engage

to engage (infinitive)
engages (present third-person singular)
engaged (preterite)
engaged (participle past)
engaging (participle present)

She just got engaged.

Engage the motor, and let’s get started.

If you’d only engage the children, they wouldn’t get into trouble.

She engaged (hired) him to work for two months.


standing

standing committee


standing

Intérêt à agir. Droit d'une partie à entamer une action en justice, basé sur la relation entre cette partie et l'affaire à laquelle se rapporte l'action.

The court refused to hear the case because they ruled that the plaintiff had no standing in the matter.

He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.

standing in the community


elder

Du vieil anglais eldra, d’origine germanique, apparenté à l’allemand älter.

Le comparatif usuel est older ; elder est utilisé plutôt pour qualifier des membres de la famille.

My elder brother.

John is the elder of the two brothers.

An elder statesman.


elder

We were presented to the village elder.

On a été présenté aux anciens du village.

Respect your elders.

After being a member of the Church for a while, Bill was ordained to the office of elder.


elder

Du vieil anglais ellærn, puis du moyen anglais eller, eldre, apparenté à Holder en allemand, jedle en tchèque, ebulum en latin.

Black elder.


responsibility

Dérivé de responsible (« responsable ») avec le suffixe -ity (« -ité »).

With great power comes great responsibility.

Un grand pouvoir implique de grandes responsabilités.

Blockchains, however, are distributed databases that often seek to achieve decentralisation by replacing a unitary actor with many different players. The lack of consensus as to how (joint-) controllership ought to be defined hampers the allocation of responsibility and accountability.

Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation, Brussels, European Union, 2019, PE 634.445, ISBN: 978-92-846-5044-6, doi: 10.2861/535, QA-02-19-516-EN-N

The fundamental difference between most driving assistance systems available today (which are categorised as Level 2) and the Mercedes system (Level 3) is that the vehicle manufacturer takes responsibility while the vehicle is operated by a Level 3 system. The driver remains responsible at all times for Level 2 systems, including when the system makes a mistake.

Mercedes to offer Level 3 automated driving at up to 95 km/h on German motorways, 25 September 2024


promote

The student was promoted to the next year's class.

Mettre en valeur, promouvoir, promotionner.

The advertising executives discussed how to promote the new product.


overly

Parents can be overly protective of their children.


overwhelm

to overwhelm (infinitive)
overwhelms (present third-person singular)
overwhelmed (preterite)
overwhelmed (participle past)
overwhelming (participle present)

The force of the flood waters overwhelmed him.

I am overwhelmed by your kindness.


territory

Create a program that reads a postal code from the user and displays the province or territory associated with it, along with whether the address is urban or rural.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 105


gross

Brut, avant qu’on en ait déduit les dépenses, les frais, etc.

Gross weight.

Gross national product.

Gross negligence

How can you even look at that? That’s gross!


helping

He ate two helpings.


spindle

Fuseau (pour dérouler le chanvre, la laine, ou le lin, lors du tissage).

MALEFICENT: Touch the spindle… TOUCH IT, I SAY!!!

MALÉFIQUE : Touche le fuseau… TOUCHE-LE, TE DIS-JE !!!


spindle

to spindle (infinitive)
spindles (present third-person singular)
spindled (preterite)
spindled (participle past)
spindling (participle present)

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

Ne pas plier, percer ou déchirer ce document.


hint

Du nom désuet hent (« allée, chemin »), dérivé du vieil anglais hentan (« saisir, profiter »).

I don’t know the answer. Can you give me a hint?

Je ne connais pas la réponse. Peux-tu me donner un indice ?

This recipe calls for just a hint of oregano.

Cette recette requiert juste un soupçon d’origan.


hint

to hint (infinitive)
hints (present third-person singular)
hinted (preterite)
hinted (participle past)
hinting (participle present)

The teacher hinted that it might be helpful to especially review Chapter 11 of the text before the exam.

The mother hinted to her son that there might be a special dessert for good little boys.


husk

(XIVᵉ siècle) Étymologie obscure, peut-être à rapprocher du frison húske (« maisonnette, cabinet »), du néerlandais huisje (« maisonnette, coquille »), avec comme pour le néerlandais, évolution sémantique vers « petite maison des grains » ; voir house.

A coconut has a very thick husk.


barrister

La distinction entre barrister et solicitor provient du système anglais où il existe encore aujourd'hui deux professions juridiques différentes. On appelle barrister les membres du barreau, c'est-à-dire les avocats, et solicitor les membres des sociétés juridiques, c'est-à-dire les conseillers juridiques et les notaires.

André Émond et Lucie Lauzière, Introduction à l'étude du droit, éditions Wilson & Lafleur, Montréal, 2005, p. 195.


surround

(Début du XVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais surrounden (« inonder, submerger »), de l’anglo-normand surounder, lui-même du moyen français soronder, submerger, surpasser, dominer.

to surround (infinitive)
surrounds (present third-person singular)
surrounded (preterite)
surrounded (participle past)
surrounding (participle present)

The city is surrounded by a wall.

We are surrounded by dangers in this jungle.

Nous sommes entourées de dangers dans cette jungle.

The king surrounds himself with flatterers who will not tell him the truth.

Le roi s'entoure de flatteurs qui ne lui diront pas la vérité.

The enemy troops have surrounded us.

Les troupes ennemies nous ont encerclés.

The city is surrounded by gardens.

The city is surrounded by a wall.

The jewelry is surrounded in velvet.


dazzle

Forme fréquentative de to daze (« étourdir »).

to dazzle (infinitive)
dazzles (present third-person singular)
dazzled (preterite)
dazzled (participle past)
dazzling (participle present)

[…] the whole thing was a prearranged episode, intended to dazzle me, […]

[…] tout cela n’était-il pas arrangé d’avance dans le seul but de m’éblouir […]


psychic

Jung understood instincts as being “an unconscious physical impulse toward actions and the archetype as the psychic counterpart.”

Fiest J, Friest G, Theories of Personality, McGraw-Hill, 2009


ceasefire

Composé de to cease (« cesser ») et de fire (« feu »).

The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.


seldom

Du vieil anglais seldan (« rarement »). Apparenté à l'allemand selten.

He seldom wakes up before noon.

Its habitat is rainforest, and it is seldom seen away from deep jungle.

Comparer He seldom ever plays tennis avec He almost never plays tennis.


retrieve

to retrieve (infinitive)
retrieves (present third-person singular)
retrieved (preterite)
retrieved (participle past)
retrieving (participle present)

to retrieve a thrown ball.

Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.


understanding

Du verbe understand (« comprendre ») avec le suffixe -ing.

Thank you for your understanding during this temporary difficulty.

Her comprehension of these subtle ideas is excellent.


understanding

more understanding (comparative)
most understanding (superlative)

She gave an understanding smile, and told the boy not to worry about it.


fully

more fully (comparative)
most fully (superlative)

“One of the arguments we make is you can’t get more self-driving than fully self-driving,” said attorney Andrew Kirtley, who is representing customers in the Autopilot class-action suit.

Faiz Siddiqui, Tesla sells ‘Self-Driving’ cars. Is it fraud?, The Washingtonpost, 11 juillet 2024


removal

Dérivé de remove (« ôter »), avec le suffixe -al.

The residents demanded the removal of the garbage on the sidewalks.

Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig

Avant de quitter Chertsey, il s’était pris pour M. Grimwig d’une sincère amitié que celui-ci lui rendit cordialement.

Charles Dickens, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby


evoke

Du latin evocare, composé de ex (« en-dehors ») et de vocare (« appeler »), via le français évoquer.

to evoke (infinitive)
evokes (present third-person singular)
evoked (preterite)
evoked (participle past)
evoking (participle present)

Being here evokes long forgotten memories.

Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.

The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.


devote

Gauss left no papers specially devoted to the calculus of variations.

A.N. Kolmogorov and A.P. Yushkevich, Mathematics of the 19th century : Geometry, Analytic function theory, Birkhäuser, 1996


operate

to operate (infinitive)
operates (present third-person singular)
operated (preterite)
operated (participle past)
operating (participle present)

The surgeon operated on him for appendicitis.

Le chirurgien l’a opéré de l’appendicite.


requirement

fore more specific debugging requirements, you can find additional tools in the open source domain, including support for multithreaded programs, embedded code, and process attachment.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 87


scupper

to scupper (infinitive)
scuppers (present third-person singular)
scuppered (preterite)
scuppered (participle past)
scuppering (participle present)

Faire capoter (des négociations, un plan), saboter (effort).

The bad media coverage scuppered his chances of being elected.


gesture

First, as a gesture of good faith, the committee would like you to describe the progress of United States experiments with the missile known as Gamma Five.

Tout d'abord, en signe de bonne foi, le comité aimerait que vous décriviez l'avancement des expériences américaines avec le missile connu sous le nom de Gamma Five.

Réplique d’un personnage, vers 1 heure 2 minutes, dans le film Torn Curtain (1966), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock, sur un scénario de Brian Moore


preach

He preached a sermon to the masses.


sermon

He preached a sermon to the masses.


flatten

to flatten (infinitive)
flattens (present third-person singular)
flattened (preterite)
flattened (participle past)
flattening (participle present)

Flattening a list is the process of converting a list that may contain multiple levels of nested lists into a list that contains all of the same elements without any nesting.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 138


overlap

Composé de over- et de lap, de l'anglo-saxon læppa.

\ˈəʊ.vəˌlæp\

\ˌəʊ.vəˈlæp\

\ˈəʊ.vəˌlæp\

Chevauchement, recouvrement partiel (la partie commune).

There is a big overlap between the territory of these two birds.

Les territoires de ces deux oiseaux se recouvrent largement l’un l’autre.


break down

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

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de break

My car broke down.

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has broken down shortly after embarking for exercises in the US.

Le porte-avions HMS Prince of Wales de la Royal Navy est tombé en panne peu de temps après son embarquement pour des exercices aux États-Unis.

