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Record 1 2024-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

A form of psychotherapy that deals with the here and now of the client's total situation rather than with their past or underlying dynamics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

Au lieu de se concentrer uniquement sur les cognitions ou les expériences passées, la thérapie existentielle s'intéresse davantage à la condition humaine dans son ensemble. [...] L'approche existentielle se concentre sur votre capacité à prendre conscience de vous-même et sur votre détermination à trouver un sens à votre vie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Musical Works
  • Singing
OBS

"Happy Birthday to You" is an American song which is sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person’s birth. Non-English speakers have translated it into other languages.

OBS

The "Happy Birthday" story begins with two sisters from Kentucky Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill... One day in 1893 Patty... came up with the modest melody we now know as "Happy Birthday"; sister Patty added some simple lyrics and completed the creation of "Good Morning to All" a simple greeting song for teachers to use in welcoming students to class each day... Here the trail becomes murky--nobody really knows who wrote the words to "Happy Birthday to You" and put them to the Hills’ melody or when it happened. The "Happy Birthday to You" lyrics first appeared in a songbook edited by one Robert H. Coleman in March of 1924 where they were published as a second stanza to "Good Morning to You"; with the advent of radio and sound films "Happy Birthday" was widely popularized as a birthday celebration song and its lyrics supplanted the originals... The Chicago-based music publisher Clayton F. Summy Company working with Jessica Hill published and copyrighted "Happy Birthday" in 1935... so under current law the copyright protection of "Happy Birthday" will remain intact until at least 2030.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres d'œuvres musicales
  • Chant
OBS

La chanson «Happy Birthday» [...] était au départ intitulée "Good morning to all" et fut composée en 1893 par deux sœurs du nom de Mildred J. Hill et Patty Smith Hill [...] Personne ne sait comment le texte a évolué de «Good morning to all» à «Happy birthday to you» [...] Sur ce bonne fête tout le monde.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de obras musicales
  • Canto
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Record 3 2017-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Events
  • Exhibitions (Arts and Culture)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
DEF

A multimedia "habitat" that houses an arena of large-format interactive video touch-screens. These screens display dynamic interactive content in an immersive "surround" environment. Visitors will be entertained as they walk through the Habitat and access more compelling examples of how Alberta and Alberta companies are "making the future happen here and now".

Key term(s)
  • The Future Works Here

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de manifestations et d'activités diverses
  • Expositions (Arts et Culture)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
DEF

«Habitat» multimédia où l'on trouve de grands écrans vidéo tactiles interactifs. Ces écrans offrent un contenu dynamique interactif dans un environnement en immersion ambiophonique. Les visiteurs y trouveront des exposés divertissants à mesure qu'ils parcourront l'Habitat et verront des exemples marquants qui illustrent comment l'Alberta et les entreprises albertaines «mettent l'avenir à l'œuvre dès aujourd'hui».

OBS

Titre d'une exposition dans le cadre d'Expo 2000.

Key term(s)
  • l'avenir à l'œuvre

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
OBS

A member of Canadian Jewish Congress, Canadian Friends of Peace Now is a Zionist organization of Canadian Jews which supports the positions, programs and activities of the Israeli-based Peace Now movement called Shalom Achshav. Its purpose is to build a secure and lasting peace between Israel and all of its neighbours.

OBS

Canadian Friends of Peace Now(CFPN) supports the agenda of Shalom Achshav and raises awareness here in Canada of the need for a viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. CFPN is the largest Jewish organization in Canada that is Zionist and dedicated entirely to promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace on the basis of the two-state solution.... CFPN sponsors public talks and other events on Israeli-Palestinian peace issues, helping broaden the debate on major issues of peace and security. A registered Canadian charity, CFPN also holds fundraising activities to support Peace Now's educational programs in Israel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
OBS

Les amis Canadiens de La Paix maintenant (ACPM) soutiennent le projet du mouvement et sensibilisent leurs concitoyens au besoin de trouver une solution viable au conflit israélo-palestinien. L'ACPM représente la plus grande organisation sioniste du pays dont l'activité soit entièrement consacrée à la promotion de la paix entre Israël et la Palestine sur la base de la «Solution de deux états». [L'ACPM parraine] des conférences et d'autres événements publics sur les questions liées à la paix israélo-palestinienne et [contribue] à l'élargissement du débat sur les grandes questions de paix et de sécurité. L'ACPM possède un statut d'organisme de bienfaisance enregistré, et tient également des activités de levée de fonds pour soutenir les programmes éducatifs de La Paix maintenant en Israël.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Historical Names
  • Museums
OBS

