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WOOD HOUSE [20 records]

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Record 1 2026-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

Penicillium are very commonly found in soil, on decaying vegetation and compost or on wood, dried foodstuffs, spices, dry cereals, fresh fruit and vegetables. They are also found growing on building materials in water-damaged environments as well as in indoor air and house dust.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
OBS

Les Penicillium sont très généralement retrouvés dans le sol, sur les végétaux en décomposition et le compost de même que sur le bois, les produits alimentaires secs, les épices, les céréales, les fruits frais et les légumes. On les trouve également poussant sur des matériaux de construction dans des environnements endommagés par l'eau ainsi que dans l'air intérieur et la poussière domestique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
  • Producción vegetal
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Record 2 2014-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

"House-bote" is a sufficient allowance of wood to build or repair the house, or to burn in it, which latter is sometimes called "fire-bote. "[Stroud's, 4th ed., 1971, p. 314].

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

bois de chauffage : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood to build or repair the house, or to burn in it, which later is sometimes called fire-bote.("Stroud, "4th, p. 314)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

bois de maison : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Residential Architecture
DEF

A house whose weight is carried by a wood framework instead of load-bearing walls.

OBS

Frame (or framed) house is a generic term including house with steel, concrete, or timber structure.

Key term(s)
  • wood frame house
  • wood framed house
  • timber frame house
  • timber framed house

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Architecture d'habitation
DEF

Terme générique [désignant] toute construction dont la structure porteuse est exclusivement composée de pièces de bois.

CONT

Fig. 92 - Maison à ossature de bois. [...] Dans les procédés modernes, l'ossature est en planches dressées verticalement, le plat perpendiculaire aux deux parements du «mur». Les parements intérieurs et extérieurs sont en planches clouées sur les précédentes. Le vide peut recevoir un isolant - déchets de liège, laine de verre.

CONT

Ces maisons seront toutes à ossature bois et construites suivant la technique canadienne.

OBS

La maison à ossature bois [...] est la variante allégée, à composants plus ou moins industrialisés, de la construction en pans de bois; dans certains pays, elle représente le système constructif le plus courant pour les maisons individuelles (Canada, États-Unis, pays scandinaves).

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «maison de bois» (en anglais, «wooden house»).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Natural Construction Materials
CONT

Cedar shakes are the ideal roofing material for many areas of the Western United States. A wood roof keeps your house warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. A Meeker shake roof can endure 130 mph winds. In the winter, a Meeker cedar roof will effectively shed snow and ice. Cedar shakes are resistive to thermal shock associated with freeze-thaw conditions. Where fire is a hazard, Meeker cedar shakes optionally treated with FTX are fire retardant for life.

OBS

wood roof: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Matériaux de construction naturels
CONT

pont couvert : Pont dont la structure surmontant le tablier est faite de poutres de bois, parfois de tiges métalliques, doté de parois et d'un toit en bois qui protègent la chaussée.

CONT

Des habitants ont escaladé le toit en bois de la cathédrale pour éteindre les flammes.

OBS

toit en bois : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
DEF

A roofed open-air passage or porch connecting two buildings (as a house and garage) or forming a corridor between two halves of a building (as of a cabin).

CONT

A common early rural domestic building style was a single room log house, or pen as the architects call it. Often the attic was used as a sleeping loft. As the family grew, a second log house would be built adjacent to the first. The two buildings, or double pens, could be joined by a common roof and a wood floor between the buildings could be added. The space created between the two buildings is called a dogtrot. This breezeway of sorts would, in winter, allow the dogs to get in, out of the rain and snow, or in the summertime, let them find some shade.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Passage recouvert entre une maison et une dépendance.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Techos (Elementos de edificios)
DEF

Paso entre dos edificios, cubierto, pero abierto en sus dos extremos, lo que incrementa la ventilación.