BBC News, « Royal Navy HMS Prince of Wales breaks down off south coast », 29 août 2022.

Meanwhile, Paul Wesson of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has argued that reality in fact has five dimensions that can be broken down into our four familiar dimensions plus the mass that populates our world.

Pendant ce temps, Paul Wesson de l'Université de Waterloo en Ontario, au Canada, a soutenu que la réalité a en fait cinq dimensions qui peuvent être décomposées en nos quatre dimensions familières plus la masse qui peuple notre monde.

Amanda Gefter, « Beyond space and time: 5D – Into the unseen », newscientist.com, 26 août 2009.

Manure is the best nitrogen supplement, and a mixture of five parts leaves to one part manure will break down quickly.

Le fumier est le meilleur supplément d'azote, et un mélange de cinq parties de feuilles pour une partie de fumier se décomposera rapidement.

Grace Gershuny et Deborah L. Martin (sous la direction de), The Rodale Book of Composting, Rodale Books, 1992 (réédition 2018), collection « Rodale Classics », page 163.

Éclater en sanglots, s’effondrer en larmes.

He held up well after the car accident. But later at home, he just broke down and cried.

Il s’était bien remis après son accident de voiture. Mais plus tard chez lui, il a tout simplement éclaté en sanglots.

The fact is, I was so nervously broken down at the end of last summer that I could not control myself for a long time after leaving China.

Le fait est que j’étais si déprimé nerveusement, à la fin de l’été dernier, que je n’ai pas pu me contrôler pendant longtemps après avoir quitté la Chine.

« Charles to Judson Smith, March 25, 1901, St. Paul, Minnesota », dans Death Throes of a Dynasty : Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries in China (éditées par E. G. Ruoff), Kent State University Press, 1990 (réédition de l’original publié en 1927), page 112.

If you don’t understand the procedure, I’ll break it down for you.

Si vous ne comprenez par la procédure, je peux la clarifier pour vous.


allocate

to allocate (infinitive)
allocates (present third-person singular)
allocated (preterite)
allocated (participle past)
allocating (participle present)

During the budgeting process, they allocated funds for a pension for survivors.


gutter

Du latin gutta, influé par gotiere en ancien français.

The street gutter is filling up with mud.

We need to remove the leaves from the roof gutters to allow the water to flow.


inner

Du moyen anglais, du vieil anglais innera, comparatif de inne (« dans »), de l’indo-européen *in.

inner ear, an inner room in the house, inner chamber of the device

When one list occurs inside another the inner list is said to be nested inside the outer list.

Lorqu'une liste se trouve à l'intérieur d'une autre, on dit que la liste intérieure est imbriquée à l'intérieur de la liste extérieure.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 137

the inner core of the Earth

(Sens figuré)'The president always consulted his inner' circle of advisors before making a decision.

Her inner mind was telling her not to believe what she was hearing.

inner thoughts

Privilégié, intime, exclusif, privé, secret, réservé.

She retreated to her inner sanctum where she kept all the secret documents that she didn't want anyone else to know about.


relentless

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de relent (« indulger »), avec le suffixe -less (« sans »).

I, true to form, wanted to know what a maidenhead was, and to say that I was relentless on the subject would be to understate.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Plato », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 25


rehearsal

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de rehearse, avec le suffixe -al.

Répétition, essai, répétition avant de jouer devant le public.

We have only two more rehearsals before the play is presented.


sycamore

Sycomore, érable sycomore (sycamore maple) (en Europe).

There is a gun buried under the sycamore in the back garden.

Il y a un pistolet enterré sous le sycomore au fond du jardin.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 39


transmission

There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.

Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, Silver and Gold: The Money of the World, 1891, page 70

The UN agency also cautioned that the global rise in sales of cars with automatic transmission were another factor likely to contribute to more pedal-error accidents. This assessment is based on crash data from the United Kingdom showing that seven out of eight “pedal misapplication” episodes involve automatics.

Road safety gets a boost with new UN fix for ‘pedal error’, UN, 2 juin 2024


distinction

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin distinctio.

dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən

I once wrote an affidavit for a court on the differences between Nabokov’s Lolita and a pimp’s pictorial with words, “Lolita Pissing. ” These are some of life’s easier distinctions.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « The High School Library », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 27


caption

Dans un film ou une vidéo, subtitle désigne les traductions d’un dialogue dans une langue étrangère, tandis que caption décrit tous les dialogues et sons pour les personnes qui ne peuvent pas les entendre.

The caption and asportation must be felonious.

Thomas Welburn Hughes, A treatise on criminal law and procedure, 1919, The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557, page 378


caption

to caption (infinitive)
captions (present third-person singular)
captioned (preterite)
captioned (participle past)
captioning (participle present)

Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.


coil

Du moyen anglais coilen, de l’ancien français coillir (« cueillir »), du latin colligō (« rassembler »).

the sinuous coils of a snake.

The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.

Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving] in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, C.S. Vaan Winkle, 23 juin 1819 – 13 septembre 1820.


incentive

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin incentivum (« stimulant »).

I have no incentive to do housework right now.

Je n’ai aucune motivation pour m’occuper des tâches ménagères tout de suite.

Money is a strong incentive to make the employees work harder.

L’argent est une incitation forte pour faire travailler les employés plus dur.


recoil

to recoil (infinitive)
recoils (present third-person singular)
recoiled (preterite)
recoiled (participle past)
recoiling (participle present)

back down

reculer (régresser, en parlant des affaires et des personnes)

He recoiled in horror at the sight of the dead man.


obsess

Du latin obsessus, participe passé de obsidere (« être assis sur ou dans, rester, s’asseoir devant, assiéger »), qui vient lui-même de ob (« devant ») et de sedere (« être assis ») ; voir sit, session… cf. assess, possess.

to obsess (infinitive)
obsesses (present third-person singular)
obsessed (preterite)
obsessed (participle past)
obsessing (participle present)

Être obsédé par (suivi de la préposition with si l’objet de l’obsession est explicité).

We are way too obsessed with Wiktionary.

Nous sommes bien trop obsédés par le Wiktionnaire.

Wiktionary is even obsessing my hamster.

Le Wiktionnaire va jusqu’à obséder mon hamster.

Faire une fixation (sur), faire une fixette (sur) (suivi de la préposition over si l’objet de la fixation est explicité).

Still, I think my lama merely pretends to be obsessing over Wiktionary…

Cela dit, je pense que mon lama se borne à faire semblant de faire une fixation sur le Wiktionnaire…


consistency

There is no consistency between the two sets of logical propositions.

This grass has the consistency of a soft blanket.

Look at the fine consistency of this silk.


romantic

He’s a romantic. But he’s not always living in the real world.


reader

As we'll see in upcoming chapters, Python's lists, dictionaries, and the like provide richer—and usually better—ways to encode information than bit strings, especially when your data's audience includes readers of the human variety.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 160


shove

to shove (infinitive)
shoves (present third-person singular)
shoved (preterite)
shoved (participle past)
shoving (participle present)

This time, Jennings heaved while Darbishire shoved — all to no purpose. The wheel’s rim was stuck in the banisters, and the boys’ efforts to dislodge it merely caused further havoc and confusion.

Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings’ diary, Collins, 1960


tragic

Tragic toddler Zoe Whitford to be buried in Shankill, Dublin


give up

to give up (infinitive)
gives up (present third-person singular)
gave up (preterite)
given up (participle past)
giving up (participle present)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de give

Never give up!


dissociate

to dissociate (infinitive)
dissociates (present third-person singular)
dissociated (preterite)
dissociated (participle past)
dissociating (participle present)

dissociate oneself from signifie « se dissocier de, se désoladiriser de ».

A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.

We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating.


implore

I implore you to do this for my sake.


winged

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de wing (« aile »), avec le suffixe -ed.

Above the tower on the right can be seen the winged serpent that symbolizes the fairy Melusina.

Au-dessus de la tour de droite, apparaît le serpent ailé qui symbolise la fée Mélusine.

Raymond Cazelle, Les très Riches heures du Duc de Berry, Paris, 1974


convey

De l’ancien français conveier, convoier.

to convey (infinitive)
conveys (present third-person singular)
conveyed (preterite)
conveyed (participle past)
conveying (participle present)

Her speech conveys a feeling of insecurity.

Son discours véhicule un sentiment d’insécurité.


ordeal

trial by ordeal, the ordeal of fire


criticism

literary criticism, social criticism

Why do you only have criticisms about everything that I do?


outing

This particular trip, combined with years of pursuing wahoo on standard long-range outings, provided a number of lessons applicable to fly fishing these wild ones.

Nick Curcione, Orvis Guide to Saltwater Fly Fishing, 2008, page 187

Outing. Fait de révéler l’homosexualité ou la transidentité d’une personne contre son avis.

Outing is queer self-defence. Lesbians and gay men have a right, and a duty, to expose hypocrites and homophobes.

Peter Tatchell, Outing Is A Catalyst For Social Change, 1995


stow

(Nom) Du vieil anglais stow, de même radical que stead.

to stow (infinitive)
stows (present third-person singular)
stowed (preterite)
stowed (participle past)
stowing (participle present)

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

Although the EDR recorded the driver’s seat belt status as “buckled,” the pretensioners actuated and locked the belt webbing taut in its stowed position against the B-pillar (...). The driver was not restrained by the seat belt system at the time of the crash

Bine que l'EDR ait enregistré la statut de la ceinture du conducteur comme "bouclé", les prétentionneurs ont agit et bloqué la tension des sangles de la ceinture dans sa position "arrimée" contre le pillier-B (...). Le conducteur n'était pas attaché par la ceinture de sécurité au moment de la collision

Special Crash Investigations: On-Site Rollover Crash Investigation; Vehicle: 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500; Location: Missouri; Crash Date: February 2022, NHTSA, septembre 2024


assign

to assign (infinitive)
assigns (present third-person singular)
assigned (preterite)
assigned (participle past)
assigning (participle present)

Affecter (une personne), charger (une personne).