The old Custom House(now part of Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History) was built in 1836, to keep pace with the expanding Port. Goods could pass through customs here in Montréal rather than having to stop off in Québec City. This was the first building designed in Montréal by John Ostell, an architect from Britain who would go on to put his name to at least 25 major buildings in the city, including the Old Courthouse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations historiques
  • Muséologie
OBS

Œuvre de l'architecte John Ostell, cet édifice a été érigé entre 1836 et 1837 pour loger la douane de Montréal. Agrandie en 1981, l'Ancienne-Douane accueille aujourd'hui la Boutique du Musée, au rez-de-chaussée et l'exposition permanente Les amours de Montréal - Au carrefour des cultures, au deuxième étage. L'ancienne maison de la Douane compte parmi les premiers éléments architecturaux à témoigner de la présence britannique à Montréal. Cet édifice néo-classique est la première réalisation importante de John Ostell, architecte, ingénieur et arpenteur.

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

A law suit.

OBS

Though it may seem unidiomatic to make litigation a count noun(hence a plural), the usage is old and is today common. "E. g. ", "[The] first and second parties now have certain litigations pending in the Mercer Circuit Court. "... "a single automobile litigation... consumed sixty-three trial days". "The firm engages in general civil practice with emphasis on business litigations". "No court in which a litigation to that end might be brought... This word is best not used, however, as an equivalent of action or suit :"Whether such claims are just need not be decided to determine the rights of the parties to this litigation [read suit]". Properly, litigation=the action or process of carrying on a suit in law or equity("OED") ;thus it does not refer to the suit itself, but to the maintenance of it. Here it seems to be used for trial :"As the rules became more numerous and more nicely distinguished, they became also less easily understood and applied by the great mass of people, until finally no one who had not given the subject particular attention could safely assume to conduct a litigation [read trial]".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
DEF

Désaccord entre deux ou plusieurs personnes porté devant un tribunal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
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Record 7 2013-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

We should pause here to emphasise what now appears as a fundamental distinction between land and chattels; land is held at common law by tenure and the tenant's interest is defined as an estate; chattels are not the subject of tenurial rights; they can be fully owned and estates in chattels, "e. g. ", in tail or for life, are not possible at law....(Crossley Vaines, 5th ed., 1973, p. 6).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

droit de tenure : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crop Storage Facilities
  • Tobacco Industry
CONT

Tobacco moved westward with English settlers and their descendants. It made its way to Greeneville, where remnants of its economic impact can still be seen today in the form of old tobacco warehouses, many of which are now empty or remodeled for new uses.

CONT

Here you’ll find classic Southern libations served in former tobacco warehouses that now house chic lounges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entreposage des récoltes
  • Industrie du tabac
CONT

Venez faire la fête comme seuls les gens du Sud savent le faire, dans d’anciens entrepôts de tabac convertis en bars chics.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Variety Shows and Circuses
DEF

Gymnastics performed on a moving horse going on a circle line, in full harmony.

CONT

The term "horse vaulting" is a bit misleading. It brings to mind the aerial leaps performed in gymnastic competitions on a padded stationary block. But the actual sport of horse vaulting is one of the three classic disciplines of horseback riding, the other two being dressage and jumping. ... While vaulting does include jumping onto and off of a moving horse, it also involves much more, as I learned on a visit to watch the Great Falls Vaulting Team practice. Led by coach Jennifer Williams, the team’s members ride bareback, kneel and stand on a moving horse, and perform the sort of riding tricks you might see in a circus.

CONT

Vaulting is the art of gymnastics on horse back and is an extremely popular sport with young riders in Europe and is now growing in stature here in Australia.

CONT

For those who liked horses, the daily ride, although strenuous, was lot of fun where, in addition to cavalry drill, there was jumping, vaulting and tentpegging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Spectacles de variétés et Cirque
DEF

Gymnastique sur le dos d'un cheval au galop, en parfaite harmonie avec lui.

CONT

La voltige à cheval est un sport d'une puissance élégante et virile.

PHR

Saut en voltige.

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

"Schistes lustrés" are the fine-grained, lustrous, low-grade metamorphic phyllites or schists of the alpine geosyncline. General practice in English is to retain this term which has great specificity.

