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HOPING [36 records]

Record 1 2025-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

To construct a short condor, the investor sells one call while buying another call with a higher strike and sells one put while buying another put with a lower strike.

OBS

The investor is hoping for underlying stock to trade in narrow range during the life of the options.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Pour établir un condor en position vendeur, l'investisseur vend une option d'achat et en achète une autre dont le prix d'exercice est plus élevé, puis vend une option de vente et achète une autre option de vente dont le prix d'exercice est moins élevé.

OBS

L'investisseur espère que l'action sous-jacente se négociera dans une fourchette serrée pendant la durée des options.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Disabled Sports
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
  • Sociology of Recreation
CONT

... some parasports require an athlete with a disability to work with a non-disabled athlete – blind skiing, for example. [The athlete] is legally blind [and is] hoping to make the [paralympics, but] without a sighted guide to ski ahead of her and call directions, [the athlete] says it [cannot] happen.

OBS

abled-bodied athlete: The use of the adjective "able-bodied" in the term "able-bodied athlete" implies that all people with disabilities lack "able bodies" or the ability to use their bodies well and therefore should be avoided.

Key term(s)
  • non disabled athlete
  • able bodied athlete

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports adaptés
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
  • Sociologie des loisirs

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

The slow fade is essentially the charade that someone puts on when they have made the decision to end the relationship but don’t share their decision. Instead of telling the other person directly that [it is] over, they continue to pretend the relationship is intact while sending mixed signals and slowly drift away, hoping that the other person will take the hint and get the message.... People who use the slow fade[, ] when the decision to end the relationship is one-sided, often think they are being kind by cutting someone off slowly rather than abruptly.... the slow fade is a prolonged ending that results in the soon-to-be-ex being filled with confusion and self-doubt.

Key term(s)
  • slow fading

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Sociologie
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

[La] «disparition lente» [désigne] le fait de mettre fin à une relation amoureuse de manière sournoise. En effet, la personne qui [la] pratique [...] disparaît petit à petit et décide secrètement de mettre fin à sa relation. [...] cette pratique s'inscrit dans le temps et peut s'étaler sur plusieurs semaines, voire plusieurs mois. En disparaissant progressivement, la personne qui pratique [cette technique] laisse son ou sa partenaire dans la confusion, l'incertitude et l'insécurité émotionnelle. Son comportement s'apparente nettement à de la lâcheté.

Spanish

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Record 4 2023-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Aquaculture
  • Fish
CONT

New Brunswick salmon farmers are hoping a surge of new money by the federal government will help their growing industry.

CONT

[The] facility was established to provide eggs to salmon growers in Maine ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Aquaculture
  • Poissons
DEF

Personne qui pratique l'élevage des salmonidés, spécialement des saumons.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Acuicultura
  • Peces
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Record 5 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
CONT

Trawling questionnaire: This term commonly refers to interview forms designed to capture a wide range of exposures. They are sometimes called “hypothesis-generating” or ... shotgun questionnaires. These forms may be designed with embedded questions focused on disease-specific hypotheses, which may serve to consolidate the hypothesis generation and testing processes into a single step. For instance, the trawling questionnaire for an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 may contain questions about standard transmission mechanisms for this agent such as hamburger consumption, day-care attendance, recreational pool use, animal exposures ...

CONT

The nurses asked those who had become ill a battery of questions from a 20-page survey known as a "shotgun" questionnaire that explores potential sources of disease, from animal contact to sources of drinking water to attendance at various locations that could be contaminated. The nurses went through what each person had eaten during the week before the illness struck to attempt to identify what caused the outbreak... The goal was to find a common element, whether it was a food item or some kind of contact or common location. "It's like shooting in a barrel hoping to hit something, "... But they did hit something.... 84% of those who were sickened had eaten a tomato...

