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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Communication
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

The action or practice of preventing someone holding views regarded as unacceptable or offensive from contributing to a forum or debate, especially by blocking them on a particular website.

Key term(s)
  • de-platforming

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la communication
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Action concertée visant à empêcher l’expression d’idées jugées contraires à la morale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
DEF

... [tool using] the principle of the wheel and axle in creating its driving force. The pressure on the swing of the bow is in direct proportion to the force applied to the cutters of the auger bit. The tool is so constructed that downward pressure may be applied on the boring tool while a constant revolving motion directs the cutting action. The bit brace... is used for holding and driving all kinds of boring tools, screw driver bits...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
DEF

[...] manivelle qui se manœuvre à la main au moyen d'une poignée que l'on tient fixe à l'aide du bras ou en l'appuyant sur la poitrine; l'outil ou la mèche fixée à la manivelle opère par un mouvement de rotation.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milking Equipment (Agriculture)
  • Farm Animals
CONT

Milking machines are used to milk a cow. The cows go into a milking barn, their udders are cleaned and a rubber lined suction cup is attached to the teat. The suction cup simulates the suckling action of a calf nursing. The suction cup is attached to hoses and pipes which collect the milk in a holding tank. The milk is then quickly cooled. Cows are milked twice and sometimes three times a day, usually at the same times each day. All equipment used for milking is thoroughly cleaned and sanitized before and after each use.

CONT

It is important to milk a cow properly, or the cow could get mastitis, a very painful disorder for the cow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traite mécanique (Agriculture)
  • Animaux de ferme
CONT

Notre équipe de soigneurs trait les vaches deux fois par jour, à 6 h et à 16 h, à l'aide d'une machine à traire que l'on rattache à un lactoduc moderne. Ce système de traite permet de traire une vache en 3 à 5 minutes, alors qu'il en prend 10 à 15 minutes pour traire une vache à la main.

PHR

traire une vache, une chèvre

OBS

traire : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ordeñadora mecánica (Agricultura)
  • Animales de granja
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Record 4 2015-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
CONT

lis pendens(L. "a pending lawsuit") … is a useful LATINISM that has given its name to a notice required in some jurisdictions to warn all persons that certain property is the subject matter of litigation, and that any interests acquired during the pendency of the suit must be subject to the outcome of the litigation. Traditionally this notice was called the notice of lis pendens, but 20th century American lawyers have shortened the phrase to merely lis pendens. E. g., "The defendant says that the plaintiff's harsh conduct in holding up a whole subdivision by the lis pendens in this action disentitles him to relief. "(Garner, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, 1995, 2nd ed., p. 530)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

avis d'affaire en instance : 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 5 2013-01-31

English

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

Overholding with consent. Until rent is paid or something said or done on the part of the landlord to indicate an intention to treat the tenant holding over as his tenant for a further term, the landlord may treat him as a trespasser and bring an action of ejectment. When, however, a tenant is allowed to continue in possession after the expiration of a tenancy by agreement, the terms on which he continues to occupy are matters of evidence rather than of law. If there is nothing to show a different understanding he will be considered to hold on the terms of the old lease in so far as these terms are applicable. It is also a question of intention whether the parties, when the lease provides for overholding, intend the tenant to remain under the overholding provisions or under a new lease.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 285-286)

French

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

occupation après terme : 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 6 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
CONT

A body(permanent) wave gives the hair softer, wider waves. It is given when a strong curl or wave effect is not desired. A body wave gives a holding action to the hairstyle, thus permitting the setting to last longer, from one shampoo to the other.

OBS

body perm; body permanent wave; body wave: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
OBS

permanente de soutien : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Fasteners
DEF

A type of self-tapping screw that cuts its thread by the removal of material as opposed to a thread-forming screw which forms its thread by displacement of the material; thread forming screws are to be used with softer materials than thread cutting ones.

