daybreak

Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.

« The "Nord Express" », dans Railway Magazine, septembre et octobre 1949, page 336


merry Christmas

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I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!


infelicity

It may be assumed <...> that his mind was occupied with reflections on his domestic infelicities and the distressing changes that they had wrought in his life.

Ambrose Bierce, A Wireless Message, 1905, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


zero in

The proteins seem to have a remarkable ability to zero in on damaged areas.

Les protéines semblent avoir une capacité remarquable à cibler les zones endommagées.

Troubleshooters that block cancer, BBC News, 26 décembre 2009

In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in on two places that look awfully familiar to home.

Dans leur recherche de planètes semblables à la Terre, des astronomes ont visé deux localisations qui ont l’air effroyablement familières à chez nous.


mischance

Mot du moyen anglais. cf. ancien français meschance ^([1]). → voir mis- et chance.

In brief, he was ‘lost’. Realising his mischance, he smiled; central New York is not a region of perils, nor does one long remain lost in it.


hitch

Can you tie a hitch knot?

Attache-remorque, boule d'attelage (trailer hitch).

His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.

Pépin , problème, hic, imprévu, obstacle, accroc, ennui.

The banquet went off without a hitch.

The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?

Can I get a hitch from you?

Période passée loin de chez soi, par exemple dans l'armée.

He just came back home from his 14 day hitch offshore.


inexorably

Dérivé de inexorable avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.

The strange group of villagers shuffled inexorably forward.

Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, 2000, chapitre 27


aphroselenon

Du grec ancien ἀφροσέληνος, aphrosélênos (« sélénite »).

Moonstone was called Aphroselenon or Aphroselene by the Ancient Greeks, which meant Splendour of the Moon.


have to do with

Composé de have (« avoir ») et de to do with (« à faire avec »).

to have to do with (infinitive)
has to do with (present third-person singular)
had to do with (preterite)
had to do with (participle past)
having to do with (participle present)

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China

La forme avec le pronom indéfini s’apparente à n’avoir rien à voir avec … (has nothing to do with …, doesn’t have anything to do with …).

Avoir à voir, concerner, regarder. Un pronom indéfini comme something peut s’utiliser entre have et to do.

What does that have to do with anything?

Qu’est-ce que cela a à voir avec quoi que ce soit ?

The major, toughest kind of debate, or inability to bridge the gaps were about issues that have to do with Jerusalem.

Ehud Barak, Camp David Summit Conclusion by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Please assure me that you are satisfied that neither I nor my colleagues had anything to do with this.

That has nothing to do with you.


drool

Drool est la salive épaisse et visqueuse qui coule de la bouche. Spit est la salive projetée par la bouche quand on crache.

baby’s drool


drool

to drool (infinitive)
drools (present third-person singular)
drooled (preterite)
drooled (participle past)
drooling (participle present)

The baby is drooling over your clothes.

Stop drooling over it. You can't have it.


I could eat a horse

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J’ai l’estomac dans les talons, j’ai une faim de loup.

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.


turn about

He turned about and went back the way that he had come.

Il fit demi-tour et revint par là où il était venu.


tricksy

Then he remembered that it was about the time of the new moon, and if that tricksy orb was in one of its stages of visibility it had set long before.

because, as Gollum had said of Bilbo Baggins, it was tricksy, precious, aye, very tricksy

Car, comme le disait Gollum de Bilbo Baggins, c'était piégeux, mon chou, ouaip, piégeux. (trad. Albin Michel, 2002)

Stephen King, Dreamcatcher, 2001, ISBN 978-0-743-22188-7


step in

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de step

, Intervenir, prendre part à une chose, entrer dans une affaire.

The negotiations were going nowhere. So he decided to step in.

Les négociations n’aboutissaient pas. Aussi décida-t-il d’intervenir.


cheddar

(Date à préciser) Du nom du grand village Cheddar situé en Grande-Bretagne.

They’re making some pretty decent cheddar.


autonym

Dérivé du préfixe auto-, avec le suffixe -onym.

more autonym (comparative)
most autonym (superlative)

Autonyme, élément qui se désigne lui-même.

Deutschen is the autonym of a people known in English as German.

"Deutschen" est l'autonyme de personnes connues en anglais comme "German", et en français comme "allemands".


noughties

Première décennie du vingt-et-unième siècle ou de n’importe quel autre siècle.

The noughties saw the discovery of key characters in the story of our own evolution, the full catalogue of the human genome and an enhanced understanding of mysterious dark matter.

Les années 2000 virent la découverte de signes clés de l’histoire de notre propre évolution, du catalogue complet du génome humain et d’une compréhension améliorée de la mystérieuse matière noire.

Advancing through a decade, BBC News, 31 décembre 2009


banter

The flight crew ate USAF-standard box lunches, and for the most part flew without the usual banter of young airmen.


vociferation

\vəʊˌsɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\

And as she apprehended the boy’s life was in danger, she screamed ten times louder than before; and indeed Master Blifil himself now seconded her with all the vociferation in his power.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1749, Book IV, chapitre iii


bootleg

Des mots boot et leg : se disait de la contrebande de boissons transportées dans les bottes.

At the moment, bootleg vodka is available at around 40 roubles a half litre. So even though $3 for bottle of vodka may seem cheap to most people, it is double the price of the bootleg version.

Daniel Fisher , Trying to break Russia's vodka dependence, BBC News, 1 janvier 2010


cheesy

cheesier (comparative)
cheesiest (superlative)

I like these corn chips. They’re very cheesy.

The film was okay, but the ending was rather cheesy.

I’m afraid it sounds a little cheesy, but sincerely, this is the most amazing song I’ve ever heard.

Je tombe peut-être dans le mélodramatique, mais franchement, c’est la plus extraordinaire chanson que j’aie jamais entendue.


contumelious

Du latin contumēliōsus (« insultant, abusif »), dérivé de contumēlia (« outrage, injure »).

more contumelious (comparative)
most contumelious (superlative)

The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1879


funny kind of

That's a funny kind of blanket.


funny sort of

That's a funny sort of blanket.


kind of

It’s a kind of computer.


kind of

It’s kind of a rug and a blanket at the same time.

“I'm kind of busy now, Whitey—but what can I do for You?”

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-56262-4 ISBN invalide

That’s kind of funny.

I kind of broke my cell phone.


sort of

It’s a sort of computer.


sort of

It’s sort of a rug and a blanket at the same time.

I’m getting sort of tired.

That’s sort of funny.

I sort of broke my cell phone.


judder

to judder (infinitive)
judders (present third-person singular)
juddered (preterite)
juddered (participle past)
juddering (participle present)

Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, 2000, chapitre 20


Red Planet

Composé de red (« rouge ») et de planet (« planète »).

The concern is that the rover will not be able to position its solar panels to make the most of what will soon be a faint winter sun on the Red Planet. Without sufficient power, the robot will not be able to heat its systems, never mind run its science instruments.

Jonathan Amos, Salute the Spirit of exploration, Spaceman, BBC News, 2 janvier 2010


Burnett

Gilbert Thomas Burnett.


G-d

Variante orthographique de God, utilisée par les juifs pour éviter d’écrire le mot entier, ce qui est interdit par le judaïsme.

Most notably, such hatred towards Islam is very evident among many of my Jewish co-religionists. From a religious POV, are they not also the children of G-d, equally formed in the image of G-d?

La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

“Shel_TR”,commentaire à l’article “Conservatives Rally on the Streets of Paris” du Daniel Pipes Middle East Forum, 3 avril 2014 11 h 53


magical negro

\ˌmædʒ.ɪ.kəl ˈniː.ɡɹəʊ\

The debate in the US is conditioned by the long-running argument among sci-fi writers and fans about the “magical negro”. It is a term coined by black critics who noted white authors often featured non-white characters possessed of a certain sort of natural wisdom, mystic powers, who play sidekick to the white hero and often sacrifice themselves for the central character. They are a variant on the much-older ideal of the “noble savage”.

MarkMardell, Is blue the new black? Why some people think Avatar is racist, Mark Mardell's America, BBC News, 3 janvier 2010

Le débat aux États-Unis est marqué par la longue discussion enflammée parmi les écrivains de science-fiction et les passionnés du genre à propos du « nègre magique ». Il s’agit d’un terme inventé par les critiques noirs qui ont noté que les auteurs blancs mettent souvent en vedette les personnages non blancs, dotés d’une certaine espèce de sagesse naturelle, de pouvoirs mystiques, qui jouent le rôle de partenaire du héros blanc et souvent se sacrifient pour le personnage central. Ils sont une variante sur le thème de l’idéal très ancien du « bon sauvage ».


nae

nae kind of a man. Nae kind of a man at all.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped et Catriona, page 5. Édition intégrée de 1962.


speedometer

Motdérivé de speed (« vitesse »), avec le suffixe -meter (« -mètre »).

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Check your speedometer when you're driving to make sure you are complying with the speed limit.


moonlit

Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.

Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895, éd. 1964 ISBN 0804900442


stanch

De l’ancien français estanchier (« arrêter »).

Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.


headlong

(1482). Du moyen anglais headling. Déformation par analogie avec des mots comme sidelong ^([1]).

Once I fell headlong and cut my face; […].

Une fois, je suis tombé la tête la première et me suis coupé le visage ; […].

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895, éd. 1964, ISBN 0804900442


cinematic

more cinematic (comparative)
most cinematic (superlative)

Cinématographique, qui a rapport à la cinématographie.

Disney Cinematic Universe

Marvel Cinematic Universe


daemon

(XIVᵉ siècle) Du latin classique, par opposition à demon, du latin médiéval.

(Informatique) Inspiré du démon de Maxwell (Maxwell’s demon en anglais), créature imaginaire qui travaille en arrière-plan, à trier des molécules. Le terme est d’abord utilisé dans ce contexte par les programmeurs du projet MAC du MIT, à partir de 1963. Le rétro-acronyme Disk And Executive MONitor relève de l’étymologie folklorique.

Cette appellation est particulière aux systèmes Unix et Linux ainsi qu’aux systèmes Macintosh plus récents. Sous Windows on parlera plutôt de service.

Programme informatique qui n’est pas sous le contrôle d’un utilisateur. Il se lance généralement au démarrage du système d’exploitation.

Typically daemon names end with the letter d: for example, syslogd is the daemon that implements the system logging facility; or sshd, which services incoming SSH connections.


crackle

The fire crackled as it consumed the logs.


didgeridoo

(1924) Origine obscure, probablement par imitation du bruit de l’instrument.

Didgeridoos make a very distinctive sound.

