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Record 1 2021-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Care Equipment (Farm equipment)
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A net made with cotton string or thin leather strips that was fitted over a horse and helped keep flies away.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soins aux animaux (Matériel agricole)
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Filet constitué de cordelettes flottantes, placé sur les chevaux pour les protéger des mouches.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
  • Cooking and Gastronomy
DEF

spareribs : A cut of meat, especially pork, consisting of the thin end of the ribs with most of the meat cut away

OBS

sparerib: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • spareribs
  • spare rib
  • spare ribs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
  • Cuisine et gastronomie
DEF

côtes levées : Morceau formé de plusieurs côtes de porc provenant du flanc (côtes de flanc) ou du dos (côtes de dos) et débarrassées de la plus grande partie de la viande et du gras qui les entourent.

OBS

côte levée : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • côtes levées

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria cárnica, de fiambres y embutidos
  • Cocina y gastronomía
OBS

Fuente: Manual del Comprador de Carne de Cerdo Canadiense. Los cortes de carne de cerdo ilustrados y descritos en dicho manual representan las normas básicas de la industria porcina canadiense.

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Record 3 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

To scrape, to scrape away the surface of, to cut down or pare away with a sharp tool, thereby removing very thin portions of the surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
DEF

Couper, retrancher (les parties saillantes, les nodosités du bois).

OBS

araser : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A multijointed, springloaded, plier-like instrument used to break off [or gouge away] pieces of bone.

OBS

The term "rongeur" is more commonly applied to gouge cutters ... also known as "gouge forceps" or "bone nibblers".

OBS

Related pivot-controlled cutting instruments include ... bonecutters whose blade extremities do not decussate but meet in linear fashion edge-to-edge ... and bone-gouge forceps with circular or oval bladelike extremities that meet edge-to-edge to gouge out circular or oval pieces of bone or cartilage.

OBS

Gouge cutters are characterized by specialized jaws, usually oval or ovoid in shape, with cutting edges that meet each other precisely in order to break off or gouge away cancellous or very thin cartilage bone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Variété de pince dont les mors comportent un bord tranchant, utilisée en chirurgie osseuse pour sectionner de petits fragments osseux.

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

How to fillet a fish... Hold the fish on the cutting board with the back of the fish toward you. Using a thin flexible knife, cut through the back of the head to the backbone and turn the blade so it's running along the backbone. Hold the fish by placing your non cutting hand over the head. Push the knife along the backbone to the tail using a sawing motion. Pull the fillet away from the body of the fish while making small careful cuts with the knife to retain as much flesh as possible. Using small strokes of the knife, remove the fillet from the rib cage, feeling, your way around the bones with the knife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
CONT

Pour fileter un poisson entier, dégager la chair des côtes et de l'épine dorsale et éviter que des arêtes ne se retrouvent dans la chair. Enlever la peau des filets à l'aide d'un couteau tranchant, en gardant la peau entre le couteau et la surface de travail. Vérifier que le filet est exempt d'arêtes, de morceaux de peau, de taches sombres, de replis ou colorations suspectes qu'il faut éliminer et jeter, le cas échéant. Bien rincer.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-10-31

English

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

The product of moist, cohesive snow that when initiated by wind rolls across the landscape, gathering snow until it can no longer move.

CONT

A snow roller is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which large snowballs are formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown along the ground by wind, picking up material along the way, in much the same way that the large snowballs used in snowmen are made. Unlike snowballs made by people, snow rollers are typically cylindrical in shape, and are often hollow since the inner layers, which are the first layers to form, are weak and thin compared to the outer layers and can easily be blown away, leaving what looks like a doughnut or jelly roll. Snow rollers have been seen to grow as large as two feet in diameter.... snow rollers are more common in hilly areas. However, [they are] a very rare phenomenon.

OBS

It is shaped like a rolled sleeping bag, some reaching four feet across and seven feet in diameter.

French

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

Masse cylindrique de neige qui se forme le plus souvent en régions montagneuses lorsque de la neige mouillée, emportée par le vent, se met à rouler sur la surface.

OBS

Les rouleaux de neige se forment lorsque la neige, étant assez humide pour être cohésive, peut être charriée par le vent et rouler le long des pentes. Ils peuvent avoir plusieurs centimètres de longueur et de diamètre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
DEF

Masa cilíndrica de nieve que se forma más a menudo en las regiones montañosas, cuando la nieve mojada, empujada por el viento, rueda sobre la superficie.

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Record 7 2006-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Platemaking (Printing)
  • Flexography (Printing)
CONT

Recently, the so-called "flexo CTP(Computer to Plate) method" has been developed. In this method, a thin, light absorption layer called "Black layer" is formed on the surface of a photosensitive resin plate, and the resultant resin plate is irradiated with a laser to ablate(evaporate) desired portions of the black layer to form a mask bearing an image(formed by the unablated portions of the black layer) on the resin plate directly without separately perparing a mask. Subsequently, the resultant resin plate is imagewise exposed to light through the mask, to thereby crosslink the exposed portions of the resin, followed by developing treatment in which the unexposed portions of the resin(i. e., uncrosslinked resin portions) are washed away with a developing liquid.

