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HOLDING LINE [27 records]

Record 1 2024-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting Techniques
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
DEF

The relative difficulty of constructing and holding a control line, as affected by fire behaviour and difficulty of line construction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvres d'intervention (incendies)
  • Incendies de végétation
DEF

Difficulté relative d'établir et de maintenir une ligne d'arrêt, en raison du comportement du feu.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Scientific Research
CONT

Straight seines. The net is often 5-15 feet long(but sometimes much longer), 5-6 feet deep, with a 1/16 to 1/8 mesh size. Heavy lead weights along the bottom(lead line) keep the net close to the substrate and buoyant floats along the top(float line) help keep the net extended. The straight seine may be stretched between two poles... or simply maneuvered by two people whereby each person loops the end of the lead line around his/her foot and holding the float line up with one hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Recherche scientifique

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Loans
DEF

A priority right allowing its holder (the creditor) to demand payment from a debtor before any other creditor, when the debtor is in default of payment.

CONT

Because [public income notes] are unsubordinated(also called senior debt), they have precedence over other loans or securities in the event that the issuing company should default. This means that an investor holding [public income notes] faces less default risk than with subordinated debt... because holders of unsubordinated debt are at the front of the line to be repaid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Prêts et emprunts
DEF

Droit prioritaire permettant à son titulaire (le créancier) d'exiger d'un débiteur de le payer avant tout autre créancier, lorsque le débiteur se trouve en défaut de paiement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho mercantil
  • Préstamos
DEF

Deuda que tiene mayor prelación en caso de liquidación de una sociedad que otras.

OBS

deuda preferente: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • deuda senior
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Record 4 2018-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Dental Services (Military)
  • Military Organization
DEF

A field medical unit designed to provide second line medical support [and] capable of establishing facilities for continued sorting, emergency medical treatment and sustaining care and holding minor sick and injured and stress reaction patients.

OBS

The primary role is to provide rapid and efficient evacuation of patients between units and supporting surgical facilities.

OBS

field ambulance; Fd Amb: term and shortened form officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service de santé et service dentaire (Militaire)
  • Organisation militaire
DEF

Unité de campagne de deuxième ligne du service de santé capable de déployer des installations de triage, de soins d'urgence et de soins provisoires, et d'assurer la rétention des cas mineurs et des victimes de stress.

OBS

Son principal rôle consiste à évacuer rapidement et efficacement les patients entre unités et installations médicales de soutien.

OBS

ambulance de campagne : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du soutien au combat.

OBS

ambulance de campagne; Amb C : terme et forme abrégée uniformisés par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

OBS

ambulance de campagne; amb C : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephones
DEF

A telephone set or system in which each instrument has a series of buttons for selecting the line to be used, holding a line, or other functions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphones
DEF

Appareil ou installation téléphonique munie de boutons ayant des fonctions spéciales - bouton de sélection de ligne, bouton de garde, etc.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applied Arts
OBS

Picots are small loops that extend above the holding line as a decorative edging for purses, vests, and other accessories. [(Macramé.) ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts appliqués
OBS

Ces picots [...] exécutés avec des fils simples ou [...] doubles peuvent servir [...] pour le montage [...]. Aligner les bouches distantes d'un demi-centimètre [...] avec des épingles piquées dans le coussin. [(Macramé.)]

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applied Arts
OBS

Multiple loop picot. A series of loops in varying sizes makes an attractive border. Use one or more cords. Pin the three loops to the board.... Place a holding line over the strands and clove hitch them. [(Macramé.) ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts appliqués
OBS

Montage à triple feston. Monter les fils isolés successivement : celui du milieu puis le second [...], enfin le troisième comme le deuxième, en feston encore plus large. [(Macramé.)]

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
  • Outfitting of Ships
  • Pleasure Boating and Yachting
DEF

A rope or line for hauling down or holding down a sail or spar.

Key term(s)
  • down-haul

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux
  • Armement et gréement
  • Yachting et navigation de plaisance
DEF

Filin qui sert à tenir ou à amener vers le bas un espar, une voile, un pavillon.

OBS

hale-bas : terme uniformisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Key term(s)
  • cale-bas

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Partes de los barcos
  • Equipo y aparejos (Transporte por agua)
  • Vela y navegación de placer
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Record 9 2007-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Video Technology
DEF

A scan line holding picture information...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Vidéotechnique
DEF

Portion de la ligne du balayage de télévision [ou vidéo] qui contient un signal image.