CONT

Thread cutting screw... For this type of screw, the off-center shank slot provides true cutting action, eliminating a separate tapping operation and generating a perfectly mated thread that contributes to stronger fastening. When compared to machine screws in tapped holes, fewer thread cutting screws will achieve the same holding power. Thread cutting screws may be removed and redriven.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clouterie et visserie
Key term(s)
  • vis auto-taraudeuse taillant le filet

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
DEF

... an object level language designed to program mechanical assembly tasks.

CONT

In RAPT, the person programming the robot system described how the various objects relate to each other in various situations and does not need to describe explicitly the path that the manipulator is to follow.

CONT

Now a RAPT program takes the form of a set of specifications of spatial relationships holding between features of bodies in particular situations, and of action relationships holding between features of bodies in different situations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
OBS

plea discussions: term usually used in the plural in this context.

OBS

Plea bargaining. ... Crown counsel and defence counsel negotiate out of court, and reach an agreement. Without purporting rigidly to limit the area on which agreements may be made, we say that usually such agreements are: 1. That Crown counsel will, if the accused pleads guilty to a lesser charge, withdraw a major charge. ... 2. That Crown counsel, in return for a plea of guilty by the accused to a charge, will recommend to the Court the imposition of some lenient form of sentence, say probation. Or there may be a bargain which embraces both the above factors.

OBS

People in the business like to call it plea negotiation.

OBS

For reasons that will become evident in the course of this working paper,... we prefer to abandon the expression "plea bargaining"(which, to some, has an inherently negative connotation) in favour of more neutral terminology. In our view, the process with which we are concerned(though unquestionably flawed) may better be described as that of "plea negotiation", or the holding of "plea discussions". The object of that process is to reach a satisfactory agreement, not to give the accused a "bargain. "Accordingly, our recommendations eschew the expression "plea bargain" and replace it with "plea agreement". We define that expression(again, in neutral terms) as "any agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the prosecutor's agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
CONT

[...] le marchandage de plaidoyers est une entente intervenue hors de cour entre d'une part un procureur de la Couronne, - qui cherche à régler la cause avec un minimum de temps et de frais, - et, d'autre part, l'accusé qui espère voir réduire le nombre ou la gravité des accusations portées ou obtenir le choix d'un procès sommaire ou une réduction de peine. Par une telle entente le procureur de la Couronne promet à l'accusé, en échange de son consentement à plaider coupable, de recommander au juge d'entériner cette promesse.

OBS

Les spécialistes préfèrent parler de négociation de plaidoyers.

OBS

plea bargaining (en italique) : Cette expression anglaise est consacrée par la pratique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
CONT

Práctica judicial [...] mediante la cual la procuraduría puede optar por reducir los cargos que pesan sobre un inculpado, si éste denuncia a otros culpables.

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Record 10 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Scissors designed to cut bandage, gauze, and dressing.

OBS

[The bandage] scissors are typically strong, handheld, manual instruments with two metallic(e. g., stainless steel) blades with sharp edges that slide past each other(i. e., shearing action) ;usually one blade is longer than the other and finished in a sharp or probe-like tip while the shorter blade has a rounded tip. The blades are usually attached to handles with the proximal end conformed as a ring to facilitate holding and operating with the fingers; both parts are joined by a swivel pin in the center.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
OBS

Instruments designed to cut objects, materials, and/or tissues using two metallic... blades with sharp edges that slide past each other(i. e., shearing action). The blades are usually attached to handles with the proximal end conformed as a ring to facilitate holding and operation with the fingers; both parts are joined by a swivel pin in the center.

PHR

Abdominal, bandage, brain, bronchus, cardiovascular, cast, dura mater, dissecting, episiotomy, eye, facelift, heart, intestinal, larynx, middle ear, nasal, postmortem, strabismus, surgical, suture, suture removal, tendon, tenotomy, thoracic, tonsil, umbilical, uterine, wound debridement scissors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Instrument formé de deux lames métalliques à extrémité pointue ou arrondie, tranchantes sur une partie de leur longueur, réunies et croisées en leur milieu par un pivot, munies d'un anneau permettant de les manier et utilisé, en chirurgie, pour sectionner ou dilacérer.