Les didgeridoos font un son très distinctif.


e-reader

De e- (pour electronic) et reader « lecteur ».

Nearly double the size of the book giant's existing e-reader, Amazon's wireless Kindle DX has adopted a tabloid-like format for ease of reading newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and the Washington Post which have announced they will launch pilots editions on Kindle DX this summer.

Michael Fitzpatrick, The rise and rise of e-readers, BBC News, 7 mai 2009


jocular

Du latin jocularis, de jocus (« plaisanterie »).

Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.

Quelquefois celui-ci le remarquait, le caressait, lui donnant des noms mi-moqueurs, mi-plaisants, et alors il cabriolait avec une extraordinaire satisfaction


jocund

A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company.


lactase persistence

Persistance de la production de lactase chez un adulte.

Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent elsewhere in the world.

The Origins of Lactase Persistance in Europe, in PLoS Computational Biology, aout 2009


nigga

De la prononciation non rhotique de nigger (« nègre ») en anglais afro-américain.

niggas (plural)
niggaz (plural)
nibba
ni🅱🅱a
niggah
nigguh
nikka
nikkah
ni🅿🅿a
niqqa
nugga

Contrairement à sa variante rhotique nigger, le terme nigga est principalement utilisé comme élément intra-groupe et ne porte donc pas nécessairement de sens péjoratif.

ou Personne noir, généralement afro-américaine.

Hey what's up nigga?
— I’m good.

ou Appelation affective donnée à un·e ami·e.

I'd never betray you, cuz you my nigga, man.

White niggas do be like, this is too spicy.

Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

Dr. Dre et Mike Elizondo, performé par 50 Cent, If I Can't sur l’album Curtis Jackson, 2003


athwart

At that moment the mysterious illumination suddenly flared to an intense, almost blinding splendour, flushing the entire sky, extinguishing the stars and throwing the monstrous shadow of himself athwart the landscape.

À ce moment-là, l’illumination mystérieuse s’embrasa en une splendeur intense, presque aveuglante, éclipsant le ciel entier, éteignant les étoiles et jetant sa propre ombre monstrueuse à travers le paysage.

Ambrose Bierce, A Wireless Message, 1905, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


avant la lettre

The study of this science fiction avant la lettre leads to a first remark: the texts are varied and relatively numerous.

Marc Angenot, « Science fiction in France before Verne » (traduction de J.-M. Gouanvic et D. Suvin). Science Fiction Studies, volume 5, numéro 14, partie 1, mars 1978, pages 58-66. Notes : 1°) La mention de traducteurs laisse supposer l’existence d’un article original en français, non identifié. 2°) L’indication des pages dans la publication d’origine provient d'une note de bas de page dans Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (1988), de Arthur B. Evans.

Dimly perceiving the connection between his incest and his passion for art, he becomes a Freudian avant la lettre, and the “first to show a way toward psychoanalytically oriented aesthetics”.

John Simon,« A passion for art and mother ». nytimes.com, 9 octobre 1983. Note : article consacré à une recension de la traduction anglaise du canular littéraire de Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Sir Andrew Marbot.

Along with his close friend Hilaire Belloc, he was the proponent of a species of Third Way politics avant la lettre, a plague-on-both-your-houses confutation of capitalism and socialism known as distributism.

Stuart Walton,« The World of of GK Chesterton, and what’s wrong with it ». theguardian.com, 8 janvier 2010. Note : article consacré à l’écrivain G. K. Chesterton.


shady

shadier (comparative)
shadiest (superlative)

Indeed, that’s a very good point. There are many shady organizations out there, and it would be a shame to invest money in them.


magic word

Composé de magic (« magique ») et de word (« mot »), littéralement « mot magique ».

Formule magique, par exemple abracadabra.

All beasts and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer hungry, it would say: “I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl!” and the magic word, properly pronounced, would instantly restore him to his proper form.

Lyman Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz, Chapitre I, 1919

Formule de politesse dans le contexte, comme please, hello, etc. Note d’usage : Utilisé quand on demande aux enfants de dire une formule de politesse.

If the toddler demands, the mother can ask, “What’s the magic word?” or “How do we ask nicely?” She is seeking to hear the word “Please.”

Judy Blankenship, Help a Child Learn Read, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 1998


prithee

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Contraction de I pray thee (« je te prie »).

Prithee, what do you see in my face that looks as if I would carry a challenge?

William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, Acte V, 1693

Prithee, insist not, my lord; it is not meet that they sit in thy presence.

Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, Chapitre VI, 1882


rosy

more rosy (comparative)
most rosy (superlative)

She always has a rosy outlook.


clopen

(Date à préciser) Mot-valise anglais formé à partir de closed et open.

Let A be a clopen set.


mortuary

hospital mortuary


suicidal

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de suicide, avec le suffixe -al.

more suicidal (comparative)
most suicidal (superlative)

Good thing I’m not suicidal, that would be bad
It’s whatever
Nothing anyone says to me will change my mind
Good thing I’m not suicidal, that would be bad
It’s whatever
Nothing anyone says to me will change my mind


Hausdorff

C’est la traduction usuelle en anglais de l’adjectif séparé dans la topologie.

Séparé. Espace dont deux points distincts quelconques admettent toujours des voisinages disjoints.

A topological space is preregular if and only if its Kolmogorov quotient is Hausdorff.


believe it or not

Composé de believe « croyez », it « le », or « ou » et not « non ».

Croyez-le ou non, que vous le croyiez ou non, même si vous ne le croyez pas.

That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: …

Bryan A. Garner, Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises, p. 108, 2001

One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays.

Robert Bruce Thompson et Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC hardware in a nutshell, p. 230, 2003

The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: …

David Brown, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music, p. 165, 2007


de pointe

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Qui tire parti des plus récentes avancées de la science et de la technique.

Notre produit est élaboré dans des matériaux de pointe, qui lui confèrent une résistance, une souplesse et un confort inégalables.

À leurs époques d’invention respectives, la roue, l’imprimerie, le minitel même étaient des technologies de pointe.

Nous augmenterons nos investissements dans la prochaine vague de technologies de pointe, en particulier les supercalculateurs, les semi-conducteurs, l’internet des objets, la génomique, ainsi que l’informatique quantique, les technologies spatiales et au-delà

ORIENTATIONS POLITIQUES POUR LA PROCHAINE COMMISSION EUROPÉENNE 2024 − 2029, Ursula von der Leyen, traductions multilingues, Candidate à la présidence de la Commission européenne


orderly

more orderly (comparative)
most orderly (superlative)

On the fifth day of the standoff, Sergeant Coolidge orchestrated an orderly retreat, enabling his men to rejoin the Third Battalion a few hundred yards away.

Au cinquième jour de l’affrontement, le sergent Coolidge orchestra une retraite ordonnée, permettant à ses hommes de rejoindre le troisième bataillon à quelques centaines de mètres de là.

Richard Goldstein, Charles Coolidge, Oldest Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 99, The New York Times, 7 avril 2021


orderly

Just as the medical system depends on the lowest paid of the health workers—the orderlies and custodians—the food system, now that restaurants have been limited to takeout and delivery, depends on a whole cadre of men pedalling bicycles.

Tout comme le système médical dépend des travailleurs de la santé les moins bien payés - les aides-soignants et les nettoyeurs - le système alimentaire, maintenant que les restaurants sont limités aux plats à emporter et aux livraisons, dépend de tout un groupe d’hommes qui pédalent sur des bicyclettes.

Adam Gopnik, The Coronavirus Crisis Reveals New York at Its Best and Worst, The New Yorker, 23 mars 2020

‘Orderly’ is a word covering a multitude of duties. An orderly may be a messenger, a clerk, an officer’s servant − anything. He may perform services for which no provision is made in orders and army regulations.

Le terme "planton" recouvre une multitude de fonctions. Un planton peut être un messager, un commis, le serviteur d’un officier - n’importe quoi. Il peut effectuer des services pour lesquels aucune disposition n’est prévue dans les ordres et les règlements de l’armée.

Ambrose Bierce, One of the Missing, 1888, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


byline

De line (« ligne ») avec le préfixe by-.

Sous-titre, court paragraphe résumant l’article.

The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article.

Le sous-titre sur un article de journal ou magazine donne le nom, et souvent la position de l'auteur de l'article.


affordable

Dérivé de afford, avec le suffixe -able.

more affordable (comparative)
most affordable (superlative)

But most of them are bound to one single platform or are simply not affordable for many potentiel users.

La plupart d’entre eux sont limités à une seule plateforme ou ne sont simplement pas abordables pour beaucoup d’utilisateurs potentiels.


Brownon

The Brownons had from time immemorial — from the very earliest of the old colonial days — been the leading family of the town.

Ambrose Bierce, A Baby Tramp, 1891, éd. 2008


skirmisher

Motdérivé de skirmish, avec le suffixe -er.

He wanted to know more than he was apprised of by the corps commander and the collisions of pickets and skirmishers.


picket

[…] ; he wanted to know more than he was apprised of by the corps commander and the collisions of pickets and skirmishers.

[…] ; il voulait en savoir plus que ce que lui avaient appris le commandant du corps et les affrontements entre les piquets et les tirailleurs.


force-field

Being within the force-field of the alien, the Hebe G.B. was carried along, though the “drag” of extra mass reduced quasi-speed considerably.

Étant à l’intérieur du champ de force de l’extra-terrestre, le Hebe G.B. fut emporté, bien que le « vêtement » de masse supplémentaire réduisît la quasi-vitesse considérablement. (terme quasi-vitesse à préciser ou à vérifier)

Poul Anderson, Trader to the Stars, 1964


Nestor

When all his brothers were slain by Heracles, in consequence of the refusal of Neleus to purify him for the murder of Iphitus, Nestor alone escaped, being absent at Gerenia — hence his epithet Gerenios in Homer (Apollodorus i. 9). He is the old warrior of the Iliad and the wise counsellor of the Greeks before Troy.

«Nestor » dans Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911


Grant

Cary Grant.


Grant

Grant Warwick.


slick

This rain is making the roads slick.

The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.

La couche superficielle de laque donne une allure glissante à l’objet final.

They read all kinds of slick magazines.

Ils lisent toutes sortes de magazines tape-à-l’œil.

Convaincant à première vue, mais peu fiable.

That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.

Le nouveau vendeur est un baratineur de talent. Fais bien attention à lire les petits caractères avant d’acheter quoi que ce soit.

Intelligent, qui donne l’apparence de facilité aux tâches difficiles.

That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.

C’était malin, d’enfermer tes clés dans la voiture.

