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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2019-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
CONT

If on backwashing, the water breaks through the sand unevenly in jets or in one place, it is an indication that several of the underdrain nozzles are clogged, the gravel is uneven, or there are obstructions in the bed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
CONT

Lorsqu'au cours du lavage, l'eau remonte irrégulièrement par jets ou en un seul point, c'est que plusieurs des orifices du collecteur sont colmatés, que le gravier est mal réparti ou que le lit est engorgé en plusieurs endroits.

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
CONT

Eggs Florentine :... place the egg on a bed of hot, buttered, cooked spinach... Cover with Mornay sauce...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plats cuisinés

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
DEF

A pressureless moulding process in which dry, fusible powders are caused to fuse into a uniform layer against a mould wall.

CONT

Powder molding.... The metal part is usually coated in a two component tank in which the powdered resin held in place by a porous plate is mixed with a highly-compressed gas which is forced through the porous metal plate. The gas-powder mixture, which resembles a fluid, adheres to any metal part, which, after being preheated above the melting point of the resin, is placed in the fluidized bed atmosphere.... The final fusing of the polymer takes place in an oven or in a bath of molten salt.

OBS

powder moulding: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
DEF

Procédé de moulage sans pression, selon lesquel des poudres sèches fusibles sont amenées au point de fusion pour former une couche d'épaisseur régulière contre la paroi d'un moule.

OBS

moulage à partir de poudres : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
DEF

Proceso de moldeo sin presión en el cual se funden polvos secos fusibles para formar una capa uniforme contra la pared de un molde.

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Record 4 2015-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

An offshore drilling and production platform made of concrete and of such tremendous weight that it is held securely on the ocean bottom without the need for piling or anchors.

CONT

gravity structure : A family of deep water structures usually built of reinforced concrete, but sometimes of steel... These structures rely on gravity to keep them stable on the sea bed and unlike piled platforms are relatively mobile and need no piling to hold them in place.... A typical gravity structure consists of a cellular concrete or steel base for storage or ballast, a number of vertical columns which support a steel deck and give access to the riser, and deck accommodation... all types are towed to their final destination and settled upright on the sea by controlled ballasting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Structure dont la stabilité est assurée par gravité grâce aux dimensions et au poids de l'embase, généralement en béton, et ne nécessitant pas d'ancrage sur le fond de la mer.

CONT

Un autre type de plateforme [...] commence à être utilisé : il s'agit de «structures-poids» en béton, à fondation continue sur radier (au lieu de piles) et dont la stabilité est uniquement due au poids propre (et non à l'encastrement dans le sol) [...] Pour la mise en place, la plateforme est remorquée à l'aplomb du gisement, puis ballastée jusqu'à obtenir un appui suffisant sur le fond [...]

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.) ; plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
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Record 5 2012-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Underground Mining
  • Mining of Organic Materials
DEF

A worker (as in a ... coal mine) who actually works at the face as distinguished from one who serves in various supplementary capacities (as in mucking, loading, or hauling).

OBS

face(n.) [in French :"front de taille", or "front d’abattage"] : The exposed surface of an unbroken coal bed or ore deposit at the advancing end of the working place, where mining, winning or getting takes place

OBS

faceman: term also used for a worker in a quarry.

Key term(s)
  • face-woman
  • face woman
  • coal face-worker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Exploitation minière souterraine
  • Exploitation de matières organiques (Mines)
DEF

Mineur qui abat le charbon à front de taille.

OBS

On trouve aussi «abatteur en carrières» dans l'index de la Classification internationale type des professions, du Bureau international du travail à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
OBS

This is a fire of first importance--a fundamental fire used in many other lays and an unexcelled fire in itself. No arrangement of wood will burn so effectively, for none admits so much air to every stick from all directions. And no other fire will burn down to a uniformly spread bed of coals in so short a time. First place the tinder--birch bark, fuzz-stick, etc.--on the ground and build a tiny wigwam fire above it not over six inches high. Now place four base poles, each two inches thick and a foot long, around it, the corners overlapping log-cabin style. Over this lower course, stack up finger-and-thumb-size sticks of hardwood in crisscross fashion bringing the structure up to ten or twelve inches in height.