OBS

L'anglais établit une distinction entre «surgical scissors», qui couvrent toute la gamme des ciseaux utilisés en médecine, et «operating scissors», ciseaux utilisés plus spécifiquement pour les chirurgies. Cette distinction ne semble pas exister en français, bien que «ciseaux pour la chirurgie» et «ciseaux à chirurgie» semblent avoir un sens plus restreint que «ciseaux chirurgicaux».

PHR

Ciseaux angulés, droits, courbes, mousses, pointus, tranchants, émoussés, fins, stériles, à usage unique.

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personal Esthetics
CONT

Smooth one of the wax strips onto the skin in the direction of hair growth, ensuring that the skin is dry and free from irritation. Smooth it gently downwards to make sure it is properly stuck down. Do not allow the wax strip to remain on the skin for more than a few seconds. Holding the skin taut with one hand, rapidly remove the wax strip in one single action, pulling against the direction of hair growth. Always pull strip as parallel and as close to the skin as possible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Esthétique et soins corporels
CONT

Pour le visage et les zones sensibles, les fines bandelettes de cire toutes prêtes sont vraiment épatantes. On trouve même des tailles adaptées aux zones délicates et difficiles d'accès (visage, aisselles ou maillot).

OBS

bandelette de cire : petite bande de cire utilisée pour le visage, par exemple.

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Team Sports (General)
DEF

For a defenser in team sports played with a ball, to neutralize the action of the offensive player which had been assigned to him by following him closely, holding his progression with any legal action, or preventing him from getting to the goal or the basket.

OBS

In the man-to-man defense, one player is assigned to guard another player wherever he goes.

OBS

The term appeared in source as "marking" rather than "mark."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
DEF

Pour un défenseur en sports d'équipe se jouant avec un ballon, neutraliser l'action de l'attaquant avec lequel on l'a jumelé en exerçant sur lui une étroite surveillance, le retenant par des moyens licites ou s'interposant entre lui et le but ou le panier pour l'empêcher de compter.

OBS

La défense homme à homme permet une répartition rationnelle des tâches défensives [...] de faire marquer par chaque joueur le joueur adverse qui correspond le mieux à ses qualités.

Key term(s)
  • marquer l'adversaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de equipo (Generalidades)
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Record 14 2004-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

Collective action clauses allow bondholder trustees(for example, a bondholder assembly) to modify the repayment terms of bonds subject the approval of a qualified majority of bondholders(typically, those holding a supermajority of the outstanding debt). By contrast, the unanimous consent of all bondholders is required to revise the terms of repayment(amounts and timing) of a bond issue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Les clauses d'action collective sont conçues de manière à permettre à une majorité qualifiée de créanciers de modifier les modalités financières d'un processus de restructuration de la dette malgré les objections des créanciers récalcitrants.

CONT

Le premier emprunt d'État assorti de clauses d'action collective similaires à celles qui sont recommandées par le G-10 a été émis sur le marché de New York, marché le plus important en ce qui concerne les émissions d'emprunts d'États.

Spanish

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Record 15 2004-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
OBS

For reasons that will become evident in the course of this working paper,... we prefer to abandon the expression "plea bargaining"(which, to some, has an inherently negative connotation) in favour of more neutral terminology. In our view, the process with which we are concerned(though unquestionably flawed) may better be described as that of "plea negotiation", or the holding of "plea discussions". The object of that process is to reach a satisfactory agreement, not to give the accused a "bargain". Accordingly, our recommendations eschew the expression "plea bargain" and replace it with "plea agreement". We define that expression(again, in neutral terms) as "any agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the prosecutor's agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
OBS

[...] une transaction intervenue entre le coupable et des représentants de la société.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
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Record 16 2002-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Museums
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

With time, further improvements were made to milling equipment. Grooves were cut in the rubbing surfaces of saddlestones and methods of holding a supply of grain in the top grinding stone while feeding grain onto the lower stone were developed. The lever mill eventually evolved in which the grain was subjected to a shearing and grinding action by a flat furrowed stone moving back and forth in a horizontal arc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muséologie
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Avec le temps, d'autres améliorations furent apportées au matériel de meunerie. Les surfaces de frottement des meules de pierre furent striées de cannelures et l'on mit au point des systèmes permettant à la meule supérieure de contenir une certaine quantité de grains qu'elle laissait s'écouler sur la meule inférieure. La meule à levier, étape subséquente, devait soumettre le grain à une action de cisaillement et de broyage à l'aide d'une pierre plate creusée de sillons et animée d'un mouvement de va-et-vient selon un arc horizontal.