Extraordinairement bien ou exceptionnel.

That is one slick bicycle, it has all sorts of features!

C’est un vélo vraiment bien foutu, il a toutes sortes d’accessoires !


yarr

Exclamation caractéristique d'un pirate.

Princess Kurda put the final touches to here blade on an oiled stone and tested it on here pawn. "Yarr, der heavy saber be best for der choppink!"

La Princesse Kurda mis la touche finale à sa lame sur une pierre à huile et la testa sur la paume de sa main. "Ha, un gros sabre, c'est le meilleur pour trancher!" [Le langage "pirate" utilisé est difficilement retranscriptible]

Triss, Livre 15 de Redwall series, Brian Jacques, 2003


langskip

The ship known as Skuldelev 2, now on display in Roskilde, is thought to be a langskip.

Viðar Hreinsson, The complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales, 1997


developer

Luckily enough, there are a number of predefined character classes that can be re-used and will be already known by other developers, making the expressions using them more readable.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, p. 12


imprecation

Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion, her blotched arms raised high in imprecation. "May Gawd curse her forever," she shrieked.

Stephen Crane, Maggie, Girl of the Streets, 1893, chapitre 10


Wiktionarist

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Carmen

Carmen Electra.


Elli

Elli Norkett.


Erik

Erik Prince.

Erik Weihenmayer.


Erika

Erika Eleniak.


Etna

Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activity.


Fanny

“My name is Frances. Don’t call me Fanny!”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature—plump and fair, and playful and pretty!”

Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science, Chatto and Windus, 1883, p. 227


Hilda

(Date à préciser) Du germanique hild (« combat »).

Hilda of Whitby.


Karen

(Antonomase) Femme anonyme archétype du suprémaciste blanc.

A Karen demands the world exist according to her standards with little regard for others, and she is willing to risk or demean others to achieve her ends.

How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain,The Atlantic, 2020


Lambert

Adam Lambert.


Lambert

At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
The swelling difference of your settled hate.


Lana

Probablement du russe Лана, Lana, forme courte de Светлана, Svetlana ; le prénom est popularisé par l’actrice hollywoodienne Lana Turner (voir la citation ci-dessous).

Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia. So she thought awhile and said, "What about Lana?" For no reason at all it became Lana - pronounced Lah-nah.

Irving Wallace, The Loves of Lana Turner, 1942


Lindberg

De l’allemand Lindberg ou du suédois Lindberg ; apparenté à Lindbergh.

Ed Lindberg.


Miriam

Miriam McDonald.


Selma

(Prénom) (XIXᵉ siècle) D’origine discutée :
:# Attesté dans un poème de Thomas Gray au XVIIIᵉ siècle sous la forme Selima, féminin de Selim apparenté à l’arabe سلام, salām (« paix ») ; voir Irène de même sens et issu du grec ;
:# D’origine germanique et forme tronquée de Anselma ; voir Anselme ;

(Géographie) Apparait comme toponyme dans le poème ossianique Les chants de Selma, de James Macpherson, du gaélique écossais,composé de sealladh et de math, littéralement « Bellevue ».

Selma Blair.


Stella

What lovely names for girls there are!
There’s Stella like the Evening Star.

Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall, 1933


Stella

I’m going to have a few Stellas tonight.


Tara

Du gaélique irlandais Teamhair (« haut lieu »).

Le prénom dérive du précédent et est popularisé par le nom d’une plantation dans Autant en emporte le vent.

The Hill of Tara is a hill and ancient ceremonial and burial site near Skryne in County Meath, identified by the tradition as the inauguration place and seat of the High Kings of Ireland.

No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells.


Tara

Tara Donovan.


take to one’s bed

He complained of illness, and going to his room took to his bed.

Ambrose Bierce, The Thing at Nolan, 1891, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


controversially

Dérivé de controversial avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

De manière controversée, de façon controversée.

Like many articles about usability, this one was discussed somewhat controversially (which is good in a way), but overall I did get a positive reception, even from a professional usability expert.

Micro-Options Reloaded - The Paradox of Choice, blog du logiciel amarok, 2 février 2010


astrobiologist

Dérivé de biologist, avec le préfixe astro-.

This liquid ocean lies beneath a thick layer of ice, but any planetary body that contains liquid water immediately excites the interest of astrobiologists - scientists interested in understanding the origin and evolution of life in the Universe.

Emma Harding,Could life exist on Jupiter moon?, BBC News, 4 février 2010


honour killing

Medine, who had never been to school, lived in Kahta, a town in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey, where most honour killings have taken place.

JonathanHead, Turkish girl ’buried alive’ in family garden, BBC News, 5 February 2010


blossom

Du vieil anglais blōstm, blōstma, probablement apparentés à bloom (« fleurir »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Adélaïde Calais WMFr-blossom.wav

Le mot blossom s’applique spécialement aux fleurs des arbres fruitiers : apple blossom, cherry blossom, etc.

Fleur ou groupe de fleur, spécialement de fruit.

The blossom has come early this year.

Floraison, état ou saison produisant des fleurs.

The orchard is in blossom.


blossom

to blossom (infinitive)
blossoms (present third-person singular)
blossomed (preterite)
blossomed (participle past)
blossoming (participle present)

For color he depended on a red windsor tie that blossomed over his gray flannel shirt.

The child blossomed under the guidance of her new teacher.


stash

to stash (infinitive)
stashes (present third-person singular)
stashed (preterite)
stashed (participle past)
stashing (participle present)

To stash is to hide or store away for later use.

Mettre de côté signifie cacher ou emmagasiner pour un usage ultérieur.

He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.

Il planqua son alcool dans le meuble sous le bar.


stash

A stash is a collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.

Une cache est une collection, parfois cachée ; une réserve.

They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.

Ils avaient une cache avec pas mal de nourriture de côté pour les urgences.


scandalmonger

Commère, personne qui colporte des commérages.

Don’t listen to what Terry says; he’s a real scandalmonger


twinkle

Du vieil anglais twinclian, fréquentatif du verbe twincan.

to twinkle (infinitive)
twinkles (present third-person singular)
twinkled (preterite)
twinkled (participle past)
twinkling (participle present)

The stars were twinkling in the dark sky.

Les étoiles brillaient dans le ciel sombre.

Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky,
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!

Brille, brille petite chauve-souris !
Comme je me demande ce que tu manigances !
Tu survoles de haut le monde,
Comme un plateau à thé dans le ciel.
Brille, brille petite chauve-souris !
Comme je me demande ce que tu manigances !

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, watch me kill your favourite cat!

Ah, te dirais-je, cher Batou… qui va tuer ton gentil matou ?


protrusion

Dérivé de protrude, avec le suffixe -sion.

As you can probably guess, the unicornfish gets its moniker from the unicorn-horn-like protrusion sticking out of its face. But what is that distinctive feature for?

Comme vous pouvez sans doute le deviner, le poisson-licorne tient son petit nom de la protubérance semblable à une corne de licorne qui lui sort du front. Mais à quoi sert ce trait distinctif ?

Erin Spencer,"The Unique Unicornfish", Ocean Conservancy, le 27 juin 2023. Consulté le 13 avril 2024


periphrastic

“The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.


the icing on the cake

\ðiː ˈaɪ.sɪŋ ɒn ðə keɪk\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-the icing on the cake.ogg

I managed to win the marathon, but the icing on the cake was when my husband proposed to me as soon as I crossed the finish line.

Je réussis à remporter le marathon, mais la cerise sur le gâteau fut quand mon époux me fit sa demande en mariage aussitôt que j’eus franchi la ligne d’arrivée.


biogenic volatile organic compound

Composé de biogenic et de volatile organic compound.

In response to all these disruptions, plants will emit greater levels of fragrant chemicals called biogenic volatile organic compounds.

Matt Walker, Climate change will make world more 'fragrant', Earth News, BBC News, 9 février 2010


BVOC

(Sigle) Initiales de « Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound ».

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

While significant research has been done to assess the impact of global warming on further CO2 exchange in the atmosphere, little focus has been given to how changing temperatures will alter emissions of important compounds such as BVOCs.


finagle

to finagle (infinitive)
finagles (present third-person singular)
finagled (preterite)
finagled (participle past)
finagling (participle present)

Dans le sens de carotter, truander, finagle est souvent accompagné de « out of » qui précède l’objet.

to finagle somebody out something

...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.


soffit

Du français soffite, issu de l’italien soffitto, composé du participe passé de figgere (« fixer ») et du préfixe sof- (« sous »).

If the soffit is to be sloping, simply attach the soffit board(s) to the underside of the rafters, butting the edges tight against the fascia board in front and the barn siding in the back.

Monte Burch, Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters, 1983, page 110


dabble

Barboter ; mouiller, se mouiller, tremper (sens 1 & 2) par plaisir ou amusement.

The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.

Les enfants s’assirent sur le quai et trempèrent leurs pieds dans l’eau.

Pratiquer en amateur ; participer non sérieusement.

She’s an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.

Elle est actrice de profession, mais on sait aussi qu'elle s'est essayée à la poésie.


delve

(Date à préciser) Du moyen anglais delven, issu du vieil anglais delfan (« creuser »).

to delve (infinitive)
delves (present third-person singular)
delved (preterite)
delved (participle past)
delving (participle present)

I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might — it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one^([sic : someone]) above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.

Je pris une bêche dans la cabane à outils, et commençai à creuser de toutes mes forces — elle érafla le cercueil ; je tombai pour travailler avec les mains ; le bois commença à se fendre autour des vis ; j’étais sur le point d’atteindre mon objet, quand il sembla que j’entendisse un soupir de quelqu’un au-dessus, proche du bord de la tombe, et se penchant. [traduction non officielle]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847, chapitre 29

Fouiller (dans un livre…), approfondir, creuser (un sujet).

She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his briefcase.

Elle était intensément désireuse de se plonger dans le mystère de M. Joplin et sa mallette.


Newton

Doublet de Newtown,composé de new et de town, littéralement « Villeneuve, Neuville ».

Sir Isaac Newton.


Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell.


Boycott

Composé de Boia et de cote, littéralement « cottage de Boia » → voir Boye.

Charles Cunningham Boycott.


capstan

I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan.

Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, page 56. 1883.


way of life

In the United States politicians often speak of the American way of life. In Britain too, there are many eager to defend the British way of life. Their words are rarely defined. Part of the appeal of fighting for a “way of life” is that it is understood intuitively by the audience.