CONT

These outcrops were once part of the sediment that lay on the floor of the Tethys ocean. Originally they were slightly calcareous and muddy. During metamorphism the clay minerals have been changed to mica, here arranged in dark, elongate clots. The rock is now very shiny-hence it is called informally "schistes lustrés. "

CONT

This study deals with the different components of a part of the Tethyan suture in the north-western French-Italian Alps. It concerns more precisely the lithostratigraphic and structural analysis of the so-called Schistes lustrés complex. ... The Schistes lustrés complex is resolved into three different lithostructural sets of units. The two lower ones, born of the European palaeo-margin for the lowest and of the palaeo-oceanic realm or Tethys for the other, are made of calcschists and marbles labelled by syn-orogenic detrital deposits of composite origin, oceanic and continental.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Méta-sédiments océaniques qui doivent leur aspect lustré à la présence de mica blanc.

CONT

On [...] rencontre [séricite, damourite, phengite, pinite, etc.] dans les schistes métamorphiques (schistes lustrés, schistes verts, mica-schistes supérieurs), dans les gisements hydrothermaux ainsi que dans les produits d'altération des feldspaths et de nombreux silicates.

CONT

Des marnes on passe aux schistes calcarifères appelés schistes lustrés dans les Alpes [...]

OBS

Certains schistes sont dits «lustrés», car ils brillent au soleil […]

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
DEF

A geological complex of undifferentiated igneous and metamorphic rocks where the rocks themselves have altered their composition, texture, or internal structure through extreme heat, pressure, and the introduction of a chemical.

CONT

The Blind River area has... been closely studied and here the uranium deposits appear to have been laid down in a fluviatile or deltaic environment perhaps during a wet period preceding an ice age. Unlike the Witwatersrand, the host conglomerates are now at the base of the enclosing arenaceous succession and they appear to occupy valleys eroded in the softer greenstones of the metamorphic basement...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Lorsque le socle métamorphique est dégagé, on observe par endroits, dans les micaschistes, des accumulations d'un minéral ayant des caractéristiques du quartz.

OBS

socle métamorphique : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 12 2006-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Scientific Research
OBS

Titles confirmed by the Royal Society of Canada.

OBS

The Council of Canadian Academies(Conseil des académies canadiennes) performs independent, expert assessments of the science that is relevant to important public issues. Here 'science’is interpreted broadly to encompass any knowledge-generating discipline, including the natural, social and health sciences, engineering and the humanities. Operating at arm's length from government, but with 10-year funding of $30 million provided by the federal government, the Council carries out studies of subjects proposed by government, and eventually by non-governmental and private sector organizations. The Council is governed by a 12-member Board, a majority of which is appointed by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the RSC : The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. The Council' s assessments are performed by completely independent panels of the most qualified experts from Canada and abroad. The Council of Canadian Academies, now permanently established in Ottawa.

Key term(s)
  • CCA

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Recherche scientifique
OBS

Organisme à but non lucratif créé par La Société Royale du Canada, L'Académie canadienne des sciences, des arts et des lettres.

PHR

Appellations confirmées par la Société Royale du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
CONT

The lingonberry fruitworm is a small moth whose larvae borrow into and feed on lingonberry fruit. Feeding damage causes berry loss, but most of the problems are caused by the wthitish caterpillars emerging from the fruit after it is picked. This results in reduced marketability. There is increasing interest in domesticated lingonberry cultivars from the US and Europe, and several of these cultivars are now being tested here. To ensure industry growth the fruit must be free of insects and insect damage. With this research goal, the Atlantic Cool Climate Crop Research Centre tested a monitoring system for the fruitworm using "pheromones".

OBS

The lingonberry, known locally as the partridgeberry, is a member of the cranberry family.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
CONT

L'industrie naissant de la lingonne (également appelée pain de perdrix) à Terre-Neuve est en train de remporter la victoire contre le ver de la lingonne, insecte qui met sérieusement en danger les possibilités de commercialisation du fruit. Les scientifiques ont découvert une phéromone pour attirer et attraper ces insectes. Grâce à cette découverte, les producteurs pourront surveiller les ravageurs, et, qui sait, une nouvelle technologie de confusion sexuelle verra peut-être le jour.

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Quality Control (Management)
  • Auditing (Accounting)
  • Scientific Information
DEF

Data supporting the existence or verity of something.

OBS

Objective evidence may be obtained through observation, measurement, test or other means.

CONT

The great Swiss naturalist exulted in his unique find because he could now provide the hardest kind of objective evidence-real bones-for an event heretofore attested only by the text of scripture : We have here not only a figure pressed into stone... ;but we have the very substance of bone incorporated into the rock.