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Record 7 2010-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Water Distribution (Water Supply)
CONT

At the time the Vasa was raised, in 1961, there were no conventional techniques adequate to preserve such an enormous artifact.... While new methods were being worked on, the ship was enclosed in a large storage house.... The sprinkler system was the best solution. To arrest the rotting, a soluble compound of seven parts boric acid and three parts of borax was mixed with fresh water and sprayed over the entire hull.... to stabilize the wood and keep it from shrinking and cracking, the ship was sprayed with a solution of polyethylene glycol(PEG) and fresh water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Distribution de l'eau
CONT

Le traitement de consolidation et de conservation du bois [...] fait intervenir des procédés complexes [...]. La [méthode] plus répandue, [...] consiste à imprégner le bois gorgé d'eau de polyéthylène glycol (PEG) [...] à l'aide d'une solution plus ou moins concentrée jusqu'à ce que le produit se substitue de façon satisfaisante à l'eau. En refroidissant, le PEG se solidifie et consolide le bois, tout en maintenant sa forme et son apparence. Cette méthode fut utilisée [...] en 1961 pour le traitement du Vasa [...]. Ne pouvant être démonté, l'imposant navire fut imprégné par un système d'arrosage automatique [...]. Le système d'arrosage automatique au PEG fut aussi utilisé en 1970 [...].

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A type of biomass combustion burner in which a pile of fuel burns on the grates.

OBS

Primary combustion air comes from above the grates, not below.

CONT

The boilers are fed wood fuel from the main fuel bin located adjacent to the boiler house. The boilers are the "pile burner" type, which burn wood in a large pile on the floor of a refractory lined furnace box. Combustion efficiency with this type of boiler is generally low but pile burners are simple and therefore relatively inexpensive. Low combustion efficiency also means that emissions such as particulates and carbon monoxide are relatively high. One notable advantage to these systems is that high moisture content fuels can be burned as well as "dirty" fuels containing debris.

CONT

Pile burner: Boilers incorporating a pile burning design find applications where the anticipated wood fuel has a high (up to 65%) relative moisture content, as is found in whole green tree chips, bark, and green mill residue. Grates serve to support the fuel, and underfire air flowing up through the grates provides oxygen for combustion, cools the grates, promotes turbulence in the fuel bed, and dries the fuel. The most common form of pile burning is the Dutch oven, which was used almost exclusively during the early part of the century (Guinn and Turner 1990).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le combustible de bois sec est mélangé à de la sciure de bois vert afin de produire un mélange de combustible qui convienne aux brûleurs de biomasse [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Interior Decorations
CONT

Is your house heated by big clunky radiators? Are they eyesores that are taking up valuable space in each room? If so, you can build custom radiator covers that will attractively hide the metal monsters and provide you with a convenient shelf for storage or decorative pieces.... A radiator cover is essentially a 3-sided box with a top. The front of the box will be a frame that contains a screen. The top and two sides will be solid pieces of wood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décoration intérieure
DEF

Revêtement ou élément d'ameublement grillagé, destiné à cacher un radiateur d'appartement.

OBS

Pluriel : des cache-radiateurs.

OBS

cache-radiateurs (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 10 2004-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gas and Oil Heating
CONT

Warm Air Central Heating Systems. A warm air heating system, fueled by gas, electricity, oil or wood, does two jobs. First, heat is produced by burning the fuel in the combustion chamber or through electrical resistance. Second, heat is transferred through the heat exchanger and the distribution system to the living areas of the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chauffage au gaz et au mazout
Key term(s)
  • système central à air chaud
  • chauffage central à l'air chaud

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Calefacción a gas y con petróleo
DEF

Sistema de [calefacción que] consiste en un calorífero central que calienta aire y lo distribuye mediante bocas de distribución abiertas en las paredes de las habitaciones.

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Record 11 2003-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Exterior Covering Materials
DEF

The outside finish on a house, generally wood, plastic overlaid wood, [vinyl], hardboard, aluminum, asphalt, asbestos concrete, or steel.

