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LICK [6 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
DEF

A block of salt, often with added minerals or vitamins, set out for animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, or deer to lick.

CONT

A salt lick should be provided if the cattle are to achieve high growth rates at pasture, particularly in areas where the pasture is naturally deficient in sodium, or high temperatures increase sodium loss through sweating. The salt lick should be placed in a container so that it does not get contaminated with earth, and preferably should be protected from rain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Prévention des situations de carence en sodium. [...] en période de pâturage, le chlorure de sodium doit être mis à la disposition des bovins sous forme de pierre à lécher en libre service, ce afin de complémenter les apports [de sodium] par l'herbe, toujours déficitaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Alimentación animal (Agricultura)
DEF

Corrector vitamínico-mineral que se presenta al ganado para que se autorracione distribuyéndolo por el área de pastoreo, preferentemente cerca de los abrevaderos.

CONT

Bloques minerales para lamer. Suelen contener gran cantidad de cloruro sódico (excipiente) y microminerales.

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Record 2 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Environment
  • Animal Science
DEF

A natural deposit of exposed salt that animals lick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Environnement
  • Zootechnie

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
CONT

A phosphate lick block that not only provides supplemental phosphate, but also non-protein nitrogen (NPN) to the diet of ruminants, by the inclusion of one or more sources of dietary phosphates in which animal feed grade mono-ammonium-phosphate (NH4H2PO4) [...] is the dominant ingredient and provides both phosphate and NPN supplementation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
CONT

[…] un bloc à lécher à base de phosphates apportant des phosphates en complément et de l'azote non protéinique dans l'alimentation des ruminants, par incorporation d'une ou plusieurs sources de phosphates alimentaires ayant comme ingrédient majeur du mono-ammonium-phosphate (NH4H2PO4) de qualité alimentaire qui apporte des phosphates en complément et de l'azote non protéinique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina veterinaria
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Record 4 2007-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting Techniques
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
DEF

A progressive system of building a fireline on a wildlife without changing relative positions in the line. Each worker does one to several "licks", or strokes, with a given tool and then moves forward a specified distance to make room for the worker behind.

Key term(s)
  • one lick method

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvres d'intervention (incendies)
  • Incendies de végétation
DEF

Façon d'organiser une équipe de combattants empruntée de la technique de la chaîne d'assemblage dans l'industrie. Les hommes, munis de haches, de boyaux, de râteaux, de bêches, etc., sont disposés dans un ordre approprié, avec un intervalle suffisant entre eux, et avancent en gardant les mêmes positions relatives, chaque homme répétant une opération au fur et à mesure qu'il avance.

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Workplace Organization
OBS

one lick method

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons
OBS

Meadmore

Spanish

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