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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2023-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
DEF

A public holiday to celebrate working people ...

OBS

Labour Day, honouring organized labour, is a legal holiday observed throughout Canada on the first Monday in September.

OBS

... celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
DEF

Fête soulignant les réalisations des travailleurs et dont la date et le statut de jour férié varient selon les pays.

OBS

On met une minuscule au générique fête et une majuscule au spécifique Travail. Au Canada, la fête du Travail a lieu le premier lundi de septembre. La variante fête du travail est aussi correcte. [...] Les variantes suivantes sont aussi employées : [...] fête des Travailleurs, Journée internationale des travailleurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Designaciones de años, semanas y días especiales
  • Festivales y carnavales y eventos sociales
CONT

El 1 de mayo es festivo en España y en la mayoría de países del mundo. Se celebra el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores o Día del Trabajo, una jornada marcada por las manifestaciones y las reivindicaciones laborales y sociales.

OBS

Día Internacional del Trabajo: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que tal y como indica la Ortografía de la lengua española, los sustantivos y adjetivos que forman parte del nombre de festividades, ya sean civiles, militares o religiosas, se escriben con mayúscula inicial: Día Internacional del Trabajo y Día de la Madre.

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Record 2 2019-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Historical Persons
OBS

The Founding Fathers of the United States, or simply the Founding Fathers, were a group of American leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, led the war for independence from Great Britain, and built a frame of government for the new United States of America upon republican principles during the latter decades of the 18th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Personnages historiques

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Atomic Physics
CONT

A new field of chemistry known as Nuclear Forensics is emerging as a powerful weapon in the fight against the illegal trafficking and use of radioactive materials... An article in the September issue of Chemistry in Britain... describes the techniques chemists are using to help restrict smuggling and black market trade in radioactive material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Physique atomique
DEF

Techniques et moyens mis en œuvre par des chimistes, dans un cadre judiciaire, afin de freiner ou de contrecarrer le vol de matières radioactives éventuellement revendues sur le marché noir.

OBS

Équivalent formulé par la Direction recherche et développement de Framatome, France.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peat and Peat Bogs
  • Soil Science
  • Ecosystems
CONT

The new land at Wicken Fen will be transformed into wetlands and a buffer zone to protect the National Trust reserve, one of the best surviving examples of peat fen in Britain and is home to many species of wildlife.

OBS

There are three types of peat: fen, high bog and intermediate. Fen peat is the most common in Poland. It occurs in the river valleys and on the lake coasts on the Polish Lowlands. The peat is rich in nutrients and dominated by carex, phragmites and different species of brown moss as well as birch and alder.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourbières
  • Science du sol
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

La présence de pergélisol à la lisière sud de la zone discontinue est étroitement associée à la nature des tourbières, les marais tourbeux recouvrant du pergélisol et les marais non tourbeux étant non gelés.

CONT

C'est dans les marais tourbeux, au bord des mares, à l'ombre des arbres ou des arbustes, parfois au soleil, que croît la plante.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

An alternative mode approximately midway and left of centre between two prevailing and antagonistic systems. Originally applied to the Swedish policy of neutrality between East and West, in the 1990s it became a buzzword in the US and Britain for those advocating a new radical centrist approach, breaking the mould of conflict between political parties of the left and right.

CONT

Third Way Summit: 14 heads of government from "centre-left" parties will meet in London.

OBS

The phrase "third way" is loosely defined as a happy governing medium between market-driven economies and ... state intervention to smooth out the edges. It is seductive language to hide the historic shift away from state provided services.

CONT

The Third Way? No Way. The centre left still struggles to explain what it stands for.

Key term(s)
  • radical center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
OBS

Troisième voie : nouveau centre gauche en Amérique du Nord et en Grande-Bretagne (Blairisme).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teorías y doctrinas políticas
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
CONT

El líder del Partido Laborista, Tony Blair, pidió ayer la confianza de los británicos para gobernar el Reino Unido con un programa de centro radical formulado para conquistar tanto a sus votantes naturales como a los conservadores desencantados.

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Record 6 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Representatives from Australia, Great Britain, Egypt, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa organized the International Squash Rackets Federation(ISRF) in 1967. Despite their rules differences, Canada and the United States were [admitted] to the ISRF in 1969. The Women's International Squash Federation, founded in 1976, merged with the ISRF in 1985. Since 1992, the international organization has been known as the World Squash Federation(WSF).