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Restaurants
DEF

... a restaurant ... that sells [prepared food packaged in disposable containers to be eaten away from the premises].

CONT

Customers are selecting food and putting it on their plates. A female customer is at a buffet holding her plate and selecting food. Platters of meat and cheese move down the line showing a variety of fruits vegetables and other foods in the buffet. Of platters of meat and cheese at a buffet then the camera pans to the left and goes down the line showing close-ups of a variety of fruits vegetables and other food at the buffet. Some plates are visible along the buffet. Customers standing at a coffee bakery type carry out restaurant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Catégories de restaurants
DEF

Établissement de restauration vendant des plats ou des mets à emporter.

Spanish

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Record 11 2005-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging
  • Cooking and Gastronomy
CONT

This product line provides more environment-friendly disposable meal box. It is light, heat resistant and microwavable, suitable for holding all kinds of food-solid or liquid; cold or hot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages
  • Cuisine et gastronomie
CONT

Les droits d'entrée sont inclus et vous recevrez en plus une boîte repas Birdie avec une boisson isotonique pour votre journée de golf.

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Diplomacy
CONT

In line with accepted UN principles, the extra cost of holding the Conference in Naputo rather than at Headquarters will not be borne by the UN regular budget, but it is to be covered by voluntary contributions from Member States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Diplomatie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Diplomacia
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Record 13 2005-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
CONT

Foul is an often used nautical term generally meaning entangled or impeded. An anchor tangled in line or cable is said to be a foul anchor. A foul berth is caused by another vessel anchoring too close wherein the risk of collision exists. A foul bottom offers poor holding for anchors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 14 2004-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Cost of Living
DEF

Proposals by government that business and labour help to fight inflation by holding wage and price increases below a specified ceiling or in line with some specified standard, such as price increases not exceeding cost increases, or wage increases no greater than productivity increases plus some allowance for inflation.

OBS

Wage and price guidelines are one form of incomes policy.

OBS

These four terms are usually, but not necessarily, in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • wage guidelines
  • incomes policy
  • jawbone policy
  • growth guidelines

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Coût de la vie
OBS

Modalités d'application des systèmes de balises [...] La première méthode d'application peut [...] être basée sur le volontariat. Le gouvernement établit alors certaines règles pour la fixation des prix et des salaires mais laisse au bon vouloir des parties en cause la décision de s'y conformer ou pas [...] La deuxième méthode d'application du «système des balises» consiste à rendre son acceptation obligatoire par le recours à des mesures de coercition.

OBS

Les trois termes proposés seraient utilisés habituellement, mais pas nécessairement, au pluriel. Éviter «directive salaires-prix» (SAECO-F, 1972, v.2, p. 550).

Key term(s)
  • lignes directrices
  • lignes directrices de croissance
  • lignes de conduite

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
  • Costo de vida
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Record 15 2004-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
DEF

Facing the canopy into the wind to minimize ground speed.

CONT

Hold, Holding. Facing into wind. The direction you should be facing for landing. Your speed across the ground will be at its lowest.

CONT

When you are flying directly into the wind you are HOLDING. You have the slowest ground speed and your ground track is the same as the wind line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
CONT

En terrain plat, si vous êtes face au vent, juste la friction de l'air peut parvenir à vous ralentir. Il suffit de vous redresser et de tendre les bras sur les cotés. Vous pouvez ainsi vous immobiliser complètement mais peut-être pas exactement à l'endroit où vous le désirez.

CONT

"Quand on se pose dos au vent, il pousse le parachute dans la direction vers laquelle il souffle," explique le pilote de l'UH-60, le Maj Jay Anderson, "mais quand on est sous coupole face au vent, il est presque possible de se diriger," ajoute-t-il.

Spanish

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Record 16 2002-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
CONT

YELL [Youth Education Life Line] members holding placards that read "Students are dying for AIDS education" staged a "die-in" during the meeting. Police removed the activists from the Board of Education building in Brooklyn when they refused to leave, according to a New York City Police Department spokesperson.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
CONT

À Calgary, pendant ce temps, des militants antimondialisation ont tenu un «die-in», en se couchant, immobiles, sur le sol du Olympic Square. Le but de l'opération est de sensibiliser le monde à l'impact du SIDA dans les pays les plus pauvres de la planète.

