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Record 1 2023-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronics
CONT

Macroelectronics are flexible electronics that cover a large area. The most visible example of macroelectronics is flat-panel displays. Other emerging applications include rollable display, printable thin film solar cells and electronic skin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électronique

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glass Industry
  • Glass Manufacturing
DEF

A refractory block used to cover a thin spot in another refractory block.

OBS

patch block: term and definition standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1992.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du verre
  • Fabrication du verre
DEF

Bloc réfractaire utilisé pour recouvrir une partie amincie d’un autre bloc.

OBS

bloc de placage; fourrure; placard : termes et définition normalisés par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation (ISO) en 1992.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
CONT

Cover wax. Thin layer applied outside when wax is cold. After skiing a bit, always cork the wax in to make it faster.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
CONT

LF6 Bleu. -6° jusqu'à -12°C. Très bien comme fart de préparation de la semelle pour neige dure, comme fart de protection pour les voyages et comme couche de base avant l'application d'autres farts.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biogeography
  • Polar Geography
  • Ecosystems
DEF

Areas relatively barren of vegetation because of adverse soil or climatic conditions.

CONT

Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.

OBS

barren land : Those ecosystems in which less than one third of the area has vegetation or other cover. In general, a barren land has thin soil, sand, or rocks. Barren lands include deserts, dry salt flats, beaches, sand dunes, exposed rock, strip mines, quarries, and gravel pits.

OBS

As a noun, barren is usually in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • barrenland
  • barren

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biogéographie
  • Géographie du froid
  • Écosystèmes
DEF

Étendue non cultivée de terrain sablonneux, comportant une végétation basse.

OBS

lande : terme qui s'emploie souvent au pluriel (landes).

Key term(s)
  • landes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biogeografía
  • Geografía polar
  • Ecosistemas
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Record 5 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
CONT

Skin slides or flows are surficial debris movements on rocky slopes. They occur in the thin mineral soil veneer and the organic cover on relatively steep slopes(>35°).

CONT

On less steep tundra slopes, ice-rich permafrost is commonly insulated from thaw by stable, vegetated regolith. If sudden slippage of regolith occurs, exposure of the permafrost may lead to seasonal retrogression or failure. Alternatively, deeper penetration of thaw into the permafrost itself may induce rapid slippage in which the surface regolith is passively rafted away by failure of the thawed, ice-rich material below. ... Such rapid failure of the active layer are commonly referred to as skin flows.

OBS

skin flow; shallow translational slide: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Mécanique des sols
CONT

Les glissements pelliculaires sont des décrochements superficiels affectant la mince couche de débris minéraux et la couche organique recouvrant les versants rocheux à pente raide (>35°).

OBS

écoulement superficiel : d'après Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Mechanics; Technical terms used in soil mechanics and foundation engineering, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Unesco pédologie.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coining
  • Coins and Bank Notes
DEF

To cover or coat with a thin layer of gold, gold leaf, or a gold-coloured substance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Monnayage
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-08-01

English

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

Codfish pie. Put the fish in cold water to soak, the night before wanted; then boil it well, and pick it into small pieces; set it on a fish drainer to get cold. Boil four eggs hard, peel and slice them very thin; the same quantity of onion sliced thin. Line the bottom of a pie-dish with a layer of potatoes slices thin; then a layer of onions, then of fish, and of eggs, and so on till the dish is full. Season each layer with a little pepper, then mix a tea-spoonful of mustard and a little mushroom catsup in a gill of water, put in the dish... Cover it with puff-paste, and bake in one hour.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 8 2000-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Public Utilities (Civil Engineering)
CONT

Landfill methods. There are three principal landfill methods of landfilling ... (1) Excavated cell method ... (2) Area method ... (3) Embankment method: An embankment method is used in situations where the site topography allows for the landfill to be ramped on a hill side or a steep side slope. This type of landfill has commonly been used in past years for design of landfills in ravines, coulees, or gullies with soil being obtained from the hill side or side slopes.

CONT

Two general methods of landfilling have evolved : the area method and the trench method. Some schools of thought also include a third, the slope, or ramp, method. In some operations, a slope or ramp is used in combination with the area or trench methods.... In the ramp or slope method(a variation of the area and trench landfills) the solid wastes are dumped on the side of an existing slope. After spreading the material in thin layers on the slope, the bulldozing equipment compacts it. The cover material, usually obtained just ahead of the working face, is spread on the ramp and compacted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Services d'utilité publique (Génie civil)
OBS

Nous croyons qu'il s'agit d'une variante du stockage en surface (en anglais : «area method», qui consiste à entasser les déchets le long d'une pente raide (ou à flanc de colline).

OBS

Le terme «stockage à flanc de coteau» a été obtenu du Centre de Géologie de l'Ingénieur, École des Mines de Paris. Les termes «exploitation à flanc de coteau» et «méthode en déblai-remblai sur pente» ont été proposés par l'Unité de recherche Ouvrages pour le drainage et l'étanchéité, Parc de Tourvoie, Antony (France), tandis que «stockage sur pente» a été proposé par le LIRIGM - Géologie et Mécanique, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.

Key term(s)
  • stockage en déblai-remblai sur pente
  • méthode sur pente

Spanish

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Record 9 1997-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forwarding, Folding, and Binding (Printing)
DEF

In bookbinding, a thin ornamental piece of leather mounted on the surface of a leather book cover.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Façonnage, pliage et reliure (Imprimerie)
DEF

En finissure, morceau de cuir aminci qu'on applique sur le plat du livre suivant un dessin à motifs décoratifs.