OBS

Objective evidence: Term and definition standardized by ISO in 2000.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle de la qualité (Gestion)
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
  • Information scientifique
DEF

Données démontrant l'existence ou la véracité de quelque chose.

OBS

La preuve tangible est obtenue par observation, mesure, essai ou autre moyen.

OBS

preuve tangible : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO en 2000.

Spanish

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Record 15 2000-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
OBS

in statu quo is a latinism properly equivalent to "in statu quo ante"(=in the same condition as previously. Some writers have quite understandably assumed that there was a distinction between "in statu quo" and "in statu quo ante", and have used the former merely to mean "in the status quo"; in the same condition as now exists. Here the phrase is correctly used :"The fact that the parties cannot be put ’in statu quo’ precisely as to the subject matter of the contract will not preclude a decree for rescission"./"Depriving one of the benefit of a contract that he supposes he has made leaves everything ’in statu quo’, rather than imposing a liability to which no limit can be placed". The foregoing discussion is largely beside the point, however, inasmuch as the English renditions of the phrase are preferable to the Latinate. One should write in the status quo(present condition) or "in the status quo ante"(previous condition).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

voir Harrap's au mot tel

Spanish

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Record 16 1989-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
OBS

A version of minimax for zero-sum games. The minimax matrix is used again but its interpretation is changed. The playoff of the player whose choices are shown as columns, has the negative of the numbers shown on the matrix. One notes that the opponent now has a nested interest in giving up as little as possible... if both sides more conservatively they would both play "Don’t". This is a rather stable situation, different from the minimax one :here, no cooperation is possible between the two players. One gains exactly what the other loses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Variante de la symétrie minimax exploitée pour uniformiser la logique de décision, considérant que l'opposé de la fonction d'évaluation constitue la fonction d'évaluation de l'opposant.

DEF

Variante de la procédure minimax appliquée aux jeux à somme nulle où un joueur gagne exactement ce que l'autre perd.

CONT

Calcul negmax.

OBS

Le formalisme NEGMAX fut avancée par Knuth et Moore en 1975 "An Analysis of Alpha-Beta Pruning" in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6, pp. 293-326.

OBS

L'expression "négamax" a été relevée dans Farreny (1987) et "negmax" dans Dominé (1988).

Spanish

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Record 17 1989-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
CONT

It is now of interest to investigate the nature of the sequence of symbols that might appear on a tape. First, the symbols themselves are selected from the set I(the set that includes all elements in both A and b), where a is some alphabet... and b is the symbol used here to represent a blank square. A sequence of symbols from A(where there are no blanks in the sequence) is called a word. A sequence of symbols consisting of one or more words is called a tape expression.... All tape expressions are considered to be of finite length...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels

Spanish

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Record 18 1989-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
CONT

The number of search computations with respect to an exhaustive search can be reduced for unimodal functions by using the dichotomous search procedure. The first step here is to evaluate two points separated by some interval(delta) in the domain of definition. The half of the domain in which the maximum or minimum lies can now be determined, and two new points can be placed in the center of this interval and so forth until the value of the interval approaches(eta). The value of(eta) clearly established the precision of(the) estimate....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
OBS

Dichotomique : Qui se divise par bifurcation.

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The indexicality of language. Expressions that rely upon their situation for significance are commonly called "indexical" after the "indexes" of Charles Peirce(1933), the exemplary indexicals being first-and second-person pronouns, tense, and specific time and place adverbs such as "here" and "now".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir indiciaire

Spanish

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Record 20 1986-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
OBS

Some of those who were in this house and who are now over there would give their eye teeth to be back here.(Hansard, 17 May 1965)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
OBS

Elle eut sacrifié un doigt de la main pour savoir ce que Palisson avait dit. (Julien Green: Léviathan, p. 122) (B.T .)

Spanish

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Record 21 1984-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

A clear awareness of one's self in context of situation. This means feet on the ground and awareness focussed in the here and now.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 22 1983-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Motors
CONT

It will suffice here to say that the spherical motor, although itself not commercially viable, can now be seen as the forerunner of the transverse flux concept in at least two aspects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs électriques

Spanish

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Record 23 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
OBS

some of those who were in this house [of Commons] and who are now over there [Senate] would give their eye teeth to be back here. [Hansard 051765]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

elle eut sacrifié un doigt de la main pour savoir ce que Palisson avait dit. (Julien Green, Léviathan)

Spanish

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