imperceptible

Dérivé de perceptible, avec le préfixe in-.

trying to detect imperceptible movements

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 119, 1897


illumine

De l’ancien français illuminer. Doublet lexical avec illuminate, emprunté du latin illuminatus.

to illumine (infinitive)
illumines (present third-person singular)
illumined (preterite)
illumined (participle past)
illumining (participle present)

And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;

John Milton, Paradise Lost, édition de 1674 (Wikisource)


foxglove

(Siècle à préciser) Du moyen anglais foxe-glove, foxes glove, du vieil anglais foxes glōfa (« digitale ») ; la raison de l’utilisation ou du sens de fox a été oubliée.

Synchroniquement analysable commecomposé de fox (« renard ») et de glove (« gant »).

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A foxglove has grown on the garden.


fruitful

more fruitful (comparative)
most fruitful (superlative)

Fruitful interaction will only emerge from mutual tolerance and an appreciation of the other viewpoint.

Atiyah, Geometry and physics of the 20th century in : Géométrie au XXe siècle : histoire et horizons, Presses internationales Polytechniques, 2005,http://www.presses-polytechnique.ca/fr/geometrie-au-xxe-siecle


howling

Du moyen anglais howlinge, howlynge, équivalent à undérivé de howl, avec le suffixe -ing, marqueur du participe présent.

Adjectif servant de superlatif, « énorme ».

In the beginning, when the world was new and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work.

Au début, quand le monde était nouveau et que les Animaux commençaient juste à travailler pour Homme, il y a avait un Chameau, et il vivait au milieu d'un Gigantesque Désert car il ne voulait pas travailler.

Rudyard Kipling, « How the camel got his hump » dans Just So Stories, 1902


gallantry

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The soldier was decorated for gallantry in action.


gargle

to gargle (infinitive)
gargles (present third-person singular)
gargled (preterite)
gargled (participle past)
gargling (participle present)

Se gargariser ; Faire du bruit en passant des bulles à travers un liquide, surtout pour se laver la gorge.

You'll need to gargle with this once a day.


get about

He gets about all over the world. - Il voyage partout du monde.

Avoir beaucoup de rapports sexuels; coucher à droite et à gauche; être un playboy

Prince Andrew really gets about.


get rid of

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


give out

Composé de give et de out. S'apparente à l'allemand du même sens ausgeben.

Can you help me to give out the new books to the class, please?

Tu peux m'aider à distribuer les livres dans la classe, s'il te plaît ?

It was given out that the meeting will be delayed.

On a annoncé que la réunion sera retardée.

My patience was giving out.

So your old car finally gave out, did it?

Alors, ta vieille bagnole a finalement rendu l'âme ?

We didn’t finish the job in time and my boss gave out.

On a pas fini le taf à temps et mon patron a accusé le coup.

He was always giving out about the weather.

Il était toujours en train de se plaindre de la météo.


head of cattle

I’ll sell you 300 head of cattle.


go against

If you go against his wishes, you'll be sorry.

Si tu vas contre sa volonté, tu vas le regretter.


go around

\ɡəʊ ə.ˈɹaʊnd\

The hostess went around, making sure that all of her guests were enjoying themselves.

La maîtresse de maison circula, s’assurant que tous ses invités s’amusaient.

The Earth goes around the Sun.


have to

Composé du verbe have avec la préposition to. L’équivalent de avoir à (faire) en français. À comparer avec l’espagnol tener que, de sens similaire.

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

« Il faut que … » dans un sens impersonnel se traduit par you have to (you impersonnel) ou d’une manière plus soutenue one has to. Cependant la phrase « il ne faut pas que … » se traduit par you must not, you can't. La phrase you don’t have to ou you don’t need to se traduit par « on n’a pas besoin de … ».

On prononce have \hæv\ mais have to \ˈhæf tə\.

Devoir, falloir, être obligé à. Avoir à.

You have to drive me to the airport.

— Hello, I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to!

— Bonjour, je suis le Critique nostalgique. Je m’en souviens ainsi vous n’y êtes pas obligés !

— I have to go!
— Can you hold it?
— No, I can’t.


have got

Composé de l’auxiliaire have (« avoir ») et de got (« obtenu »).

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

Avoir, posséder. Note d’usage : Seulement employé au présent simple, et remplacé par le verbe have aux autres temps. Très souvent contracté par ’ve ou ’s.

She’s got three children.

Have you got a pet?

I’ve got to go now.


go on

to go on (infinitive)
goes on (present third-person singular)
went on (preterite)
gone on (participle past)
going on (participle present)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de go

Go on. I’m listening.

The show must go on.

What’s going on here?


go out

to go out (infinitive)
goes out (present third-person singular)
went out (preterite)
gone out (participle past)
going out (participle present)

Are you and she going out?

