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WASHING UP [19 records]

Record 1 2020-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
  • Waste Management
DEF

... the water and the associated debris resulting from the washing of streets [or] sidewalks.

CONT

Tips for street wash water. Industrial facilities and construction sites that discharge debris and sediment to city streets must clean up after their operations in a reasonable amount of time; but they must also do it properly. Washing these pollutants further into the storm sewer system(i. e. washing them into catch basins or other stormwater inlet structures) is not an option. A careful balance must be met between applying enough water to clean the street, but not so much as to either flood the street or cause pollutants to be discharged further into the system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes
  • Gestion des déchets
OBS

eau de lavage des rues; eau de lavage des chaussées; eau de lavage de la voirie : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • eaux de lavage des rues
  • eaux de lavage des chaussées
  • eaux de lavage de la voirie

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Establishments
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
  • Drug and Beverage Crops
CONT

To meet clients requirements, Yordanos has set up two washing stations and a dry coffee cleaning plant at Yirgachefe, Sidamo(one of the best coffee growing areas in Ethiopia), to control the quality of the coffee in the growing areas. In all three plants, the red cherry and brown cover is removed from the beans and brought to Addis Ababa for further processing, which involves the cleaning, sorting into different size grades, and packing for export.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements industriels
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
  • Culture des plantes alcaloïfères
OBS

installation de traitement du café : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
DEF

A classifier for separating fine-size solids from coarser solids in a wet pulp consisting of an interrupted-flight screw conveyor, operating in an inclined trough.

CONT

Spiral classifiers... do not normally set up a turbulent stirring action in the classifying pool, but cross-pieces can be bolted to the spiral shoes to produce this.... As settled sands emerge from the "V" end of the pool, they bring with them some trapped or "drag-out" slime which should properly have overflowed at the weir. Washing sprays are often used to return this material to the pool. [The] spiral classifier... carries its sands upward on the rising side of the helix, so that sprays can be used at any point and there is a good channel for running their washed product straight down to the pool.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
DEF

Classificateur hydraulique dans lequel les sables sont remontés et extraits de l'appareil à l'aide d'une vis de transport.

CONT

Classificateurs à drainage mécanique. Le classificateur à vis utilise la partie inférieure du bac élargie avec débordement pour constituer une zone de sédimentation sans turbulence, dite «pool de classification». [...] Les particules décantées sont brassées par la partie de la spirale plongeant dans le pool de classification avec élimination des indésirables évacuées par le seuil de débordement; puis elles sont entraînées vers le haut en subissant un essorage jusqu'à la sortie supérieure.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Explotación de minerales (Metalurgia)
  • Preparación de los productos mineros
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Record 4 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Coal Preparation
CONT

One of the oldest screening devices is the trommel, which can be used wet or dry. Its usual form is cylindrical, with the screening plates forming the side walls, and a downward slope from feed to discharge end.(...) When "washing trommels" are used, the feed is picked up by internal lifters made of angle-iron, and is sprayed. The water runs out with the undersize and slime.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des charbons
CONT

Le lavage-débourbage s'effectue sur le tout-venant alluvionnaire ou les pré-concassés chargés d'impuretés minérales ou organiques adhérentes mais délayables. A cet effet, on utilise le trommel laveur (...), qui se compose d'un cylindre en tôle perforée auquel on imprime une rotation lente. A l'intérieur du cylindre sont fixées des pales qui triturent le matériau sous des rampes d'arrosage à forte pression d'eau. L'eau chargée s'écoule par les trous du cylindre, tandis que le matériau lavé est entraîné à l'extérieur par les pales.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewers and Drainage
  • Water Pollution
CONT

Wastewaters that originate entirely from residential communities are made up of excreta, bathing and washing water, and kitchen wastes. These urban wastewaters do not vary widely among different communities.... wide variations in composition... occur where large industrial... establishments add their wastes...

OBS

Compare with "domestic wastewater".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Égouts et drainage
  • Pollution de l'eau
CONT

Si la biodégradation des eaux usées urbaines ne pose pratiquement pas de problèmes, ce n'est toujours pas le cas des eaux résiduaires industrielles considérées seules. [Avant d'admettre ces eaux] dans un réseau d'égout urbain [...] il y a lieu de respecter un certain rapport de volume et de charge polluante entre ces eaux résiduaires et les eaux vannes [...]

OBS

Les eaux usées des constructions civiles sont de deux types distincts : les eaux ménagères et les eaux vannes.

Key term(s)
  • eau usée urbaine
  • eau résiduaire urbaine
  • eau d'égout urbaine

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beverages
  • Brewing and Malting
  • Food Industries
CONT

In the bottleshop of a brewery, returned empty bottles go through washers in which they receive a thorough cleaning. After washing, the bottles are inspected electronically and visually, and pass on to the rotary filler. Some of these machines can fill up to 1, 200 bottles per minute. A "crowning" machine integrated with the filler, places caps on the bottles. The filled bottles may then pass through a "tunnel" pasteurizer-often 75 feet from end to end and able to hold 15, 000 bottles-where the temperature of the beer is raised about 60 degrees Celsius for a sufficient length of time to provide biological stability, then cooled to room temperature.

Key term(s)
  • conveyor pasteurizer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boissons (Industrie de l'alimentation)
  • Brasserie et malterie
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
OBS

Pour bière en bouteilles et jus de fruits en cannettes.

OBS

Les machines sont adaptées aux différentes demandes des industries agroalimentaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bebidas
  • Fabricación de cerveza y malta
  • Industria alimentaria
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Record 7 2012-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

(T)he act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land out of the sea or a river.