OBS

A shotgun questionnaire aims at hypothesis generation and may be followed by a targeted questionnaire designed for hypothesis testing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
CONT

Au moment de l'alerte, les cas les plus récemment identifiés ont été interrogés [...] à l'aide d'un questionnaire exploratoire qui recensait la consommation et l'achat d'aliments dans les 7 jours précédant les symptômes. Le questionnaire portait également sur les symptômes, les éventuelles autres expositions telles qu'un contact avec d'autres cas de diarrhée dans la famille, avec des animaux de compagnie ou sauvages, l'existence d'un voyage récent, etc.

CONT

Enquête exploratoire : Cette phase a pour objectifs de confirmer ou non la nature épidémique du phénomène signalé, de définir la période épidémique et la population touchée et d'émettre une ou plusieurs hypothèses quant au véhicule en cause dans la transmission. [...] Un questionnaire alimentaire détaillé est rempli [...] afin d'identifier un ou plusieurs aliments communs ou lieux d'achat ou de consommation communs. [...] Le questionnaire exploratoire montrait que la consommation d'un certain fromage de chèvre au lait cru était souvent citée.

OBS

Une fois l'hypothèse formulée à partir des résultats obtenus au moyen du questionnaire exploratoire, on peut utiliser un questionnaire plus ciblé pour faire l'enquête cas-témoin qui permettra de vérifier l'hypothèse.

Spanish

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Record 6 2018-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

A shortchange artist prefers to operate on careless or inexperienced cashiers. His goal is to confuse the cashier during a money transaction by changing his mind in the middle of a purchase. One common method used by a shortchange artist is to make a $. 50 purchase and pay with a $20 bill, then suddenly changes his mind and decides to pay with a $1. 00 bill. He will hand back the change from the $20 bill after pocketing $10 and produce the $1. 00 bill to buy the item. An experienced cashier won’t realize ten dollars is missing from the $20 change. During the exchange of money, the shortchange artist usually tries to take the cashier's mind from her work by talking about his job, family, sad story, etc. hoping the cashier won’t notice the missing $10 bill.

Key term(s)
  • short-change artist
  • short-change scammer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

[...] Manœuvre frauduleuse encore, celle de l'escroc inexactement appelé «voleur au rendez-moi». Il est clair, en effet, que cet individu, en demandant la monnaie du billet de 50 F qu'il exhibe sans encore le remettre, et auquel il substitue adroitement au moment de la remise un billet de 10 F, ne commet pas un vol, mais une escroquerie.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
CONT

Police in Irvine are hoping new surveillance video will lead them to a man they call a "distraction" robber. There could be other suspects.

OBS

One Ottawa convenience store owner is warning others about "distraction" robberies where people preoccupy a store clerk while others steal goods ...The video shows one group distracting the store clerk, security guards and customers while three women can be seen sneaking into the back and cutting open locks on the store’s safe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
DEF

Individu ayant cherché à distraire un commis d'un magasin avec l'aide de son complice pour voler ses biens, en utilisant des manœuvres visant à détourner l'attention du commis ou du propriétaire des biens dépouillés pendant la perpétration de cette infraction criminelle.

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A player who hangs back at the rear of the court, generally quite steady, keeping the ball in play and in so doing hoping to win points strictly with the use of ground strokes.

OBS

Related phraseology: to be solid on the ground, to stay back (on the baseline), to prefer to hang back.

Key term(s)
  • baseline player

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Nuance à signaler : on peut être «amateur du jeu de fond» (quasi-synonyme) sans nécessairement être un joueur de fond de court. D'ailleurs, le terme «limeur de fond de court» est quelque peu plus spécifique que «joueur de fond de court». Argot : crocodile, joueur qui ne quitte jamais la ligne de fond de court, manifestant la patience du crocodile qui attend sa proie pendant des heures sans bouger. Terme connexe : amateur du jeu de fond.

CONT

[Ivan Lendl], joueur de fond de court, à la condition physique impeccable, déjà trois fois vainqueur à Roland-Garros [...]

