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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

pig: an item in the "Glass, Plastics and Clayworking Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

racleur; ramoneur : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de verre, de plastiques et de céramique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Management Operations
Key term(s)
  • Programme Implementation Group

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Opérations de la gestion
OBS

Stratégie du marché du travail, Emploi et Immigration.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling (Rail Transport)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation (Transport par rail)
OBS

panneau indicateur de gare : terme uniformisé par CP Rail.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
  • Pig Raising
OBS

Group: a drove, fare (litter), farrow (of piglets), flock, herd, litter (young), sounder of pigs; a hoggery; a nest of trotters. Male: boar, hog, barrow (castrated). Female: sow, gilt. Young: pig, farrow, gilt (female), piglet, pigling, shoat, shote. Habitation: pen, sty. Cry: grunt, snort, squeal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
  • Élevage des porcs
OBS

Mâle: cochon, verrat. Femelle: truie, coche. Petit: cochon de lait, porcelet, goret. Cri: grogner.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mamíferos
  • Cría de ganado porcino
DEF

Mamífero artiodáctilo del grupo de los Suidos, que se cría en domesticidad para aprovechar su cuerpo en la alimentación humana y en otros usos.

OBS

marrano: Cerdo de tres años en adelante.

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Record 5 2008-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

Pig's flesh as food: Bacon, Ham, Pork.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
OBS

charcutier : se dit d'un animal maigre dont la destination normale est la fabrication. Le porc charcutier a peu de graisse, il est de plus en plus demandé.

OBS

Porc charcutier : Terme en usage dans le domaine de la charcuterie employé surtout en France.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
  • Petroleum Technology - Instrumentation
  • Petroleum Technology - Maintenance
DEF

A special spiral apparatus that is sent through a pipeline to clean out the sediment.

CONT

Scraper traps and launchers are installed parallel to the line. From these locations scrapers or cleaning spheres ("pigs") may be put into the line and removed. "Pigs" are used both in cleaning operations and in maintaining batch separation of different commodities passed through "multiple products" lines.

CONT

A typical cleaning pig - also called a "line scraper" or "go-devil" - travels with the flow of product in the line, cleaning the walls of the pipe by means of blades or brushes affixed to it.

OBS

[There exists no definitive explanation to the use of the term "pig":] there are stories of the ancient Romans cleaning aqueducts using pig skins. There are also stories of pioneers using bundles of straw wrapped with barbed wire to clean out early oil pipes. The scraping of the wire in the pipe sounded like pigs squealing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canalisations à grande distance
  • Instruments (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Entretien (Technologie pétrolière)
DEF

Sphère ou obus garni de brosses que l'on fait passer dans un pipeline pour en racler et nettoyer la paroi interne, l'entrée et la sortie se faisant grâce à un sas latéral appelé «gare».

OBS

Le terme «racleur» s'écrit sans accent circonflexe sur le «a».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tuberías de larga distancia
  • Instrumentación (Tecnología petrolera)
  • Mantenimiento (Tecnología petrolera)
OBS

Para oleoductos.

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Record 7 2003-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundry Practice
DEF

The name used in reference to a bar or block of pig iron.

OBS

When the molten metal is tapped from the blast furnace, it flows along main open channels in the ground. These are called sows and the branch channels are called pigs. Pig is applied as a name to the branch channel as well as to the metal itself. The name also applies to the product of pig-casting machines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonderie
OBS

On coule généralement les gueuses dans des rigoles de sable ménagées sur une air de coulée, au pied du haut fourneau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fundición
DEF

Bloque que se obtiene vaciando el metal en lingoteras ya para ser fundido ulteriormente, ya para transformarlo en productos laminados, forjados o labrados con máquinas herramienta.

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Record 8 2002-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
Key term(s)
  • Philips ionization gauge
  • Philips ionisation gage
  • Philips ionization gage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Transport of Water (Water Supply)
  • Water Distribution (Water Supply)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Adduction d'eau (Alimentation en eau)
  • Distribution de l'eau
DEF

Forme profilée de caoutchouc mousse de densité variable et recouverte de plastique ou de surface abrasive. Cet outil de nettoyage, normalement propulsé par pressurisation d'eau, sert principalement dans les conduites d'aqueduc, de refoulement et dans les conduites industrielles pour déloger les tubercules et les dépots sur les parois.

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Technology - Maintenance
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
DEF

To force a device called a pig through a pipeline or a flow line for the purpose of cleaning the interior walls of the pipe ...

CONT

Why pig a pipeline? ... After the pipeline is built, it will be necessary to run pigs to remove any debris left in the line from new construction; ... When the pipeline is in service, it wil be necessary to pig the line to maintain line efficiency and aid in the control of corrosion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Canalisations à grande distance
CONT

racleur ou ramoneur : Sphère ou obus garni de brosses que l'on fait passer dans un pipeline pour en racler et nettoyer la paroi interne.

Spanish

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Record 11 1987-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
  • Management Operations
OBS

Proper name adopted by the Translation Bureau Agriculture Section (CULSEC).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours
  • Opérations de la gestion
OBS

Appellation adoptée par la section Agriculture du Bureau des traductions (CULSEC).

Spanish

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Record 12 1986-07-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • Labour and Employment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

Renseignement : Ministère de l'Expansion industrielle régionale.

Spanish

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