OBS

Accretion of land is of two kinds; by alluvion, i. e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land is by small and imperceptible degrees, it belongs to the owner of the land immediately adjacent to it, but if it is sudden and considerable it belongs to the Crown.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 27).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Acception large.

OBS

accroissement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

Accretion of land is of two kinds : By alluvion, i. e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water-mark. The term "alluvion" is applied to deposit itself, while "accretion" denotes the act. However, the terms are frequently used synonymously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Une alluvion fluviale profite parfois au propriétaire riverain en raison de l'accroissement de terrain qui peut résulter de l'alluvionnement.

OBS

accroissement de terrain par alluvionnement : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Coal Preparation
CONT

cyclone washer. Cyclone washing of small coal originates from the Netherlands. Clean separation is effected with the aid of centrifugal force. The heavier shale particles move to the wall of the cyclone and are eventually discharged at the bottom while the lighter coal particles are swept towards the central vortex and are discharged through an outlet at the top. The washer may be used for cleaning coal up to three-fourths of an inch. The coal is normally de-slimed at about 0. 5 millimeter before cleaning. The separating medium is water and ground magnetite, the bulk of which is recovered and returned to the circuit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des charbons
CONT

Les hydrocyclones laveurs (déduits des classificateurs) ont été tout d'abord étudiés dans les mines de charbon hollandaises [...]. On y injecte des particules de schiste et de charbon avec de l'eau. Par la pointe sortent les particules grosses et denses (schiste dominant), par le haut les particules légères et fines (charbon dominant). Si le cyclone est alimenté par un médium lourd (barytine, magnétite), il travaille à la fois en laveur et épaississeur.

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulp and Paper
CONT

Some [pulp and paper] mills incorporate a deicing and/or washing stage in the log handling sequence. The logs are fed from the loading deck onto the deicing deck where they are automatically stacked up to a height of one meter or more. They are then slowly conveyed through the deicing chamber and subjected to hot water showers in wintertime and/or cold-water showers in summer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtes et papier
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme de dégivrage

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
DEF

An open-width dyeing machine invented by the late S. H. Williams of GAF Corporation of New York City. The fabric passes up and down over rollers in the dyeing bath. Widely used for dyeing, washing, pretreating and aftertreating.

Key term(s)
  • Williams unit machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
DEF

To break up the ore and gangue by machinery, for washing out the heavier metallic particles.

CONT

To mill ore.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
DEF

Passer [du minerai] au bocard.

CONT

Bocarder du minerai.

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Processes - Various
DEF

The cleaning of a printing press including ink rollers, forme, type, etc. at the end of the working day.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'impression divers
DEF

Action de nettoyer, entre autres, les rouleaux encreurs, la forme et les caractères d'une presse à imprimer.

Spanish

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Record 14 1993-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulp and Paper
DEF

Pulp washing and stock slurry dewatering types of process units using one wire screen-covered, cylindrical drum, partially immersed in pulp suspension and white water, from which it picks up fiber and forms a sheet as a means of separating the solids from the liquid. It is commonly used in multi-stage brownstock washing and pulp bleaching processes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtes et papier

Spanish

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Record 15 1993-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulp and Paper
CONT

Some [pulp and paper] mills incorporate a deicing and/or washing stage in the log handling sequence. The logs are fed from the loading deck onto the deicing deck where they are automatically stacked up to a height of one meter or more. They are then slowly conveyed through the deicing chamber and subjected to hot water showers in wintertime and/or cold-water showers in summer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pâtes et papier

Spanish

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Record 16 1988-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
  • Electrical Domestic Appliances
DEF

Complete washing and drying of moderately soiled loads. Ideal for after party clean up of glasses, cups, saucers, or dessert dishes.

CONT

Using the short wash dial position eliminates the pre-wash and first pre-rinse. (Dishwasher: Use and Care Guide, Hotpoint, Gen. Electric Co., Camco Inc., 845C114H39, n.d.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
  • Appareillage électrique domestique
DEF

Cycle de courte durée utilisé pour laver les petits chargements de vaisselle.

CONT

le programmateur [offre] le choix de 4 programmes : rinçage et trempage préliminaires lorsque la vaisselle est laissée en attente d'un complément; lavage cycle réduit (eau à 50)

OBS

cycle court : terme qui apparaît dans certaines traductions et qui semble être le plus approprié.

Spanish

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Record 17 1986-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
DEF

Accretions of siliceous incrustations on the exterior surface of sand grains. From these incrustations grow numerous filamentous organisms, and over which there is a gelatinous coating. Mudballs are approximately spherical in shape and vary in size from that of a pea up to one or two inches or more in diameter, and are formed principally by the retention and gradual building up of growths that are not completely removed by the washing process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
DEF

Amas de boues se formant dans les filtres rapides à sable lorsque le lavage est insuffisant.

Spanish

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Record 18 1982-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

... in a low-rate filter there is no continuous washing of the humus, which tends to build up in the percolating mass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
OBS

Dans un lit à faible charge [...] il n'y a pas de lavage permanent de la boue qui tend à s'accumuler au sein de la masse percolatrice.

Spanish

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Record 19 1982-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
OBS

... the washing system must be carefully designed so as to carry all the sludge concentrated in the bottom coarse-filtration layer up through the top sand layer...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux
OBS

[...] le système de lavage doit être parfaitement adapté pour permettre à la fois de remonter toutes les boues, concentrées dans la couche inférieure de dégrossissage, à travers la couche supérieure de sable, [...]

Spanish

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