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Record 1 1997-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Paper
DEF

Paper used for lithographic printing and made of bleached chemical wood pulp alone or in combination with mechanical wood pulp or deinked paper stock. Essential characteristics are: surface cleanliness, a degree of water resistance, relative freedom from curl an high pick strength.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de papier
DEF

Papier qui est doté d'une surface poreuse à la manière d'une pierre litho et qui sert à la reproduction de dessins par le procédé de lithographie. Sur ce papier on peut utiliser une encre litho ou un crayon gras.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceramics (Industries)
DEF

Polishing leatherhard clay by rubbing with a hard object like a smooth pebble, the back of a spoon or a strip of spring steel.

CONT

Burnishing is nowadays used as a means of enhancing the surface of a pot and originally was also a way of making the pot more waterproof. The action of polishing clay with a smooth pebble or the handle of a spoon compacts the clay [,] filling the pore of the clay texture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Céramique (Industries)
DEF

Opération qui consiste à donner une apparence lisse et luisante à une surface.

CONT

Le polissage se pratique sur la terre crue, quand elle est assez dure pour ne pas se déformer, mais pas encore sèche. Vous lissez avec un galet rond, par toutes petites surfaces : vous tournez en appuyant. Le polissage peut être uniquement décoratif, et former un motif brillant sur une pièce mate.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fencing
  • Combined-Events Contests
DEF

The act of contact with the opponnent's blade, or the position of contact.

CONT

If the foil blades are crossed, they are said to be engaged. To change an engagement, you dip your point under your opponent's blade and bring your blade around to the other side. This is called a disengagement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Escrime
  • Compétitions à épreuves combinées
DEF

L'entrée en contact avec la lame de l'adversaire, ou la position de contact.

CONT

Si les deux lames se croisent, on dit qu'elles sont engagées. Pour effectuer un changement d'engagement, l'escrimeur glisse la pointe de son fer sous le fer de l'adversaire et ramène sa lame de l'autre côté. Cela s'appelle un désengagement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Esgrima
  • Competiciones de pruebas combinadas
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Record 4 2011-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

Investment letter writer Donald J. Hoppe expects a stock market collapse within months, which will send the Dow Jones Industrials down to around 750 in late 1985, and then down further to as low as 450 by 1987.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
OBS

(par opposition à comptabilité deniers)

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Corporate Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Économie de l'entreprise
OBS

Nations Unies.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Economía empresarial
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Record 7 2000-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

[The action of bringing] a well into production.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
OBS

(d'un puits).

Spanish

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Record 8 1988-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)

Spanish

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Record 9 1983-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

Terms used by CIDA (ACDI).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

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Record 10 2021-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
CONT

Opaque attritus consists of three common types of organic matter all of which are opaque to transmitted light in thin section: 1. Opaque matter ... 2. Amorphous opaque matter equivalent in general to dispersed humic degradation matter in form but suggesting a fusinized mode of preservation ... 3. Granular opaque matter ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Combustibles fossiles solides

Spanish

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