CONT

[...] il a tenté quelques retouches en ajoutant ces coups de pinceaux qui font de lui qu'il n'est plus tout à fait ce qu'il était, un limeur de fond de court au toucher de fée.

CONT

[...] «limeurs», qui peaufinent leur lift retranchés du côté des bâches, ceux-là frappent la balle à plat [...]

Key term(s)
  • joueuse de fond de court
  • joueuse d'échange
  • amateur du jeu de fond

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
Key term(s)
  • jugadora de fondo
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Record 9 2011-06-02

English

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

The name proposed by Harvey Adams, a ship captain, and his wife, Barbara Schmeisser, an historian, from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for the ocean of inland waters formed by the James Bay, the Hudson Bay, the Foxe Bassin and Channel, the Hudson Strait, and the Ungava Bay, as a means to promote Canadian unity. They were hoping for a decision before the year 2000; the toponymy commissions or authorities from the bordering Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Northwest Territories(or after April 1, 1999, the territory of Nunavut) have to be consulted before the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names(CPCGN), now the Geographical Names Board of Canada, makes official the designation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Nom proposé par Harvey Adams, capitaine de bateau, et son épouse, Barbara Schmeisser, historienne, tous deux de Dartmouth, Nouvelle-Écosse, pour l'océan que forment les eaux intérieures de la baie James, la baie d'Hudson, le bassin et le détroit de Foxe, le détroit d'Hudson et la baie d'Ungava, comme moyen de promouvoir l'unité canadienne. Ils espéraient une décision avant l'an 2000; les commissions ou autorités toponymiques des provinces et territoires riverains, le Québec, l'Ontario, le Manitoba et les Territoires du Nord-Ouest (ou, après le 1er avril 1999, le Nunavut) doivent donner leur avis avant que le Comité permanent canadien des noms géographiques (CPCNG), maintenant la Commission de toponymie du Canada (CTC), ne rende officielle la désignation.

OBS

Dans un texte suivi, l'utilisation de la minuscule au générique est de rigueur; dans une liste, sur une carte géographique ou un panneau de signalisation, le générique porte la majuscule.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

A series of meetings with potential investors and brokers, conducted by a company and its underwriter, prior to a securities offering.

CONT

A road show-sometimes called a "dog and pony show"-is a compact series of investor presentations by the senior management of a company that is hoping to go public, acquire venture financing, or issue bonds or other securities. Road shows, which are typically concentrated in major financial centers around the country, allow issuers to meet with dozens of institutional investors over several days or weeks to present the company's financial outlook, product offerings and key managers. Generally, road shows are face-to-face meetings, but online and video presentations are becoming more common.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
DEF

Série de rencontres entre des dirigeants d'une entreprise et des investisseurs pour leur présenter les caractéristiques d'une opération financière en cours (introduction en bourse, augmentation de capital, offre publique d'achat, ... ) ou les résultats de l'exercice.

Spanish

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Record 11 2010-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
CONT

In late March, MiningWatch Canada and other NGOs sent an international fact-finding mission hoping to visit the villages at Bulyanhulu, listen to the stories of the people, observe the general living conditions and small-scale mining sites, and gain first-hand information about the 1996 evictions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
CONT

A l'initiative du gouvernement de la république gabonaise, la Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale(CEEAC), a déployé une mission internationale d'observation pour les élections législatives qui se sont déroulées le 17 décembre 2006.

Spanish

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Record 12 2008-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Finance
CONT

The Basel approach was initially developed for more traditional banking operations, and attempts to apply it to credit risk in trading books have given rise to issues which are not yet resolved. Some banks were hoping that the trading book could have been taken forward on a slower timetable, giving time for these issues to be fully debated.

CONT

Other quantitative mechanisms include loss data collection, per the Basel approach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Finances
CONT

L'approche standardisée correspond pour l'essentiel à l'approche de Bâle I, à savoir l'application de coefficients de pondération fixes à des catégories préétablies (p.ex. crédits aux entreprises, prêts hypothécaires).