CONT

On trace sur le plat les filets qui doivent border la mosaïque. On assortit les couleurs de la peau à mosaïquer aux couleurs du dessin. [...].

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-06-17

English

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

sky cover of 0.1 to 0.5 (5 to 54 per cent), applied only when clouds or obscuring phenomena aloft are present. It is not applied when only surface-based obscuring phenomena are present.

OBS

In aviation weather observations, a scattered sky cover may be explicitly identified as thin(predominantly transparent) ;otherwise a predominantly opaque status is implicit. A scattered sky cover does not constitute a ceiling.

OBS

The scattered sky is defined as one with 1 to 4 oktas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
  • Climatologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
OBS

Ciel à nébulosité décrite de un à cinq dixièmes lorsque des nuages élevés seulement sont présents.

OBS

Exprimé en octas, ce type de ciel est situé entre 1 et 4 octas.

Spanish

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Record 11 1988-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
CONT

Unified and American National screw thread standards for screws, bolts, nuts, and other threaded parts consist of six series of threads [UNC or NC; UNF or NF; UNEF or NEF; 8UN or 8N; 12UN or 12N; 16UN or 16N] and a selection of special threads that cover nonstandard combinations of diameter and pitch... The 12-thread series(12UN or 12N) is a uniform pitch series that is widely used is industry for thin nuts on shafts and sleeves. This series is considered to be a continuation of the fine-thread series for diameters greater than 1 1/2 in.

OBS

"12N": for the American National thread. "12UN": for the Unified National thread.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
CONT

[...] un filetage Unified National à filets fins de 1 po de diamètre et de 12 filets au po, se cote : 1-12 UNF.

CONT

L'utilisation type des diverses séries est la suivante : [...]. Série à 12 filets. Utilisée couramment en chaudronnerie, dans les diamètres jusqu'à 1 3/4 po, pour refaire les filets taraudés usés et pour un usage général comme le prolongement des filets fins.

OBS

"12 N" : pour le filetage American National; "12 UN" : pour le filetage Unified National.

Spanish

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Record 12 1987-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
DEF

To cover a piece of meat, poultry, game or, more rarely, a large fish before braising it, with thin slices of bacon or salt or fresh pork, tied with string.

OBS

After cooking, the barding fat is removed. Its main purpose is to protect delicate parts of the meat, or breast of poultry. It is, however, customary to serve roast game - woodcock, quail, pheasant, partridge, etc. - with the fat or bacon which was used for barding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
DEF

Recouvrir (en partie) une viande de boucherie, la poitrine (filets) d'une volaille) et d'un gibier à plume, avec une tranche fine de lard gras (barde) maintenue à l'aide d'une ficelle, afin de les protéger de la chaleur trop vive du four et de les "nourrir" en graisse pendant leur cuisson.

OBS

Pour barder une pièce à cuire, on la recouvre d'une ou de plusieurs bardes que l'on maintient par quelques tours de ficelle à rôti. On retire la barde (on "débarde") avant de servir les rôtis, les paupiettes et les volailles; en revanche, il est d'usage de servir le perdreau et les autres gibiers bardés.

Spanish

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Record 13 1986-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging in Plastic
  • Packaging in Paper
  • Music (General)
DEF

a thin paper or plastic cover for protecting a phonograph record.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages en matières plastiques
  • Emballages en papier
  • Musique (Généralités)
DEF

Sac de papier ou de matière plastique en forme de poche dans lequel on met le disque avant de l'insérer dans la pochette.

Spanish

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Record 14 1985-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
DEF

Thin sheet metal cover and deflector attached to air-cooled cylinders to force air through the cooling fins to remove the maximum amount of heat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 15 1985-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Industry
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
OBS

to laminate : to cover with thin plates.

OBS

laminator: a device which protects documents by laminating them between sheets of transparent plastic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie des plastiques
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
DEF

carte ou pièce d'identité recouverte de plastique.

OBS

le substantif "plastifié" a été proposé par analogie avec les substantifs "laminé" et "stratifié".

OBS

plastifié, e, adj. : Qui a été recouvert d'une feuille protectrice de matière plastique : un cahier à couverture plastifiée; carte d'identité plastifiée. plastifier, v.t. : Recouvrir d'une feuille de matière plastique : on plastifie les cartes d'identité pour les protéger.

Spanish

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Record 16 1978-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
CONT

Beginners and laymen very often simply tear stamps off covers and postcards. In most cases bits of paper from the reverse of the stamp remain on the cover. When you look at such a stamp against the light you can easily see a lighter area in the place where the paper is thinner. Philatelist call such stamp thin.

Key term(s)
  • thin stamp

French

Domaine(s)
  • Timbres et oblitération
CONT

Un timbre aminci perd beaucoup de sa valeur.

OBS

Amincissement [d'un timbre]: diminution plus ou moins légère de l'épaisseur (...) [de son] papier.

Spanish

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Record 17 1977-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

(...) dark organic substance(...) [forming] a very thin outermost cover(...) [for] the shell(...) [of a pelecypod]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) matière cornée [formant] (...) la "couche externe" (...) de la coquille des Lamellibranches (...)

Spanish

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