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DISTANT PLACE [7 records]

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Record 1 2026-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Wet-fish trawlers [keep] fish... in the hold in the fresh/"wet"/condition. Wet-fish trawlers therefore operate... in areas not too far distant from the landing place.

Key term(s)
  • wet fish trawler

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

[Les] chalutiers de pêche fraîche [...] conservent le poisson en cale à l'état frais. Ces chalutiers n'opèrent donc [...] que dans des zones pas trop éloignées du port de débarquement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cytology
  • Genetics
OBS

Protoplasts may fuse in the presence of polyethylene glycol(and some other agents). The fusion may take place within sister cells or with the cells(protoplasts) of any taxonomically distant organisms such as mammalian and plant cells... When the genetic differences between the fused protoplasts [are] large, the fused cells may not divide or may not divide continuously. Somatic hybrids between related species may, however, behave like allopolyploids and form fertile or sterile hybrids after regeneration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cytologie
  • Génétique
DEF

Association de protoplastes conduisant à la mise en commun de contenus cellulaires. [Définition normalisée par l'AFNOR et reproduite avec son autorisation.]

OBS

fusion de protoplastes : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Citología
  • Genética
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Record 3 2012-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

A fracture distant from the place where the force was applied.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Fracture éloignée du point où a porté l'agent traumatisant.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
  • Toponymy
OBS

Lesotho Cities and towns : Butha-Buthe. Butha-Buthe was founded in 1884 on the Hlotse River to facilitate tax collection and means the "place of lying down" ...

OBS

Butha-Buthe(also Buta-Buthe) is the capital city or camptown of the Butha-Buthe District in Lesotho.... Butha-Buthe was founded in 1884 in order to provide the local ruler with a place where he could pay taxes, rather than forcing him to the more distant town of Hlotse.

OBS

Butha Buthe : terme used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
  • Toponymie
OBS

Butha-Buthe est une ville du Lesotho située près de la frontière sud-africaine. Le règlement urbain est un comptoir commercial important dans la région immédiate du Lesotho. [...] Butha-Buthe est traduit de la langue de Sesotho à l'anglais comme «couchez-vous».

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
DEF

Situation in which farmers with a permament place of residence send their herds, tended by herdsmen for long periods of time to distant grazing areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie
DEF

Déplacement périodique de troupeaux pour exploiter des pâturages saisonniers.

OBS

On distingue les transhumances directe, inverse, nationale et internationale. S'applique aussi à l'élevage des abeilles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Zootecnia
DEF

Traslado [...] de rebaños de ovinos a pastos de altura o a otras regiones más húmedas en la estación seca.

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Record 6 1993-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transfer of Personnel
DEF

To move one's self and one's household to a distant place of employment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilité du personnel

Spanish

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Record 7 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences

Spanish

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