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HERBE [5 records]

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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Medication
DEF

The cannabis plant used as an intoxicating and hallucinogenic drug in the form of a crude preparation of its dried leaves, flowering tops and stem.

CONT

... the Government will introduce legislation that will ... legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana.

OBS

Marijuana is usually smoked, but it can also be brewed into a drink or incorporated into food.

OBS

Marijuana has a plethora of other street names.

Key term(s)
  • marihuana
  • marajuana

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Médicaments
DEF

Drogue hallucinogène à l’aspect de tabac dérivée du chanvre indien, constituée de sommités fleuries et de feuilles de plants femelles, séchées et hachées.

CONT

Cela comprend le dépôt de mesures législatives qui [...] légaliseront et réglementeront la consommation de marijuana et limiteront l’accès à cette substance.

OBS

marijuana : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
  • Medicamentos
DEF

Producto elaborado a partir del cáñamo índico, que, al ser fumado, produce efectos eufóricos o narcóticos.

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Record 2 2010-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
DEF

The background noise (noise floor) on the display of a spectrum analyzer: it also appears on certain types of radar displays.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
DEF

Effet produit sur un indicateur d'amplitude et de distance par le bruit de fond et se traduisant par une image erratique dont l'aspect rappelle celui de l'herbe.

OBS

herbe: terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-12-15

English

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

Competitive horseback riding term.

French

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

Terme d'équitation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 4 2004-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

A plant of which the stem does not become woody and persistent (as in a shrub or a tree), but remains more or less soft and succulent, and dies down to the ground (or entirely) after flowering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Petite plante phanérogame non ligneuse dont les parties aériennes meurent chaque année.

PHR

Herbe cultivée, herbe des champs, herbe sauvage. Herbes annuelles, herbes bisannuelles, herbes vivaces. Herbes dures, herbes épineuses. Herbes aquatiques, herbes fluviatiles. Herbes des fées, herbes médicinales, herbes officinales, herbes vulnéraires. Herbes aromatiques, herbes odorantes. Herbes cuites.

PHR

Cueillir des herbes, cultiver des herbes, éplucher des herbes, faire bouillir des herbes.

PHR

Bouillon aux herbes, marché aux herbes. Salade d'herbes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
DEF

Material vegetal no cosechado, de cualquier clase que sea, constituido normalmente por plantas herbáceas, apropiado para ser consumido por los animales.

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Record 5 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

The wannabee-journalists were mostly young women a year out of university with no experience, no technique, an approved claim to talent and awesome confidence. (The Guardian, 15 Sept. 1988, p. 10;2).

DEF

aspiring.

Key term(s)
  • wanna-be
  • wanna be
  • wanna-bee
  • wannabie

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Ces amateurs velléitaires et stériles (Proust).

Spanish

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