OBS

The sport of Squash was first played over 100 years ago and is now enjoyed in over 153 nations (WSF members), on 125,000 courts, with its popularity continuing to grow rapidly. To harness this growth and to promote and co-ordinate the sport, the International Squash Rackets Federation was formed in 1967, its name being changed in 1992 to the World Squash Federation. The WSF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the International Federation for Squash and is also in membership of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) and the Association of the IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).

Key term(s)
  • International Federation for Squash

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Le 5 janvier 1967, la création de l'«International Squash Racket Federation» à Londres donne une ampleur planétaire au squash. Regroupant sept nations du Commonwealth à son origine, 111 autres pays s'y grefferont pour devenir en 1992 la «World Squash Federation» après la fusion avec la Fédération Féminine Internationale de Squash. La WSF compte aujourd'hui plus de 18 millions de pratiquants dans 153 pays et 50 000 courts dans le monde.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
  • IT Security
DEF

A clause that identifies the techniques used to safeguard data against accidental or deliberate loss or damage or unauthorized access.

OBS

A new data-protection law comes into effect in Britain nest year. Under it, companies are supposed to comply with consumers’ requests to remove their names from databases.

Key term(s)
  • data-protection law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

C'est pourquoi les clauses de «propriétés de données» ou de «protection commerciale et intellectuelle des données» sont considérées comme déterminantes dans les contrats. Elles établissent d'une part un droit de propriété de principe du producteur de la banque de données, et d'autre part un droit d'usage limité en faveur de l'utilisateur.

Key term(s)
  • loi sur la protection des données

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
OBS

Located in New York City, British Information Services(BIS), is part of the Press & Public Affairs Department of the British Embassy in Washington. BIS provides extensive information on all aspects of life in Britain including political, business, social and cultural issues. BIS works closely with the British Council in Washington to promote British education and culture in the United States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • National History
CONT

After the Acadians were expelled from the region in 1755, Nova Scotia was hungry for settlers. It was also then safe for settlement, or so Governor Charles Lawrence proclaimed in 1758, looking especially to Great Britain and New England. The first group to immigrate after the expulsion of the Acadians were the New England Planters.

OBS

"Planters" is an Elizabethan term meaning "colonists."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoires nationales
CONT

Mais ce patrimoine, constitué des meilleures terres d'Amérique du Nord, avait été partagé entre les Planters de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Mathematical Geography
OBS

The Dominion Observatory was founded for very pragmatic reasons. The objective was to have a longitude reference (with associated time signal) for surveying in Canada: "To open up the West". Surveyors in the field would compare the time signal of the Dominion Observatory with their local time determined by astronomical observations - the difference corresponding to longitude difference between Canada’s prime meridian (Dominion Observatory) and their location. Construction of the building began in July 1902 was completed in 1905.

OBS

The Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Canada that operated from 1905 to 1970. The Observatory was also an institution within the Canadian Federal Government. The observatory grew out of the Department of the Interior's need for the precise coordinates and timekeeping that at that time could only come from an observatory. For several years they had used a small observatory on the Ottawa River for this purpose. In 1902 it was decided that Canada needed a larger national observatory similar to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Britain. The new building was thus erected near Dow's Lake on the Agriculture Department's Central Experimental Farm land. This building was completed in 1905. Its main instrument was a 15 inch refracting telescope, the largest refracting telescope ever installed in Canada. While the building and institution were primarily dedicated to astronomical timekeeping in support of surveying, a number of other activities took place here. The Dominion Observatory was Canada's leading institution in Geophysics for many decades, which included the operation of Canada's national seismometer network. The facility did important work but with this bridgehead into the world of astronomy and the growth of the field of astrophysics Canadian astronomers quickly demanded a facility designed for the new scientific age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Géographie mathématique
OBS

L'Observatoire fédéral fut fondé pour des raisons très pragmatiques. L'objectif était d'obtenir une référence de longitude (comprenant le signal horaire associé) pour l'arpentage au Canada : «Pour coloniser l'Ouest». Les arpenteurs sur le terrain devaient comparer le signal horaire de l'Observatoire fédéral avec l'heure locale où ils se trouvaient, déterminée par des observations astronomiques, soit la différence correspondant à l'écart de longitude entre le méridien origine au Canada (l'Observatoire fédéral) et leur emplacement. La construction de l'édifice débuta en juillet 1902 et fut achevée en 1905.