OBS

There are actually 3 types of the crisscross fire, but they do not have a specific name. However, the term "log cabin fire" has been used as a synonym for all three. But the term properly designates another type of fire. It is actually the beginning of a crisscross fire that does not have the logs stacked in the crisscross fashion over the tiny wigwam fire, but rather has them stacked around the wigwam fire log cabin style.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
CONT

Feu en cabane de rondins: c'est un bon feu pour chauffer rapidement plutôt que pour cuisiner. Comme pour la forme en wigwam, on commence d'abord par placer le matériau inflammable, puis on dispose des bâtons plus gros tout autour en forme de cabane de rondins ou de rails de chemin de fer et, enfin, on recouvre le tout d'un couvercle de bois de chauffage mis en vrac. Ce feu chauffe beaucoup plus vite et crée une plus grosse flambée que la plupart des autres types de feux.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Bedding
DEF

quilt : a bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of cloth etc., and kept in place by cross lines of stitching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Literie
DEF

Couverture de lit, ouatée et piquée.

OBS

La courtepointe diffère du couvre-pied; ce dernier, qui est de fabrication identique, ne recouvre, lui, qu'une partie du lit.

OBS

La courtepointe est piquée par matelassage, une technique qui consiste à intercaler une épaisseur de laine, ou de tout autre matériau, entre deux autres tissus et à les fixer ensemble par des piqûres qui forment un dessin décoratif le plus souvent en relief.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Home Furniture
  • Hotel Equipment
DEF

A bed for two people with one sleeping place above the other in the manner of tiered bunks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier domestique
  • Équipement hôtelier

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Muebles del hogar
  • Equipo hotelero
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Record 9 2002-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
CONT

During the period of primary migration or during the subsequent period of retention in the reservoir rock, the change to petroleum occurs. This is followed by a period of collection into a continuous phase, in turn followed by a period of secondary migration, again under the influence of water, through a carrier bed or reservoir rock to a place where further movement is impossible(a trap) and where the petroleum collects into pools or fields.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
DEF

Déplacement des hydrocarbures, qui aboutit à leur empiègement et à la formation des gisements.

CONT

La migration secondaire est le cheminement du pétrole dans le drain et la roche magasin jusqu'à un piège où il s'accumule. Régie par la force de gravité due aux différences de densité du pétrole et de l'eau, la migration s'effectue uniquement vers le haut.

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security Devices
CONT

Now on summer nights it is warm, but never the less it never ceases to amaze me that people will take the chance and go to bed leaving the downstairs windows open. Many burglaries take place whilst the owners are at home and in bed asleep. If the alarm system does not have a night setting then an experienced thief can clean out the house without waking any one.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité

Spanish

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Record 11 1998-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
DEF

A place beside a bed.

CONT

by her bedside when she died.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

au chevet d'un malade.

Spanish

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Record 12 1997-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mass Transit
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
DEF

Trailer units which are hauled on a road bed and which carry visitors from one place to another.

OBS

Term used by Parks Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports en commun
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
DEF

Groupe de voitures formant une rame remorquée sur une chaussée pour transporter les visiteurs d'un point à un autre.

OBS

Termes en usage à Parcs Canada.

Spanish

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Record 13 1997-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Bedding
CONT

Bed sheets offer the condition of being fabric, of being woven and sewn, of being flat and somewhat two dimensional with the promise of achieving some third dimension through the implementation of structure. Bed sheets are a common place object in the home....