Aux États-Unis, les politiques parlent souvent du mode de vie américain. En Grande-Bretagne aussi, beaucoup sont prompts à défendre le mode de vie britannique. Leurs mots sont rarement définis. Une partie de l’attrait qu’il y a à se battre pour un « mode de vie » est que la notion est comprise intuitivement par le public.

GavinHewitt, « A way of life under threat », Gavin Hewitt’s Europe, BBC News, 15 février 2010


backwoods

(1834) ^([1])Composé de back et de wood.

Perhaps there was a feeling of delicacy — a backwoods etiquette which restrained them from following him to offer assistance; […].

Ambrose Bierce, The Thing at Nolan, 1891, éd. 2008 ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


lithe

Du vieil anglais liþe apparenté à lind (« doux ») en allemand, lentus (« souple, pliant ») en latin.

lither (comparative)
lithest (superlative)

He was of medium height, but very slender and lithe, and sat his horse with something of the air of a civilian.

Ambrose Bierce, The Affair at Coulter’s Notch, 1891, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


womanly

womanlier (comparative)
womanliest (superlative)

If you are not lost to every feeling of womanly delicacy you will accept my statement without question.

Ambrose Bierce, A Lady from Redhorse, 1891, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


mtDNA

Composé de DNA et de mt en référence à mitochondrial.

ADN transmis de génération en génération par les femmes et dont les mutations, sur le temps longs mais régulières, permettent d'estimer la période de vie du dernier ancêtre commun.

mtDNA refers to mitochondrial DNA which is passed from mother to child.

« Celebrate Mom and the mothers that came before », Family Tree DNA, 2024


daresay

Ce verbe s’utilise seulement pour la première personne du singulier dans le temps présent : I daresay.

I daresay we will soon finish.

Je pense qu’il est probable que nous finirons bientôt.


uniform resource identifier

Composé de uniform (« uniforme »), resource (« ressource ») et identifier (« identifiant »).

A uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Internet.

L’identifiant uniforme de ressource est une chaîne de caractères utilisée pour identifier un nom ou une ressource sur Internet.

Uniform resource identifier, Wikiédia anglais


askew

His cap was worn with the visor a trifle askew; […].

Il portait sa casquette avec la visière légèrement de travers ; […]

Ambrose Bierce, Affair at Coulter’s Notch, 2008 (1ʳᵉ édition 1891), ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


a trifle

His cap was worn with the visor a trifle askew; <...>.


hyphenation

Dérivé de hyphenate, avec le suffixe -ion.

Emploi du trait d’union, notamment dans le cas des composés.

In Emily Dickinson’s poems, hyphenation is not only here to beautify the text: it also carries a meaning.

Dans les poèmes d’Emily Dickinson, l’emploi du trait d’union ne sert pas seulement à embellir le texte : il est aussi porteur de sens.

Most modern word processor applications have hyphenation enabled by default.

La plupart des logiciels de traitement de texte actuels ont la coupure de mots activée par défaut.


monogamous

The first monogamous amphibian has been discovered living in the rainforest of South America.

MattWalker, Peru poison frog reveals secret of monogamy, BBC News, 22 février 2010


monogamy

That constitutes the best evidence yet documented that monogamy can have a single cause, say scientists.


rainforest

Friends of the Earth said that all the palm oil currently being produced was already being used and any increase in demand would lead to deforestation of rainforests to make way for bigger palm plantations.

Environmentalists join Avonmouth biofuel plant protest, BBC News, 15 février 2010


oil palm

Some production methods, especially in South-East Asia, led to huge areas of old-growth rainforests being felled and burned, only to be replaced by vast oil palm plantations.

Mark Kinver,UK gets biofuels research centre, BBC News, 27 janvier 2009


day in lieu

In New Zealand, if a worker works on a public holiday, the worker gets time-and-a-half for the hours they worked, and a day in lieu.


topsoil

It has generally been presumed that these plants must be isolated in some way from the underlying rock, most likely by growing in a layer of organic topsoil, <...>.

Anthony J. McAleese & al., « Rhododendrons do grow on limestone », in The New Plantsman(ISSN 1352-4186), vol. 6, nᵒ 1, mars 1999


Bonaparte

The House of Bonaparte.


strontium 90

Variante orthographique de strontium-90.

Strontium 90, released through nuclear explosions into the air, comes to earth in rain or drifts down as fallout, lodges in soil, […].

Le strontium 90, libéré dans l’atmosphère par les explosions atomiques, revient sur la terre avec les pluies ou sous la forme des poussières appelées « retombées atomiques », et pénètre dans le sol ; […]. — (traduction de Jean-François Gravrand et Baptiste Lanaspeze (éd., 2009), Printemps silencieux, 1963, éd. 2009, ISBN 9782918490005)

Rachel Carson, Silent spring, 1962, éd. 1965


noticeably

Composé de noticeable et du suffixe -ly.

We all saw it: he paled noticeably.

But upon closer inspection Darwin learned that the Galapagos birds are slightly but noticeably different from their South American cousins.

Kristan Lawson, Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities, encadré« What’s So Special About the Galapagos? », page 55. Chicago Review Press, 2003.

When the same speaker produces noticeably different pronunciations of the word cat (e.g. by exploding or not exploding the final /t/), the different realisations of the phonemes are said to be in free variation.

Alan Cruttenden, Gimson’s Pronunciation of English,partie I (« Language and speech »), chapitre 5 (« Sounds in language »), page 46. Routledge, 2014 (1ʳᵉ édition : 1962).

Visiblement, de manière notable, de manière perceptible.

That extraordinary moment is noticeably absent from Smith’s new memoir, Year of the Monkey, but it’s illustrative of how masterfully the writer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer can rescue beauty from disaster.

Jake Cline,« Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith, review: A moving account of the deep losses experienced in her 70th year ». Independent.co.uk, 27 septembre 2019.

(précédé de la forme d’adverbe most) Surtout.

The gods have a role to play and appear on the battlefield, most noticeably in their participation in battle after Achilles once again consents to fight the Trojans.

Michael M. Sage, Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook,chapitre 1 (« Early Greek warfare: Homer and the Dark Ages »), sous-chapitre « The hero and the heroic code », page 3. Routledge, 1996.


in favor of

Many people are in favor of capital punishment.

Beaucoup de personnes sont en faveur de la peine de mort.


non-country

"You seem to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states," Mr Farage continued, adding: "Perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which is pretty much a non-country."

Nigel Farage, cité dans Tirade against 'damp rag' EU president shocks MEPs, BBC News, 24 février 2010


MEP

(Sigle) Initiales de « Member of the European Parliament ».

The extra allowance for MEPs' assistants would not be paid to the MEPs directly, the parliament official said.

Euro MPs call for allowance boost, BBC News, 1ᵉʳ février 2010


failed state

Transparency International warned Kenya risked turning into a failed state.

Will Ross, Kenya faces political 'meltdown', BBC News, 16 février 2010


regolith

(Date à préciser) Formation irrégulière à partir du grec ancien ῥῆγος et du suffixe -lith.

Resulting from this, it is found that van der Waals cohesive forces between regolith grains on asteroid surfaces should be a dominant force and compete with particle weights and be greater, in general, than electrostatic and solar radiation pressure forces.

Daniel J.Scheeres, Christine M. Hartzell, Paul Sánchez, Michael Swift, Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The role of cohesion, arXiv.org, 12 février 2010


tolerably

Dérivé de tolerable, avec le suffixe -ly.

; his coat was buttoned only at the sword-belt, showing a considerable expanse of white shirt, tolerably clean for that stage of the campaign.

Ambrose Bierce, The Affair at Coulter’s Notch, 1891, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


tetraphobia

Motdérivé du préfixe tetra-, avec le suffixe -phobia, par analogie avec triskaidekaphobia (« triskaidékaphobie »).

Among the changes brought about by tetraphobia is the difficulty of finding a button for the 4ᵗʰ floor in an elevator.

Byron P. Palls, Cultural Portraits: A Synoptic Guide, 2008, page 249,ISBN 9781434388674


WSW

(Sigle) Abréviation de Women who have Sex with Women.

Femme ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres femmes.

MSM and, more recently, WSW (women who have sex with women) have since moved beyond the HIV literature to become established in both research and health programming for sexual-minority people.

Rebecca M. Young ,Ilan H. Meyer, The Trouble With “MSM” and “WSW”: Erasure of the Sexual-Minority Person in Public Health Discourse, 2004


Kenji

Kenji Miyazawa


African wild dog

Learn all you wanted to know about African wild dogs with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.

Vous saurez tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur les lycaons en consultant les images, vidéos, photos, informations, et dernières nouvelles de National Geographic.


shrine

Du latin scrinium qui donne le vieil anglais ſhryne, vieil anglais scrin (« reliquaire, écrin »). À comparer au vieux norrois skrin et au vieux haut-allemand skrini.

The shrine commemorating the family’s ancestors had been severely damaged by bombings.

Le sanctuaire dédié aux ancêtres de la famille avait été gravement endommagé par des bombardements.


shingle

I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop’s See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles.

John Ray, Select Remains of the Learned John Ray, 1760


turnpike

(1748) ^([1]) Ellipse de turnpike road ^([1]).

It was a pass, and through it ran a turnpike, which reaching this highest point in its course by a sinuous ascent through a thin forest made a similar, though less steep, descent toward the enemy.


replicant

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase — a being virtually identical to a human — known as a Replicant.
 The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.
 Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets.

Hampton Fancher, David Peoples, introduction du film Blade Runner, 1982


teammate

(Années 1900)Composé de team (« équipe ») et de mate (« ami »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-teammate.wav

My teammate on the project is ill this week.

Mon coéquipier sur le projet est malade cette semaine.


gluteus

Dérivé latinisant du grec ancien γλουτός, gloutós (« fesse »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gluteus.wav

I’m going to kick your gluteus.


embody

to embody (infinitive)
embodies (present third-person singular)
embodied (preterite)
embodied (participle past)
embodying (participle present)

Représenter une forme physique, incarner, personnifier.

As the car salesperson approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

Tandis que le vendeur de voitures s’approchait, portant un costume de tissu écossais et des cheveux gominés plaqués en arrière, il semblait incarner la sordidité.

The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

La constitution des États-Unis visait à représenter les idéaux de divers groupes de gens, des puritains aux déistes.


e-book

(1988)Dérivé de book (« livre »), avec le préfixe e- (« électronique »), équivalent à la contraction d’electronic book (« livre électronique »).

Livre numérique, livre électronique, livrel.

An e-book doesn’t take up space on a shelf, but it can’t be read without a source of electricity.

