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TURN ASIDE [5 records]

Record 1 2017-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
DEF

Designed to avert or turn aside evil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
DEF

Se dit d'un objet, d'une formule servant à détourner les influences maléfiques. (Dans l'antiquité gréco-romaine, le phallus, la main votive étaient des objets apotropaïques. On peut ranger encore dans cette catégorie le mauvais œil, aussi ancien, mais de signification encore actuelle.)

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sea Operations (Military)
DEF

Part of the ocean clearance policy whereby ships divert from their original destination in accordance with an agreed policy.

OBS

turn aside : This term has been removed from the NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
DEF

Partie du plan de dégagement des océans prévoyant que les navires soient déroutés de leur destination initiale conformément à une politique définie.

OBS

déroutement de la navigation commerciale : Ce terme a été retiré du Glossaire OTAN de termes et définitions.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
DEF

An arrangement of wood that is standing end on and is built like a pyramid or cone. The centre is fired, and as the core burns away the outside logs fall inwards, constantly feeding the heart of the fire. This type of fire gives good radiation and even with wet wood burns well.

CONT

Every novice knows the wigwam fire--indeed if a child who has never made a fire were told to build one, he would surely turn up with a wigwam, for it is the natural arrangement. But nevertheless, it is not without importance in the craft, for it is the core of every fire lay no matter how elaborate. Viewed in its own right and aside from its contribution as the starting torch of other lays, it has few qualifications as a cooking fire if one intends to do more than stew a pot of tea, because its heat is all thrown to the center of the pyramid and offers no spread for the utensils, and its coals all drop to one small spot in the center. It is good for light, however, and is prized in the evening. First the coil of birch-bark, or the chip of fat pine, or the handful of tiny twigs broken into a pyramid, or the fuzz-stick; then a few softwood sticks from the size of a pencil up to that of your little finger, stacked around it in wigwam fashion, and lastly the hardwood sticks of finger and thumb size. Remember to keep it tall and slender. And keep it small--a foot high and a foot wide at the base.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
CONT

Feu en cône. Cette méthode est excellente pour obtenir rapidement des braises ou pour faire un petit feu de camp. Un feu en cône a l'inconvénient de faire les étincelles. Il demande donc de l'attention dans sa conduite et une surveillance constante. Pour le construire, il suffit de disposer en cône serré, autour d'un petit cône initial de brindilles et d'allume feu, des rondins de diamètre et de longueur progressivement croissants. Ménagez du côté au vent un petit couloir pour pouvoir introduire l'amadou enflammé.

CONT

Feu en wigmam : C'est la structure classique des feux de camp. On place d'abord le matériau inflammable en maintenant un certain espace entre les brindilles, les aiguilles ou quel que soit le matériau de base. On place ensuite des bâtons légèrement plus gros autour du centre, sans les attacher, en réservant un espace du côté du vent pour permettre à l'air--le vent ou votre souffle--d'entrer. [...] Quant il a brûlé, le "wigwam" de base laisse un bon lit de braises pour le bois restant, qui peut être mis à plat.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Security
  • Security Devices
OBS

Deterrents. A deterrent is defined as anything that will turn aside or discourage through fear, or prevent an action either by making the action difficult or inciting fear of the consequences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité générale de l'entreprise
  • Dispositifs de sécurité

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
OBS

a) There is a Vial of Life form that you can print out, then fillout by hand. b) This information is then put inside an empty pill bottle and attached to the top shelf of the refrigerator. We say to use the fridge, because everyone has one and they are usually easy to find. c) Use a rubberband to secure it to the bottom of the top shelf or somewhere else it won’t get shoved around and lost. d) Cut out the emblems at the bottom of the page and place one on the door of the fridge at a minimum. e) The second can be placed in the lower right window pane of your front. Aside from these visual clues. f) Tell the responding EMT/Rescue Squad that you have the vial and make sure they get i

Key term(s)
  • Vial of Life Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux

Spanish

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