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Record 18 2000-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
OBS

In this paper, we suggest that the primary function of a psychiatric holding environment is the delivery to the patient of the normative services which the nuclear family customarily provides. (Medline data base)

OBS

The holding environment and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.(Pascal data base)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
OBS

[...] la notion de [holding] [est un] terme intraduisible qui suggère un environnement stable, ferme, dans lequel l'enfant se sent assuré, [maintenu] par sa mère.

Spanish

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Record 19 1996-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
CONT

Slashing is the action of hitting an opponent with a stick while holding the stick with one or both hands. A player who swings his stick at an opponent and no contact is made shall still constitute slashing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
DEF

Action de frapper un adversaire avec son bâton, tenu à une ou deux mains. Si un joueur menace un adversaire avec son bâton, ce geste doit être considéré comme un cinglage, même si le joueur ne frappe pas l'adversaire.

OBS

Hockey. Deux minutes de pénalité pour avoir cinglé.

Spanish

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Record 20 1993-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
  • Climate Change
  • Air Pollution
CONT

The debate over the greenhouse effect continues to be shaped by two diametrically opposed viewpoints :[1] Don’t act until you are certain or wait-and-see. Analysts holding to this view believe that current scientific uncertainties are still too large to warrant costly preventative action. Instead, more research should be pursued to reduce scientific uncertainties. [2] Act now to minimize risks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
  • Changements climatiques
  • Pollution de l'air
OBS

Temporiser : Différer d'agir, par calcul, dans l'attente d'un moment plus favorable.

OBS

Comparer avec la notion d'approche prudente.

Spanish

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Record 21 1987-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Aeroindustry
DEF

The action of adhering, holding fast, or holding back....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Constructions aéronautiques
DEF

État de ce qui est coincé, bloqué.

OBS

Coincer qqch de mobile, d'articulé, l'immobiliser, le bloquer [...]

OBS

coincement : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 22 1982-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
OBS

Bailiffs License bonds and Private Detectives bonds are hazardous because the city or Province holding the bond usually may assign their right of action against the Surety to any third party having a valid claim for damages against the Principal, and these claims may result from errors of judgement or ignorance of the law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
OBS

Les cautionnements de permis d'huissiers et de détectives sont hasardeux parce que les autorités municipales ou provinciales sont susceptibles d'intenter une poursuite à la compagnie, aux termes du cautionnement, au nom de toute personne se considérant lésée par le débiteur et que les demandes d'indemnités peuvent même couvrir les pertes résultant d'un manque de jugement ou de l'ignorance de la loi.

Spanish

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Record 23 1982-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
OBS

Bailiffs License bonds and Private Detectives bonds are hazardous because the city or Province holding the bond usually may assign their right of action against the Surety to any third party having a valid claim for damages against the Principal, and these claims may result from errors of judgement or ignorance of the law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
OBS

Les cautionnements de permis d'huissiers et de détectives sont hasardeux parce que les autorités municipales ou provinciales sont susceptibles d'intenter une poursuite à la compagnie, aux termes du cautionnement, au nom de toute personne se considérant lésée par le débiteur et que les demandes d'indemnités peuvent même couvrir les pertes résultant d'un manque de jugement ou de l'ignorance de la loi.

Spanish

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Record 24 1979-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

Holding is any action by a player that retards the progress of an opposing player whether or not he is in possession of the puck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

Toute action d'un joueur qui empêche un joueur adverse d'avancer, que ce dernier soit ou non en possession de la rondelle.

Spanish

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