She was assigned to updating the web page.


tough

tougher (comparative)
toughest (superlative)

The wilderness is tough and unforgiving. Either you prepare for it, or you don’t return.

The work is tough, but it pays well.

It was a tough game, but we won in the end.

This jeep is tough. You can take it off-road without worrying.

She’ll be a tough opponent to beat.

This beef is tough. We should have tenderized it better before cooking it.


lesson

De l’ancien français leçon, isuu du latin lectio. À comparer avec lection.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-lesson.wav


keep on

Keep on movin’
Don’t stop, like the hands of time

Soul II Soul, Keep on Movin’, chanson de 1989


pass away

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de pass

After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.


yearn

Viendrait du vieil anglais giernan (« frapper, avoir un engouement, désirer, rechercher, mendier, demander »).

I yearn for my country.


Yugoslav

\ˈjuːɡəˌslɑːv\

ou Serbo-croate, langue slave parlée en ex-Yougoslavie (Serbie, Monténégro, Croatie et Bosnie-Herzégovine).

He is an educated man, speaking English, French, Spanish, Yugoslav, Russian and German, and he saw service in the Army and understands espionage.

Mount Graeme, Chile and the Nazis: From Hitler to Pinochet, Black Rose Books, 2002, page 70


perforated

Tear it off along the perforated line.


restore

De l’ancien français restorer → voir store.

to restore (infinitive)
restores (present third-person singular)
restored (preterite)
restored (participle past)
restoring (participle present)

Your hard disk is unrecoverable. You've got to set up a new hard disk and restore your latest backup.

Ton disque dur est irrécupérable. Il te faut en installer un nouveau et restaurer ta sauvegarde la plus récente.


restrain

to restrain (infinitive)
restrains (present third-person singular)
restrained (preterite)
restrained (participle past)
restraining (participle present)

Madam. Please restrain your child.


wake up

→ voir wake et up, apparenté au néerlandais opwaken et à l’allemand aufwachen.

to wake up (infinitive)
wakes up (present third-person singular)
woke up ou waked up (preterite)
woken up ou waked up (participle past)
waking up (participle present)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Usmaan (Middle river exports)-wake up.wav

It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, […]

Il était sept heures, par un soir très chaud, sur les collines de Seeonee. Père Loup s’éveilla de son somme journalier, se gratta, […]


warden

Quand il y a plusieurs gardes ou gardiens, le terme warden est seulement appliqué au chef, au directeur.

(Prison) (États-Unis) (Canada) prison warden, warden of a jail

game warden, fire warden

garde-chasse, agent de sécurité-incendie

Principal (de quelques collèges universitaires ; aussi d’un peu des lycées anglais).

the warden of All Souls College


sheriff

Du vieil anglais scīrġerēfa (« magistrat de comté »).

The Sheriff of Nottingham was Robin Hood's foe.


significance

The significance of this event cannot be underestimated.

What do you think is the significance of what he just said?


make up

to make up (infinitive)
makes up (present third-person singular)
made up (preterite)
made up (participle past)
making up (participle present)

I don’t want to fight any more. Let’s kiss and make up.

Je ne veux plus me battre. Embrassons-nous et réconcilions-nous.

There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.

He made up a lie.


make up

Rattraper, se faire pardonner pour, regagner ce qu’on avait perdu.

She still has to make up the exam that she missed when it was given.

We'll have to make up our low score in the first half, if we're going to win this game.

You'll have to make up for the damage that you've caused.


flub

Legal experts said the administration appeared to have flubbed Mr. Snowden’s case.

David M. Herszenhorn, Ellen Barry et Peter Baker (avec la collaboration de Scott Shane, Steven Lee Myers, Charlie Savage, Keith Bradsher, Michael R. Gordon, Rick Gladstone et Andrew Roth),« Plane for Havana Leaves Moscow Without Snowden », The New York Times, 24 juin 2013.

When he tries to conceal his visit to the cellar (chap. 40) or the reason for his prolonged absence from the Phelps house (chap. 41), he flubs the job, with comic results.

George C. Carrington,The Dramatic Unity of Huckleberry Finn, p. 162, Ohio State University Press, 1976.


streak

streaks of gray in one's hair, streaks in the limestone cliff


streak

to streak (infinitive)
streaks (present third-person singular)
streaked (preterite)
streaked (participle past)
streaking (participle present)

The mirror is streaked now. We'll have to polish it again.


wastage

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course, the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.

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


watch over

The instructors will be watching over us while we climb the cliff.


settlement

Motdérivé de settle (« établir, régler, coloniser »), avec le suffixe -ment.

Settlement

Édimbourg-des-Sept-Mers, localité de Tristan da Cunha

The two opposing sides agreed to a settlement of their differences.

The professional gentleman who had given Kit the consolatory piece of information relative to the settlement of his trifle of business at the Old Bailey,.

Ce n’était pas à tort que l’agent de justice avait annoncé à Kit, en guise de consolation, que le jugement de sa petite affaire aurait lieu à Old-Bailey.

Implantation (de personnes), colonie, peuplement (de personnes), lieu habité.

The settlement in the wilderness didn't survive the first bad winter.


linger

to linger (infinitive)
lingers (present third-person singular)
lingered (preterite)
lingered (participle past)
lingering (participle present)

To linger is “to stay” or “to remain”.

To linger veut dire « rester » ou « demeurer ».

I like to linger in my garden after I have finished working there.

J’aime flâner dans mon jardin après avoir fini d’y travailler.

In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, (The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens)

En face, sous une voûte ténébreuse menant à l’un des passages qui partaient de la rue, se tenait en observation un individu aposté en ce lieu depuis le commencement de la soirée et qui y était resté sans perdre patience, le dos appuyé contre le mur, comme un homme qui a longtemps à attendre, et qui en a l’habitude.


staunch

The lords later became staunch defenders of the crown.

Britain has been a staunch ally of the United States.


wearisome

more wearisome (comparative)
most wearisome (superlative)

The sun had gone down full four hours, and it was later than most travellers would like it to be for finding themselves outside the walls of Rome, when Mr Dorrit’s carriage, still on its last wearisome stage, rattled over the solitary Campagna.

Il y avait au moins quatre heures que le soleil s’était couché et peu de voyageurs se seraient souciés de rester aussi tard en dehors des murs de Rome ; cependant la voiture de M. Dorrit, achevant sa dernière et ennuyeuse étape, réveillait encore les échos de la Campagna solitaire.


designate

He is the Director designate, but the appointment is not yet official.


newly

She smelled the newly budding flowers.


pacifier

Personne ou objet qui pacifie ou calme quelque chose ou quelqu’un.

He climbed to the corridor and collected the other weapon. It was a police pacifier too. They had not meant direct murder then, but only to stun him and deliver him to Orillo, C. O. D.

Charles Dye et Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars, Planet Stories, juillet 1952, chapitre VII

In 1312 Henry was crowned emperor as Henry VII. in Rome, but instead of the universal ruler and pacifier which he tried to be, he was forced by circumstances into being merely a German kaiser who tried to subjugate free Italian communes.

Luigi Villari, article « FLORENCE », volume 10, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911


matrimony

marriage

Note : Désigne le concept. Wedding et marriage ne sont pas synonymes.

holy matrimony


certify

Do you want to certify this letter?


urn

The ancient Greeks made beautiful urns.

The ashes of the cremated are put into urns.


witness

As a witness to the event, I can tell you that he really said that.


witness

to witness (infinitive)
witnesses (present third-person singular)
witnessed (preterite)
witnessed (participle past)
witnessing (participle present)
witnesse (archaic)
witneße (archaic)

This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.


tremble

to tremble (infinitive)
trembles (present third-person singular)
trembled (preterite)
trembled (participle past)
trembling (participle present)

The leaves trembled in the breeze.

Les feuilles frissonnèrent dans la brise.

The peasant trembled before the king.

She trembled with desire.


witty

Du vieil anglais wittiġ « savant, sage », dérivé de wit « connaissances, intelligence ».

wittier (comparative)
wittiest (superlative)

Witty sense of humor.


whereabouts

Dérivé de whereabout, avec le suffixe -s.

Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1885


whetstone

Composé de whet (« aiguiser ») et de stone (« pierre »), littéralement « pierre à aiguiser ».

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Usmaan (Middle river exports)-whetstone.wav

He’d also acquired a Ka-Bar Marine combat knife in a surplus store, and while he’d watched the streets the night before, he’d worked the seven-inch Bowie-type blade across a whetstone. There was something that men feared about a knife even more than a bullet.


mainstream

Composé de main (« principal ») et de stream (« flux, courant »).

Sometimes I get tired of the mainstream films, and want to see something different.


mainstream

Perl pushed the regular expressions to the mainstream.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, page 7


connote

to connote (infinitive)
connotes (present third-person singular)
connoted (preterite)
connoted (participle past)
connoting (participle present)

Connoter, suggérer, impliquer plus que le sens littéral.

The word "safari" connotes adventure.


wholesome

wholesomeer (comparative)
wholesomeest (superlative)

[…] I think the Bible is largely an amazing and beautiful book of fictional stories from which we can glean the most wholesome lessons about how to treat one another decently.

[…] je pense que la Bible est en grande partie un livre d'histoires fictives étonnant et magnifique dont nous pouvons tirer les leçons les plus saines sur la manière de se traiter décemment les uns les autres.

Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living, 2013, page 19


implement

to implement (infinitive)
implements (present third-person singular)
implemented (preterite)
implemented (participle past)
implementing (participle present)

A program that implements this recursive algorithm is shown below.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 131


likely

Because it is not only simpler, but, arguably, more natural, extended sequence unpacking will likely become widespread in Python code over time.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 358


lure

De l’ancien français loire, loirier → voir leurre et leurrer en français.

Lure désigne un leurre dans son sens le plus général. Decoy désigne un leurre qui détourne l'attaquant de la véritable cible, qu'il avait déjà prise en chasse.

The angler used a new fish lure on her fishing pole.


lure

The enemy was lured into the canyon, where the partisans attacked.