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Winemaking
CONT

"Tired". A wine that is not holding up well. The old zip has gone. Past its prime, the wine lacks vitality and muscle to sustain it. The fruit has all but vanished. Tannin and/or acid are petering out. The wine cannot develop or improve. A tired wine is sometimes attributable to old age, sometimes not : poor storage, sloppy vinification methods, faulty handling along the line of distribution could be the cause, among other factors. Other descriptions : faded, old, exhausted, dull, flat, played out, uninteresting.

CONT

A harsh, tired wine lacking in fruity character.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Industrie vinicole
DEF

Se dit d'un vin qui a souffert d'un voyage ou d'un soutirage.

Spanish

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Record 18 2001-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Transport of Wood
DEF

A line rigged under the bull block to take it to the ground if the holding straps break.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Transport du bois

Spanish

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Record 19 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
DEF

Wire rope reeved from second hoist drum for holding clamshell bucket suspended during dumping and lowering operations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Grues (Chantiers)

Spanish

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Record 20 1997-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
DEF

On a machine for setting line slugs, a large metal box holding the matrices for the casting of type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
DEF

Dans une machine à composer en lignes-blocs, boîte métallique contenant les matrices nécessaires à la coulée des caractères.

Spanish

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Record 21 1995-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pottery
DEF

Floor-standing wheel often with a cork inset surface.

CONT

Stripes or bands of colour may be painted on circular forms by centring them on a banding wheel, and holding a loaded brush so that it deposits a line of colour....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poteries
DEF

Plateau circulaire tournant placé horizontalement sur un pied et destiné à servir de support à diverses opérations.

CONT

On appelle tournette tout dispositif pivotant utilisé à une vitesse insuffisante pour façonner l'argile par la force centrifuge.

Spanish

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Record 22 1992-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Needle Embroidery
CONT

[The coral stitch or knot] is best worked as a firm line as it becomes weak and straggling if the knots are too far apart. Work from right to left or from top to bottom. Bring the thread out at the starting point and lay it along the line to be worked, holding it down with the left thumb. Take a small stitch under the line where the knot is to be spaced(the thread lies on top of the needle as it enters the fabric) and pull through, taking the needle over the lower loop to form the knot.(A complete Guide to Embroidery, D. Dawson, 1976, p. 44).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Broderie à l'aiguille
CONT

[Pour exécuter le point corail,] sortir l'aiguille au début de la ligne à droite, tendre le fil sur la ligne du tracé et garder le fil sous le pouce gauche. Prendre un petit point sous la ligne et le fil et tirer, en ramenant l'aiguille par-dessus le fil du bas.

Spanish

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Record 23 1990-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

There are several end or side dogging carriages available that do an exemplary job of holding the log firmly and transporting it through the cutting system, in a straight line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Sur un chariot porte-grumes, opération consistant à saisir les billes par leurs extrémités à l'aide de griffes de serrage avant qu'elles soient guidées et mises en position de sciage.

Spanish

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Record 24 1990-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
DEF

short welds made at points on the welding line, for the purpose of holding the pieces to be welded until the actual welding operation is well under way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
DEF

Opération préliminaire au soudage, qui consiste à immobiliser les bords à souder dans la position désirée au moyen de points de soudure isolés et convenablement espacés.

Spanish

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Record 25 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

Even the possibility of holding the line seemed over-optimistic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
OBS

(Commerce extérieur, octobre 1955, page 27).

CONT

Même l'espoir d'éviter un recul semblait d'un optimisme exagéré.

Spanish

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Record 26 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Bast Fibres (Textiles)
OBS

in--the rove [of line] is passed through a bath of hot, water. This softens the gummy matter holding the strands together

French

Domaine(s)
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Fibres textiles libériennes
OBS

la --. // entre le râtelier qui porte les bobines de banc à broches et l'étirage [du métier à filer] s'intercale une cuve où la mèche plonge [pour] ramollir les ciments et gommes qui lient (...) les fibres

Spanish

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Record 27 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
OBS

--short welds made at points on the welding line, for the purpose of holding the pieces to be welded until the actual welding operation is well under way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
OBS

plus généralement on pourra se contenter d'utiliser un montage pour le peintage (ou --) des bords.

Spanish

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