Un livre numérique ne tient pas de place sur une étagère, mais on ne peut pas le lire sans une source d’électricité.


total false friend

While total false friends are pairs of words whose meanings are completely disparate, partial false friends only partially overlap in meaning. They are more treacherous than total false friends, for their partial overlap often induces us to believe that the vocabulary items concerned coincide completely.

Ksenija Leban,Towards a Slovene-English False-Friend Dictionary, dans Henrik Gottlieb, Jens Erik Mogensen et Arne Zettersten (éds), Symposium on Lexicography X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Lexicography May 4-6, 2000 at the University of Copenhagen, 2002, ISBN 9783110933192


partial false friend

\ˌpɑː.ʃəl ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd\


crowdsourcing

(2006) Terme créé par Jeff Howe et Mark Robinson, rédacteurs à Wired magazine, par analogie avec outsourcing. Littéralement, « approvisionnement par la foule ».

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks to an undefined, large group of people or community (a "crowd"), through an open call.


double-cross

to double-cross (infinitive)
double-crosses (present third-person singular)
double-crossed (preterite)
double-crossed (participle past)
double-crossing (participle present)

Don’t try to double-cross me. I’ll be watching you.

N’essayez pas de me doubler. Je vais vous surveiller.


bedevil

There are three misconceptions in particular that bedevil our thinking.

Il y a trois idées fausses en particulier qui embrouillent notre réflexion.


superadd

to superadd (infinitive)
superadds (present third-person singular)
superadded (preterite)
superadded (participle past)
superadding (participle present)

To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843, livre 2, ch. IX, Abbot Samson

Locke’s claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem. . .

Lex Newman The Cambridge companion to Locke’s « Essay concerning human understanding », 2007


JIT

However, current research involving dynamic binary-instrumentation, categorized into probe-based and just-in-time compilation (JIT), fails in the context of malware.


gay

gayer (comparative)
gayest (superlative)

Le sens de gai (heureux ; joyeux) est devenu très rare pour éviter la confusion avec le sens de homosexuel.

Although her disposition was gay, and in many respects inconsiderate, she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt.

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, pages 51-2, édition de 1869


gay

to gay (infinitive)
gays (present third-person singular)
gayed (preterite)
gayed (participle past)
gaying (participle present)

all the girls are gaying gaying all the girls are gaying gaying

Tweet de @b0ngw0 publié le 24 septembre 2024 à 6h54


virtuoso

a virtuoso performance


Alexia

Alexia Khadime.


hypernatremic

Composé de hypernatremia avec le suffixe -ic.

more hypernatremic (comparative)
most hypernatremic (superlative)

Although nearly half the hypernatremic patients had a febrile illness, other associated conditions assume more prominence than in infants.

Stephen Brennan & J. Carlos Ayus, Treatment of Hypoosmolar and Hyperosmolar States, 1991, chapitre 1 dans Wadi N. Suki & Shaul G. Massry (eds.), Therapy of Renal Diseases and Related Disorders, page 11

In all hypernatremic patients who primarily have water losses without electrolyte losses, the urine sodium excretion concentration merely reflects sodium intake.

Robert W. Schrier, Manual of Nephrology: Diagnosis and Therapy, 2008, page 35


peak water

The island has reached what geographers call Peak Water - when demand meets and then outstrips supply.
Peak Oil is already a familiar concept, and commands international attention. However, water, despite being central to life, is having a much harder time getting on to the political radar.

Cyprus conflict closes leaders' eyes to water shortage, From Our Own Correspondent, BBC News, 11 mars 2010


break up

to break up (infinitive)
breaks up (present third-person singular)
broke up (preterite)
broken up (participle past)
breaking up (participle present)

The party was breaking up.

The meeting broke up.

After going out together for several years, they then broke up.

The iceberg broke up when it hit the warmer waters.


Balthazar

(Prénom) Du français Balthazar.
(Nom) (1935) Du français balthazar.

Balthazar Getty.

Balthazar P. Melick.

Balthazar John Vorster.


tuft

tuft of grass

tuft of hair


dotcom

Du nom de domaine .com. → voir dot et com.

In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in dotcom.

Maggie Shiels, Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary, BBC News, 15 mars 2010

Entreprise dont l'activité est intrinsèquement liée à son site internet.

"But today we see how dotcoms have enriched our lives that if you are not engaged you would be fine but much further behind than the rest of us."
Proof of that Mr Atkinson said can be seen with how dotcoms have commercialised the internet "bringing consumers choice and value and businesses greater customer reach and profits".


frontier law

→ voir frontier et law. Frontier est ici la frontière séparant les territoires déjà colonisés par les Européens du reste des États-Unis.

Loi des pionniers, sommaire et expéditive.

We are all more or less familiar with the vagaries and eccentricities of frontier law, but this instance, it is thought, is unique.

Ambrose Bierce, The Thing at Nolan, 1891, éd. 2008


Lucius

Lucius Shepard (1947)

Lucius O’Brien (1731)


Japanese knotweed

Japanese knotweed is a notorious plant, famed for its ability to burst through tarmac and crack concrete. Just finding it on a development site can result in huge additional costs or force developers to find alternative sites.

Matthew Cock, Hailing the arrival of alien predators, BBC News, 9 mars 2010


pick off

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The outlaws picked off the lawmen one-by-one as they attempted to escape from the trap.

Pick off the parts that you don't like, and then eat the rest.


smidgen

Un smidgen est moins qu'un pinch. Un pinch est une vraie pincée.

And then add just a smidgen of salt.

Et ensuite ajoutez juste une pincée de sel.


MOC

(Date à préciser) Sigle de my own creation (« ma propre création »).

Set Lego non officiel, créé par les fans et joueurs eux-mêmes.

LEGO® MOC stands for LEGO® My Own Creation, or My Own Creation. LEGO® MOCs are not official LEGO® sets designed and built by LEGO® fans.

LEGO® MOC signifie LEGO® Ma Propre Création, ou Ma Propre Création. Les MOCs LEGO® ne sont pas des sets LEGO® officiels, conçus et assemblés par les fans de LEGO®.

What is a LEGO MOC set?. Mis en ligne le 3 mai 2018, consulté le 3 juillet 2020

We help them build bigger, better and more MOCs by manually reviewing all incoming parts lists and providing support for commercially optimizing their projects.

Nous les aidons à construire de plus grands et meilleurs MOCs et en plus grand nombre en vérifiant manuellement toutes les listes de pièces qui nous sont soumises et en fournissant un support pour optimiser commercialement leur projet.

About Us sur mochub.com. Consulté le 3 juillet 2020


RP

Roleplaying, role-playing or simply ‘RP’ is the act of assuming and playing a role other than your actual self.

« Roleplaying » sur vrchat-legends.fandom.com, version du 14 octobre 2019


sandalled

She had cast aside her buskins, too, and the slender, high-arched feet were sandalled.

Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool, 1919, éd. 2001


victrix

victrices (plural)
victor (masculine)
victrice

Mrs. Proudie victrix

Anthony Trollope, Towers, 1906 (1ʳᵉ édition 1857)


raise one’s hand to

to raise one’s hand to (infinitive)
raises one’s hand to (present third-person singular)
rose one’s hand to (preterite)
raisen one’s hand to (participle past)
raising one’s hand to (participle present)

It’s so bad that other women would feel this way about the situation. It does not matter what caused the assault. The fact that he raised his hand to the women he claims he loves is just plain DISGUSTING.


Shai-hulud

‘O my soul,
Have no taste for Paradise this night,
And I swear by Shai-hulud
You will go there,
Obedient to my love.’


alveolus

pulmonary alveolus.


question the question

to question the question (infinitive)
questions the question (present third-person singular)
questioned the question (preterite)
questioned the question (participle past)
questioning the question (participle present)

Mettre en question la question (remettre en question, mettre en doute, remettre en cause la question), signaler la non-pertinence de la question, par exemple d'une question basée sur un raisonnement fallacieux ou qui vise à tromper, p. ex. un cas de plurium interrogationum.

To say that a question is fallacious is to say that it is objectionable to the answerer because it is constructed to force him to accept a proposition that he should not.¹⁰ This problem is compounded if the question is also semantically complex. A semantically complex question is one that contains a connective, ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘if–then’ in its presupposition. Once again, the answerer must question the question by requesting that the propositions in the presupposition be separated into units that he can reasonable deal with.

Douglas N. Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, 1989, page 58 (Cambridge University Press;ISBN 0521379253, 9780521379250


Arabia

Saudi Arabia.


enmity

This deed has earned you my everlasting enmity.

Cet acte vous vaut mon inimitié éternelle.


feud

De l’ancien français feide, d’origine germanique. Le verbe est issu du nom commun.

Those two families have a feud going back for three generations.

La querelle entre ces deux familles remonte à trois générations.


feud

to feud (infinitive)
feuds (present third-person singular)
feuded (preterite)
feuded (participle past)
feuding (participle present)

Ignore them. Those two are always feuding.

Ignore-les. Ces deux-là sont tout le temps en train de se quereller.


Dolores

Dolores Costello.


Dona

Dona Drake.


Dora

Dora Wilson.


quickie

(Siècle à préciser) De quick, « rapide ».

For a quickie summer breakfast,melt a little butter in a pan.

Pour un petit déjeuner vite fait cet été, faites fondre un peu de beurre dans une poêle.

Paul and Claire love quickies.

Paul et Claire adorent les coups tirés vite fait bien fait.


Eden

(Nom propre 2) Du celte *Ituna ; le district prend son nom de la rivière.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.


pseudodactyl

It had an elephant-like trunk, terminating in a ring of pseudodactyls which must be as strong and sensitive as human fingers.

Poul Anderson, Trader to the stars, 1964


cranial capacity

Those huge jaws must demand corresponding maxillary muscles, attaching to a ring on top of the skull. Which’d restrict the cranial capacity.


central nervous system

Composé de central et de nervous system.

Every animal I know of, if it has a central nervous system at all, keeps the brain close to the principal sense organs: which are usually located in the head.


unobtainium

Se dit d’un matériau au propriétés physiques extrêmes, impossible à obtenir. Utilisé surtout en science-fiction.

The item that intrigued us was the tongue-in-cheek entry, “Unobtainium,” defined as a “substance having the exact high test properties required for a piece of hardware or other item of use, but not obtainable either because it theoretically cannot exist or because technology is insufficiently advanced to produce it.”

Air Force Magazine, volume 41, Air Force Association, United States Army Air Corps, 1958


fluorocarbon

The console, which seemed to be of some fluorocarbon polymer, held very few switches or buttons, but scores of flat luminous plates, each about twenty centimeters square.


ruination

There was yet another layer, even larger, in which Frank Herbert was warning that entire societies could be led to ruination by heroes.