It is prohibited to lure, pursue or do anything else to seek polar bears so that they can be disturbed or do anything to put them or yourself in danger.


wilderness

The savage herdsmen and the fierce-looking peasants who had chequered the way while the light lasted, had all gone down with the sun, and left the wilderness blank.

Les bergers sauvages et les paysans farouches, dont la présence avait varié la monotonie de la route tant que le jour avait duré, s’étaient tous couchés avec le soleil, laissant le désert vide.


shaft

Du vieil anglais sceaft, du vieil anglais sċeaft, du proto-germanique occidental *skaft, du proto-germanique *skaftaz.

A shaft is the long narrow body of a spear or arrow

A shaft is the main axis of a feather

I had no idea that they removed the feathers’ shafts to make the pillows softer!

A shaft is a long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.

Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.

A shaft is a vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.

Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.

A shaft is a malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”

That guy at work gave me the shaft, he ratted me out to the boss for being late!


shaft

to shaft (infinitive)
shafts (present third-person singular)
shafted (preterite)
shafted (participle past)
shafting (participle present)

Entuber, baiser, arnaquer, tricher, escroquer.

I trusted him and he really shafted me.


hazardous

hazardous materials, hazardous to your health


endorsement

(1847) De l’ancien français endosser (« s’engager ») ; lui-même du latin médiéval indorsare.

Can we rely on your endorsement of this project?

Your endorsement' of this check is not valid.

The basketball player agreed to an endorsement of the sneakers in exchange for a million dollars.


somewhat

Anglo-Russian rivalries in Afghanistan continued following the overthrow of the Tsarist regime and the establishment of the Bolshevik government in 1917, although this dynamic was somewhat muted in comparison with previous decades.

Les rivalités anglo-russes en Afghanistan se sont poursuivies après le renversement du régime tsariste et la mise en place du gouvernement bolchevique en 1917, bien que cette dynamique ait été quelque peu atténuée par rapport aux décennies précédentes.

Amin Saikal, Zone of crisis : Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2014, page 18


somewhat

It was somewhat of a surprise.


resemble

De l’anglo-normand, issu du moyen français resembler, composé de re- et de sembler.

to resemble (infinitive)
resembles (present third-person singular)
resembled (preterite)
resembled (participle past)
resembling (participle present)

This creole resembles Manado Malay, but with different accents and vocabulary.

Ce créole ressemble au malais de Manado, mais avec des accents et un vocabulaire différents.

North Moluccan Malay sur en.wikipedia.org, 6 février 2016


duplicate

Could you make a duplicate key for me?


duplicate

Duplicata, double, copie, doublon, deuxième exemplaire identique au premier.

When a letter was composed it was usual […] to make a duplicate and retain it in a private archive.

Quand une lettre était rédigée il était courant […] de faire une copie et de la conserver dans des archives privées.

Nigel Wilson, « Epistolography », Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, 2010.


duplicate

En double, en plusieurs exemplaires, qui fait doublon.

You want to eliminate the duplicate values in a sequence, but preserve the order of the remaining items.

Vous voulez éliminer les valeurs en double dans une séquence, mais préserver l'ordre des éléments restants.

David Beazley & Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook (3ème éd.),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 17


virtually

\ˈvɝt͡ʃuəɫi\

… it is virtually impossible to implant false memories for events that are highly infrequent and highly unlikely.

Dunlosky et Bjork, Handbook of Metamemory and Memory,page 323, 2008


truce

Syrian protests after weekly prayers on Friday will be the first major test for a UN-backed ceasefire, the head of the main opposition group said on Thursday, adding that the truce remains fragile as long as the army is deployed in urban areas.

The Jerusalem Post, Rebels: Syria truce faces first major test tomorrow, avril 2012


albeit

Contraction de l'anglais all be it (approximativement « même s'il est ainsi que »)

He has a very good idea, albeit a strange one.

Both Fraction and Decimal provide ways to get exact results, albeit at the cost of some speed and code verbosity.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 166


denizen

(XVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais denisein, de l’ancien français denzein (« intérieur, citoyen »), de denz (« dans, intérieur »).

There was little reason a resident of the southern Levant would have contemplated capitation taxes, let alone one paid in denarii, until late 71 C.E.. After this time, Jewish denizens throughout the Roman Empire—residing largely in the southern Levant—were subjected to the fiscus ludaicus.

Christopher B. Zeichmann, “The Date of Mark’s Gospel apart from the Temple and Rumors of War: The Taxation Episode (12:13-17) as Evidence”, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,nº 79, 2017, p. 437

Occupant, espèce occupant un habitat ou une aire de répartition donnée.

The great tree and the denizens of its shade went about their business in silence.

The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.

Le calmar géant est l'un des nombreux habitants des profondeurs.


resolution

The video resolution on this monitor is 1280 x 1024.


allegedly

A successful millionaire CEO has taken restaurant rage to a new level, allegedly breaking a waiter's finger after being given bad service at an exclusive eatery.


facility

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Samuel Muldoon (Muldoonsamuel55)-facility.wav

The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

La facilité dont elle fait preuve en jouant du violon est sans égale.

Installation, aménagement, équipement, établissement.

Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

Les équipements de transport à Bangkok ne sont pas suffisants pour empêcher des effondrements du trafic fréquents en heure de pointe.

(Prison) (États-Unis) correctional facility

établissement correctionnel, établissement pénitentiaire, établissement carcéral


amenity

Du français aménité, issu du latin amoenitās (« douceur »), dérivé de amoenus (« agréable, charmant »).

We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.

Nous avons particulièrement apprécié l’agrément du climat lors de nos dernières vacances.

Our caterers will provide not only the basics but also all the amenities for your guests.

Nos traiteurs fourniront non seulement les bases mais également toutes les commodités pour vos invités.

All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.

Toutes les petites commodités fournies par l’hôtel ont rendu notre séjour très agréable.


recall

She recalled the order before it was sent out.

I recall the time you went swimming without clothes, and the police caught you.


recall

Se rappeler, se souvenir, se remémorer, se remettre.

I recall that you told me that I don't need to pay you back.

It was a warm, clear night, as I recall.


recall

She has total recall.


bowsprit

Du néerlandais boegspriet (« beaupré ; littérallement : mât arqué »).

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

The Hispaniola rolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit now and then with a whiff of spray.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 83. 1883.


workaday

He was just an ordinary person living a workaday life.

A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world., Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1916, paperback, p. 102:


congenial

→ voir con- et genial, du latin cum (« avec »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-عُثمان (Middle river exports)-congenial.wav

You'll like him. He's a very congenial person.

a congenial environment


cauldron

FIRST WITCH.
Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!
ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

PREMIÈRE SORCIÈRE.
 Tournons en rond autour de la chaudière,
 Et jetons dans ses entrailles empoisonnées.
Crapaud, qui, pendant trente et un jours et trente et une nuits,
Endormi sous la plus froide pierre,
T’es rempli d’un âcre venin,
Bous le premier dans la marmite enchantée.
LES TROIS SORCIÈRES ENSEMBLE.
 Redoublons, redoublons de travail et de soins ;
Feu, brûle ; et chaudière, bouillonne.

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, acte IV scène I


authoritative

Dérivé de authority, avec le suffixe -ative.

\ɔ:ˈθɒrɪtətɪv\

It's important that the answer be correct. Do you have it from an authoritative source?

This expert is very authoritative?


substantial

Dérivé de substance, avec le suffixe -ial.

The building is quite substantial.

a substantial number of objects


workhouse

Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being,…

Quoique je sois peu disposé à soutenir que ce soit pour un homme une faveur extraordinaire de la fortune, que de naître dans un dépôt de mendicité…


wrangle

to wrangle (infinitive)
wrangles (present third-person singular)
wrangled (preterite)
wrangled (participle past)
wrangling (participle present)

The colleagues wrangled over who would be sent on the next trip.


wretch

(Siècle à préciser) Du vieil anglais wreċċa, du germanique *wrakjô (« banni, vagabond »), apparenté à wreak et garçon via le français.

The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.

"Poor wretch!" I thought; "you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be so anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation!"

— Pauvre malheureux ! pensais-je. Tu as un cœur et des nerfs tout comme les hommes tes frères. Pourquoi vouloir les cacher ? Ton orgueil ne peut aveugler Dieu. Tu l’incites à les torturer jusqu’à ce qu’il t’arrache un cri d’humilité. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XVI, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 232)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter II, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 27

I asked that selfish wretch, Winterblossom, to walk down with me to view her distress, and the heartless beast told me he was afraid of infection!


framework

[Regular Expressions] can be found in the newest offimatic suite or Javascript framework to those UNIX tools dating back to the 70s.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, p. 6


bridle

to bridle (infinitive)
bridles (present third-person singular)
bridled (preterite)
bridled (participle past)
bridling (participle present)

He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist.

Retenir, contrôler comme avec une bride.

Savoy and Nice, the keys of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation.


resume

Du latin resumere,dérivé de sumere (« recommencer »), avec le préfixe re-.

to resume (infinitive)
resumes (present third-person singular)
resumed (preterite)
resumed (participle past)
resuming (participle present)

\ˈɹɛz.əˌmeɪ\

\ˈɹez.əˌmæɪ\

We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.

* Nous reprendrons cette discussion demain à neuf heures.


distract

to distract (infinitive)
distracts (present third-person singular)
distracted (preterite)
distracted (participle past)
distracting (participle present)

Il s'agit d'un faux-ami. To distract signifie « détourner de quelque application » pas « amuser, divertir ».

He distracted me just when I needed to concentrate.

Can you do something to distract that baby from his crying?


wattle

Its beak, he noticed was orange, and it had a bald yellow patch under each eye, with canary-coloured wattles that covered the sides and back of its head and looked at him first with his right eye, then with left.