Est-ce que toi et elle sortez ensemble ?

Are you going out with her?


go through

to go through (infinitive)
goes through (present third-person singular)
went through (preterite)
gone through (participle past)
going through (participle present)

He went through lots of pain after his mother’s death.

Il a subi beaucoup de mal après la mort de sa mère.

Let’s go through the park, instead of around it.

Traversons le parc, au lieu de le contourner.

Chelsea went through to the final.

The police went through my bags at customs.

La police a fouillé mes bagages aux douanes.


godliness

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Godliness could sometimes take in secular grievances, using graffiti and satirical verse to condemn selfish landowners or unworthy magistrates – a potent danger to men whose authority rested not on physical power but on respect and deference.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 213


harshness

The harshness of the judge's penalty shocked the whole town.

The harshness of an Alaskan winter has persuaded many a person to move back down to the lower 48 states.

The harshness of this wipe is not good for my baby's skin.


handover

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The emergency regulations ordinance, created by British authorities to break up port strikes in 1922, had not been used for over half a century, and never since the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997.

Emma Graham-Harrison,« Hong Kong leader threatens harsher crackdown under emergency law ». Theguardian.com, 4 octobre 2019.

Transfert de la responsabilité des communications satellites d'une station terrestre à l’autre sans perte ou interruption de service.

And we’re back after handover.

Troisième sortie extravéhiculaire de Shane Kimbrough et Thomas Pesquet, Station spatiale internationale, 25 juin 2021


guiltless

Scoundrel! He is not altogether guiltless in this illness of mine; and that I had a great mind to tell him.

Le coquin ! Il n’est pas entièrement innocent de ma maladie, et j’avais bien envie de le lui dire.


guerrilla war

The Vietnam War was a guerrilla war.


trespasser

Quelqu’un qui pénètre sans autorisation.

Trespassers will be prosecuted.


abject

abject poverty


abject

We are the queen’s abjects, and must obey.


accolade

The scientist was honored to receive the accolade at the ceremony.

Le scientifique fut honoré de recevoir sa consécration lors de la cérémonie.

After the concert, the conductor received an accolade. (received a standing ovation)

Après le concert, le chef d’orchestre a goûté une ovation debout.


adjuration

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I had began my adjuration with solemnity

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 160, édition de 1869


analogue

Il s’agit d'un faux-ami. Le mot analogue est différent en anglais et en français.

Analogique (par opposition à « numérique »).

Is that signal analogue or digital?


rut

Ornière, trace profonde que les roues d’une voiture font dans les chemins.

The dirt driveway was full of ruts after several seasons of rain and snow.

L’allée de terre du garage était pleine d’ornières après plusieurs saisons de pluie et de neige.

You’re getting into a rut. You need to do something different.

Vous tombez dans la routine. Il faut que vous fassiez quelque chose de différent.

Rut ; désir de s’accoupler, en parlant des cerfs et de quelques autres animaux.

The bull is in rut.


rut

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

This is the rutting season for deer.

C’est la saison de l’accouplement pour le cerf.


rouleau

money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 123, 1897


luge

(1905) Du français luge lui-même du suisse romand ou du francoprovençal lujhe du latin médiéval sludia (IXᵉ siècle) auparavant leudia, leudico- en latin tardif (Vᵉ siècle), du gaulois *(s)leudia (« traîneau »).

L’étymon gaulois a aussi donné sled et slide en anglais.

Sculpture en glace avec un canal dans lequel une boisson (généralement alcoolisée) peut être versée dans la bouche d’une personne.

The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end.

Ronald S. Beitman, Liquor Liability: A Primer for Winning Your Case,ISBN 978-0-8318-0792-4, 1999, page 20


Jerusalem

When James Naylor, a radical sectarian, re-enacted Christ’s entry into Jerusalem by riding into Bristol on a donkey, Parliament demanded his blood. Cromwell saved his life; but he was branded, pilloried, bored through the tongue, flogged twice and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Lorsque James Naylor, un sectaire radical, reconstitue l'entrée du Christ à Jérusalem en arrivant à Bristol sur un âne, le Parlement exige sa mort. Cromwell lui sauve la vie, mais il est marqué au fer rouge, mis au pilori, percé de trous dans la langue, fouetté deux fois et condamné à la prison à vie.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 246


module

Python comes with a source code debugger, named pdb, available as a module in Python's standard library.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 86


voile

(1882) Du français voile, doublet de veil.

Voile, voilage, tissu fin dont on fait des rideaux.

The domestic voile made from imported gray yarns and woven in the United States is the best combination to be had.

Cotton Yarn: Import and Export Trade in Relation to the Tariff, 1920


po

Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.

Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, page 44.


non sequitur

Du latin non sequitur (« ne suit pas »). → voir non et sequor

non sequiturs (plural)
non sequuntur (plural)

argument invalide, dont la conclusion ne peut être logiquement déduite des prémisses de l’hypothèse.

The argument “All ravens are black; this object is black; therefore this object is a raven” is a non sequitur.

L’argument « Tous les corbeaux sont noirs ; cet objet est noir ; donc cet objet est un corbeau » est un non sequitur.

Transition ou évènement abrupt ou inexplicable.

Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter non sequitur.

Un superhéros costumé enlevant un vicaire était un non sequitur complet.


coterie

A tightly knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.


utterance

Without prejudicing the question of real ‘spirit-control’ in the more developed sorts of trance-utterance, I incline to think that these (often deplorably unintelligent) rudimentary utterances are the work of an inferior fraction of the subject’s own natural mind, set free from control by the rest, and working after a set pattern fixed by the prejudices of the social environment.

William James, The principles of psychology, 1890, chapitre 9, page 228


teal

Des oiseaux passaient très haut, de l’est vers l’ouest. Il les reconnut : des courlis, des teals, des cygnes noirs, des grèbes.

Pierre Benoit, Le lac salé, Albin Michel, 1921, collection Le Livre de Poche, page 7


hazel

(Siècle à préciser) Du vieil anglais hæsel, du proto-germanique *hasalaz, de l’indo-européen *koselo-.

"I saw her at morn," he replied, "she would have me to cut her a hazel switch; and then she leapt her galloway over the hedge yonder, where it is lowest, and gallopped out of sight."

— Je l’ai vue ce matin, répondit-il. Elle m’a prié de lui couper une baguette de noisetier, puis elle a fait sauter son Galloway par-dessus la haie qui est là-bas, à l’endroit le plus bas, et elle a disparu au galop. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XVIII, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 266)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter IV, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 84


gray

grayer (comparative)
grayest (superlative)
grey

Beware the Gray Ghost.


gray

His hair was greying.

I grayed out this section of text.


crimson

to crimson (infinitive)
crimsons (present third-person singular)
crimsoned (preterite)
crimsoned (participle past)
crimsoning (participle present)

Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she’d be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.

Gerty MacDowell baissa la tête et rougit à l’idée que Cissy dît une chose aussi peu féminine que cela à voix haute dont elle eût honte toute sa vie d’avoir dite, se colorant d’un rouge rosé profond, et Edy Boardman dit qu’elle était sûre que le gentilhomme en face avait entendu ce qu’elle avait dit. Mais Ciss s’en fichait royalement.


à la carte

The restaurant had an à la carte menu.


dandy

(1780) Sens de « raffiné, fin, précieux » ; Étymologie obscure :
:# Première attestation dans une ballade écossaise :
I've heard my granny crack
O' sixty twa years back
When there were sic a stock of Dandies.
En Écosse, Dandy est l’équivalent de Andy, un diminutif d’Andrew ;
:# Donné comme issu du français dandin, apparenté à dandle (« dodeliner, dandiner ») attesté dès le XVIᵉ siècle.
:# Peut-être apparenté à dandiprat (« nain, personne insignifiante »).

dandier (comparative)
dandiest (superlative)

Très bien, excellent, raffiné, précieux.

That's all fine and dandy, but how much does it cost?


dandy

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one —I mean a downright bumpkin dandy– a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.


tomboy

(Années 1550)Composé de Tom et de boy avec le sens « garçon bruyant, turbulant ». Vers 1570, le terme prend le sens « prostituée, femme présomptueuse ». Le sens actuel apparait dans les années 1590.

Souvent interprété par erreur comme lesbienne, les préjugés amenant à assimiler « fille au comportement masculin » et « lesbienne ».

Fille à l’apparence, au comportement ou aux gouts traditionnellement associés aux garçons ; garçon manqué, garçonne.

I had mats in my hair in sixth grade from letting tangles get out of control. My sister had to cut them out with scissors! I went through a major tomboy phase — I liked Kristy from “The Baby-sitters Club” — where I thought anything girly related to primping, like wearing makeup or brushing your hair, was prissy.

WendyStokes, « Puberty Is Horrible, But These Stories Are Funny … Now », The Frisky, 6 octobre 2019


hummingbird

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de humming (« bourdonnant ») et de bird (« oiseau »).

hummingbirds (plural)
humming birds
humming-birds

Some big spiders can sometimes catch little hummingbirds and eat them.

Certaines grosses araignées peuvent parfois attraper de petits colibris et les manger.


lapwing

Du moyen anglais lapwynge, lapwynke, lappewincke, lapwynche ou lhapwynche, eux-même du vieil anglais hlēapewince, de même sens. Ce dernier mot étant un composé de hlēapan (« sauter ») et de wincian (« cligner, faire un signe »), du fait de la façon dont l'oiseau vole. La forme moderne du mot est influencée par sa ressemblance avec le mot anglais wing dans l'étymologie populaire. Le terme est à rapprocher du frison ljip de même sens.

