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MANIE [16 records]

Record 1 2015-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
CONT

On entend souvent dire que notre société souffre de «réunionite» : En général, ce sont les personnes qui passent le plus clair de leur temps en réunions diverses qui portent un tel diagnostic. On n'arrive jamais à les joindre car, vous explique leur secrétaire : elles sont en réunion ou «en conférence», cela sonne mieux […]

PHR

Cadres atteints de réunionite aiguë.

Key term(s)
  • réunionnite

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

Pathologic preoccupation with one's self.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

Égocentrisme pathologique.

Key term(s)
  • manie égocentrique

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

You have the annoying (bad) habit of hitting under the ball.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Prenez garde à la manie de trop couper sur les retours de service.

CONT

Les habitudes compulsives : ce sont «certains automatismes stéréotypés qui limitent les capacités d'action [...] jouer machinalement les mêmes coups dans des situations différentes.

PHR

Fâcheuse manie.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Excessive promotion, popularity or talk of the use of condoms (mainly because of AIDS concerns).

CONT

Condomania: ads avant-garde but compatible with corporate strategy.

OBS

This word was created by which two or more words are juxtaposed to create a new unit of meaning. Here the words "condom" and "mania", words with independent meanings, are put together to create a new meaning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias
DEF

A mood disorder characterized by expansiveness, elation, agitation, hyperexcitability, hyperactivity, and increased speed of thought and speech (flight of ideas)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies
DEF

Psychose aiguë caractérisée par un accès d'excitation psychomotrice associant une humeur exaltée et euphorique, une fuite des idées [...] avec logorrhée et "coq-à l'âne", et une agitation ludique, syntone, souvent teinté d'érotisme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Manías
DEF

Trastorno del estado de ánimo caracterizado por euforia excesiva, autoestima desmesurada e ideas de grandiosidad, hiperactividad, agitación y habla y pensamiento acelerados. Puede presentar fuga de ideas.

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Record 6 2010-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Manías
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Record 7 2006-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

The tendency for the number of features in a product (usually software product) to rise with each release of the product.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
CONT

La course aux fonctionnalités n'est pas une priorité, donc si vous voulez la totale, il ne faut pas chercher ici.

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias
CONT

The term, mania ... should, strictly, be reserved for the form characterized by mental exaltation. In simple mania the intellectual part of the cerebral function is in a state of over-activity ... In the more pronounced form of acute mania, the motor functions of the brain are also affected; there is not only complete incoherence of speech, but there is intense restlessness and complete disappearance of will power ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies
OBS

Forme grave de manie.

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Residential Architecture
DEF

[a] craze for ownership of condominiums.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'habitation

Spanish

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Record 11 1996-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
  • Economics
DEF

single-minded pursuit of mergers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 13 1993-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Document Classification (Library Science)
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Classification des documents (Bibliothéconomie)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 14 1991-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culinary Techniques
  • Recipes
DEF

French culinary term for a mixture of flour and butter worked together to a paste until smooth and used to thicken sauces, gravies and soups.

CONT

... manié butter ... is used for a quick thickening agent in some of the small sauces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques culinaires
  • Recettes de cuisine
CONT

(...) Il entre dans la composition des liaisons : à chaud (roux) ou à froid (beurre maniés); des sauces émulsionnées chaudes et des beurres composés utilisés comme éléments d'appoint pour les sauces ou pour certains plats froids (...)

Spanish

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Record 15 1985-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies
DEF

état obsessionnel conduisant par exemple à des gestes de conjuration. Compensation d'un geste par un autre (agitation forcée de P. Janet).

Spanish

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Record 16 1985-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

Tendance obsessionnelle à la vérification répétée de l'exécution effective de tel geste, de l'existence de tel fait.

Spanish

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