CONT

À compter du quatrième trimestre de 2008, toutes les succursales bancaires à l'étranger d'une institution de dépôts seront tenues de produire, chaque trimestre,les données sur le risque de crédit demandées dans le cadre de l'ADSCIAS [Appel de données de surveillance du risque de crédit auprès des institutions appliquant l'approche standard] et ce,quelle que soit l'approche de Bâle II qu'elles aient adoptée.

Spanish

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Record 13 2008-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Films
  • Cinematography
OBS

Night Zoo(French : Un zoo la nuit) is a multiple award winning 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The drama made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Marcel(Gilles Maheu) is released from prison, hoping to reconcile with his dying Father Albert(Lebel). Marcel is also harassed by a corrupt gay cop. Marcel returns to his Father who reveals that he has money and drugs stashed away for him. Marcel and his gay former cellmate both corner the corrupt cop and get their revenge on him. Julie(Adams) is Marcel' s former girlfriend who works in a sex club peep show.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de films
  • Cinématographie
OBS

Un zoo la nuit est un film canadien réalisé par Jean-Claude Lauzon, sorti en 1987. Un ancien taulard violé dans sa cellule retrouve son père avec lequel il parviendra enfin à éprouver de l'affection et à communiquer. Il doit échapper à des policiers corrompus qui savent qu'il avait caché quelque part une importante somme d'argent et de la cocaïne pour la durée de son incarcération. Alors que le père est mourant, son fils lui organise une dernière partie de chasse à l'orignal. Il l'apporte au zoo, où il pense être certain d'en trouver un. Lorsqu'il constate son erreur, il suggère à son père de tuer l'éléphant. La scène est envoûtante, mêlée à la voix de Jacques Brel qui chante Voir un ami pleurer. Un zoo la nuit montre l'humanité et l'amour, à travers la nuit et le désespoir.

Spanish

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Record 14 2008-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
DEF

A reality that is difficult to confront but impossible to deny because it is blatantly obvious.

CONT

[Even] when we want to deceive ourselves it's difficult because inflation is such an in-our-face part of everyday life. It's almost like when your best friend gives birth to an ugly baby. You lie and tell her that the kid is beautiful, hoping that some day he will be. But the parents aren’t blind, and they know the kid isn’t going to be supporting the family by modeling anytime soon. [Inflation] is a funny thing. Like the ugly baby, you can deny its existence even as it is goo-gooing you in the face. But eventually the truth will come out.

CONT

Confronting the ugly baby... The culture you have created as a leader might not be as pretty as you think it is.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
DEF

Réalité difficile à affronter mais impossible à nier par son évidence même.

Spanish

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Record 15 2008-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
OBS

An "ugly baby" is a reality that is difficult to confront but impossible to deny because it is blatantly obvious.

OBS

[Even] when we want to deceive ourselves it's difficult because inflation is such an in-our-face part of everyday life. It's almost like when your best friend gives birth to an ugly baby. You lie and tell her that the kid is beautiful, hoping that some day he will be. But the parents aren’t blind, and they know the kid isn’t going to be supporting the family by modeling anytime soon. [Inflation] is a funny thing. Like the ugly baby, you can deny its existence even as it is goo-gooing you in the face. But eventually the truth will come out.

OBS

Confronting the ugly baby... The culture you have created as a leader might not be as pretty as you think it is.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 16 2008-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
OBS

An "ugly baby" is a reality that is difficult to confront but impossible to deny because it is blatantly obvious.

OBS

[Even] when we want to deceive ourselves it's difficult because inflation is such an in-our-face part of everyday life. It's almost like when your best friend gives birth to an ugly baby. You lie and tell her that the kid is beautiful, hoping that some day he will be. But the parents aren’t blind, and they know the kid isn’t going to be supporting the family by modeling anytime soon. [Inflation] is a funny thing. Like the ugly baby, you can deny its existence even as it is goo-gooing you in the face. But eventually the truth will come out.