Il y avait encore une autre couche, encore plus grande, dans laquelle Frank Herbert avertissait que des sociétés entières pouvaient être menées à la ruine par des héros.

Brian Herbert, Introduction de Dune Messiah, éd. 2008 ISBN 978-1-429-59894-1


nidify

Du latin nidifico (« construire un nid »), composé de nīdus (« nid) et de faciō (« faire »)

to nidify (infinitive)
nidifies (present third-person singular)
nidified (preterite)
nidified (participle past)
nidifying (participle present)

It is only within the last few years that naturalists have clearly determined that some species of fish make nests for the reception of their spawn […] Five or six kinds are now ascertained to nidify; and of these, two belong to the genus Gasterosteus […]

Albany Hancock, « Observations on the Nidification of Gasterosteus aculeatus and Gasterosteus spinachia », The Zoologist 12: 4409, 1854

[…] it may originally have explained why dung beetles do not appear when eagles nidify; […]

Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Culture, page 206, 1997


booby-trapped

Some of the stuff may be booby-trapped to wreck itself if isn’t handled just so; and how’d we ever make repairs?


nonhuman

Oh, well, I suppose a nonhuman might be as puzzled by an assortment of our own tools.

Oh, eh bien, j’imagine qu’un non-humain pourrait être autant interloqué par un assortiment de nos propres outils.

Poul Anderson, Trader to the Stars, 1964


Parkinson

Cyril Northcote Parkinson.

James Parkinson.

Michael Parkinson.


handkerchief

Composé de hand (« main ») et de kerchief (« pièce de tissu »).

ˈhæŋ.kə.tʃɪf

ˈhæŋ.kɚ.tʃɪf

Pièce de tissu qui se porte autour de la taille.

You know my hair is a sort of golden brown, rather a pretty shade I’ve been told, and a dark red matches it beautifully; and then I always think a light-blue necktie goes so well with it, and a pair of those Russian-leather shoes and a red silk handkerchief round the waist – a handkerchief looks so much better than a belt.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, VII, 1889


Grigory

(Date à préciser) Transcription du prénom russe Григо́рий.

Russian maths genius Grigory Perelman, who declined a prestigious international award four years ago, is under new pressure to accept a prize.

BBC News, Russian maths genius Perelman urged to take $1m prize, 24 mars 2010


Tau Ceti

This castle, eleven light-years from my Earth, this room in a tower in Rodarred, in A-Io, on the planet Urras of the sun Tau Ceti, is Terran soil.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974, éd. 2003, ISBN 0-06-051275-X


double act

It appears clear from Stan’s Joe Rock films, where he is very much in control of his material, that he had no intention of becoming part of a double act.

Simon Louvish, Stan and Ollie, the Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy, 2002, page 173

Messrs Barker and Corbett were now seen as a pair. They were never a double act, never totally reliant on one another in the traditional sense of a double act, the kind that television loved so much.

Bob McCabe, The Authorised Biography of Ronnie Barker, 2005, page 110

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are a double act engaged to spy on Hamlet, with the result that he has "at each ear a hearer."

Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen (eds.), Hamlet, "Introduction", 2008, page vii (Modern Library Edition)


Hubert

Hubert Humphrey.


conspicuously

Resolute and wild of look, rapid of foot and yet weak and uncertain, conspicuously dressed in its black garments and with its hurried head-covering, gaunt and of an unearthly paleness, it pressed forward, taking no more heed of the throng than a sleep-walker.

L’air résolu, mais effaré, aussi pâle et aussi maigre qu’un spectre, elle s’avançait d’un pas rapide, quoique faible et incertain, dans son antique costume tout noir, avec son étrange coiffure, sans faire plus d’attention qu’une somnambule aux nombreux passants.


snub

more snub (comparative)
most snub (superlative)

a snub-nosed revolver


snub

South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol is facing domestic criticism after he declined to meet Nancy Pelosi during her visit to Seoul on Thursday, in what analysts said amounted to the only snub from a leader of a host nation during the US House Speaker’s Asian tour this week.

Le président sud-coréen Yoon Suk-yeol fait face à des critiques intérieures après avoir refusé de rencontrer Nancy Pelosi lors de sa visite à Séoul jeudi, dans ce que les analystes ont qualifié de seul camouflet de la part d'un dirigeant d'un pays hôte lors de la tournée asiatique, cette semaine, de la présidente de la Chambre [des représentants] des États-Unis.

Christian Davies et Song Jung-a, « South Korean president snubs Nancy Pelosi as China tensions rise », ft.com [Financial Times], 4 août 2022 [seul le contenu textuel de l’article est à prendre en compte pour cette citation]


snub

to snub (infinitive)
snubs (present third-person singular)
snubbed (preterite)
snubbed (participle past)
snubbing (participle present)

Le président sud-coréen snobe Nancy Pelosi alors que les tensions en Chine augmentent

Christian Davies et Song Jung-a, « South Korean president snubs Nancy Pelosi as China tensions rise », ft.com [Financial Times], 4 août 2022 [seul le titre de l’article est à prendre en compte]


at the place

In a moment the entire family was at the place, but nothing was heard, and the voice was believed to be an hallucination caused by the mother’s great anxiety and her disordered nerves.

Ambrose Bierce, Charles Asmore’s Trail, 1888, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


bilious

more bilious (comparative)
most bilious (superlative)

The students had learned not to ask questions of the bilious professor.


Edmund

Du vieil anglais ead (« richesse ») et mund (« protection »)

Saint Edmund the Martyr.


Fate

You can't escape Fate.


six feet under

Composé de six, feet et under, parce que les tombes ont une profondeur de six pieds (environ 1 m 80).

Some now make six figures—and others are six feet under. I wanted to understand these divergences.

Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class, 1999,ISBN 978-0226649283


clbuttic mistake

De classic mistake où ass (« cul ») a été euphémisé en butt (« derrière »).

In a farcical sequel to the Scunthorpe problem, some filters have been known to act like rogue spell checkers, replacing "rude" words with what they deem to be more acceptable variants.
"Butt" replaces "ass", "breast" is substituted for "tit", and so on, even within longer words containing the banned letter combinations.
This is known as the "clbuttic mistake", because classic is edited as clbuttic, passport becomes pbuttport, and so on.

Jude Sheerin, How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine's fate, BBC News, 29 mars 2010


play possum

→ voir play et possum. Référence au comportement de l'opossum lorsqu'il est menacé.

The opossum, colloquially known as a possum, is about the size of a domestic cat.
Such animals are known to feign death when threatened, giving rise to the phrase "playing possum".

BBC News, US man 'tried to revive dead opossum' in Pennsylvania, 27 mars 2010


pig-iron

Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949, ISBN 9780141187761


meagreness

Dérivé de meagre, avec le suffixe -ness.

He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasised by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the Party.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949


archist

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

“… We’re the products of the same great revolutionary movement of the eighth century—we’re socialists, like you.”
 “But you are archists. The state of Thu is even more centralized than the state of A-Io. One power structure controls all, the government, administration, police, army, education, laws, trades, manufactures. And you have the money economy.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974, éd. 2003, ISBN 9780060512750


Rheims

In France, the sacredness of the monarchy and ‘Holy France’ were emphasized, the dead were ‘martyrs’, and divine intervention was claimed: the episode of Joan of Arc and the consecration at Rheims would soon show how potent this could be.

En France, le caractère sacré de la monarchie et de la « Sainte France » étaient mis en avant, les morts étaient des « martyrs » et l'intervention divine était revendiquée : l'épisode de Jeanne d’Arc et le sacre de Reims ont tôt montré à quel point cela peut être important.

Robert Tombs, The English and their history, Penguin Books, 2015, pages 138 et 139


muscovite

Muscovite, which is also called common mica, potash mica or isinglass, is a abundant silicate mineral that contains potassium and aluminium.

La muscovite, également appelée « common mica », « potash mica » ou « isinglass », est un minéral de silicate abondant qui contient du potassium et de l'aluminium.

John P. Raffert, Earth Sciences, Minerals, 2011


Dee

Frances Dee.


Dolfin

Dolfin of Carlisle.


Doric

That temple has Doric columns.


dud

Quelque chose de défectueux.
Munition non explosée.

They missed killing a judge in Londonderry because the RPG round was a dud—it still took his bodyguard out.


El

Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.

“… So who is Asherah?”
 She was the consort of El, who is also known as Yahweh,” the Librarian says.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-56262-4 ISBN invalide


sledge hammer

Oh, well, I suppose a nonhuman might be as puzzled by an assortment of our own tools. Does it really make sense that the same race would use sledge hammers and etching needles?

Oh, hé bien, j’imagine qu’un non-humain pourrait être aussi perplexe face à un assortiment de nos propres outils. Cela a-t-il vraiment un sens que la même race utilise des masses et des pointes sèches ?

Poul Anderson, Trader to the Stars, 1964


etching needle

(Date à préciser)Composé de etching et de needle.


D.C.

(Sigle) Initiales de Direct Current ou de District of Columbia.

Where D.C. is needed, the A.C. passes through a set of rectifier plates, which, by looking at ’em, I’m sure must be copper oxide.

Poul Anderson, Trader to the stars, 1964


cageful

Next to it was a cageful of tiny flying reptiles, their scales aglitter in prismatic hues, weaving and dodging throug the air.


Georgina

Dérivé de Georgia, avec le suffixe -ina.

\dʒɔː(ɹ)ˈdʒiːnə\

Georgina Campbell.


positional

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positional notation


Phrygia

Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.


Eliezer

Eliezer Cogan.


sure thing

D’accord, entendu, pas de problème, sans problème.

Excuse me, could you take us to the park area? — Sure thing!

Excuse-moi, pourrais-tu nous emmener là où est le parc ? — Pas de problème !


boondocks

We drove through the boondocks for miles and miles, hoping a gas station would be around the next corner


psychopathy

(1847) De l’allemand Psychopathie ;dérivé du préfixe psycho-, avec le suffixe -pathy.

Maybe you can recommend a specialist in psychopathy. I fancy I’m a bit loony.

Ambrose Bierce, Staley Fleming’s Hallucination, 1906, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


Newfoundland dog

De Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) et dog (chien).

Newfoundland dogs are pretty mild looking, you know; what’s the matter with this one?


forefoot

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I wake every night and see in my room, intently watching me, a big black Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot.