Spanish

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Record 11 2009-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gas Industry
DEF

Gas manufactured from coal for use in cities for illumination and heating; usually a mixture of coal gas and carburated water gas.

CONT

Town gas production from coal traditionally has involved heating the coal in the absence of air - a process called pyrolysis or carbonization.

CONT

In other areas of the world, however, where natural gas was not available locally, manufactured gas, sometimes referred to as town gas, city gas, etc., persisted.

OBS

In Britain much of this [town] gas has been produced, until recently, almost entirely by the carbonisation of coal in gas retorts... In recent years an increasing amount of town gas has come from new processes, such as the Lurgi process and gas-reforming processes using heavy and light oils and refinery tail gases.

OBS

The term "coal gas" should only be used as a synonym when "town gas" refers to gas manufactured from coal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du gaz
DEF

Gaz naturel qui a remplacé, pour la consommation domestique, les gaz manufacturés.

CONT

Les anciennes usines à gaz [...] produisaient par distillation ou pyrolyse du charbon le gaz de ville et le coke de gaz.

OBS

(Gaz d'éclairage.) Ancienne appellation du gaz de ville, lorsque ce dernier, exclusivement constitué par du gaz de distillation de la houille, était utilisé pour les besoins de l'éclairage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria del gas
DEF

Gas combustible de suministro urbano.

CONT

Con el nombre de gas de alumbrado, gas de hulla o gas de coque, y en algunos países gas ciudad, se designa a la mezcla de gases combustibles que arden con llama luminosa y que se forman por destilación seca de hulla o carbón de piedra, sin aire, a temperaturas de 1200 a 1300 °C.

OBS

Se trata de una mezcla de gases frecuentemente desintoxicada, de propiedades físicas homogéneas y especialmente apto para la combustión. Su poder calorífico es de 4.000 a 4.300 kcal/m³.

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Record 12 2006-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Educational Institutions
OBS

The Mohawk Insitute was established in 1831 by the New England Co, a Protestant missionary society based in Britain, to convert and civilize the "wild" native. The school was later run by the Anglican Church and controlled by the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. It wasn’t until the latter part of the 1800s that Ottawa took a leading role in the "education" of native children and made residential schools part of government policy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Établissements d'enseignement

Spanish

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Record 13 2006-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

A sector of Antarctica between 160° E. and 150° W. south of 60° S., claimed by Britain under New Zealand jurisdiction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
DEF

Territoire d'outre-mer de la Nouvelle-Zélande, dans l'Antarctique.

Spanish

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Record 14 2003-06-26

English

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

[The] sport of jumping off a very high structure with a long elastic rope tied to your feet.

CONT

Bungee Jumping first started hundreds of years ago in the South Pacific island of Vanuatu. Young native tribesmen used to leap off huge trees with vines tied to their ankles, as a test of manhood. Contrary to popular belief, modern Bungee Jumping was founded in 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Since then Bungee Jumping has spread to many other countries across the globe, of which America, France, New Zealand and Britain are but a few.

CONT

Bungy jumping is an adventure sport that captures the essence of Kiwi outdoor life - it’s different, really "off the wall". In this case it’s off a bridge or similar platform structure from 35 to 134 metres high.

OBS

The term "bungy" is seen less frequently and appears to be used in New Zealand and Australia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
DEF

Activité consistant à se jeter au-dessus du vide, en chute libre, du haut d'une plate-forme, d'un pont, d'un promontoire ou d'une structure en hauteur, un puissant élastique attaché aux chevilles.

OBS

Se distingue du saut pendulaire, effectué au bout d'une simple corde. Sport mis au point en Australie et importé en France vers 1986, il connaît une popularité au Canada depuis 1989.

OBS

Signifiant l'activité, ces termes ne prennent pas la forme du pluriel.

OBS

«Saut à l'élastique» ou «saut en élastique» devraient être retenus mais il y a fort à parier que «bungee» et «saut en bungee» s'imposeront avec l'usage : «bungee» étant d'origine inconnue, le terme, déjà courant dans la langue anglaise, prendra le dessus sur les graphies francisées du son, «benjy» ou «benji".

