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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2022-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Marine Biology
  • Fish
CONT

Every year, millions of fish — salmon, steelhead trout, shad, alewives, and sturgeon, among others — migrate to their native habitats to reproduce. Some fish need to swim thousands of miles through oceans and rivers to reach their destination. They are often blocked from completing their journey by engineered barriers, such as dams and culverts. When fish [cannot] reach their habitat, they [cannot] reproduce and build their populations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Biologie marine
  • Poissons
CONT

La migration des poissons est un phénomène instinctif présent chez de nombreuses espèces de poissons. [...] Beaucoup de poissons migrent de manière cycliquement régulière [...], sur des distances de quelques mètres à des milliers de kilomètres, en relation avec les besoins de reproduction ou en nourriture [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento animal
  • Biología Marina
  • Peces
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Record 2 2017-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • History (General)
OBS

A small local charitable organization founded in 1996. [Its mission is] to restore the superintendent's residence of the Sutherland Forest Nursery Station which, from 1913 to 1965, distributed millions of trees to prairie farmers, who planted these trees on their land to create the miles of shelterbelts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Histoire (Généralités)
OBS

Organisme caritatif de petite envergure fondé en 1996.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Animals
  • Protection of Farm Animals
CONT

Farmed animals are often trucked thousands of miles, for days, without any food, water, or rest, resulting in the deaths of millions of animals each year.

OBS

farmed animal: This expression usually has a pejorative connotation when referring to factory farms, animal rights and abuse or cruelty towards them.

OBS

farmed animal: Refers to all kinds of animals raised for profit and not only the ones living on a farm (eg. cats, dogs, foxes, etc.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux de ferme
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

animal d'élevage exploité; animal exploité : Ces termes ont souvent une connotation péjorative lorsqu'il s'agit de production industrielle, des droits des animaux ou de la maltraitance ou de l'abus envers eux.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A part of the surface of the earth that sank deeply over a long period of time; a great trough hundreds of miles long and tens of miles wide that received thousands of feet of sedimentary and volcanic rock over millions of years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Profonde dépression de l'écorce terrestre partiellement comblée par une couche épaisse de sédiments.

OBS

Pluriel : géosynclinaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica
DEF

Región de sedimentación y de hundimiento de la corteza terrestre.

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Record 5 2007-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
DEF

A spacecraft carrying instruments intended for use in exploration of the physical properties of outer space or celestial bodies other than Earth.

CONT

Unlike an artificial satellite, which is placed in more or less permanent orbit around the Earth, a space probe is launched with enough energy to escape the gravitational field of the Earth and navigate among the planets. Radio-transmitted commands and on-board computers provide the means for midcourse corrections in the space probe's trajectory : some advanced craft have executed complex maneuvers on command from Earth when many millions of miles away in space.... A probe may be directed to orbit a planet, to soft-land instrument packages on a planetary surface, or to fly by as close as a few thousand miles from one or more planets.

OBS

[Unmanned spacecrafts] include space and planetary probes such as Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, Ulysses, Magellan, and Mars. Lunar orbiters (such as the Lunar Geodetic Scout) and unmanned landers (e.g., Artemis).

PHR

Deep space probe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
DEF

[...] vaisseau non habité envoyé par l'Homme pour explorer le système solaire [...].

OBS

Certaines sondes sont destinées à être mises en orbite autour d'autres planètes ou satellites.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Naves espaciales
DEF

Ingenio lanzado con objeto de que explore automáticamente el espacio interplanetario, sobrevuele algún astro o aterrice en él para tomar fotografías, efectuar mediciones relativas a su atmósfera, analizar su suelo, o proceder a otras misiones científicas.

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Record 6 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
CONT

All the stars are spheres of glowing gas; many are millions of miles in diameter. Some are 10, 000 times as thin as Earth's air at sea level, and some are so dense that a cupful of their substance would weigh tons on Earth. Star interiors have temperatures measured in millions of degrees, and at their surfaces temperatures up to 55, 000 ° F are common.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
CONT

Les étoiles sont les objets les plus nombreux de l'Univers. Plus de 98% de la masse cosmique est concentrée dans ces boules de gaz, le restant étant dispersé dans l'espace interstellaire.

OBS

[Les étoiles] sont des boules de gaz extrêmement chaudes, sièges de réactions thermonucléaires, émettant dans toutes les directions de l'espace une énergie considérable sous forme de rayonnements électromagnétiques et de particules atomiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Astronomía
CONT

El estudio de las estrellas constituye el objetivo principal de la actividad de los astrónomos. Todas tienen el carácter común de su constitución gaseosa. A pesar de esta circunstancia y de ser visibles en el cielo como puntos luminosos aparentemente semejantes, difieren considerablemente unas de otras por el estado de su materia, por sus temperaturas y presiones internas, la índole de las reacciones que se desarrollan en su seno y por sus dimensiones.

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