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Record 1 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

The last eighth-mile before the finish line/wire on a given race track.

OBS

Horse racing term.

PHR

head of the home stretch; top of the home stretch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Dernier huitième de mille approximatif avant le fil d'arrivée, sur une piste de courses.

CONT

La fin d'un parcours, dans une course donnée, est appelé «dernier droit» [...]

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

PHR

entrée du dernièr droit.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-07-25

English

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

A husband, at common law, is under a duty to maintain his wife and to provide a roof over her head. A wife has a right to cohabit with her husband in the matrimonial home or to be provided with suitable alternative accommodation, so long as she is not guilty of matrimonial misconduct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

droit à la cohabitation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soccer (Europe: Football)
DEF

... a "square pass" to the area in front of the goal.

CONT

If a player passes the ball across the field to a teammate out of scoring range, it is not called a "cross", but is called a "square pass"). A crossed ball is usually a "pass to space" (as opposed to a "pass to feet"). Even at the pro level, the passer usually isn’t passing to a specific person; he’s just concentrating on kicking the ball to the front of the goal (often while on the run) because doing so often creates a scoring opportunity.

CONT

The cross is... one of the most important of all attacking techniques. It [is] the domain of the winger... to "get it over" for the centre-forward to head home.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soccer (Europe : football)
DEF

[...] passe longue effectuée de l'une des ailes de l'attaque, afin d'expédier le ballon devant le but adverse.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-02-01

English

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

The dwelling house and the adjoining land where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. The fixed residence of the family, with the land, usual and customary appurtenances, and buildings surrounding the main house. Technically, and under the modern homestead laws, an artificial estate in land, devised to protect the possession and enjoyment of the owner against the claims of his creditors, by withdrawing the property from execution and forced sale, so long as the land is occupied as a home.(Black, 6th ed., 1990, p. 734).

CONT

In the western provinces, dower and curtesy in the historical legal sense have been abolished and replaced with an equivalent life estate in certain lands of the deceased spouse, referred to as his or her "homestead". This term is variously defined in the several provinces, but generally, it includes the matrimonial home together with adjoining land. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 212)

French

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

propriété familiale : 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 5 2007-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Units (Regular Force, Armed Forces)
  • Air Forces
OBS

Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

OBS

9 Wing Gander is home of 103 Search and Rescue(SAR) Squadron, providing full-time SAR services to Newfoundland and Labrador. When a call for help comes in, SAR crews at 9 Wing Gander are ready to head out in any direction from their base in Canada's most easterly province, Newfoundland.

OBS

9 Wing; 9 W: title and shortened form to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces (Air Command, Winnipeg).

Key term(s)
  • 9th Wing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités (régulières, Forces armées)
  • Forces aériennes
OBS

Gander, Terre-Neuve et Labrador.

OBS

La 9e Escadre Gander est le site du 103e Escadron de recherche et sauvetage (SAR), et elle fournit des services de SAR à temps plein à Terre-Neuve et au Labrador.Quand un appel au secours est reçu, les équipages de SAR de la 9e Escadre Gander sont prêts à quitter leur base de Terre-Neuve, la province la plus à l'est du Canada, pour aller dans n'importe quelle direction.

OBS

En français, on ne met pas d'article entre le nom de l'escadre et son lieu. Ainsi, on doit écrire 9e Escadron Gander et non 9e Escadre de Gander ou 9e Escadre à Gander.

OBS

La lettre «e» suivant le chiffre se place en exposant.

OBS

9e Escadre; 9 Ere : titre et forme abrégée d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes (Commandement aérien, Winnipeg).

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Track and Field
CONT

The 750m race starts at the Esplanade Bridge, the official Start Gantry of the event. The young runners will then run across the Esplanade Bridge, make a right turn before The Fullerton Hotel and onto Anderson Bridge. They head past Connaught Drive and onto the home straight situated along St Andrew's Road by the Padang.

OBS

Cross, Marathon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Athlétisme
CONT

Aucun drapeau national ne devra être arboré aussi bien sur nos équipements que sur le portique de départ qui comporte traditionnellement les bannières des nationalités présentes en course.

OBS

Cross, marathon.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Atletismo
OBS

Cros, Maratón.

