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Record 1 2020-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

To cut so as to bring or throw down.

PHR

cut down a tree

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Couper de manière à faire tomber ce qui était vertical.

OBS

abattre un arbre

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Sports
CONT

Disc golf relies on one’s ability to throw a disc with power and accuracy. The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest total number of throws of a golf disc. Similar to the traditional golf game, a course is composed of a number of holes, in which each player begins by throwing from the tee, and completes the hole by landing in or striking the target.

OBS

The hole can be one of a number of disc golf targets; the most common is called a pole hole, an elevated metal basket. As a player progresses down the fairway, he or she must make each consecutive shot from the spot [lie] where the previous throw has landed.

OBS

Frisbee®: a registered trademark. Although "frisbee" is frequently used to describe flying discs in general, its use, and the use of "frisbee golf," according to the sources consulted, should be avoided, except when one refers specifically to flying discs made by WHAM-O Inc.

Key term(s)
  • disk golf
  • discgolf
  • diskgolf

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports divers
DEF

Jeu de disque-volant, inspiré des règles du golf, qui consiste à atteindre des cibles successives en un minimum de lancers, sur un parcours aménagé.

OBS

Frisbee® : marque de commerce déposée de WHAM-O Inc. Il faut donc éviter d'employer le terme «frisbee» pour désigner un disque de disc-golf et les termes «golf frisbee» ainsi que «frisbee golf» pour désigner le disque-golf.

Key term(s)
  • disk golf
  • disk-golf
  • golf à disque
  • golf de disque
  • discgolf
  • diskgolf

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

In general, the result of winning a game against the server. More specifically, from the perspective of the server, a loss of a service game. If the server loses the game, he is broken, sometimes in spirit as well as fact.

CONT

... Sampras pulled off the first break of the match in the third game of the second set, broke again two games later, and slowly took control.

OBS

Sometimes colloquially called "breaker". Although "service" and "serve" are synonyms, one does not say "serve break". Compare with "break service", the verb.

PHR

An insurance break.

PHR

To be down, be up a service break. To throw a service break away.

Key term(s)
  • serve break
  • break of service
  • breaker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

[Fait de] prendre le service de l'adversaire sans perdre le sien, d'où un avantage de 2 jeux. Se dit lorsque le serveur perd la partie servie.

OBS

Les expressions «faire la brèche» ou «créer la rupture» sont proposées en équivalent de «faire le break».

Key term(s)
  • bris

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 4 2011-01-18

English

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

... the many natural processes that affect settlement sites following their abandonment effectively transform their archaeological record to varying degrees, often burying them through such processes as alluviation and colluviation.

CONT

The down slope movement of colluvium appears to be controlled by diffusive processes such as soil creep, tree throw, frost heaving, and bioturbation.

OBS

movement of colluvium; production of colluvium: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des sols
DEF

Mise en place de colluvions sous l'effet de la pesanteur qu'accompagne ou non l'intervention de l'eau.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Track and Field
CONT

From the end of the backswing until the instant or release, a discus throw can be broken down into five phases : 1. An initial double-support phase, 2. A single-support phase on the left foot, 3. A non-support phase, 4. A second single support phase, on the right foot, 5. The delivery phase...

OBS

Technique/tactics - throwing events.

Key term(s)
  • nonsupport phase

French

Domaine(s)
  • Athlétisme
CONT

Phases du lancer, description biomécanique. 1) Phase de départ en double appui, 2) phase de départ en simple appui, 3) phase de suspension, 4) phase finale en appui simple, 5) phase finale en double appui.

OBS

Technique/tactique - lancers.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Railroad Maintenance
CONT

A single-track Russell snow plow built... in January 1937, 64513 is one of the oldest Russell plows Conrail owned since most were built after World War II during the late 1940's. Given its number, its most likely an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad plow. Single-track plows are split down the middle and are designed to push the snow to both sides of the track. Double-track plows are designed to throw the snow to the right-hand side of the track only.

Key term(s)
  • Russell snowplow

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien (Équipement ferroviaire)
OBS

Pluriel : des chasse-neige ou des chasse-neiges.

OBS

chasse-neiges (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
DEF

A perforated stone reported only from archaic sites in midwestern and eastern North America and having usually two symmetrical wings that was apparently used primarily as a weight attached to a throwing stick but doubtless had considerable ceremonial significance, having been often buried with the dead.

