement) sorti du terrain.Une des expressions hyperboliques et favorites des joueurs de tennis, surtout en Europe, est «Je l'ai laissé à dix mètres», c'est-à-dire laisser la balle hors de son atteinte.

CONT

Le coéquipier suit l'autre, déporté à droite [ou] déporté à gauche.

CONT

[...] la balle ne viendra pas toujours à vous. Le plus souvent l'adversaire la placera hors de votre portée immédiate, loin, sur votre gauche, c'est naturel : c'est le jeu.

CONT

C'est l'adversaire qui vous a déporté dans un coin du court.

CONT

En servant croisé, la balle rebondira vers l'extérieur du court, ce qui déportera naturellement le relanceur dans le couloir.

Key term(s)
  • sortir du court
  • sortir du terrain

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

Fraseología relacionada: golpe que obliga, poner en dificultad, descolocación (del adversario), amenazado, presionar a alguien, momentos de apuro, desbordamiento (lateral del adversario), dejar un agujero por donde pueda colocar la pelota el adversario, perder su posición, defenderse, tener tiempo de colocarse (=gain time, gain one's composure), obligar a alguien a salir de la pista, desplazar (=move), hacer correr al adversario, mover al contrario de un lado a otro, obligar al adversario a salir de la pista, poner en dificultad. Antónimo: estar en buena posición.

CONT

El servicio cortado sirve para la segunda pelota. Los zurdos lo utilizan muchísimo, ya que desbordan a los diestros sobre el revés.

CONT

La pelota gira sobre sí misma antes y después del bote, sacando al adversario de la pista sin apenas elevarse.

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Record 34 1999-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Forestry Operations
CONT

Using lifting hooks or tongs, you can pull, slide or roll the trunks over one another so as to bring them to the track. Then all you have to do is buck them and pile them up correctly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Outil formé de deux crochets rivetés au centre et dont l'articulation permet de saisir et lever les troncs.

CONT

En vous servant des crochets de manutention ou de la pince à lever, vous pouvez tirer, faire glisser et rouler les troncs les uns sur les autres afin de les approcher du chemin. Il ne reste alors qu'à les tronçonner et les empiler correctement.

Spanish

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Record 35 1998-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

Intense fascination with hair.

OBS

Not to be confused with "trichotillomania"(morbid impulse to pull out one's own hair), even though several reference works, such as the International Dictionary of Medicine & Biology, the Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary & the Butterworth's Medical Dictionary would have us consider "trichomania" and "trichotillomania" as synonyms. After further investigation, a distinction between the two is clearly warranted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies
  • Comportement humain
DEF

Tic consistant à se passer la main dans les cheveux ou la barbe.

OBS

À ne pas confondre avec «trichotillomanie», geste qui consiste à s'arracher les cheveux et les poils.

Spanish

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Record 36 1994-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pleasure Boating and Yachting
DEF

A stitch with a zigzag pattern, resembling the pattern of a herring’s bones.

CONT

When edges have to be pulled together, a herring-bone stitch is used.... It can be used alone to repair a small rip in a sail or it may pull together a tear.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Yachting et navigation de plaisance
DEF

Type de couture permettant de repriser un accroc dans une voile en rapprochant les bords du tissu.

DEF

C'est un point utilisé pour assembler bord à bord deux lisières de tissu.

Spanish

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Record 37 1991-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing (General)
  • Sewing Notions
CONT

Automatic locking slider. Among the locking sliders is the automatic lock which cannot slip open without a light tug or two on the pull ... Regardless of the position in which the pull tab is released, the lock is engaged. A tiny spring, activated when the pull tab is grasped, releases the pin which, in contact with the chain, creates the lock.

CONT

The slide fastener shall have an automatic lock slider and a regular pull tab.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couture (Généralités)
  • Articles et accessoires de couture
DEF

Curseur équipé d'un mécanisme de blocage qui se déverrouille par traction de la tirette.

Spanish

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Record 38 1989-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

There is a need for the student to be actively engaged in problem solving, for her to perceive problems-perhaps even "own" them(Lave, in press). In this way, her viewpoint can be pulled by an iterative process of uncovering current limitations and discovering new problem-solving capabilities that demonstrate a new viewpoint's conceptual superiority. In a retrospective discussion of SOPHIE's pedagogical philosophy, Brown and Burton(1986) suggest that computer-based tutoring systems can have an unusual power to "engage and pull" the student's knowledge state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Action d'un didacticiel intelligent sur l'état de connaissance de l'étudiant.

Spanish

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Record 39 1987-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Health Institutions
OBS

We have found that a mental health delivery system can be assisted significantly in dealing with major social problems when the effort and ingenuity of individuals in parallel systems with common concern pull together in a concerted effort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Établissements de santé

Spanish

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Record 40 1981-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pest Control Equipment
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
CONT

Tractors used to pull multiple discers usually have dual rear wheels or very large single tires which do not fit into the furrow.

Key term(s)
  • multiple disker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de protection des végétaux
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
CONT

Les tracteurs employés pour tirer des multidisques sont en général pourvus de roues jumelées ou à pneu très large; (...).

Spanish

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Record 41 1977-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Geophysics
  • Gravity (Physics)
OBS

In the La Coste-Romberg gravimeter(...) the main spring which balances out the gravitational pull on the weight is a "zero-length spring" inclined at an angle. A zero-length spring has a stress-strain curve which passes through zero length when projected back to zero strain(...) Zero-length springs have very long periods and high sensitivity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Géophysique
  • Pesanteur (Physique)
OBS

Le fléau pivote autour de l'axe de rotation horizontal 0 et, à sont centre de gravité P, il est soutenu par un ressort dont la longueur fictive serait nulle en l'absence de tension ("ressort de longueur nulle").

Spanish

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