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Record 7 2007-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Events
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

Canadian Western Agribition is one of North America's largest and best known agricultural marketplaces. Annually, over 4, 000 head of livestock including purebread beef, commercial and dairy cattle, heavy and light horses, sheep, goats, and bison are on display during the six day show. Agribition also hosts over 450 trade show exhibits(spanning 186, 000 square feet) featuring agri-business & technology products and services, western arts and crafts, home and lifestyle products, as well as food products and samples.

OBS

Title confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de manifestations et d'activités diverses
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

Appellation confirmée par l'organisme.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

For a team, to deliver its eight rocks in the last end of a game; more specifically, to deliver the last rocks, if not the hammer, the very last rock in an end and, in this case, of the game.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Pour une équipe, lancer ses huit pierres dans la dernière manche d'une partie; plus spécifiquement, lancer les dernières pierres, sinon le marteau, la toute dernière pierre d'une manche et, dans ce cas, de la partie.

OBS

Pluriel : des matchs ou des matches.

OBS

matchs (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 9 2002-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Brewing and Malting
CONT

A sparge arm is another worthwhile brewery option. Although it does not actually save time, it does decrease the amount of effort you must spend pouring sparge water into the lauter tun. A sparge arm can be purchased ready-made, improvised from a shower head, or fabricated at home. One simple design is a perforated copper loop that lies on top of the grain in the lauter tun. It is connected to the hot liquor tank by food-grade tubing, and you control the flow of water from the hot liquor tank using a ball valve. Water is run through the copper loop onto the grain bed at a rate about equal to the rate of wort leaving the tun.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Brasserie et malterie

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education (General)
OBS

In the National Occupational Classification (NOC), an official occupational title in Group 4141 - Secondary School Teachers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)
OBS

Dans la Classification nationale des professions (CNP), titre de profession officiel dans le Groupe 4141 - Enseignants/enseignantes au niveau secondaire.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Fasteners
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
CONT

... the nailing of wooden shingles and slates are entirely different. The heads of slating nails should just touch the slate and should not be driven "home" or draw the slate, but left with the heads just clearing the slate hangs on the nail. The opposite is true of wooden shingles and a man used to laying this material will invariably handle slate in the same way. As a consequence the slate, held too rigidly in place, is shattered around the nail hole, or the head of the nail crushed and eventually the slate may "ride" up over the nail and be blown off in a heavy wind... The temptation to use shingle nails instead of slating nails should be discouraged, for the slight saving in cost on the entire roof cannot approach the cost of repairs which may develop as a result of this practice.

OBS

Not to be confused with shingle nail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clouterie et visserie
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
CONT

Clous pour ardoises : Pointes à tête extra large. Pointes à tête large. Longueur : 27mm à 80mm. Diamètre : 2,7mm à 3,5mm.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «clou à bardeau».

Key term(s)
  • clou à ardoises
  • clou pour ardoise

Spanish

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Record 12 1993-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A "user-friendly" method of delivering discretionary services to a subscriber household-discretionary signals are delivered in unscrambled form from the head end to an interdiction(trapping) unit(an addressable "interdiction" box) outside the home. Licensee is able to remotely control from the head end the signals received by each home, i. e. if subscriber does not want a discretionary tier, licensee adds an "interfering signal" to scramble the signals on that tier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

(...) façon conviviale de livrer des services facultatifs au domicile d'un abonné. Les signaux facultatifs sont acheminés en clair, à partir de la tête de ligne, à un télé-interrupteur situé à l'extérieur du domicile. Le titulaire peut ainsi contrôler, de sa tête de ligne, tous les signaux reçus dans une maison, c.-à-d. si un abonné ne désire pas recevoir un volet facultatif, le titulaire ajoute un signal interférent qui brouille les signaux de ce volet.

Spanish

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Record 13 1978-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

When(...) strata were accumulating, northern Texas was a series of deltas(...) These forested deltas were the home of both amphibians and reptiles. Some of the former(...) such as "Eryops", were thick-bodied creatures 5 to 7 feet long. "Eryops" himself had a broad, flattened head, a barrel-shaped body, and a tail about twice as long as his skull.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

"Eryops" (Permien inférieur du Texas) est un "Rachitome typique". Il avait un crâne (...) assez plat (...) Les vertèbres portent de hautes épines neurales; aussi le corps n'était-il pas aplati. Il était couvert d'"écailles" (...) Les membres et leurs ceintures sont massifs et bien ossifiés.

Spanish

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