"passer au peigne fin" meaning in French

See passer au peigne fin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /pa.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/, /pɑ.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/, /pa.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/, /pɑ.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-passer au peigne fin.wav
Head templates: {{fr-verb}} passer au peigne fin
  1. (transitive) to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl Tags: transitive Synonyms: passer au crible
    Sense id: en-passer_au_peigne_fin-fr-verb-2yTvyRQ1 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for passer au peigne fin meaning in French (1.5kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "passer au peigne fin",
      "name": "fr-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Ils bouclèrent les rues, l’une après l’autre, et les passèrent au peigne fin.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl"
      ],
      "id": "en-passer_au_peigne_fin-fr-verb-2yTvyRQ1",
      "links": [
        [
          "comb through",
          "comb through"
        ],
        [
          "comb over",
          "comb over"
        ],
        [
          "fine-tooth comb",
          "fine-tooth comb"
        ],
        [
          "trawl",
          "trawl"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "passer au crible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-passer au peigne fin.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "passer au peigne fin"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "passer au peigne fin",
      "name": "fr-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French multiword terms",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with usage examples",
        "French transitive verbs",
        "French verbs",
        "Requests for translations of French usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Ils bouclèrent les rues, l’une après l’autre, et les passèrent au peigne fin.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "comb through",
          "comb through"
        ],
        [
          "comb over",
          "comb over"
        ],
        [
          "fine-tooth comb",
          "fine-tooth comb"
        ],
        [
          "trawl",
          "trawl"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "passer au crible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se.ʁ‿o pɛɲ fɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-passer au peigne fin.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-passer_au_peigne_fin.wav.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "passer au peigne fin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.