OBS

Comme pour tous les autres sports - il y a lieu de distinguer entre le sport ou l'activité, et l'appareil utilisé. Ainsi, «l'élastique» ou «bungee»/«benjy»/«benji» constitue l'appareil (qui, au Québec, doit répondre aux normes de la CSST), et «saut à l'élastique», «saut en élastique» ou «saut en bungee»/«saut en benjy»/«saut en benji"» l'activité et le saut lui-même. Cependant, dans l'usage, «bungee» (et ses variantes) signifie également «saut en bungee», tant l'activité que le saut.

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Tourism (General)
OBS

Founded by seven private tour operators in 1991, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators has grown to include 46 member and associate member companies in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, The Netherlands, and New Zealand. The IAATO is dedicated to appropriate, safe and environmentally sound private-sector travel to the Antarctic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Tourisme (Généralités)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmées pour l'organisme.

Key term(s)
  • Association internationale des organisateurs de voyages dans l'Antarctique

Spanish

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Record 16 2000-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Private-Sector Programs
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

The Student Work Abroad Program(SWAP) is a program of the Canadian Federation of Students to provide Canadian students with the opportunity to expand and enhance their overseas travel experience by living and working in another culture. Open to university and college students aged 18 to 30, SWAP permits students to work in Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes du secteur privé
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Le Programme de vacances-travail (PVT) est un programme de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants qui vise à donner à des étudiants canadiens l'occasion d'enrichir leur expérience des voyages à l'étranger en vivant et en travaillant dans un autre pays et au contact d'une autre culture. PVT permet à des étudiants de 18 à 30 ans des collèges et des universités d'aller travailler en Grande-Bretagne, en France, en République fédérale d'Allemagne, en Finlande, en Irlande, en Australie, en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Japon et aux États-Unis.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
OBS

Of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

OBS

The preamble to the Constitution Act, 1867, recites the "Desire of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
OBS

Du Canada, de la Nouvelle-Écosse et du Nouveau-Brunswick.

OBS

Le préambule de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867 fait état du désir des provinces du Canada, de la Nouvelle-Écosse et du Nouveau-Brunswick « de s'unir en fédération ayant statut de dominion de la Couronne du Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande et dotée d'une constitution semblable dans son principe à celle du Royaume-Uni ».

Spanish

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Record 18 1996-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Town and port in northeast New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago, west Pacific Ocean.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Port de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, principale ville de l'île de Nouvelle-Bretagne.

Spanish

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Record 19 1996-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tolai, an ethnic group living in New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue malayo-polynésienne parlée par les Tolai, peuple originaire de Papouasie et principalement établi dans la péninsule de la Gazelle, région est de la Nouvelle-Bretagne.

Spanish

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Record 20 1995-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Food Industries
DEF

herbaceous plant yielding oil designed to replace whale oil.

CONT

Meadowfoam, a new oilseed crop cultivated mainly on the west coast of the United States and Canada, may soon be in Britain.... Japan is said to be interested in meadowfoam as an alternative raw material for cosmetics.(The Times(London), 14 Sept. 1985, p. 3.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 21 1993-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tracked Vehicles (Military)
  • Wheeled Vehicles (Military)
CONT

In Israel, Urdan Industries has a wide range of tracks and parts for tanks of Nato and former-Soviet Union design, and in Britain, Catton Tracks-manufacturer of the tracks for the new 155 mm A590 SPG entering service with the British Army-also keeps a good selection of tracks for retro-engineered tanks of Soviet design.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Véhicules chenillés (Militaire)
  • Véhicules à roues (Militaire)
CONT

Au Royaume-Uni, Catton Tracks (le producteur des chenilles du nouvel obusier automoteur de 155 mm AS90 qui entre en service dans l'Armée britannique) dispose également d'un choix de chenilles pour chars ex-soviétiques rénovés.

Spanish

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Record 22 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The language of the Baining, a Papuan people of New Britain

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue papoue-australienne parlée par les Bainin, peuple Papou de la Nouvelle-Bretagne

Spanish

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Record 23 1989-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
CONT

British Leyland(BL) is launching a new medium-sized car on April 25, 1984. It is hoped that this will help BL compete in the fleet-car market. British automakers are experiencing a recovery, but there is still the danger of becoming a screw-driver car industry. Graphs show percentage made in Britain and United Kingdom market share.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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