OBS

Confronting the ugly baby... The culture you have created as a leader might not be as pretty as you think it is.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie

Spanish

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Record 17 2007-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security Devices
CONT

The Ontario government is hoping private corporations will join in helping create a "smart" identity card for all Ontario residents. It would combine the existing health card, driver's licence, senior's card, and welfare identification card.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité

Spanish

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Record 18 2006-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
CONT

Mixed performance under last year's program; obtained emergency assistance in November 1992, hoping for ESAF(Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility) program in 1993.

PHR

Deliver emergency assistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
CONT

Le programme de l'an dernier a donné des résultats mitigés; aide d'urgence obtenue en novembre 1992, dans l'espoir qu'une facilité d'ajustement structurel élargie sera mise en place.

PHR

Fournir une aide d'urgence.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía
PHR

Prestar asistencia de emergencia.

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Record 19 2005-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Histology
  • Cancers and Oncology
CONT

... the [chemotherapeutic] drugs kill cancer cells preferentially, because such cells, by definition, grow and proliferate at an abnormally high rate.

CONT

Then they subjected her to intensive radiotherapy, hoping that the X-ray bombardment would kill any residual cancer cell.

CONT

... if the daily periods of cell division in healthy and cancerous cells are not identical, chemotherapy could be tailored to work when only the cancerous cells are dividing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histologie
  • Cancers et oncologie
CONT

Les cellules cancéreuses, nées de tissus sains, s'en différencient cependant très vite.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Histología
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
DEF

Células del organismo que se multiplican desordenadamente formando un tumor maligno.

OBS

"célula cancerosa" se utiliza en plural en general.

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Record 20 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

"I knew I could catch the leader but when we got to the front, I was hoping nobody else was coming. "

CONT

"When the horses came around the last bend and we all realized the horse was making a huge effort to catch up to the leader, the entire crowd, knowing that Slade was riding Portcullis, erupted in a massive roar of excitement," recalled David and Maureen Callaghan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 21 2004-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • National and International Security
OBS

The past few years have seen a significant increase in requests for training from outside law enforcement agencies hoping to capitalize on the expertise of the RCMP. In response to these requests, the RCMP established the Canadian Law Enforcement Training Unit(CLET) in 1994. Located at the RCMP Academy at "Depot" Division in Regina, Saskatchewan, this unit is dedicated to providing the same quality training to interested agencies that the RCMP provides to its own members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
OBS

Au cours de ces dernières années, nous avons constaté une augmentation significative des demandes de formation provenant d'autres services chargés de faire respecter la loi. Ils désirent profiter de l'expertise de la GRC. Pour répondre à ces demandes, la GRC a fondé le Centre de formation policière canadienne (FPC) en 1994. Installé à l'École de la GRC, à la Division «Dépôt» de Regina, en Saskatchewan, ce centre s'applique à fournir aux organismes qui en font la demande une formation d'une qualité égale à celle que la GRC offre à ses propres membres.

Spanish

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Record 22 2003-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
DEF

An informer; especially, a spy for the police.

CONT

Twomey and Carpenter claim they were framed by a "supergrass"-a police informer hoping for lenient treatment in return for turning in other villains.

OBS

stool pigeon, stoolie, pigeon, lockout pin, supergrass: slang expressions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
DEF

Personne, bien souvent du milieu, qui se met à la solde de la police pour la renseigner.

OBS

Selon le Larousse de la langue française LEXIS, "indic" est un terme populaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Policía
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Record 23 1999-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Cotton Industry
  • Sewing Notions
CONT

Darning cotton. It is made of two, three or more two-ply cotton threads twisted together. Finer yarn of this type is called mending yarn.

CONT

During the Depression, mending socks was also standard procedure... I’ve kept my old wooden darning egg, hoping mending cotton will reappear....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Industrie cotonnière
  • Articles et accessoires de couture
DEF

Fil de coton ou de polyester, se vendant par petites quantités, dans une grande gamme de coloris. Le plus souvent, il est enroulé sur un carton. Il est utilisé pour les raccommodages.