Il remarqua que son bec était orange, et qu’il avait une zone nue, jaune, sous chaque œil, avec des barbillons couleur canari lui couvrant les côtés et l'arrière de sa tête, et il le regarda d'abord de son œil droit, puis du gauche.


groin

He fights dirty. He kicked me in the groin.


ware

Please, sir. Won't you take a look at my wares?


gradually

bit by bit

de proche en proche, petit à petit, peu à peu

I gradually added more flour to the mixture -- just as the recipe called for.

The interest rates will be allowed to rise, but only gradually.


vicious

If lifted into the air, mantes become vicious, attempting to bite everything within reach.


cluster

Du moyen anglais cluster, issu du vieil anglais cluster, clyster, lui-même du proto-germanique *klus- / *klas- et du suffixe instrumental *-þrą.

Apparenté à clot (« caillot, coaguler »), à cloud (« nuage »), au latin glus, glutis (« colle ») qui donne glue (« colle »), voir le suédois klister (« colle »).

group of people

galactic cluster'

cluster of flowers, of fruits

cluster of bananas

Groupe (ensemble des secteurs constituant une zone logique sur un disque).

zone cluster


animate

English also differentiates between humans versus non-human animates and inanimates with respect to which relative pronoun is used: compare the book which I read; the bird which flew away (not *the book whom I read or *the bird who flew away) and the girl whom I saw (not *the girl which I saw). We could, in fact, refine the English animacy hierarchy to something like proper nouns and kin terms > humans > other animates > inanimates.

Viveka Velupillai,An Introduction to Linguistic Typology, 2012, ISBN 9789027211989, p. 158


jostle

Initialement justle (« avoir des relations sexuelles avec »), formé de jousten avec le suffixe -tle ; de l’ancien français joster (« jouter »), issu du latin iuxtā (« à côté de ») de iungō (« joindre, connecter »).

to jostle (infinitive)
jostles (present third-person singular)
jostled (preterite)
jostled (participle past)
jostling (participle present)

Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke.

Les parapluies se heurtent, et les piétons, d’une humeur massacrante, perdent pied à chaque coin de rue, où des milliers de passants ont trébuché depuis le commencement du jour


bump

to bump (infinitive)
bumps (present third-person singular)
bumped (preterite)
bumped (participle past)
bumping (participle present)

Did you bump your head?

Say "excuse me", when you bump against someone.

She stumbled and bumped up against the desk.


magical

Dérivé de magic (« magie ») avec le suffixe -al.

It was a magical moment.


disturb

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin disturbare.

to disturb (infinitive)
disturbs (present third-person singular)
disturbed (preterite)
disturbed (participle past)
disturbing (participle present)

"You were very wicked, Mr. Heathcliff!" I exclaimed; "were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?"

— Vous avez agi d’une façon indigne, Mr Heathcliff ! m’écriai-je. N’avez-vous pas eu honte de troubler les morts ? — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XXIX, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 397)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter XV, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 302


applicable

This particular trip, combined with years of pursuing wahoo on standard long-range outings, provided a number of lessons applicable to fly fishing these wild ones.

Nick Curcione, Orvis Guide to Saltwater Fly Fishing, 2008, page 187


retain

De l’ancien français retenir (c. 1386), du latin retinere.

to retain (infinitive)
retains (present third-person singular)
retained (preterite)
retained (participle past)
retaining (participle present)

to retain somebody’s services.

to retain a barrister (or counsel)

retaining fee


marquess

Bien qu’il finisse en -ess, il s’agit d’un titre masculin. Le féminin est marchioness.

The Marquess of Queensberry set up the rules of boxing in 1867.

Le marquis de Queensberry a défini les règles de la boxe en 1867.


repose

I repos’d my self here a Week

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 131. 1719.


ranch

Goldberg says her goal was to get as close as she possibly could to the pre-made ranch she loved when she was growing up outside Washington, where her mother would strategically apply it to vegetables to get her to eat them.

(anglais) Tejal Rao, A Vegan Ranch Dressing That Rivals the Original sur New York Times, 28 août 2016


recess

to recess (infinitive)
recesses (present third-person singular)
recessed (preterite)
recessed (participle past)
recessing (participle present)

Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.

This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.


unchanged

He was the first and certainly not the last to point out that BIOS actually stands for “Basic Input/Output System,” not “Built-In Operating System” as I have it here (and as it ought to be); but I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun, so this part of the book is unchanged.

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


anvil

Du moyen anglais anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, du vieil anglais tardif anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, d'un ancien onfilti, du proto-germanique occidental *anafalt, composé de *ana et de *falt, ce dernier étant issu de l’indo-européen commun *pelh₂-t- qui est dérivé de *pelh₂-.

There’s no real justification for despising serving cheese on a skateboard or steak on a hot anvil, unless you’d equally scorn a tablecloth.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 116


undergo

to undergo (infinitive)
undergoes (present third-person singular)
underwent (preterite)
undergone (participle past)
undergoing (participle present)

To undergo is to suffer or endure; bear with.

The victim underwent great trauma.

She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.

She undergoes her punishment.


profane

pornographic

qui a des descriptions amoraux, typiquement sexuelles

Dans le sens de laïque, on parle de the sacred and the profane. Le dicton a le sens de « Ce qui n’est pas sacré est laïque. »

Qui contient des gros mots ou de la vulgarité, du langage grossier, ou des descriptions amorales ou pornographiques.

These books are profane, and should be banned.


profane

The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.


undergraduate

An undergraduate student.


precious

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It isn't fair, my precious to ask us what it's got in its nasty pockets.


precious

There is precious little we can do.


fitting

This volume of specially written papers is a fitting tribute to Hyman Minsky’s work as it relates to the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 in the US and quickly spread around the world.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, L. Randall Wray, The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, 2011


perspiration

Dérivé de perspire, avec le suffixe -ation.

ˌpɜː.spə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən

La citation attribuée à Thomas Edison est reprise par Umberto Eco, dans son Apostille au « Nom de la rose » (édition française, 1987), en conservant le texte anglais, mais en changeant les proportions : « Genius is twenty per cent inspiration and eighty per cent perspiration. »

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Phrase attribuée àThomas Edison, qui l'aurait prononcée vers 1902, et qui fut rapportée en septembre 1932 dans les colonnes du Harper’s Monthly Magazine.


salivate

Pavlov's experiment showed that a dog would eventually salivate upon just hearing the bell.

(Sens figuré)'He was positively salivating' over the thought of the wonderful evening he was planning.


chatter

A chatter is a talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.

Chatter is the sound made by a magpie.

A chatter is an intermittent noise, as from vibration.

Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.

Degré de communication entre des groupes et des individus suspects ou d’intérêt, servant à apprécier le degré d’activité potentiellement criminelle ou terroriste.

The NSA is concerned about increased chatter between known terror groups.


chatter

to chatter (infinitive)
chatters (present third-person singular)
chattered (preterite)
chattered (participle past)
chattering (participle present)

He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.


sentry

The sentry, if that’s what he was, betrayed himself. The streetlights revealed puffs of cigarette smoke coming out the door, telling Kelly exactly where the first target was.


estranged

more estranged (comparative)
most estranged (superlative)

Divorcé, séparé. Note d’usage : Relativement formel.

She ran into her estranged husband the other day.

Elle est tombée sur son mari dont elle séparée l’autre jour.


audacious

\ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs\

\ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs\

be audacious


engagement

ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt

The couple announced their engagement at the party.

The couple planned on a long engagement before getting married.

Obligation officielle ou sociale, engagement.

The rock band has an engagement next week in New York.

I won't be there tonight. I have a previous engagement.

Engagement (combat et surtout combat qui a lieu entre des corps détachés).

military engagement


underpin

→ voir under- et pin, littéralement « attacher sous ».

to underpin (infinitive)
underpins (present third-person singular)
underpinned (preterite)
underpinned (participle past)
underpinning (participle present)

Appuyer, accoter, étayer, reprendre en sous-œuvre.

You should underpin the mine roof to prevent further collapse.

Public confidence in politicians must underpin our democracy.


replacement

"I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning," Mr Trump tweeted, adding he will appoint a replacement next week.

BBC News, « John Bolton: Trump’s national security adviser is out », 10 septembre 2019.


survey

We are taking a survey on what brands of soap people are buying.

She wrote a survey article on the literature concerning butterflies of South America.

The Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 provided for a survey of the Northwest Territory in the United States of that time.


survey

De l’ancien français surveoir ou surveer (français moderne : surveiller), lui-même composé de sur ou sor (« sur ») et de veoir ou veeir (« voir »).

to survey (infinitive)
surveys (present third-person singular)
surveyed (preterite)
surveyed (participle past)
surveying (participle present)

Examiner, explorer, fouiller, rechercher, reconnaître.

After making a survey of the room and looking with particular attention all round the bed where the doctors stand, he writes, “My Lady.”

Il explore la chambre en regardant plus particulièrement avec attention tout autour du lit où se tiennent les médecins, puis écrit : « Ma chère ».


mandatory

ˈmɛən.dəˌtɔ˞.i

The two first lines of code are mandatory lines that we have discussed earlier.

Abhishek Singh, Zohaib Hasan, Simplifying Regular Expression Using Python, autoédition, 2019


ignite

to ignite (infinitive)
ignites (present third-person singular)
ignited (preterite)
ignited (participle past)
igniting (participle present)

Pyrotechnic smoke is produced by igniting a slow-burning chemical mixture in a container which inhibits the rate of flame spread and ensures that the mixture receives no additional oxygen from outside.

Bernard Wilkie,Creating Special Effects for TV and Video, page 86. Focal Press, 1996 (1ʳᵉ édition : 1977).

Stretching from the Andes in the west to Brazil’s Atlantic coast, the Amazon basin ecosystem faces a host of threats. Fires – many ignited deliberately – have surged across the region this year.

Dan Collins,« Death and resurrection in the rainforest as bishops meet for Amazon summit ». Theguardian.com, 6 octobre 2019.


deputy

Adjoint (fonction professionnelle).
Shériff adjoint.

A deputy who responded to the incident was shot and taken to a hospital while no other information on the other victims was immediately known.