CONT

With this process [direct laser imaging] the electronically-generated image is scanned at speed to a photopolymer plate material that carrys a thin black mask layer on the surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clicherie (Imprimerie)
  • Flexographie (Imprimerie)
DEF

Mince pellicule de couleur noire sensible au laser et déposée sur une plaque photopolymère flexo pour imageage direct.

CONT

À l'image de l'offset, l'insolation directe des plaques photopolymères dites numériques a fait son apparition en flexographie [...] La plaque vierge de photopolymère possède sur sa surface une couche noire (noir de carbone + liant polymère)_de 2 microns. L'image est gravée sur ce masque par un faisceau laser thermique IR [infrarouge] (Nd-YAG [néodyme-YAG] (064 nm). Après ablation des endroits définis comme zones image sur le fichier, les zones à réticuler sont directement accessibles aux UV [ultraviolet] et la suite du traitement redevient conventionnelle. La mise sous vide avec un film négatif n'est plus nécessaire et les sources parasites de diffusion de lumière disparaissent. La qualité du point de trame, donc de l'image, est bien supérieure.

OBS

couche noire; couche noire sensible au laser : termes et définition tirés du Vocabulaire de la flexographie de France Brodeur. Reproduction autorisée par l'Institut des communications graphiques du Québec.

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
CONT

Stripping film is used in traditional cartography for type and symbol affixing. After exposure and development, the thin emulsion layer carrying the image may be peeled away from the film base. Usually a wax coating is applied to the emulsion layer allowing it to be affixed to a positive map overlay or a negative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie
CONT

Film pelliculable. [...] En cartographie traditionnelle, on l'emploie pour le positionnement des écritures et des symboles. Après l'exposition et le développement, la mince couche d'émulsion peut être détachée de son support. En général, l'émulsion est enduite de cire pour pouvoir être transférée à un nouveau support positif ou négatif.

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The Canadian Space Agency(CSA) had experiments in two GAS canisters on STS-77, Nanocrystal Get Away Special(NANO-GAS) and Atlantic Canada Thin Organic Semiconductors(ACTORS). The results of these experiments may lead to the development of new materials with applications in high performance lasers and in electronic equipment and components.

OBS

Atlantic Canada thin organic semiconductor; ACTORS: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group.

PHR

ACTORS payload.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

semi-conducteur organique mince du Canada atlantique; ACTORS : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

PHR

Charge utile ACTORS.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drainage and Irrigation (Agric.)
CONT

Drip Irrigation.... Water is delivered in small quantities under low pressure directly to... the root zone of the plants. You’ll need 1/2 inch polyethylene header pipe, and a roll of thin tape-like porous tubing. The header pipe connects to a garden hose and routes water through the garden. The pipe is placed either down the center or along one end of the garden. Small puncture holes are then made with a screwdriver into the header pipe at intervals corresponding to garden row. Eight-to ten-inch pieces of rubber connecting hose are then inserted into these holes. The other end of the connecting hose attaches to a length of porous tape. This tape is rolled out along each vegetable bed and cut to the same length as the row. Then end of the tape is then crimped to prevent water loss when the system is in use. Porous irrigation tape is best placed about three to four inches away from the base of the plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drainage et irrigation (Agriculture)
CONT

Les rampes aplatissables sont appelées des gaines qui peuvent être simples ou doubles. On distingue divers types de gaines : - gaines perforées [...] - gaines poreuses : la paroi extérieure, composée de fibres «non tissées», laisse suinter l'eau à travers des pores de quelques micromètres. Gaines perforées et poreuses ne sont utilisables qu'à de faibles pressions et ne peuvent convenir que pour des cultures annuelles (maraîchage, fleurs) en terrain plat.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paper Manufacturing Processes
DEF

Paper defects showing up as thin streaks and lumps caused by fibers gathering and sticking to the slice of a paper machine wet end and preventing the local flow of stock. It produces a lump on the paper surface when it breaks away.

OBS

drag spots: term rarely used in the singular.

Key term(s)
  • drag spot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du papier

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orthopedic Surgery
OBS

Laser surgery for a herniated disc [where] a thin hollow needle... is inserted into the nucleus of the disc. A strand of optical fibre is inserted through the needle. Then a few bursts of laser energy are sent through and a tiny bit of disc material-which is mostly water-is vaporized. This causes the pressure within the nucleus to drop and a vacuum is created.... The herniated portion of the disc is sucked away from the nerve it is pinching... but only by a fraction of a millimeter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie orthopédique

Spanish

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Record 13 1999-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A markedly flattened and somewhat rounded pellet or curled fragment, chip, or flake of clay, generally embedded in a sandy matrix and esp. abundant at the base of sandy beds. It may arise from the drying and cracking of a thin layer of coherent mud, the fragment commonly being rolled or blown into sand and buried, and forming a lenticular bleb upon wetting.