CONT

Les fils : ameublement, confection DMC, coutures fines, ourlets, cordonnets de soie, fils à gants, coton à repriser, laines à repriser [...].

Spanish

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Record 24 1999-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

To throw a rock with a turn hoping it will adopt a circular path, glide around a guard and come to a stop behind it and in the house.

OBS

draw (noun): A rock that is delivered in such a way that it comes to lay within the playing area; the positioning, in the house, of a delivered rock that did not touch another rock along the way nor have put out an opponent’s rock before coming to rest.

OBS

guard (noun): A rock positioned between the hog line and the house, often to protect another rock behind, and that blocks the path of a rock to deliver.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Lancer une pierre avec effet dans l'espoir qu'elle adopte une trajectoire circulaire, contourne une garde et s'immobilise derrière elle, dans la maison.

OBS

lancer de placement; placement : Lancer qui résulte en l'immobilisation de la pierre dans la maison; le fait de positionner la pierre lancée dans la maison sans qu'elle ne touche une pierre en route ni ne sorte une pierre adverse avant de parvenir à s'immobiliser.

OBS

garde : Pierre immobilisée entre la ligne de jeu et la maison, souvent pour en protéger une autre derrière, et qui bloque la trajectoire d'une pierre à lancer.

Spanish

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Record 25 1999-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

To throw a rock hoping it will come to a rest in front of the house.

OBS

guard (noun): A rock positioned between the hog line and the house, often to protect another rock behind, and that blocks the path of a rock to deliver.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Lancer une pierre espérant qu'elle s'immobilise devant la maison.

OBS

garde : Pierre immobilisée entre la ligne de jeu et la maison, souvent pour en protéger une autre derrière, et qui bloque la trajectoire d'une pierre à lancer.

Spanish

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Record 26 1999-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

A throw of a rock hoping it will come to rest in the house.

OBS

draw (noun): A rock that is delivered in such a way that it comes to lay within the playing area; the positioning, in the house, of a delivered rock that did not touch another rock along the way nor have put out an opponent’s rock before coming to rest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Lancer d'une pierre dans l'espoir qu'elle s'immobilise dans la maison.

OBS

lancer de placement; placement : Lancer qui résulte en l'immobilisation de la pierre dans la maison; le fait de positionner la pierre lancée dans la maison sans qu'elle ne touche une pierre en route ni ne sorte une pierre adverse avant de parvenir à s'immobiliser.

Spanish

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Record 27 1998-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations Research and Management
CONT

To add to the confusion, the new superconductors are incredibly sensitive to the slightest change in ingredients. This has given rise to "Julia Child" research : mixing dozens of combinations, hoping one yields results in the magic room-temperature range. Scientists digging for new recipes are dismantling the best existing compounds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et gestion opérationnelles

Spanish

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Record 28 1994-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Translation (General)
  • National and International Economics
CONT

Mixed performance under last year's program; obtained emergency assistance in November 1992, hoping for ESAF(Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility) program in 1993.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
CONT

Le programme de l'an dernier a donné des résultats mitigés; aide d'urgence obtenue en novembre 1992, dans l'espoir qu'une facilité d'ajustement structurel élargie sera mise en place.

Spanish

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Record 29 1994-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
CONT

By giving a cognitive enhancer, with minimal side effects, to people without a mental deficit, they may end up with cognitive credit, i. e. smarter. Some elements within the scientific establishment continue to deny the potential of cognitive enhancers. They believe that the optimal brain cannot be improved upon by throwing in, a "chemical spanner". But optimal memory can be improved, for example, by employing "mnemonics", which is as "artificial" as a chemical lift from a pill. Would they also resist cognitive enhancement by other artificial methods such as food-a "chemical spanner" if ever there was one-and education? The United States Congress has declared the 1990s the "Decade of the Brain". Smart drugs will, if regulated, treat a recently officially recognized disease, the Age-Associated Memory Impairment(AAMI)-a noticeable mental decline due to the normal ageing process. A futures analyst, Decision Resources, predicts that smart drugs could benefit 600 million people this decade, including 60 million people with AAMI, 20 million students who want to improve scholastic performance, and 270 million people hoping to improve their efficiency at work(Suppl. The World in 1994).

