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afforestation: establishing forest in a previously non-forested area; The policies and actions for such a process; Forestation
Category: Management in the public and private sector

afforestation: planting of trees on land previously in another use to form a forest
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

Armrest: the controls,fitted in the ejection seat armrests,which are intended for arming and firing the ejection seat
Category: Mechanical engineering

arrest: The actual restraint of a person,committing or suspected of having committed a crime,with a view to his detention
Category: Management in the public and private sector

arrested: system of bringing one or more propellers to rest and holding them stationary while gas generator continues to run
Category: Transport

arrested-propeller: system of bringing one or more propellers to rest and holding them stationary while gas generator continues to run
Category: Transport

arrester: a protective device which provides a low impedance path for dangerous voltages such as lightning,bypassing the equipment by earthing the circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

arrester: equipment designed to remove particulate matter from a gaseous medium
Category: Environment

arrester: le 's' dans 'history est un '--'
Category: Language and literature

arresting: equipment fixed to aeroplane landing area to halt arriving aircraft within specified distance
Category: Transport

arresting: net used to facilitate the descent of an aircraft in a restricted area
Category: Mechanical engineering

arrests: an expression referring to the peril of arrests,restraints and detainments of all kings,princes and people
Category: Insurance

broad-crested: an overflow structure having crest horizontal or with very gentle slope.The length of the crest in the direction of the flow is much larger than the height of the nappe over it
Category: Building industry

broad-crested: a drop or fall in which the nappe is supported for an appreciable length(much larger than the height of the nappe over the crest)at the throat in the direction of flow.
Category: Building industry

broad-crested: a flood in which the crest occurs over a relatively long period
Category: The cosmos

bucharest: capital of Romania
Category: The cosmos

comprest: a glazed semi-vitreous tile not mounted on paper; used around sinks, and in bath-rooms
Category: Building industry

crest: that part of the formation on which the railway superstructure is laid
Category: Building industry

crest: the term is associated both with the more prominent crests and with the minor crests lying between them
Category: Iron and steel industries

crested: an Alaskan seabird
Category: Botany and zoology

crested: in artillery and naval gunfire support,a report which indicates that engagement of a target or observation of an area is not possible because of an obstacle or intervening crest
Category: Defense

deforestation: complete felling and clearance of a forest; traditionally the freeing of a tract of land from forest law
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

firestorm: The spread of fire under conditions where the number of individual fires,the density of material,buildings etc.,in the area and the combustibility factor are so great as to cause the merging of the fires into one gigantic conflagration which draws in an ever increasing supply of air and burns with a blow torch effect generating its own violent convection
Category: Management in the public and private sector

fixed-crest: A weir without gates or other control mechanisms.
Category: Building industry

flat-crested: a circular spillway composed of three parts:(i)sloping weir section,(ii)free falling section,and(iii)the vertical shaft section.The water is caused to approach the crest of the free falling section,on a flat slope before beginning its free fall
Category: Building industry

forest: a) (ecology) generally, an ecosystem characterised by a more or less dense and extensive tree cover; b) (ecology) more particularly, a plant community predominantly of trees and other woody vegetation, growing more or less closely together; c) (silviculture/forest management) an area managed for the production of timber and other forest produce, or maintained under woody vegetation for such indirect benefits as protection of catchment areas or recreation. Connotes a larger area than a wood; d) an area of land proclaimed to be forest under a Forest Act or Ordinance
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

forestation: establishment of a plantation of trees in an area where a forest was not previously present
Category: Management in the public and private sector

forestation: the natural or artificial establishment of forest on an area,whether previously carrying forest or not
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

forestay: Stay of foremast,extending from head of mast to a position forward of it.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

forester: a professional engaged in the science and profession of forestry
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

forestry: a) from the producer`s point of view, the husbandry of tree crops; from the economist`s, the profitable exploitation of the resources intrinsic to forest land (economic forestry); b) the science, the art and the practice of managing and using for human benefit the natural resources that occur on and in association with forest lands
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

forestry: the profession embracing the science,art,and practice of creating,managing,using,and conserving forests and associated resources for human benefit and in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals,needs,and values
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

headrest: by gentle but definite pressure towards the -- the operator can, with his left hand, stabilize the patient`s head.
Category: Medicine

imprest: a method of providing cash by means of a 'float' whereby,periodically,the amount expended from the float is repaid to it,so that the original amount is again available
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

interest: the price paid for borrowed or invested money,i.e.for the use of loanable funds
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

interest: a right,privilege or share in a company
Category: Economics

interest-bearing: in connection with capital: capital which produces interest
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

interest-free: the borrower does not have to pay any interest
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

interest-free: Money received by way of a loan to be refunded in due course and not subject to any interest charges.
Category: General

interests: the dominating group of owners in a field of business, industry, or finance considered locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally.
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

narrow-crested: a weir formed by projecting an inclined wall(upstream or downstream)from the bed of the channel.
Category: Building industry

nearest: general-purpose heuristic which works by selecting the locally superior alternative at each search step
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

non-interest: a treasury bond note on which no interest is paid
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

non-interest-bearing: a treasury bond note on which no interest is paid
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

nonself-restoring: a type of insulation which loses its insulating properties,or does not recover them completely,after a disruptive discharge
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

overestimate: a favourable variance between normal or budgeted costs and those actually incurred
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

Prestel: Proprietary name for the public videotex service operated by the Post Office (Viewdata); Videotex offering of BT in the UK (1)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

prestressed: a dam comprising concrete which,by posttensioning with high tensile steel bars or wires,increases the initial compressive stress in the upstream portion of the dam allowing for thinner cross sections than those for gravity dams.The posttensioning bars or wires are arranged in groups,and located in holes or shafts,and are anchored into the foundations(shaft anchorage)
Category: Building industry

prestressed: a concrete compressed with heavily loaded wires or bars to reduce or eliminate cracking and tensile forces
Category: Building industry

prestressed: steel wire with very high tensile strength for imbedding under tension in conrete to increase its load-bearing capacity.
Category: Building industry

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