1=Donald Trump praises bravery of police at California shooting, Breaking News, 2018-11


customer

Motdérivé de custom, avec le suffixe -er → voir coutumier en français. Il est passé du sens de « client coutumier, habitué » à celui de « client ».

Every person who passes by is a potential customer.


postal

The postal service has existed for a long time.

Le service postal existe depuis longtemps.


seasoning

the seasoning of the soldiers under fire

Before you start with the seasoning process, please make sure you have read the manufacturer’s instructions carefully.


vouchsafe

to vouchsafe (infinitive)
vouchsafes (present third-person singular)
vouchsafed (preterite)
vouchsafed (participle past)
vouchsafing (participle present)

‘The vision of him and his place in things was only vouchsafed to me this morning,’ replied Calchas imperturbably.

Stephen Fry, Troy, Michael Joseph Ltd, 29 octobre 2020, 432 pages, page 268


deprive

(XIIIᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français depriver.

to deprive (infinitive)
deprives (present third-person singular)
deprived (preterite)
deprived (participle past)
depriving (participle present)

Robert, emperor of Germany, died, just as a powerful combination had been formed to deprive him of the crown.

The state and county boards contended that Hutchins had not yet been deprived of the right to vote.


supernal

De l’ancien français supernal ou du latin médiéval supernalis, issu du latin supernus.

more supernal (comparative)
most supernal (superlative)

[…] and there, after due prayers to the gods who dwell in ether supernal, had taken solemn counsel whereby they might, if so be it might be, bring once more into honour among mortal men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael.

Exquis, sublime, ravissant, paradisiaque.

Pig, not normally reticent in these matters, now acted like a mystic after a vision; unable, maybe unwilling, to put in words this ineffable or supernal talent of Panky’s.


comeback

It’s a sentiment ripe for a comeback.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 114

Remontée (dans un jeu, dans une compétition).

Our side was losing by six points, when we made a terrific comeback.


rivet

Her eyes were riveted on the approaching train.

Ses yeux étaient rivés sur le train qui approchait.


script

Du latin scriptum (« quelques chose d’écrit »), issu de scribo (« écrire »).

Cursive (in script = en cursive / en cursif).

Don’t print it. Write it in script.

Wiktionary is handled by MediaWiki, a software made up of a set of scripts written in PHP.

Le Wiktionnaire est géré par MediaWiki, un logiciel composé d’un ensemble de scripts écrits en PHP.


frenzy

Du latin phrenesis (« délire »), que vient du grec ancien phrenesis et phren (« l'âme, l'esprit »).

His emotions took control of him, and he whipped himself into a frenzy.


gathering

\ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ\

\ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ\

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This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

Cette assembleuse constitue la pierre angulaire d’une entreprise de reliure.


retirement

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de retire, avec le suffixe -ment.

Special police squads — blade runner units — had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant. This was not called execution. It was called retirement.

Derniers paragraphes de la présentation textuelle concluant le générique d'ouverture du film Blade Runner, de Ridley Scott, sorti en 1982.


surpass

Surpasser, dépasser (aller au-delà de quelque chose), primer, excéder, dominer, maitriser, surmonter.

When activated, ISA would create resistance under the accelerator when a car surpasses the speed limit.

Lorsqu'elle est activée, l'ISA créerait une résistance sous l'accélérateur quand la voiture dépasse la limite de vitesse.

Henry Grabar, « The American Addiction to Speeding, How we became obsessed with driving fast, no matter the cost », Metropolis, 15 décembre 2021

The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 2, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 8


patent

(XIVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français patent, lui-même issu du latin patens (« patent, évident »). (1580) sens de « brevet ».

That is a patent lie!


patent

The inventor received a patent for his invention.

It is manufactured under patent from the King.


patent

to patent (infinitive)
patents (present third-person singular)
patented (preterite)
patented (participle past)
patenting (participle present)

Breveter. Note d’usage : Souvent utilisé à la voix passive.

The first type-casting machine invented in the United States was patented, by William Wing, of Hartford, Conn., in 1805.

Swen Kjaer,Productivity of Labor in Newspaper Printing, 1929


flail

Instrument composé de deux bâtons rattachés l’un à l’autre à leur bout par un lien flexible, et qui sert à battre le grain pour le séparer de la tige et de l'épi, à la manière d'un fouet rigide ; fléau.

If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher…

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, ch V, 1879

When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;


upkeep

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[…]whereas poorly maintained rubber plantations deteriorated from lack of upkeep and replanting[…]

[…]alors que les plantations d’hévéas pauvrement entretenues se déterioraient par manque de soins et de replantation[…]

Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, Stanford University Press, Stanford, février 2008, 367 pages, ISBN 978-0-8047-5634-1, page 65

Responsibility for construction and upkeep of bridges lay with the Lord of Manor.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 167


fearful

He's always so fearful!

What a fearful monster!

They raised a fearfully large army.


hassle

We can achieve this with little hassle.


naught

Du vieil anglais nawiht (« rien »), littéralement « no whit ».

Naught can come of this.


restraint

We’ll use a restraint to keep him from falling out.

Please show a little restraint. This is not a football match.


lay down

to lay down (infinitive)
lays down (present third-person singular)
laid down (preterite)
laid down (participle past)
laying down (participle present)

Just lay the book down on the table, and I'll look at it later.

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

Lay down the law, the rules

The painter lay down a thick coat of paint on the wall.

I need to lay down after working all day.


mountebank

De l'italien montambanco (« charlatan qui monte sur un banc pour vendre sa marchandise »).

This was an antic fellow, half peddler and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, strops, razors, washballs, harness-paste, medicine for dogs and horses, cheap perfumery, cosmetics, and such-like wares, which he carried in a case slung to his back.

C’était un vieux routier, à la fois colporteur et charlatan, qui parcourait à pied les campagnes pour vendre des pierres à repasser, des cuirs à rasoir, des rasoirs, des savonnettes, du cirage pour les harnais, des drogues pour les chiens et les chevaux, de la parfumerie commune, du cosmétique et autres articles semblables, contenus dans une balle qu’il portait sur son dos.


mountebank

to mountebank (infinitive)
mountebanks (present third-person singular)
mountebanked (preterite)
mountebanked (participle past)
mountebanking (participle present)

Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved

Je vous prie, calmez-vous, ma mère : je vais aller à la place publique ; ne me grondez plus. Oui, j’irai, monté sur des tréteaux, marchander leur amitié, séduire leurs cœurs par des flatteries, et je reviendrai chez vous, chéri de tous les ateliers de Rome.


flagstone

(1730)Composé de flag et de stone. Le mot flag dans le sens « dalle de pierre » date des années 1600, vient du vieux norrois flaga.

Lauze, dalle de pierre, morceau de roche plat et rectangulaire utilisé pour les toitures ou le dallage.

Grass sprouted between the pebbles and a greenish stain lay upon the flagstones.

Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Blue Pavilions, 1891

In 1946, several of the heavy flagstones, which form the decking of the viaduct, were replaced or reseated, and manholes were provided in the decking, to facilitate access to the inner walls.

“Notes and News: First Repairs in a Century”, dans Railway Magazine, page 202, 1949

Type de roche qui se fend facilement, convenant à la fabrication de ces dalles.

Flagstone is a type of sedimentary rock that contains sandstones and layers of minerals, rock and clay that is very thick and breaks easily into thin layers.

Flagstone is not a species of stone, but rather it is a general term referring to large, flat stones that are 1 to 4 inches thick. Flagstone commonly is limestone, sandstone, or slate.


tenant

Anglo-normand tenaunt (1325). De l’ancien français tenant.

to tenant (infinitive)
tenants (present third-person singular)
tenanted (preterite)
tenanted (participle past)
tenanting (participle present)

That it was tenanted by evil spirits, visible, audible and active, no-one in all that region doubted any more than he doubted what he was told of Sundays by the travelling preacher.

Qu’elle [la maison] était occupée par des esprits diaboliques, visibles, audibles et actifs, aucun de toute la région n’en doutait plus que de ce que lui disait le pasteur ambulant le dimanche.


leisure

De l’ancien français leisir (« loisir »).

Man of leisure

A well-balanced person must also allocate some time in the week for leisure.


cello

She always wanted to play the cello.

Elle a toujours voulu jouer du violoncelle.


thoughtless

Dérivé de thought (« pensée »), avec le suffixe -less.

A thoughtless remark.


exposure

The actor was hoping to get more exposure.

His exposure in the press gave him a lesson that he will never forget.

The film exposure in the camera wasn't set right.

His exposure as a fraud forced him to leave the profession.

The house has a southern exposure.


disadvantage

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

It will be to your disadvantage to continue like this.


reinforce

to reinforce (infinitive)
reinforces (present third-person singular)
reinforced (preterite)
reinforced (participle past)
reinforcing (participle present)

\ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs\

\ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs\

We'll need to reinforce this bolt or else it can break.


dainty

Friandise, délicatesse, morceau de choix.

my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.


harmful

harmful to the environment


heath

(Siècle à préciser) Du vieil anglais hæð apparenté au vieux norrois heiðr, à l’allemand Heide, au néerlandais heide.

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I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Je m’attardai autour de ces tombes, sous ce ciel si doux ; je regardais les papillons de nuit qui voltigeaient au milieu de la bruyère et des campanules, j’écoutais la brise légère qui agitait l’herbe, et je me demandais comment quelqu’un pouvait imaginer que ceux qui dormaient dans cette terre tranquille eussent un sommeil troublé.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights — Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, traduit de l’anglais par Frédéric Delebecque


flare

A flare is a brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area.

The flares steered the traffic away from the accident.

Most red dwarfs are flare stars.

La plupart des naines rouges sont sujettes à des sursauts stellaires.

Flare: The change in the flight path of an aircraft so as to reduce the rate of descent for touchdown.

Arrondi : Modification de la trajectoire de vol d’un aéronef destinée à réduire la vitesse verticale de descente en vue du posé.

The flare is the transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.

The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.

The flare or back slide is used to counter and stop the forward momentum of a delta, or to simply move backward in the air away from a target.

