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Record 1 2022-10-14

English

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

The back slide... is used to counter and stop the forward momentum of a delta, or to simply move backward in the air away from a target.

Key term(s)
  • backslide

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
OBS

[La glissade arrière] est utilisée pour arrêter l'élan d'un delta ou simplement reculer devant une cible dans l'air.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Cattle Raising
CONT

The point of balance is located at the cow's shoulder. To move a cow forward, you should be positioned behind its shoulder. If you need to move the animal backward, position yourself in front of the shoulder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Élevage des bovins
CONT

Aussitôt qu'on entre dans sa zone de fuite, la vache va bouger. Le point d'équilibre est situé vis-à-vis de la pointe de l'épaule de la vache. Si l'on se place derrière le point d'équilibre et dans la zone de fuite, la vache va avancer. Si l'on se place devant le point d'équilibre et dans la zone de fuite, la vache va reculer. Si l'on se place sur le point d'équilibre et en périphérie de la zone de fuite, la vache va arrêter.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
  • Codes (Software)
CONT

The turtle module provides an environment in which turtles move around on a 2-dimensional grid. Turtles have a position, heading(the direction the turtle is facing) and a variety of possible states(turtles can draw lines of a particular colour when they move or leave no trace) and actions(turn left or right; move forward or backward).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
  • Codes (Logiciels)

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Board Games
DEF

A game played on a checkerboard by two players each having twelve men that move diagonally forward one square at a time or backward as well as if crowned, the object being to capture or block all the opponent's men.

OBS

checkers; draughts: nouns used with a singular verb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux sur plateaux
DEF

Jeu pratiqué sur un damier avec des pions noirs et des pions blancs.

Spanish

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Record 5 2018-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
DEF

A move that begins by taking off from one or two feet, then jumping backward and landing on the feet.

Key term(s)
  • back somie
  • back sommie

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
CONT

Le salto arrière est une figure gymnastique dont le but principal est de sauter pour effectuer un tour du corps sur l'axe horizontal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gimnasia y acrobacias sobre cama elástica
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Record 6 2018-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Water Pollution
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
DEF

A boat designed for the recovery of bulky wastes and hydrocarbons floating on water.

DEF

[A] vessel fitted out with all kinds of equipment for fighting oil fires and skimming oil, [such as] dispersing agents, a helicopter deck, a hospital, cranes, etc.

CONT

The Technocean Company has completed a first series of... tests for a pollution control ship.... Forward it will have a conventional single hull, while the aft half will have a catamaran twin hull. The layer of hydrocarbons floating on the surface will be eliminated by suction. The ship will move backward and skim the surface of the ocean, swallowing the variable thickness oil pollution layer in the sea.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Pollution de l'eau
  • Types de bateaux
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Navire conçu et équipé pour la lutte contre la pollution marine.

OBS

Un tel navire intervient pour la récupération de nappes pétrolières en mer ou dans un port ou d'huiles usagées à bord des navires. Il en existe une grande variété de types selon la taille, les fonctions, les équipements. Le navire comporte, en général, une benne de ramassage de déchets, un système d'écrémage de la surface de l'eau, des installations pour le traitement des hydrocarbures, avec évacuation de l'eau polluée, des appareils pour répandre des produits absorbants ou dispersants, des moyens de manutention pour manœuvrer les barrages antipollution.

OBS

[Les navires] spéciaux de ramassage [...] ont en général une forme de «catamaran», deux demi-coques sont poussées sur la nappe et la séparation eau-pétrole peut se faire entre les deux. [Un exemple en est le projet] de Technocean, navire dépollueur [...]

Key term(s)
  • dépollueur

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-05-22

English

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

An expert move that is made by throwing the body up into the air, with the legs moving as if pedaling a bicycle; the player kicks the ball backward over his head.

OBS

Although many sources consider "bicycle kick" synonymous with "scissor(s) kick", the scissors is not necessarily an overhead kick.

Key term(s)
  • overhead volley

French

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

Frappe de volée exécutée sur une balle aérienne. Le joueur frappe le ballon au-dessus de sa tête et vers l'arrière en se laissant tomber au sol.

OBS

Un coup de pied de ciseau n'est pas forcément renversé comme la bicyclette.

Key term(s)
  • ciseau retourné

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fútbol
DEF

Maniobra que consta en poner el talón de un pie adelante de la pelota, el empeine (o borde interno) del otro pie atrás de la pelota, dar luego un salto y hacer un movimiento similar al movimiento de pedalear [...], inclinar el cuerpo un poco para abajo y hacer que el balón pase por atrás y arriba del futbolista que hace este movimiento.

OBS

En algunos países latinoamericanos “chilena” y “chalaca” son sinónimos.

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Record 8 2012-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
DEF

A format effector that causes the print or display position to move one position backward along the line without producing the printing or display of any graphic.

OBS

backspace character; BS: term, abbreviation and definition standardized by ISO; officially approved by the Government EDP (Electronic Data Processing) Standards Committee (GESC).