CONT

Bounties may be reviewed before expiration with some possibly extended or converted to tariffs; however, bounties on bed sheeting, textile yarns and printed fabric will not be reviewed and will expire as scheduled.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Literie
Key term(s)
  • drap

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
CONT

The heart of the fluidized bed system is the reactor. The reactor is a refractory-lined steel shell with a bed of small inert particles, usually sand. Air is blown through the sand from the bottom which causes the bed to behave like a fluid. This fluid bed has an extremely high heat transfer rate which aids in combustion. Most of the combustion occurs in the fluid bed with the balance taking place in the vapour space above. Most fluid reactors add air only through the sand bed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
CONT

Le lit de sable consiste en une épaisseur de deux pieds de sable déposé à la base du brûleur. Au départ, le sable est chauffé à l'aide d'un brûleur auxiliaire à gaz propane. L'air chaud ainsi injecté dans le lit de sable crée une forte turbulence et l'amène à se comporter comme un liquide en ébullition. D'où l'appellation de lit liquéfié.

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
CONT

This activity, termed lateral planation... takes place [in times of bankfull and flood discharges when the stream has great energy and scours both the banks and the bed. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
CONT

Si la rivière peut ronger ses rives, les courbes ont tendance à s'accentuer.

Spanish

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Record 16 1993-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tourist Lodging

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hébergement (Tourisme)
OBS

Source : Lexique de la terminologie d'ISTC [ministère de l'Industrie, des Sciences et de la Technologie] - Tourisme (Avril 1993).

Key term(s)
  • place lit

Spanish

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Record 17 1993-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Biomass Energy
CONT

spouted bed gasifier.... a single-chamber air-fed gasifier operated on a cyclical basis, to yield a high calorific-value gas essentially uncontaminated by carbon dioxide or nitrogen. Wood chips or wood pellets are fed on top of a bed of hot sand in the reactor, and are then mixed by spouting the bed using steam. Some gasification occurs during this phase, but most takes place during the ensuing "cooking" phase during which the bed is static. When the temperature has fallen to a suitably low value air is admitted to burn the char and raise the temperature of the sand to its original value. Wood is then added to begin a new cycle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Énergie de la biomasse
OBS

«Lit fluidisé avec giclage», tiré des Actes du colloque franco-québécois sur l'énergie des biomasses, 15-16 octobre 1979.

Spanish

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Record 18 1985-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Doors, Windows and Openings (Building Elements)
CONT

Wood-stop or channel glazing. A thin layer of putty... is placed in the rabbet of the sash, and the glass is pressed onto this bed.... Wood stops are securely nailed in place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouvertures (Éléments du bâtiment)
CONT

Pose des verres en châssis. a) Pose sous mastic. (...) b) pose sous parcloses. (...) de petites baguettes de bois (...) sont clouées dans la feuillure; elles ne dispensent pas d'utiliser le mastic (...)

Spanish

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Record 19 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

... in the E. C. I. process, each phase takes place in a special recipient, connected functionally to the others.... in the E. C. I. process, each column has been calculated rationally as a function of the word required of it, independently of the others.... The Degrémont-E. C. I. process may be used advantageously to replace fixed bed systems in all ion exchange fields...

Key term(s)
  • E.C.I.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

[...] dans le procédé Asahi, chaque phase s'effectue dans un récipient spécial fonctionnellement relié aux autres. [...] dans l'Asahi, chaque colonne est calculée rationnellement en fonction du travail qu'on lui demande, et indépendamment des autres. [...] Le procédé Asahi peut se substituer avec avantage aux procédés à lits fixes dans tous les domaines déjà explorés de l'échange d'ions [...]

Spanish

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Record 20 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

... the filtering mechanism is physical and comprises one stage in which the particles are transferred to the interstices of the filter bed and another stage in which they become fixed. The transfer generally takes place by a process of laminar flow with a low Reynolds number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

[...] le processus de la filtration est physique et comporte une phase de transfert des particules dans le volume interstitiel du lit et une phase de fixation de la particule. Le transfert s'effectue généralement en régime laminaire, avec un nombre de Reynolds faible.

Spanish

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