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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

[Knots that] let you tie into the rope, anchor yourself to the mountain, tie two ropes together for long rappels, use slings to climb the rope itself.

CONT

Knots that will least affect the fiber and yet lock without slipping and be easy to untie when wet and icy conditions are required. Such knots we call «climbing knots».

OBS

Knots connect climbers to the rope and the anchors ... we use knots as a general term referring to all knots, hitches and bends.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

[...] les principaux nœuds indispensables à connaître et répondant à la majorité des situations en escalade et alpinisme.

OBS

nœud alpiniste : terme proposé par la boutique La Cordée à Montréal.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-10-27

English

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

Untie your reins and take them up in your inside hand. With your outside hand, take hold of the pommel and straighten your arm so that you’re pulling your shoulders back and pulling your seat toward your hand at the same time.

OBS

Related term: right lead

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

L'on manœuvre «à main droite» lorsque l'antérieur droit du cheval est le plus en avant dans la foulée de galop, ou lorsque le déplacement ou le changement de direction se fait dans le sens du mouvement des aiguilles d'une montre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 3 2017-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

You must secure your climbing rope to your harness (tie-in) in the strongest way possible. In the past climbers used the Bowline Knot ... for this connection, but the Figure-Eight knot is stronger and is now the most popular.

CONT

The butterfly knot mentioned earlier, while ideal for a climber tying into the middle of a rope, is too cumbersome to tie and untie for use as a tie-in to the anchor.

CONT

The tie-in is a system used in rock climbing to secure the rope to an object. It consists of climbing rope, a secure, strong knot, and an object with which to attach. The tie-in secures the climbing rope to either the climber, swami, harness, rope used as a harness, or to an anchor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

L'encordement se fait au moyen de divers nœuds dont les plus courants sont le nœud en huit et le nœud de bouline, ou nœud de chaise, le premier étant assez difficile à défaire en cas de choc. [...] Avec le baudrier, l'arrêt de la manœuvre est simple : après le dernier anneau de buste, on fait un nœud sur la corde que l'on passe dans un mousqueton fixé à l'encordement initial.

CONT

L'encordement a pour but d'augmenter la sécurité de chacun des membres de la cordée.

OBS

L'encordement est un système utilisé pour attacher la corde au grimpeur que ce soit directement sur lui ou directement sur le baudrier. Pourtant, en français, ce terme ne comprend pas l'idée d'attache à un point d'ancrage comme le fait l'anglais.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Blood
  • Bioengineering
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company’s catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Sang
  • Technique biologique
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
  • Typography
CONT

After the job is untied and distributed, the string is made into a convenient knot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
  • Typographie (Caractères)
DEF

Libérer les paquets de composition de la ficelle qui les entoure.

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-03-16

English

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

An intellectual movement which asserts that American individualism needs to be mixed with social obligation.

CONT

A word acquiring new meaning in 1991 is : COMMUNITARIANISM. Local citizens are scared of crime, and some are arguing that expansive notions of civil liberties must yield to community rights at times. Communitarians contend, for example, that civil libertarians should abandon objections to measures such as drunk-driving check-points, antiloitering ordinances, prosecuting drug-using pregnant women and police questioning of "suspicious" persons to combat rampant drug and alcohol abuse. They also want to make divorce laws more "prochild" by making it harder for couples with kids to untie the knot.

OBS

(In the seventies), a communal system of organization based on small cooperative communities practising some communist principles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
DEF

Nouvelle forme de solidarité et d'implication civique lancée en 1994 par Amitai Etzioni aux États-Unis.

CONT

communautarisme culturel.

Key term(s)
  • communautairisme

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Le président américain a souligné qu'il avait décidé de dissocier l'octroi de ces privilèges commerciaux, soumis à l'examen chaque année, des conditions précédemment posées par Washington quant au respect des droits de l'homme par le régime de Pékin.

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-03-27

English

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

Always untie the lead shank before taking the halter off your horse. This may prevent him from pulling back and becoming a "halter-puller".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Cheval qui cherche à se libérer de son licol qu'il ne peut endurer.

Spanish

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