OBS

backspace: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
DEF

Caractère de mise en page destiné à provoquer le déplacement de la position d'impression ou d'affichage d'un pas vers l'arrière le long de la ligne de base, sans provoquer l'impression ou l'apparition d'un symbole graphique.

OBS

caractère espace arrière; BS : terme, abréviation et définition normalisés par l’ISO; uniformisés par le Comité des normes gouvernementales en informatique (CNGI).

OBS

espace arrière; retour arrière : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Códigos (Soporte lógico)
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Record 9 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

To act as a catalyst, i.e. to cause or produce catalysis. In the living cell, the vast majority of chemical reactions that are of value to the organism have a kinetic barrier preventing their spontaneous occurrence. This kinetic barrier is overcome by the enzyme catalyst. The directive role of the enzyme catalyst is to make energetically favorable reactions take place at a rate that is conducive to sustaining and promoting growth.

CONT

Like all other catalysts, enzymes are not used up in the course of chemical reactions, and a given enzyme molecule may function many thousands of times in a single second. Most enzymes are highly specific and only catalyze a single type of chemical reaction; conversely, most chemical reactions in cells are only catalyzed by one specific enzyme. Enzymes catalyze both the forward and backward directions of a given chemical reaction. Their presence alone does not cause the chemical reactions that they catalyze to move in directions that provide orderly cell growth and division.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

Agir comme catalyseur dans une réaction.

CONT

Beaucoup d'enzymes ont été dénommés en ajoutant le suffixe -ase au nom de leur substrat, c'est-à-dire la molécule sur laquelle l'enzyme exerce son action catalytique. Par exemple, l'uréase catalyse l'hydrolyse de l'urée en ammoniaque et en CO2, l'arginase catalyse l'hydrolyse de l'arginine en ornithine et en urée, et la phosphatase catalyse l'hydrolyse des esters phosphoriques.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 11 2000-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
Key term(s)
  • moving backward
  • backwards movement
  • backward move
  • backwards move

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
OBS

... preplasticizing machine. Of the equipment in use today, 95% is preplasticizing; either with a reciprocating screw or a screw-pot. In a reciprocating screw the melted material is collected in front of the screw, which continues to move backward against a controlled pressure as more material is melted. The area where the melted material is collected corresponds to the pot in a two-stage machine. When the screw is pushed forward by the hydraulic injection cylinder(s), a check valve(nonreturn valve) is closed. At this time the screw and nonreturn valve act like a plunger.

Key term(s)
  • two-stage screw-pot injection-moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-pot injection molding machine
  • two-stage screw-pot injection moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection-molding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection-moulding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection molding machine
  • two-stage screw-plunger injection moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
OBS

There are about 80,000 injection-molding machines in about 8,000 plants in the United States. ... About 95% of the machine are either reciprocating screw or two-stage screws. The balance are plunger machines.

OBS

... preplasticizing machine. Of the equipment in use today, 95% is preplasticizing; either with a reciprocating screw or a screw-pot. In a reciprocating screw the melted material is collected in front of the screw, which continues to move backward against a controlled pressure as more material is melted. The area where the melted material is collected corresponds to the pot in a two-stage machine. When the screw is pushed forward by the hydraulic injection cylinder(s), a check valve(nonreturn valve) is closed. At this time the screw and nonreturn valve act like a plunger.

Key term(s)
  • screw-injection moulding machine
  • screw injection molding machine
  • reciprocating screw injection-moulding machine
  • screw molding machine
  • screw moulding machine
  • screw-molding machine
  • screw-moulding machine
  • reciprocating screw injection moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
CONT

La machine la plus utilisée est la presse à vis-piston. On parle alors de préplastification; en effet la vis assure ici deux fonctions : -fonction vis en tournant sur son axe : plastification de la matière de façon homogène, -fonction piston en avançant le long de son axe : matière poussée dans le moule par l'extrémité de la vis (qui joue le rôle de piston).

Spanish

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Record 14 1991-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rail Traffic Control

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation des trains

Spanish

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Record 15 1986-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Board Games
DEF

a piece that has moved across the board to the opponent's base and been crowned, as that it can move both forward and backward

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux sur plateaux
DEF

Pièce la plus importante du jeu d'échecs.

Spanish

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Record 16 1980-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rolling Stock (Railroads)
OBS

matériel de voie T-125-1-TT 1976 p. 11. Move lever backward to lower the spreader-ditcher wing on the main post until the wing almost touches the ground. Syn. : ditch blade MFIB fasc. 11 p. 39.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel roulant (Chemins de fer)
OBS

MFIB fasc. 11 p. 40 + T-125-1-TT 76 p. 11. Ramener la manette vers l'arrière pour faire glisser la lame de fossé sur le montant principal jusqu'à ce que la lame soit presque au contact du sol. (T-125-1-TT) 27/9/76.

Spanish

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