Le cabrage ou glissade arrière est utilisé pour arrêter l’élan d’un delta ou simplement reculer devant une cible dans l’air.


funky

funkier (comparative)
funkiest (superlative)

De mauvaise odeur, surtout de l’odeur corporelle ou de l’odeur de rapport sexuel.

A funky smell.


deduction

Sherlock Holmes was a master of deduction.

You can take this deduction on your taxes as a business expense.

Since you were incorrectly charged, we'll make a deduction in your account.


subtract

to subtract (infinitive)
subtracts (present third-person singular)
subtracted (preterite)
subtracted (participle past)
subtracting (participle present)

Subtract 1 from 3 and you get 2.


airship

To be financially viable, airships will need to stay kinda-fast—faster than a cargo ship—but also kinda-vast—able to transport more goods than a standard cargo plane.

The Flying Bum Just Crashed—So Why Are We Building Airships? de Aarian Marshall pour Wired le 25 août 2016


screw up

to screw up (infinitive)
screws up (present third-person singular)
screwed up (preterite)
screwed up (participle past)
screwing up (participle present)

To screw up one’s eyes.

My fucking parents screwed up my life!

Mes putains de parents ont foutu ma vie en l’air !

(pour une chose) Foirer ; merder ; (pour une personne) se planter, rater son coup.

I think I screwed up. And, you know, I take responsibility for it and we’re going to make sure we fix it so it doesn’t happen again.

Je pense que j’ai foiré. Et, vous savez, j’en prends la responsabilité et nous allons faire en sorte de corriger ça de telle sorte que ça ne se reproduise plus.


for the most part

\fɔː ðə məʊst pɑːt\

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For the most part, he’s a good worker.

I get along with her well for the most part.

Je m’entends bien avec elle dans l’ensemble.


pioneer

(Date à préciser) Du moyen français pionier (« soldat d’infanterie »), lui-même de l’ancien français peonier qui vient de peon (« soldat d’infanterie ») (voir pion en français contemporain) ; voir aussi l’anglais pawn (« pion » aux échecs).

to pioneer (infinitive)
pioneers (present third-person singular)
pioneered (preterite)
pioneered (participle past)
pioneering (participle present)

\ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ\

\ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ\

Être le premier (à utiliser quelque chose).

RCA Corporation pioneered color television in the United States.

RCA Corporation fut la première à utiliser la télévision couleur aux États-Unis.


hunk

Workers with Utah’s Department of Public Safety discovered a giant hunk of metal in the Utah desert.

Des travaillers du département de la sécurité publique de l'Utah ont découvert un énorme bout de métal dans le désert de l'Utah.

Jim Sergent, Javier Zarracina, George Petras et Jordan Culver, USA Today, 3 décembre 2020

His role as hardened sergeant Wardaddy meant the movie hunk was forced to part with his long locks.

Son rôle de sergeant endurci Wardaddy signifiait que le beau mec du film était forcé de se séparer de ses longues mèches.

Gordon Smart, The Sun, 13 septembre 2013


scandal

The scandal led to the monarch's deposition.

Le scandale a mené à la déposition du monarque.

No scandal ever blemished his reputation.

Aucun scandale n'est jamais venu ternir sa réputation.


legacy

This scientist has left us a legacy that will enrich us all.

At the reading of the will, we’ll find out what legacy was left to the child.

Enfant, frère ou soeur d'un diplômé d'une université.

She qualified for legacy status at Notre Dame because her father graduated from Notre Dame's school of business.


charity

ˈt͡ʃɛɹ.ə.t̬i

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He didn’t want my charity.

Il n’a pas voulu que je lui fasse la charité.

Charity begins at home.

Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même.


emerge

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

to emerge (infinitive)
emerges (present third-person singular)
emerged (preterite)
emerged (participle past)
emerging (participle present)

The ground hog emerged from the tunnel.

Suddenly, a lion emerged from the den.

Installer un programme par l’intermédiaire de la commande emerge.

Firefox depends on NodeJS (a package that I can't use on my system because it depends on OpenSSL and I use LibreSSL), so I need to emerge Firefox without NodeJS, is there a way to do so?

I'm also in the midst of emerging libreoffice and it has already taken more than 2 hours, and I can't tell if it's almost done.

Next time I emerged chromium I was working at the system when it froze again.


groove

(XVᵉ siècle) Probablement du néerlandais groeve (« fosse, tombe ») dont il avait le sens, apparenté à grave (« tombe »). Le sens moderne de « sillon, rainure » date du dix-septième siècle.

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‘Some of this we knew because in France we are very clever. The rest we confirmed by unscrewing your electric fire a few hours before you get here.‘
Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel of the wall. Their grooves showed minute scratches.

« Nous savions déjà une partie de ceci parce qu’en France, nous sommes très malins. Quant au reste, nous l’avons confirmé en dévissant votre radiateur électrique quelques heures avant que vous n’arriviez ici. »
Avec méfiance, Bond s’approcha et examina les vis qui attachaient le panneau du mur. Leurs sillons présentaient de menues éraflures.

Let the music play
He won't get away
This groove he can't ignore.


sky blue

Composé de sky (« ciel ») et de blue (« bleu »).

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

Sky blue is a pretty color.


sky blue

I love this sky blue color.


divert

Détourner, éloigner dans une autre direction.

The course of the river was diverted to bring water to the town.

He was accused of diverting the corporation's funds.

I was exceedingly diverted with this Journey

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 128. 1719.


scrape

to scrape (infinitive)
scrapes (present third-person singular)
scraped (preterite)
scraped (participle past)
scraping (participle present)

It's okay. You can just scrape it off.


scrape

The other car hit me, but luckily it was just a scrape.

How did you get yourself out of that scrape?


deviate

to deviate (infinitive)
deviates (present third-person singular)
deviated (preterite)
deviated (participle past)
deviating (participle present)

The captain was admonished for deviating from the regulations.


attendant

The attendant will announce when the flight is expected to depart.

Can the attendants accompanying the guests please wait in the back?


conclude

to conclude (infinitive)
concludes (present third-person singular)
concluded (preterite)
concluded (participle past)
concluding (participle present)

Based on the performance of our Fibonacci numbers program you might be tempted to conclude that recursive solutions are too slow to be useful.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 129


fill in

to fill in (infinitive)
fills in (present third-person singular)
filled in (preterite)
filled in (participle past)
filling in (participle present)

Their amateur baseball team was short by one player. So, he filled in for that day.

Il manquait un joueur pour leur équipe amateur de baseball. Alors, il a fait le remplaçant ce jour-là.

Morgan filled me in on the details.

Compléter, remplir (un formulaire, un questionnaire).

She filled in the form, as requested.

Elle a rempli le formulaire, comme demandé.

They filled in the area with sanitary landfill.

Ils ont remblayé la zone avec des matériaux sanitaires. (traduction à préciser ou à vérifier)


sallow

: Issu du moyen anglais salowe, du vieil anglais salu « mat », tiré du proto-germanique *salwaz, qui remonte à l’indo-européen commun *solH-.

sallower (comparative)
sallowest (superlative)

Jaunâtre, cireux, maladif, en parlant d’un teint de peau.

Doris’s skin was sallow and slack, as though the person inside had shrunk.


reflection

Dérivé de reflect, avec le suffixe -tion.

Narcissus admired his reflection in the water.

On reflection, I think I won't go to London after all.


steady

(Siècle à préciser) Du moyen anglais stedi.

steadier (comparative)
steadiest (superlative)

Hold the ladder steady while I go up.

Maintiens l’échelle stable pendant que je monte.

Constant dans ses sentiments, dans ses objectifs ; qui fait preuve d’intégrité.

a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object

The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , chapitre 1, T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1811, page 3

the steady course of the Sun;  a steady breeze of wind


unavailing

Dérivé de avail, avec le préfixe un- et le suffixe -ing.

Her attempts to convince the others to follow her in the cause were unavailing.


overhead

more overhead (comparative)
most overhead (superlative)

Aérien, d’air, en haut, se trouvant au-dessus de la tête, passant par-dessus de la tête, en vertical.

Place your luggage in the overhead bins.

Mettez vos bagages dans les coffres du haut.

They tried to reduce overhead costs.

Ils avaient essayé de réduire les frais généraux.


overhead

Dans les airs, en l’air, en haut, au-dessus de la tête, par-dessus de la tête.

Birds flying overhead.


satisfactory

Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 3, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 10


tether

to tether (infinitive)
tethers (present third-person singular)
tethered (preterite)
tethered (participle past)
tethering (participle present)

Fate and I meander each pulling an oar - where should I tether our boat?

Peter Stambler, Encounters with Cold Mountain, Beijing, Chinese Literature Press, 1996


excerpt

In the second excerpt transcribed below, Tom Cruise is talking about his work with fellow Hollywood actor Dustin Hoffman, whom he refers to simply as Dustin.

Sally Johnson, Astrid Ensslin, Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies, 2007, page 181


breathtaking

Composé de breath (« souffle, respiration ») et de taking (« fait de prendre »).

\ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ\

Mr Houston told the BBC that after decades of work in the archaeological field, he found the magnitude of the recent survey "breathtaking".

Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle, BBC, 2018-02-02


countenance

De l’anglo-normand countenance (ancien français : contenance).

Contenance, caractéristique ou expression du visage.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

mais à Caïn et à son offrande, il n’eut pas égard. Et Caïn fut très-irrité, et son visage fut abattu.— (Genèse 4, trad. J.N. Darby - 1872, 4:5)

King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version) , 1611, Genesis 4:5


countenance

to countenance (infinitive)
countenances (present third-person singular)
countenanced (preterite)
countenanced (participle past)
countenancing (participle present)

« Approuver, admettre quelque chose » se traduit par countenance something.

« Approuver, admettre que quelqu’un fasse » se traduit par countenance somebody’s doing.

The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.

La punition cruelle fut approuvée par le gouvernement, bien qu'elle ne soit pas officiellement légale.


devotion

Her devotion to the cause gained her the respect of her comrades.