Ambrose Bierce, Staley Fleming’s Hallucination, 1906, éd. 2008


smorgasbord

This act of seemingly green pest-control inadvertently let loose marauding, egg-hungry mammals that emerged each spring from hibernation to a veritable smorgasbord, thanks to the bounty provided by the internationally important populations of wading birds.

Hugh Warwick, The curious case of the Kiwi hedgehog, BBC News, 30 mars 2010


detox

Désintoxication, élimination des toxines.

« Détox » est avant tout une invention des médias ou des parapharmaciens, ce mot n'a jamais existé en médecine. Certes, c'est plus glamour et plus mode que « régime », rappelle le médecin nutritionniste Jacques Fricker.

lemonde.fr, Le fabuleux marketing des produits « détox », 6 avril 2010


fashionista

(1993) Motdérivé de fashion, avec le suffixe -ista, créé par Stephen Fried dans son livre Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of the Supermodel Gia. Le suffixe -ista, en anglais, est vivant avec le sens de fondamentaliste, d’extrémiste, de fanatique comme dans Marxista, par rapport à Marxist.

Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.

La fashionista de Toronto Suzanne Boyd, éditrice en chef du magazine Zoomer près d’être lancé, a récemment déménagé pour retourner au Canada après avoir vécu ces quatre dernières années à Manhattan.

High Style: Are you a Porter person?, Toronto Star, 17 juillet 2008


fug

Atmosphère lourde, déplaisante et odorante, généralement dans une zone mal ventilée.

On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster’s Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.

Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, 1996

The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Bloomsbury, 2005


Iris

Iris Murdoch.


cleaner

steam cleaner — nettoyeur à vapeur.

vacuum cleaner — aspirateur.

glass cleaner - produit lave-glace


scabies

Scabies, also known as the seven-year itch, is a contagious ectoparasite skin infection characterized by superficial burrows and intense pruritus.


deport

to deport (infinitive)
deports (present third-person singular)
deported (preterite)
deported (participle past)
deporting (participle present)

She was deported back to her home country.


Is

Abréviation du mot anglais Islands (qui signifie îles).

Falkland Is.


Isabel

O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part:
Lend me your knees, and all my life to come,
I'll lend you all my life to do you service.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure


roadshow

Roadshow is a program comprising a series of marketing events that companies organize at multiple locations to generate interest regarding a subject that they want to promote. It could about new products/services targeted at customers, new investment offerings (IPO etc.) targeted at investors, new social initiatives targeted at the community and so on…

Un roadshow est un programme composé d’une série d’évènements marketing que des sociétés organisent en de multiples endroits afin de susciter l’intérêt à propos d’un sujet qu’elles veulent promouvoir. De nouveaux produits ou services destinés aux consommateurs, de nouvelles offres d’investissement (introduction en bourse, etc.) destinées aux investisseurs, de nouvelles initiatives destinées aux communautés et ainsi de suite…


roriferous

Du latin rōrifer, dérivé de rōs (« rosée, humidité ») et de ferō (« porter, supporter »), et du suffixe -ous.

\ɹəʊˈɹɪf.əɹ.əs\

\ɹoʊˈɹɪf.ɚ.əs\

At his gladſome approach, adown the vaſt ethereal expanſe, opaque, night’s roriferous ſhadows glide ;

William Hart (quoted), "Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse", The British Critic, 1801, 17: 539


impetigo

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Impetigo generally appears as honey-colored scabs formed from dried serum.


groveling

Stop your groveling.


grovelling

Stop your groveling.


gavel

to gavel (infinitive)
gavels (present third-person singular)
gaveled (preterite)
gaveled (participle past)
gaveling (participle present)
to gavel (infinitive)
gavels (present third-person singular)
gavelled (preterite)
gavelled (participle past)
gavelling (participle present)

The judge gavelled the court into silence.

Le juge donna un coup de marteau pour avoir le silence dans le tribunal.


filter out

Éliminer par filtrage (des impuretés, …).

The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.


gurl

Homme habillé en femme dans le but d'avoir des relations sexuelles.

… if you are a small penis boy, a sissy gurl or a forced fem slave coupled with financial domination.

(traduction : si vous êtes un garçon à petit pénis, une "sissy gurl" ou une esclave féminine forcée associée à une domination financière.)

Goddess Bella Aka Regina Sunderland, Financial Domination Without the Smoke and Mirror, éd. Lulu, 2012

Any given tranny, tgirl, gurl, or weekend crossdresser that I've come across on the internet is not more likely to have anything in common with me …

(traduction : N'importe quelle transsexuelle, tgirl, gurl ou travesti du week-end que j'ai rencontré sur Internet n'est pas plus susceptible d'avoir quelque chose en commun avec moi …)

Jim Elledge , Queers in American Popular Culture, éd. ABC-Clio, 2010


stationery

De stationary (« immobile »), comme ce matériel était vendu dans des magasins fixes, et non par des colporteurs.

Matériaux d’écriture, fournitures de bureau (papier et crayons).

When school finished he threw all of his stationery away as he no longer had any need for pencils and exercise books.

Quand l’école fut terminée, il jeta tout son matériel d’écriture comme s’il n’aurait plus jamais aucun besoin de ses stylos et livres d’exercice.


potentate

Du moyen anglais potentat, issu de l’ancien français, lui-même issu du latin tardif potentātus (« règle, pouvoir politique »), dérivé du latin potēns (« puissant »), participe présent actif de possum (« je suis capable »).

She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.


infelicitous

Dérivé de felicitous avec le préfixe in-.

more infelicitous (comparative)
most infelicitous (superlative)

If leading a "dog’s life" be considered a peculiar phase of human misery, the life of a Boys’ Dog is still more infelicitous.

Bret Harte, "A Boy’s Dog" dans Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands and Other Sketches, 1973

Malheureux, maladroit, inadéquat, gauche.

"Now, you’ve got just grounds for shooting me," he said gaily, and instantly regretted his infelicitous remark.

William MacLeod Raine, Ridgway of Montana, 1909, chapitre 24


asterism

Du grec ancien ἀστερισμός (« groupe d’étoiles »), dérivé de ἀστήρ (« étoile »).

The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion’s Belt are asterisms.


debunk

(1923) Termedérivé de bunk, avec le préfixe de-.

to debunk (infinitive)
debunks (present third-person singular)
debunked (preterite)
debunked (participle past)
debunking (participle present)

Déboulonner (un héros, une héroïne), discréditer (un système, une institution), démentir (une fausse information ou affirmation), réfuter (un argument), critiquer (une analyse) ; débunker.

Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.

Le tour du monde en bateau a démenti la théorie selon laquelle la terre était plate.


metonymic

Du grec ancien μετωνυμικός, metōnumikos (« comme une métonymie »), dérivé de μετωνυμία, metōnumia (« changement de nom »).

more metonymic (comparative)
most metonymic (superlative)

The British government is often referred to by the metonymic expression "Downing Street".

With a metonymic expression encountered in almost every sixth utterance, an uncontroversial need for dealing with this problem is demonstrated.

Udo Hahn & Katja Markert, "On the Formal Distinction between Literal and Figurative Language", Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 140, 1999


illation

Du latin illātiō (« inférence logique, déduction, conclusion »), dérivé de illātus, participe passé passif de inferō (« porter vers, conclure »), composé de in et de ferō (« porter »).

Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: form the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself ….

Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2, 1646

it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference ….

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, 1690

Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer ….


simony

De l’ancien français simonie, issu du latin tardif simonia, du nom de Simon le magicien, dont il est fait référence aux actes 8:18-20
::And when Simon saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unhim ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. (KJV)

‘There are those two,’ he then said, ‘who were recently arraigned on a charge of high simony. Fancying a monstrance and stealing it and proposing to sell it. They pleaded the usual pagan ignorance.’

Anthony Burgess, ‘Hun’, The Devil’s Mode, 1989


light up

The floodlights lit up the grounds as bright as day.

(Sens figuré)'You light up' my life.


pounce

(XVIIᵉ siècle) De pownse, lui-même issu de l’ancien français poinçon.

to pounce (infinitive)
pounces (present third-person singular)
pounced (preterite)
pounced (participle past)
pouncing (participle present)

The kitten pounced at the ball I threw to him.

Le chaton a bondi sur la balle que je lui ai lancée.

Se précipiter, se jeter (sur quelqu’un).

I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.

J’ai été réveillé d’un sommeil profond par mon enfant qui s’est jeté sur moi de nulle part.

Saisir, sauter sur (une occasion). Note d’usage : Suivi de on ou upon.

I pounced on the chance to get promoted.

She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself.

Elle s’est jetée sur le jeune homme parce qu’elle l’aimait et le voulait pour elle-même.


stiffy

(A surprising number also enjoyed pointing out the South African term for floppies - stiffies - though let’s not dwell too long on that.)

(Un nombre surprenant d’entre eux se sont amusés à signaler le terme sud-africain pour les disquettes — stiffies — mais ne nous attardons pas trop longtemps là-dessus.)

« 40 ways we still use floppy disks », Magazine, BBC News, 30 avril 2010


boner

You made an arithmetic mistake on page two. It was quite the boner.

Vous avez fait une erreur d’arithmétique à la page deux. C’était une sacrée gaffe.

Stephen Hawking s’adressant à Sheldon Cooper, « The Hawking Excitation », The Big Bang Theory


win-win

(Date à préciser) Du verbe win (« gagner »).

As the following points of win-win negotiation will demonstrate, ensuring that your counterpart is satisfied with a particular deal requires you to manage several aspects of the negotiation process, including his outcome expectations, his perceptions of your outcome, the comparisons he makes with others, and his overall negotiation experience itself.

PON Staff, « Win-Win Negotiation: Managing Your Counterpart’s Satisfaction » [en ligne], The Program of Negotiation, faculté de droit d’Harvard, 23 avril 2024 (2013). (Consulté le 22 septembre 2024)


Terran

This castle, eleven light-years from my Earth, this room in a tower in Rodarred, in A-Io, on the planet Urras of the sun Tau Ceti, is Terran soil.

La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974, éd. 2003


wait for

to wait for (infinitive)
waits for (present third-person singular)
waited for (preterite)
waited for (participle past)
waiting for (participle present)

I'll wait for you in the car, while you go into the store.

Je t'attendrai dans la voiture pendant que tu iras au magasin.

We can wait for the train here.

I waited more than an hour for you.


hear it said

to hear it said (infinitive)
hears it said (present third-person singular)
heard it said (preterite)
heard it said (participle past)
hearing it said (participle present)

\ˌhɪɹ ɪt ˈsɛd\

\ˌhɪə ɪt ˈsɛd\

I hear it said that anyone who didn't attend the meeting is an enemy of the people.


napiform

Du latin napus (« navet ») et du suffixe -form.

more napiform (comparative)
most napiform (superlative)

The primary root is transformed into an perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched.

