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WIT [17 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

Escalation index : Unemployment Insurance Act, 1985(wit amendments to March 1, 1991).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
OBS

Indice de progression : Règlement sur l'assurance-chômage, 1978 (avec modifications jusqu'au 1er mars 1991).

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
CONT

Warm ischemic time(WIT) is the amount of time the organ [to be transplanted] is not adequately oxygenated and not preserved in a cold solution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
DEF

Période pendant laquelle un organe destiné à la transplantation n'est ni adéquatement oxygéné ni conservé dans une solution de refroidissement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Marketing
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
CONT

A funny tone of voice is a lighthearted, humorous approach that brands often use to capture attention, entertain, and create a memorable experience for their audience. This tone relies on wit, clever wordplay, pop culture references, and playful language to make the brand feel more relatable and engaging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Commercialisation
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
CONT

Ton de voix humoristique : Si vous voulez faire rire votre audience et créer une ambiance détendue, utilisez ce ton de voix. Il est idéal pour les articles légers, les listes amusantes et les anecdotes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intelligence (Military)
  • Arms Control
CONT

Members of the weapons intelligence team provide counter improvised explosive device intelligence through collection, analysis and tactical exploitation ...

OBS

weapons intelligence team; WIT : designations standardized by NATO and to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
  • Contrôle des armements
OBS

équipe de recherche technique et tactique; ER2T : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

OBS

équipe de recherche technique et tactique; ER2T; équipe de renseignement sur les armes; WIT : désignations d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 5 2018-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
OBS

A small provincial organization overseen by KidSport Canada. [Its mission is] to provide financial assistance to children in Manitoba aged 18 and under who are interested in playing sports, [and] help wit registration fees and equipment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
OBS

SportJeunesse Manitoba : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

OBS

SportJeunesse est un organisme national sans but lucratif qui fournit une aide financière aux jeunes âgés de 18 ans et moins pour payer leurs frais d'inscription et l'achat d'articles de sport.

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rhetoric
DEF

dry, delicate wit.

OBS

Attic: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greece or of Athens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Art de dire (Rhétorique)
DEF

plaisanterie fine.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

The principle that in certain circumstances a person will not be permitted by law to exercise a right which he has by that law, on the basis that the right is conferred for certain purposes and may not be exercised for purposes foreign to these.

OBS

The question arises particularly where a right is exercised wit the sole or predominant purpose of harming another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Administration
OBS

According to General Regulations 1835, Art IX, Para 41, this "book" was furnished each soldier in order to "... record the military history of its possessor..., "to wit, his pay, allowances, service and conduct. It apparently served as an individual pay and personnel record, not as an instructional manual or handbook. Administrative aspects of the 1835 Soldier's Book can be traced in U. S. War Dept General Orders No 10, 1835; No 11, 1837; Nos 26, 54 and 60, 1839; and No 30, 1844. General Order 15 of 1845(not on file) ended its use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration militaire

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Labour and Employment
OBS

By Shahid Alvi and Maria de Wit. Conference Board of Canada : Childcare Initiatives Fund, Health and Welfare Canada, c1993.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

Shahid Alvi et Maria de Wit, Conference Board du Canada, Ottawa, c1993.

Spanish

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Record 10 2005-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
DEF

A type of comedy, widely prevalent during the silent-film era, that depends on broad physical action and pantomime for its effect rather than verbal wit or character dialogue.

OBS

The Dictionary of New Media is available at: <a href="http://hepdigital.com/" title="http://hepdigital.com">http://hepdigital.com</a>.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Genre de comédie dont les origines remontent au cinéma muet, qui puise dans la gestuelle loufoque (coups de bâton mou, lancers de tartes à la crème) pour créer une ambiance qui n'est généralement pas appuyée par les mots d'esprit ou les dialogues.

Spanish

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Record 11 2004-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • School and School-Related Administration
DEF

The part of an interactive system responsible for providing the user with information about the workings of the program on request. Help can be obtained in a number of ways: by typing the word "help", by pressing a particular function key on the keyboard, or by using a mouse or other pointing device to select a "help" item from a menu.