OBS

See "cognitive enhancer".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
OBS

amélioration: fait de devenir meilleur, plus satisfaisant. Voir améliorant.

Spanish

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Record 30 1994-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Motors
  • Ship and Boat Parts
CONT

The SEMP ship Yamato 1 is packed with the huge power and refrigeration systems needed to run it. A ten-man crew squeezes into a small cockpit at the front. Despite these limitations, the Japanese are hoping that SEMP systems will become smaller and more powerful leading to a new generation of fast passenger ferries and cargo ships. Unlike today's ships they will be highly manoeuvrable : by reversing the polarity of both thrusters, a SEMP ship should be able to come rapidly to a halt. Reversing just one drive would make it turn on a yen. It would also be eerily quiet. This has prompted the America's IEEE to try to fit SEMP drives into a submarine-echoes, as it were, of the "caterpillar drive" used by the silent submarine in the film "The Hunt for Red October".

Key term(s)
  • SEMP submarine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs électriques
  • Parties des bateaux

Spanish

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Record 31 1993-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 32 1990-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
Key term(s)
  • bonne réception

Spanish

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Record 33 1987-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
OBS

An entrepreneurial market has been described as a market in which the imputs are perceptiveness, judgment, and timing rather than labour hours. High technologies are, by this definitions, entrepreneurial. Organizations hoping to succeed in an entrepreneurial market must adopt a "prospector" culture. Experimentation, flexibility, a capacity for adjustment, a flare for the dramatic a willingness to plunge in or to exit are all behaviours that Miles and Snow ascribe to "prospectors" Prospectors keep their rivals off guard and move rapidly to a dominant position in a market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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Record 34 1987-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
  • Corporate Economics
CONT

entrepreneurial market has been described as a market in which the inputs are perceptiveness, judgment, and timing rather than labour hours. High technology activities are, by this definition, entrepreneurial". Organizations hoping to succeed in an entrepreneurial market must adopt a "prospector" culture. Experimentation, flexibility, a capacity for adjustment, a flare for the dramatic, a willingness to plunge in or to exit are all behaviours that Miles and Snow ascribe to "prospectors". Prospectors keep their rivals off guard and move rapidly to a dominant position in a market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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Record 35 1986-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Conferences and Colloquia: Organization
CONT

Pre-meeting Development.... Promotion is the keynote of action in this stage as the planning committee attempts to attract the attention of the prospective participant. The committee sends communications to him hoping that he in turn will respond.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de congrès et de conférences
CONT

On appelle préinvitation l'annonce préliminaire que l'organisateur diffuse très largement à tous les destinataires susceptibles d'être intéressés par le congrès convoqué. Cette annonce (...) comporte tous les éléments pouvant éveiller l'intérêt du participant potentiel. Il est préférable que cette première annonce se diffuse (...) à la liste de destinataires la plus large possible.

Spanish

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Record 36 1986-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Conferences and Colloquia: Organization
OBS

Pre-meeting Development.... The [planning] committee sends communication to [the prospective participant] hoping that he in turn will respond.... Communication from the planners may be by written letters, printed announcements, questionnaires, through other persons, by word of mouth or other methods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de congrès et de conférences
CONT

On appelle préinvitation l'annonce préliminaire que l'organisateur diffuse très largement à tous les destinataires susceptibles d'être intéressés par le congrès convoqué. (...) Il est préférable que cette première annonce se diffuse avec l'emblème du congrès et à la liste de destinataires la plus large possible.

Spanish

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