K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 2007, volume IX, page 265


innards

Many pointed out floppies are needed to access even newer computers' deepest innards - their Bios.

40 ways we still use floppy disks, Magazine, BBC News, 30 avril 2010


hooray

Hip hip hooray!


genetic code

Professor Quake received publicity last year when he used new technology to sequence his entire genetic code, or genome, for less than 50,000 US dollars (£33,000).

Helen Briggs, US scientist has genome screened for disease risk, BBC News, 30 avril 2010


Lutheran

The most plausible explanations are that Cromwell had shown himself too favourable to religious reformers, forbidding ‘idolatry’ in the form of statues and the cult of saints, pushing the provision of English bibles, and favouring alliance with Lutheran states.

Robert Tombs, The English and their history, Penguin Books, 2015, page 170


space station

That's no moon. It's a space station.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, 1977


wisp

His father was quite otherwise; of a sunny, jovial disposition, but with a quick temper like a sudden flame kindled in a wisp of straw, which consumes it in a flash and is no more.

Son père était tout à fait différent ; d’une disposition joyeuse, joviale, mais avec un tempérament vif comme une flamme soudaine embrasée d’une mèche de paille, qui la consume en un éclair et n’est plus.

Ambrose Bierce, The Thing at Nolan, 1891, éd. 2008


living-room

… with two steps that you go down to get in the living-room

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye,ISBN 0140012486, 1951, page 188


backwater

(XIVᵉ siècle)Composé de back et de water ; le sens figuré date de 1879 et est motivé par l’idée d’un endroit où tout stagne.

backwaters (plural)
back-water
back water

Méandre abandonné, eau stagnante, retenue d’eau en amont d’un barrage.

The gigantic Victoria regia, with leaves 6 to 7 ft. in diameter and flowers 8 to 16 in. across, also belongs to this group. It grows in the backwaters of the Amazon, often covering the surface for miles.

«Water-lily », dans Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911

In the 19th century silt deposits began to block the harbour, and the city began to decline. To make matters worse, conservative elements in Lukang refused in the early 20th century to allow trains and modern highways to be built near their city. Lukang became a backwater, only to be reborn decades later when modern Taiwanese began to search for a living connection with the past.

Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 2014


xir

[Alt: attention] Il s’agit d’un terme utilisé qui n’est pas d’un usage standard.

in the recent past, there was an impeachment trial of a judge where every juror was told to secretly choose xir own standard.

dans un passé récent, il y a eu un procès en impeachment contre eun juge au cours duquel chaque juré devait secrètement choisir son propre standard.

Matthew Daly,publié dans soc.singles.moderated, 2 janvier 1999

Cici said however that sex education at school in no way helped explain xir identity. “Sex ed taught me nothing”

Cici a dit cependant que l’éducation sexuelle à l’école n’a absolument pas aidé à expliquer son identité. « L'éducation sexuelle ne m’a rien appris »

Debbie Luxon, Myth-busting asexuality: Being asexual in Cambridgeshire, publié dans Cambridgeshire Live le 30 octobre 2019


f

(2014) Du jeux Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare qui, au cours d’une scène, demande au joueur d’appuyer sur la touche F pour honorer la mémoire d’un personnage décédé, ce qui entraina une réaction amusée de la part des joueurs face à l’incongruité de la situation.

Utilisé pour exprimer ses condoléances envers une personne décédée ou quelque chose qui a été perdu.

User 1: My computer just died…
User 2: f

Utilisateur 1 : Mon ordinateur vient de tomber en panne…
Utilisateur 2 : f


i

Je (première personne du singulier nominatif).

i love U


umpteenth

That’s the umpteenth time I’ve had to tell him not to swear in front of the children.

C'est la énième fois que je dois lui dire de ne pas jurer devant les enfants.


blur

to blur (infinitive)
blurs (present third-person singular)
blurred (preterite)
blurred (participle past)
blurring (participle present)

Ensure that technologies that blur the line between assisted and automated driving, such as hands-free driving and system-initiated manoeuvres on Level 2 systems, are not approved for use on European roads.

ETSC, Road Safety Priorities for the EU 2024-2029, ETSC, April 2024


from the bottom of one’s heart

\ˈfɹɒm ðə ˈbɒt.əm ɒv wʌn‿z ˈhɑːt\

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He told her how much he loved her, and he meant it from the bottom of his heart.

Il lui a dit combien il l’aimait, et il le pensait du fond du cœur.


ridiculously

Dérivé de ridiculous, avec le suffixe -ly.

When I write or speak and describe my life as “ridiculously good,” I’m referring to the joy that I take in each and every day.

Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action, 2012, page 119


sexily

more sexily (comparative)
most sexily (superlative)

She talked sexily.


Jade

De jade, prénom popularisé dans les années 1970.

Jade Thirlwall.


Poseidon

(Date à préciser) Du grec ancien Ποσειδῶν, Poseidôn.

‘But Zeus and Poseidon — they both had, like, a bazillion kids in the myths. […]’

- Mais Zeus et Poséidon… d'après les mythes, ils ont tous les deux eu des kyrielles d'enfants.

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, 2009, page 113.


minutely

→ voir minute et -ly (Minute est un adjectif.)

She produced a minutely detailed description.

minutely crafted earrings


tessellation

Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.

Nick Brodrick, « The grand gateway to Glasgow », RAIL, numéro 994, page 32, 18 octobre 2023


borderline

Motcomposé de border et de line, littéralement « ligne frontière ».

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I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.

Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening.


borderline

She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.


tabby

(Milieu du XVIIᵉ siècle) Du français tabis, lui-même de l’arabe عتابي, attaby, gentilé de al-Ataby, banlieue de Bagdad, où le tissu tabby a été d’abord fabriqué .

A tabby waistcoat.

A tabby cat.


lidless

Motdérivé de lid, avec le suffixe -less.

A great eye, lidless, wreathed by flame.

Un grand œil sans paupière, couronné de flamme.


meatus

In anatomy, a meatus is a natural body opening or canal (Latin, 4th declension pl. meatus, or meatuses - often incorrectly meati).


Euphrates

Du latin Euphrates, issu du grec ancien Εὐφράτης, Euphratês, du vieux perse 𐎢𐎳𐎼𐎠𐎬𐎢, Ufrātu, du élamite 𒌑𒅁𒊏𒌅𒅖, ú-ip-ra-tu-iš. Ces formes sont soit issues d'un substrat inconnu, soit d'un proto-sumérien de type *𒁍𒍏.

The Euphrates has attracted international attention since 2013 as combatants in Syria and Iraq have competed for control of its vital structures.

NouarShamout et Glada Lahn, « The Euphrates in Crisis: Channels of Cooperation for a Threatened River », Chatham House, avril 2015


get-up

People in cloaks. Mr Dursley couldn't bear people who dressed in funnu clothes – the get-ups you saw on young people!

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-49559, p. 9


huddle

We could see little huddles of stones.

Nous pouvions voir de petits tas de pierres.


huddle

to huddle (infinitive)
huddles (present third-person singular)
huddled (preterite)
huddled (participle past)
huddling (participle present)

Se blottir, se pelotonner, se rassembler (quand on a peur, froid…).

The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.

Les moutons se blottirent ensemble à la recherche de chaleur.

To huddle around fire.


rummage

to rummage (infinitive)
rummages (present third-person singular)
rummaged (preterite)
rummaged (participle past)
rummaging (participle present)

I'll rummage through my suitcase to see if I have it.


rummage

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

rummage sale


rummaging

(Date à préciser) Participe présent du verbe to rummage.

\ˈɹʌm.ɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ\

At last, after a lot of rummaging about in a filing cabinet, they produced a slip of paper, mimeographed years ago, that said that Harriet acquitted the institution of all responsibility.

Enfin, après une longue fouille dans une salle d’archives, ils produisirent un formulaire en papier, ronéotypé il y a des années, disant qu’Harriet déchargeait la fondation de toute responsabilité.

Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child, 1988, p. 102


plucky

(Date à préciser) De pluck (« courage, cran »), avec -y.

pluckier (comparative)
pluckiest (superlative)

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‘It doesn’t seem a bit like you — you’ve not shown yourself to be at all plucky so far !’.

Ça ne te ressemble vraiment pas — tu ne t’es pas du tout montré courageux jusqu’à présent !


insofar as

We will pay you insofar as we are satisfied with your work.

Nous vous payerons dans la mesure où nous serons satisfait de votre travail.

Insofar as it expresses an expansion in physical plant, it ought to make possible the production of more goods.

G.S., "Can a Living Wage Be Paid?", Correspondence, The New Republic 31 (no. 392): 50, 7 juin 1922

Hasidism, insofar as it was new—and not all of Hasidism was "new" in this sense—rejected the older hierarchies of celestial palaces, of Intelligences, of hypostases, of sefirot.

David R. Blumenthal, Understanding Jewish Mysticism, Volume II, page 195, 1982

Insofar as possible, the current edition of a publication is annotated in part 3.

National Research Council (U.S.), National Science Education Standards, page 133, 1996


sebum

Sebaceous glands secrete the oily, waxy substance called sebum.


no thank you

\ˌnəʊ ˈθæŋk juː\

Non merci. Note d’usage : Exprime un refus. Aujourd’hui cette formule n’est pas assez polie sans remerciement.

“Use my phone Sam”, Sandra offered but Sam Cleverman was not a presumptuous man and he was still only the chauffeur. “Thank you but no thank you ma’am”, Sam said.

Lyndon Walters, The Taste of Champagne Urge, 2014,ISBN 9781491882993, page 234


no thanks

\ˌnoʊ ˈθæŋks\

\ˌnəʊ ˈθæŋks\

Mama preps for Sunday dinner in our tiny kitchen. “Thanks, but no thanks,” she said when I offered assistance.

Anne Bustard, Anywhere but Paradise, 2015,ISBN 9781606845868, page 58


(XXᵉ siècle) Opérateur d’incrémentation, popularisé par C++.

Suffixe signifiant un nouveau produit avec des fonctions additionnelles.

Notepad++.

C++.


kick-ass

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His plan is to create a company of 20 “kick-ass” dancers.


kick ass

Composé de kick (« donner un coup de pied ») et de ass (« cul »).

to kick ass (infinitive)
kicks ass (present third-person singular)
kicked ass (preterite)
kicked ass (participle past)
kicking ass (participle present)

This movie really kicks ass!