CONT

A help system supports the user in handling and mastering an information processing system. ... A comprehensive help system not only answers questions of users, but also "looks over their shoulders" and interrupts when appropriate.

CONT

One of the problems with traditional assistance systems is that users have to often formulate their requests for help in terms of [Bstem commands and keywords which they may not remember or even know in the first place.... An effective assistant must, therefore, have the capability to interpret user queries which are posed in natural language, so that users are not burdened wit the task of translating their requests in terms of system terminology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
DEF

Textes d'aide pour un programme d'application, incorporés à un système permettant, par exemple, de se déplacer à travers les différents textes vers l'avant et vers l'arrière. Il dispose également d'un index des sujets traités ainsi que de références à d'autres sujets. Contrairement aux fichiers d'aide habituels, un système d'aide est généralement piloté par des options particulières de menus.

CONT

Le système d'aide à l'utilisateur vise à réaliser une interface homme/machine intelligente qui assiste l'élève dans l'emploi du didacticiel. Son objectif principal est d'accélérer le temps d'apprentissage du logiciel. Un objectif secondaire du système d'aide est de réaliser un système sans manuel, c'est-à-dire un système où il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir lu la documentation pour s'en servir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Administración escolar y paraescolar
DEF

Parte de un sistema interactivo, responsable de ofrecer al usario la información solicitada sobre cómo trabajar con un programa.

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Record 12 2002-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Reinsurance and Coinsurance
CONT

... the occasional lead underwriting fee [Wit Capital] could win may be eclipsed by a steady stream of co-management rules...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Réassurance et coassurance
DEF

Commission versée par les coassureurs à l'apériteur d'un contrat d'assurance en rémunération de ses services.

OBS

commission d'apérition : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR. Extrait de la norme NF-K40-001, reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
OBS

Weyburn Inland Terminal(WIT) is a farmer-owned and managed company operating an inland terminal and grain condominium complex on the CP Rail network near Weyburn Saskatchewan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales

Spanish

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Record 14 1997-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Films
  • Labour and Employment
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

On the eve of the 21st century, this film of the National Film Board of Canada offers fascinating alternatives to conventional thinking. Scientists, students and artists come together to express their faith in a holistic universe, linking global survival to global solidarity. Between interviews, a charismatic tortoise, whose observations pepper the video with wit and wisdom, acts as the watchguard and conscience of the Earth.

OBS

Information confirmed with the National Film Board of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de films
  • Travail et emploi
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

En cette fin de millénaire, plusieurs grands courants de pensée privilégient une vision holistique de l'univers. Des hommes et des femmes parlant le langage de la science, de la psychologie ou de l'écologie, de la jeunesse, de l'appartenance à la terre ou de l'expérience spirituelle, témoignent dans ce film de l'Office national du film du Canada de cet indéniable espoir de réconciliation entre l'esprit et la matière, et d'un même sentiment de faire partie d'un grand tout.

OBS

Renseignement vérifié auprès de l'Office national du film du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
CONT

The HEMT belongs to a class of devices known as field effect transistors(FETS). It is also known a MODFET, because it depends on changing material composition from layer to layer. It goes by a variety of names... including selectively doped heterostructure transistor and two-dimensional electron gas(because of the charged particles’ vaporlike freedom to roam within the thin layer). One wit has dubbed it the MAD(many-acronymed device).

Key term(s)
  • high electron mobility transistor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)

Spanish

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Record 16 1985-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
CONT

... sarcastic wit may be perceived as powerful but unpopular in a group, while clowning wit may be seen as popular but powerless...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
DEF

Caractère d'une personne loufoque, de ce qui est loufoque.

CONT

"La loufoquerie de la conversation tenait parfois du fantastique".

Spanish

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Record 17 1982-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Press (News and Journalism)
  • Writing Styles
DEF

a short literary sketch chiefly descriptive and characterized usu. by delicacy, wit, and subtlety.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Presse écrite
  • Techniques d'écriture
DEF

Petit article de journal, écrit plaisant, bref, ironique, se terminant par une pointe ou un trait d'esprit: (...)

Spanish

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