CONT

A specific type of oddly shaped weight, called a banner stone, served as a kind of silencer, stopping a hunter's prey from being startled by the sound of the throw. Normally, an atlatl makes a distinctive ’zip’ sound when the dart is thrown. But a banner stone, extending sideways like wings on an aeroplane, again about halfway down the atlatl, seems to muffle this sound.

OBS

A banner stone is a particular type of atlatl weight.

Key term(s)
  • banner-stone

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
CONT

Lest de propulseur en pierre polie. De tels lests étaient attachés au propulseur afin d'accroître la force de propulsion de la lance. Le trou nécessaire pour attacher le lest au propulseur était percé au moyen d'un foret à archet et au moyen d'une tige de roseau creuse, d'eau et d'un mélange abrasif de sable.

Spanish

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Record 8 2002-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Performing Arts (General)
DEF

An ancient game or event of a sporting competition in which mounted knights were trying, with their swords or lances, to cut or throw down wooden heads or posts placed at different heights along the course.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Arts du spectacle (Généralités)
DEF

Jeu de carrousel : le cavalier au galop doit abattre, de la lance ou de l'épée, des têtes de bois disposées à hauteurs différentes.

OBS

ancien. «Chacun de ces chevaliers courait, la lance à la main, le long de la barrière et emportait une tête de Turc posée sur un buste de bois doré, puis, avec une demi-volte, revenait darder la tête de More sur un autre buste distant de cinq pieds» (Ch. Perrault, Courses de Testes, 1670).

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Martial Arts
CONT

JUDO. A characteristic foot throw is de ashi harai [de-ashi-harai]. Tori first shifts uke's weight toward uke's left side. Using the bottom of his left foot, tori sweeps his opponent's right foot, putting opponent's weight entirely onto his left leg and without support on his right side. Tori sharply reverses direction of arm movement, wheeling opponent around and down in the direction of no support. Tori completes the throw by follow-through of arm and leg movements, pulling uke down as the swept foot is lifted, cross-body. A clean throw puts uke onto the mat on his back or side.

Key term(s)
  • de ashi harai
  • de ashi barai
  • forward foot sweep
  • deashiharai
  • deashibarai

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts martiaux
OBS

JUDO. Tori (celui qui fait le mouvement) provoque le déséquilibre droit de uke (celui qui subit le mouvement). Lorsque uke avance son pied droit, son poids doit se porter dans la même direction que son pied. Juste avant que le pied de uke ne touche le tatami (tapis) et, forcément, que son poids ne s'y établisse, tori doit balayer la cheville droite de uke avec la plante de son pied gauche, et ce, dans la direction du déplacement.

OBS

Généralement, la plupart des termes japonais en judo s'emploient au masculin, mais il y a des exceptions.

Key term(s)
  • de ashi harai
  • de ashi barai
  • deashiharai
  • deashibarai

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Martial Arts
DEF

JUDO. A hand throwing technique in which judo players throw the opponent over their shoulder.

CONT

A characteristic body throw is seoi nage. Tori pivots into position, his back toward uke, locking his bent right elbow into uke's right armpit. Tori's knees are slightly bent, his upper body leans to his left. His right hip is against uke's right thigh. Tori lifts and wheels with his body as he pulls around and down with his arms to complete the throw.

Key term(s)
  • seoi nage
  • seoinage
  • shoulder throws

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

JUDO. Technique de bras par laquelle le combattant projette son adversaire par-dessus son épaule.

OBS

La plupart des termes japonais en judo s'emploient au masculin, mais il y a des exceptions.

Key term(s)
  • seoi nage
  • seoinage
  • projections d'épaule
  • lancement par l'épaule

Spanish

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Record 11 1999-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

To throw a rock at another rock of one's own team in order to move it in the same direction down the ice or into the house.

OBS

raise (delivery): The action of throwing a rock at another of one’s own team to make it move in the same direction, either to promote it into the rings or improve its position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Jeu qui consiste à lancer une pierre sur une autre [de son équipe] pour la faire avancer dans la même direction [ou] dans la maison.

OBS

montée (lancer) : Lancer d'une pierre vers une autre de sa propre équipe pour la faire avancer dans la même direction, afin de la positionner plus près de la maison ou de l'immobiliser à l'intérieur des cercles concentriques.

Spanish

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