Son dévouement pour la cause lui valut le respect de ses camarades.

Her devotion was the source of her respect in the Church.

Sa piété était la source de son respect pour l’Église.


efficiency

Ne pas confondre efficacité (en anglais effectiveness) : « qui atteint un objectif » ; et efficience (en anglais efficiency) : « qui produit le maximum de résultats avec le minimum d'efforts ».

Comparing the function calls made to compute these results for different input values illustrates the difference in efficiency for these problems.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 130

antenna efficiency - rendement


swindle

There are shady people out there trying to swindle the elderly out of their savings.

They tried to swindle me out of my fair share of the profits.


confession

The criminal made a confession to the police.

The old man made a confession of faith on his deathbed.

Do you go to confession regularly?

Which confession do you belong to? Protestant or catholic?


ascribe

Du latin ascribo, lui-même issu du proto-indo-européen *skrep-, *skreb- (« graver »). Apparenté à l’anglo-saxon screpan.

to ascribe (infinitive)
ascribes (present third-person singular)
ascribed (preterite)
ascribed (participle past)
ascribing (participle present)

One may ascribe these problems to the federal government, however at this stage it is unclear what caused them.

It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.


pigeonhole

Some have already pigeonholed him as another Denis Thatcher, who was content to play a supporting role to Margaret Thatcher during her time in power, offering opinions and succour in private, but doing his best to avoid controversy in public, despite being sent up by Private Eye as a gin-swilling, golf club reactionary.

BBC News,« Profile: Theresa May's husband Philip », 13 juillet 2016.


afar

Motdérivé de far, avec le préfixe a- (« éloigné »).

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart

Quand nous ne nous connaissions pas
Je te regardais de loin
Quand nous fûmes amants
Je t’ai aimée de tout mon cœur.

Neil Young, Harvest Moon, in Harvest Moon (album), 1992


brim

A brim is an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water)

A brim is a projecting rim, especially of a hat.

He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

A brim is the topmost rim or lip of a container.

The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.


mastermind

De master (« maître ») et mind (« esprit »).

He is the suspected mastermind of a vast drug-smuggling ring.


mastermind

to mastermind (infinitive)
masterminds (present third-person singular)
masterminded (preterite)
masterminded (participle past)
masterminding (participle present)

Organiser, diriger (une opération, etc.).

He is suspected of masterminding a vast drug-smuggling ring.


cabin

(XIVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français cabane.

aircraft cabin.


risky

Le mot anglais risqué n'est pas un synonyme du mot anglais risky.

The business proposition is very risky.

Attacking the enemy in a frontal assault is very risky.


sincerely

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de sincere, avec le suffixe -ly.

"I wouldn’t be you for a kingdom, then!" Catherine declared, emphatically—and she seemed to speak sincerely.

— En ce cas, je ne voudrais pas être à votre place pour un empire, déclara Catherine avec emphase ; et elle semblait parler sincèrement. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre X, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 143)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. I, Chapter X, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 229


buckle

Verbe 2 : Fréquentatif de buck (« courber »).

I like the design on your belt buckle.

J’aime la conception de cette boucle de ceinture.


buckle

to buckle (infinitive)
buckles (present third-person singular)
buckled (preterite)
buckled (participle past)
buckling (participle present)

Buckle your belt.


buckle

The road buckled during the earthquake.

La route était déformée pendant le tremblement de terre.

It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.

Il est étonnant qu’il n’ait jamais cédé après tant d’années à faire ce travail si urgent.

His knees buckled under the stress of the moment.

Ses genoux lâchèrent sous le stress du moment.

The frame was about to buckle under the weight above it.

La charpente était sur le point de céder sous le poids qu’elle supportait.

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.

S’atteler à, s’appliquer à, se donner à.

Before buckling to my winter's work.

Avant de m’atteler à mon travail d’hiver.

Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.


dividend

The stock pays out a quarterly dividend.

In the equation a/b=c, a is the dividend, b is the divisor, and c is the quotient. One also calls a the numerator and b the denominator.


seminar

Seminar et seminary se traduisent par séminaire, mais ils sont distincts.

You're scheduled to give a one hour seminar at noon on Thursday.


solicitor

La distinction entre barrister et solicitor provient du système anglais où il existe encore aujourd'hui deux professions juridiques différentes. On appelle barrister les membres du barreau, c'est-à-dire les avocats, et solicitor les membres des sociétés juridiques, c'est-à-dire les conseillers juridiques et les notaires.

André Émond et Lucie Lauzière, Introduction à l'étude du droit, éditions Wilson & Lafleur, Montréal, 2005, p. 195.

"How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it?"
He stared at me with a hopeless expression upon his vacuous, good-natured, scrubby little face.
"Don't you think all this is a little too personal?" he said.
"Well, just one question," I cried. "What are you? What is your profession?"
"I am a solicitor's clerk," said he. "Second man at Johnson and Merivale's, 41 Chancery Lane."
"Good-night!" said I, and vanished, like all disconsolate and broken-hearted heroes, into the darkness, with grief and rage and laughter all simmering within me like a boiling pot.


come across

(suivi de la préposition as) Apparaître (comme), donner l’impression (de).

A business suit and briefcase help her to come across as the competent professional she is.

Un tailleur et une serviette l’aident à apparaître comme la professionnelle compétente qu’elle est.


hog

(Date à préciser) Du vieux norrois hǫggva (« frapper, couper »). Hog désigne au départ un porc mâle châtré (voir hoggett pour un mouton mâle châtré).

Un curleur qui glisse avec une pierre et ne la relâche pas avant de toucher la ligne de jeu du côté des lancers, voit sa pierre (qu’on appelle alors un «cochon») retirée du jeu avant même qu’elle n’atteigne toute autre pierre. Toute pierre correctement lancée mais qui ne franchit pas complètement la ligne de jeu du côté de la cible est considérée hors jeu et est retirée de la piste à moins qu’elle n’ait frappé une autre pierre auparavant. — (Hélène Gélinas-Surprenant, Bureau de la traduction [du Gouvernement du Canada], 2004)

A [hog is a] rock that, as a result of a bad or weak delivery, does not cross the hog line and is declared out of play; it is removed from play unless it has hit another rock.

Pierre Dallaire, Glossary of curling terms: English-French, Saint-Lambert, Chambly, 1986, ISBN 2980062413


tavern

Certains dictionnaires indiquent que le mot tavern est vieilli.

I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 61. 1883.


alderman

En Angleterre et au pays de Galles) Adjoint au maire. Le titre était aboli en général en 1974.

Emma must have been a force to be reckoned with because in 1889 she was appointed as the first female alderman on London County Council, where she joined the first elected women members Jane Cobden (elected for Bow and Bromley) et Lady Sandhurst (elected for Brixton).

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 236


throw off

to throw off (infinitive)
throws off (present third-person singular)
threw off (preterite)
thrown off (participle past)
throwing off (participle present)

Dépister (mettre sur une mauvaise piste).

The false clue threw her off track.

I was thrown off when you said “by the weekend”, and I thought you meant “by the end of the weekend”.

J’ai été induit en erreur quand tu as dit « en fin de semaine », et j’ai cru que tu voulais dire « à la fin de la fin de semaine ».

When the ball hit him, it threw him off balance.

Quand le ballon le percuta, il le déséquilibra.


backbite

(Date à préciser)Composé de back et de bite.

to backbite (infinitive)
backbites (present third-person singular)
backbited (preterite)
backbited (participle past)
backbiting (participle present)

They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.

Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness, 1899


humbug

(XVIIIᵉ siècle)Composé de hum et de bug.

—"A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
— "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843


staple

De l’ancien français estaple (« marché »), noter que ce mot estaple signifie aussi pieu, le rapprochant du sens 1.

Fighting the COVID epidemic was a staple of his campaign.


blunder

Du vieux norrois blunda (« fermer les yeux »).

For, the great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion, and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another; each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England, 2 vol., J. W. Parker & Son, London, 1857-1861.


convene

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin convenire, lui-même construit comme con- + venire.

to convene (infinitive)
convenes (present third-person singular)
convened (preterite)
convened (participle past)
convening (participle present)

The chair convened the meeting, and asked the secretary to read the minutes.

She supported Catholic priests by renting houses where priests could convene safely.

Elle soutenait les prêtres catholiques en louant des maisons où des prêtres pouvaient se réunir sans encombre.


righteous

Dérivé de right (« droit »), avec le suffixe -wise ; le suffixe -wise est devenu -eous sous l’influence de -ous comme dans mighteous.

more righteous (comparative)
most righteous (superlative)

Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.

A righteous indignation.


liaise

to liaise (infinitive)
liaises (present third-person singular)
liaised (preterite)
liaised (participle past)
liaising (participle present)

Alstom said its Chief Executive Patrick Kron, who has been highly criticized by the Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg, will liaise with French authorities during the process.

Inti Landauro, Alstom Accepts GE's Offer for Power Division, The Wall Street Journal, avril 2014


utterly

Complètement, entièrement, totalement, tout.

Well now we are utterly lost.

I have failed you utterly.


reproach

\ɹɪ.ˈpɹəʊtʃ\

\ɹɪ.ˈpɹəʊtʃ\

\ɹɪ.ˈpɹoʊtʃ\

Above reproach.


rouse

to rouse (infinitive)
rouses (present third-person singular)
roused (preterite)
roused (participle past)
rousing (participle present)

"London at last!" cried Nicholas, throwing back his greatcoat and rousing Smike from a long nap

Enfin nous sommes à Londres, cria Nicolas mettant bas son paletot et réveillant Smike, qui venait de faire un bon somme

Charles Dickens, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, 1839


inclined

I'm inclined to risk it.


merely

They should consider regulatory and nonregulatory interventions related to disinformation not merely in terms of data transparency but in terms of geopolitics.

James Pamment, «The EU’s Role in the Fight Against Disinformation: Developing Policy Interventions for the 2020s », Carnegie Endowment, 30 septembre 2020