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MOOR [4 records]

Record 1 2019-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maneuvering of Ships

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvre des navires
DEF

Maintenir, au moyen d'amarres, un [bâtiment] à un quai, un appontement, un duc d'Albe, un coffre, ou à un autre [bâtiment].

OBS

amarrer : terme uniformisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Maniobras de los buques
DEF

Sujetar la embarcación en el puerto o fondeadero mediante anclas y cadenas o cables.

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Record 2 2019-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

A member of the group of Muslim people from North Africa who ruled Spain from 711 to 1492.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
DEF

Personne qui était originaire ou habitait l'Afrique du Nord, à l'époque romaine.

Key term(s)
  • More
  • Moresque

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
OBS

A language of Ghana.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
OBS

Langue du Ghana.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
DEF

An extensive area of open rolling infertile land consisting of sand, rock or peat usually covered with heather bracken, coarse grass and sphagnum moss.

OBS

... it is also used more widely to include acidic grasslands, peat bogs and mosses.

OBS

In German usage the term moor refers to any area of deep peat, whether acid or alkaline.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

On [...] trouve [des sols] dans les endroits les plus humides de Terre-Neuve sous forme de terrains marécageux [...]

Spanish

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