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SHALLOW WORK [5 records]

Record 1 2023-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial and Economic Psychology
CONT

Deep work stands in direct opposition to shallow work – non-cognitively demanding, highly replicable tasks that don’t create any real value and can be performed in a state of distraction, like managing email, responding to slack and logging time sheets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie industrielle et économique
OBS

Le travail intense, qui se fait dans un état de concentration absolue, s'oppose au travail superficiel, qui est caractérisé par des tâches logistiques non exigeantes sur le plan cognitif que l'on exécute souvent en étant distrait.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

The proponents obtained data on the subsurface conditions at the anchor fields through prior work at each site, including exploration drilling, geophysical programs and shallow borehole investigations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Les promoteurs ont obtenu des données sur les conditions de la subsurface des champs d'ancrage au moyen de travaux ultérieurs à chaque site, y compris le forage d'exploration, les programmes géophysiques et les évaluations par trous de forage peu profonds.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
DEF

A cup, often of flexible material such as rubber, in which a partial vacuum is created when it is inverted on a surface; the vacuum tends to hold the cup in place.

CONT

The suction cup is a simple tool which makes short work of shallow dents if they are not locked in by a crease in the metal. Simply attach the suction cup to the center of the dent and pull.

OBS

suction cup: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
DEF

Calotte de caoutchouc qui peut être maintenue par la pression d'air sur une surface plane et utilisée à divers usages.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-12-14

English

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

Work your horse on suppling exercises every time ou ride him. This keeps him flexible and keeps joints limber. Working uphill, riding through shallow water, working in circles and jumping over low jumps at a walk and trot are great suppling exercises for a horse of any discipline.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Exercice visant le développement de l'élasticité du corps du cheval et/ou du cavalier.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Geological Prospecting
DEF

Prospecting work confined to digging shallow pits or starting adits.

CONT

Much gophering was employed in prospecting, evidenced by an abundance of pits and shallow shafts ...

OBS

Term used from similarity of this work to the crooked little holes dug in the soil by gophers.

OBS

gopher hole: ... an irregular pitting hole made when prospecting. Gophering is random prospecting by such pits or by gopher drift.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Prospection géologique

Spanish

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