OBS

"Siding" generally refers to exterior wall coverings other than masonry veneers, slabs, sandwich panels and renderings and which come in rigid sheeting systems, panels, planks or shingles.

OBS

for "cladding" : May refer to masonry veneer and tile hanging as well as to siding as described above.

OBS

cladding: Term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Revêtements extérieurs
DEF

Revêtement extérieur non porteur, vertical ou sensiblement vertical, d'une structure.

CONT

[Le revêtement est le] premier rang du recouvrement mural extérieur fixé aux poteaux, ou la surface porteuse fixée aux chevrons ou aux solives d'un toit.

OBS

«bardage» : Ce terme a été employé également pour désigner les dalles en béton et des panneaux sandwich revêtus de métal, etc., destinés à recouvrir un mur.

OBS

bardage : Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Revestimientos para exteriores
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Record 12 2002-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Residential Architecture
  • Building Ventilation
CONT

The ethnographic museum occupies a restored Qatari house with a wind tower, built in the early 20th century. Wind towers were a feature of traditional houses; they caught even the slightest breeze and funnelled the cooler air down into the house.

CONT

Wind Tower. A handful still exist in most of the region's cities, sometimes on people's homes, and sometimes carefully preserved or reconstructed at museums.... Traditional wind towers rise five or six meters above a house. They are usually built of wood or stone but can also be made from canvas. The tower is open on all four sides and catches even small breezes. The breeze create a low pressure zone which will draw air up from the house causing to create natural ventilation. The towers work amazingly well. Sitting beneath a wind tower even on a hot day you will feel a consistent breeze even when the outside air feels heavy and still.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'habitation
  • Ventilation (Construction)
CONT

En Oman, où le climat est dur, chaud et humide, les pêcheurs du bord de mer se sont dotés d'un habitat très élaboré, conçu de manière à assurer un certain confort thermique. Il comporte deux parties dans la même cour : des pièces d'hiver aux murs de terre épais, dont l'inertie thermique permet d'avoir chaud la nuit et de retransmettre la fraîcheur nocturne pendant le jour; des pièces d'été en côtes de palme juxtaposées verticalement et liées, laissant passer le vent. Le dispositif est complété par les «tours à vent» en poteaux de bois, supportant quatre grandes pièces de tissu disposées selon les diagonales, de manière à capter les vents venant de toutes les directions. Le flux d'air est aspiré naturellement vers le bas, créant dans la pièce située au-dessous un courant d'air rafraîchissant.

CONT

Visitez la dernière tour à vent du Qatar, un exploit architectural grâce auquel les maisons étaient «climatisées» avant que n'apparaissent l'électricité.

CONT

Le musée ethnographique occupe une maison qatarie comprenant une tour à vent construite au début du XXe siècle. Les maisons traditionnelles étaient équipées de tours à vent. Elles pouvaient capter la moindre brise et l'acheminer à l'intérieur de la maison.

Spanish

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Record 13 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Exterior Covering Materials
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
CONT

Wood shingles, as a rule, are easier to repair than clapboard. You can usually fix those that have split or warped by simply nailing them down with aluminum or galvanized nails. If the shingle is on the exposed side of the house... cut a piece of roofing paper approximately the size of the shingle and slip it underneath the shingle before nailing it down.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Revêtements extérieurs
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Planchette mince et courte dont on se sert pour couvrir les maisons [...]

OBS

Selon les régions (France) et les essences utilisées, on désigne aussi le bardeau de bois par les noms de : ancelle, échandole, essandole, essanne, essente, travaillon.

Key term(s)
  • ancelle
  • échandole
  • essandole
  • essanne
  • essente
  • travaillon

Spanish

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Record 14 1999-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
DEF

An enclosure in which a gaseous fuel is burned.