CONT

When a patch of clay or mud dries out, that upper surface cracks and peels away from the under-layers. These thin "leaves" of hardened clay may occasionally be transported a short distance and deposited in a sand or similar sediment in the form of flat or lens-shaped clay galls, generally oriented parallel to the bedding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
CONT

Les galets formés de lamelles argileuses sont isolés, se déplacent puis sont ensablés plus loin suivant un plan à peu près horizontal. Ainsi se forment les galets mous [...]

Spanish

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Record 14 1999-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taps and Plumbing Accessories
CONT

Replacing a tap washer. Given that up to 50% of an electricity bill may be attributable to water heating, it is important to ensure that your hot water taps don’t drip... A leaky tap usually occurs because the internal seal is worn out. Each time you turn the tap off, the soft flexible washer, which is made from rubber or a synthetic substitute, presses against the metal washer seat, wearing a tiny part of itself away. Eventually it becomes thin and irregular in shape. This allows water to seep past and creates the annoying drip. If you don’t replace it but continue to screw the tap down tighter and tighter, eventually you will get metal forcing you to call in a plumber to regrid the washer seating. That can be an expensive business!

CONT

We undertake all types of plumbing work from changing a tap washer to the installation on commercial buildings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Robinetterie et accessoires
CONT

Disque pour robinet [...] qualité nouvelle en caoutchouc synthétique résistant à l'eau bouillante [...] tous diamètres

OBS

rondelle : disque percé placé entre une vis ou un écrou et une pièce à serrer, destinée à transmettre et à répartir l'effort de serrage sur la pièce.

Spanish

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Record 15 1990-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pest Control Equipment
DEF

A sprayer equipped with a cone nozzle.

CONT

Cone nozzle. Liquid is forced through a swirl plate, having one or more tangential or helical slots or holes, into a swirl chamber. An air core is formed as the liquid passes with a high rotational velocity from the swirl chamber through a circular orifice. The thin sheet of liquid emerging from the orifice forms a hollow cone as it moves away from the orifice, owing to the tangential and axial components of velocity. A solid cone pattern can be achieved by passing liquid centrally through the nozzle to fill the air core : this gives a narrower angle of spray and larger droplets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de protection des végétaux
DEF

Pulvérisateur dont la buse produit un jet conique.

OBS

Jet conique : jet dont la forme générale présente l'aspect d'un cône.

Spanish

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Record 16 1987-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Barrel and Cask Making
CONT

axe, cooper's. A thin flat T-shaped blade, 10-12 in measured along the cutting edge, without a poll, and ground on one side only. The tapered socket springs from the middle of the back of the blade; in some patterns it is an extension of the blade, bent over to form a triangular socket. The handle is offset.... This tool is used for listing staves, i. e. chopping off the "waney" irregular edges and trimming them; this is done with the stave held almost horizontal on the block. It is also used for rough-shaping the circular outline of the heads and for chopping away the bevel on the back of the heads before using the Heading Knife....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tonnellerie
DEF

sorte de hache qui sert à doler le bois des douves, des cerceaux de tonneaux.

DEF

Cognée à taillant droit, à large lame plane dont le tranchant n'a qu'un seul biseau, oblique par rapport au manche court et un peu courbé, servant à aplanir, dresser et unir les pièces de bois.

CONT

En emmanchant la doloire, il faut avoir soin de faire dévier le manche en dehors, afin qu'il ne se trouve pas sur le même plan que l'axe de la lame [...] La doloire [...] doit donner à la douelle une forme déterminée qui n'est ps dessinée par des lignes droites, mais par des courbes légères. Il faut qu'en laissant tomber cet outil tranchant, s'arrondisse en creux la planche étroite et mince [...] Ces opérations de dolage ont lieu sur un billot appelé "ours" [...] La doloire est abattue verticalement sur la douelle allongée sur l'ours [...]

Spanish

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Record 17 1979-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
CONT

Soldering pliers which has the thin tungsten points to hold the casting, is necessary in order that heat will not be drawn away from the casting(...). Soldering flux is flamed on the tip of the slate pencil to form the bead.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
CONT

Confection de la bague (...). Brasure. Avec des précelles à souder, l'anneau est tenu sur le bunsen et chauffé lentement au rouge blanc.

OBS

Voir A10 du fascicule 23220 de ENSTO.

Spanish

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Record 18 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rubber
  • Additives and Fillers (Rubber)
OBS

the process of tapping consists in paring away a thin shaving in the bark from the lower surface of the branch cuts. This opens the latex vessels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caoutchouc
  • Ingrédients (Caoutchouc)
OBS

si l'on pratique une incision dans l'écorce de l'arbre, on produit une ouverture dans le réservoir constitué par les vaisseaux laticifères.

Spanish

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