OBS

A warm air heating system, fueled by gas, electricity, oil or wood, does two jobs. First, heat is produced by burning the fuel in the combustion chamber or through electrical resistance. Second, heat is transferred through the heat exchanger and the distribution system to the living areas of the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
CONT

Maison de fin de semaine (...) On peut prévoir aussi le chauffage par air chaud avec générateur à mazout ou à gaz et distributions par gaines.

OBS

Fournaise : Ce terme est considéré comme impropre par les puristes. Selon Dagenais, dans son "Dictionnaire des difficultés de la langue française au Canada", "fournaise" serait un calque de l'anglais "furnace" et nous devrions plutôt dire "chaudière" lorsque le fluide caloporteur est l'eau ou la vapeur et "générateur d'air chaud", lorsque le fluide, est l'air. Cependant, ce terme reste d'usage fréquent au Québec, autant en langue parlée qu'en langue écrite.

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science
OBS

This willingness to get rid of the old wood is an expression of the vitality of Indian democracy, but also reflects a growing disaffection with the political class. This "anti-incumbency reflex" has now given India a House without a majority for an unprecedented second time in succession.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques
OBS

Or, ce réflexe de rejet des gouvernements (anti-incumbency reflex) a, de façon inédite, donné à l'Inde une Chambre sans majorité pour la deuxième année consécutive.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Federal Laws and Legal Documents
DEF

Means one of the following that is used for irrigating agricultural land :(a) a buried pipeline,(b) a pipe,(c) a pump,(d) a pump house,(e) a reservoir,(f) a drain, or(g) a canal lined with asphalt, wood, concrete or other material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Lois et documents juridiques fédéraux
DEF

L'une des structures suivantes utilisées à des fins d'irrigation des terres agricoles : a) un pipeline enfoui, b) une conduite, c) une pompe, d) une station de pompage, e) un réservoir, f) un drain, g) un canal muni d'un revêtement intérieur en asphalte, en bois, en béton ou en un autre matériau.

OBS

Terme français et équivalent sont utilisés dans la Loi canadienne sur l'évaluation environnementale (1992) ou dans les règlements connexes de cette loi.

Spanish

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Record 17 1990-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

In fuel-burning furnaces, the combustion takes place within a metal-walled heat exchanger and the circulating air passes over the outside surfaces of the heat exchanger so that it does not contact the fuel or the products of combustion. The products of combustion are conveyed to the outside atmosphere through a flue or vent.

OBS

A warm air heating system, fueled by gas, electricity, oil or wood, does two jobs. First, heat is produced by burning the fuel in the combustion chamber or through electrical resistance. Second, heat is transferred through the heat exchanger and the distribution system to the living areas of the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 18 1988-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Finishing
CONT

The woodwork around the room is "grained", as it is throughout the house, to resemble oak. Graining was a common wood finish because different kinds of wood could be imitated, displaying elaborate and decorative wood grains. Besides being attractive, the grained wood was highly varnished, making it easier to clean than painted wood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finition du bois
DEF

Qui offre à la vue ou au toucher une multitude de petits grains très rapprochés.

Key term(s)
  • greneler
  • grenelé
  • grenée

Spanish

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Record 19 1985-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

Forced Air Wood Furnaces. Central wood-burning furnaces are controlled by a wall mounted thermostat in the living area. Temperature and fan controls are the same as those found on oil and gas furnaces. Unlike room heaters, which produce a steady heat output by periodic manual adjustments of the draft control, most wood furnaces operate in cycles. A cycle starts with the thermostat sensing that heat is needed in the room where it is located. It signals the furnace control system which opens the combustion air damper and a hot fire develops. When the air inside the furnace's sheet metal casing gets hot, a preset fan control starts the circulating blower and the warm air is moved through the ducts to all areas of the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 20 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
OBS

Skeleton of a wood frame house intended to reveal the basic structure.(Source : Campeau Housing Office, March 4, 1970).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions

Spanish

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