I spent hours trudging round one field as I'd had reports that a lapwing had moved in.

Jeremy Clarkson, Diddly Squat: a year on the farm, Penguin Books, 2021, page 160


mynah

De l’ourdou et de l’hindi मैना, mainā, tiré du sanskrit मदन, madana.

Mynahs are like the electric light, she said. They don’t belong to anybody.

« Les mainates sont comme la lumière électrique, » dit-elle. « Ils n’appartiennent à personne. »


Apple

(Nom de famille) Apparenté à Appel, à l’allemand Apfel.

Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been.

Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 1984


Apple

Fiona Apple.


zombie

Du créole haïtien zonbi, désignant un mort sorti de sa tombe et rendu esclave d’un sorcier vaudou.

Flu viruses make people cough, while in ants, one cordyceps fungus effectively turns its victims into zombies, impelling ants to climb up a stem where they die.

Les virus de la grippe font tousser les gens, tandis que chez les fourmis, un champignon cordyceps transforme efficacement ses victimes en zombis, poussant les fourmis à escalader une tige où elles meurent.

Matt Walker, Heroic altruistic ants face death alone save colony, BBC News, 15 février 2010


it

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Le pronom it n’a jamais d’accent tonique, et il y a donc certaines constructions impossibles.
:# It ne peut pas être deuxième complément d’un verbe, parce que cette position a un accent tonique.
::{| class="wikitable"

!
! Premier complément
(« donner quelque chose à quelqu’un »)
! Deuxième complément
(« donner à quelqu’un quelque chose »)
|-
! Nom commun
| I gave that notebook to him.
| I gave him that notebook.
|-
! Pronom démonstratif
| I gave that to him.
| I gave him that.
|-
! Pronom personnel
| I gave it to him.
| *I gave him it. (agrammatical)
|}

It ne peut pas avoir un accent tonique de focus.

!
! Sujet accentué
! Attribut accentué
|-
! Nom commun
| That project is the key.
| The real problem is that project.
|-
! Pronom démonstratif
| That is the key.
| The real problem is that.
|-
! Pronom personnel
| *It is the key. (agrammatical)
| *The real problem is it. (agrammatical)
|}

!
! Sans contraction
! Contraction
|-
! Nom commun
| What is the problem?
| What’s the problem?
|-
! Pronom démonstratif
| What is that?
| What’s that?
|-
! Pronom personnel
| What is it?
| *What’s it? (agrammatical)
|}

Il, elle, le, la. Pronom personnel utilisé pour parler d’un animal ou d’une chose.

Put it over there.

Take each day as it comes.

I know it all.

Il, elle, le, la. Pronom personnel qui fait référence à un être humain de sexe indéterminé, souvent à un bébé.

She took the baby and held it in her arms.

Elle prit le bébé et le tint dans ses bras.

Il. Pronom impersonnel utilisé comme sujet d’un verbe ou d’une phrase impersonnelle.

It is nearly 10 o’clock.

It’s very cold today.

Move it, would you? I’m in a hurry.

Hey, watch it, you!

Stop it, now!

It is John who went there yesterday, not Tom.

C’est John qui y est allé hier, pas Tom.

Il, ce. Pronom personnel qui remplace un infinitif déplacé ou une proposition avec that déplacée.

It is easy to see how she would think that.

Il est (ou c’est) facile de voir comment elle pourrait penser cela.

I find it odd that you would say that.

Je trouve étrange que tu puisses dire cela. (Dans ce cas, it n’est pas traduit.)

ou Iel, ael; Pronom personnel neutre de la troisième personne du singulier se référent à une personne non-binaire.

hai! im mina, im 16 and i use he/it prns 🩷 im a disabled, tmasc gay and im looking for moots!! i want to spread awareness about disabilities as physically and mentally disabled person. i also make flags! ifb all 🫶🏻 love u! 💕

Tweet de @achillean_skirk publié le 5 novembre 2023 à 23h26

#honkaitwt #hsrtwt hai I'm Jason I'm amost 16 (12 october) I use he/it prns and I'm a menkisser hyperfixated on anything otto related (even characters with a strong relationship eith him) idk how to make a promo just mutual me pls ;-;

Tweet de @ottoapokalypse publié le 13 septembre 2023 à 0h23

HAII everyone im meimei or yaoyao and umm im very silly :3 i use she/it and ummm im a little girlflop lesbian :P i use she it moon

Tweet de @hpdthing publié le 27 aout 2023 à 0h45

Peut être considéré péjoratif ou déshumanisant lorsqu’utilisé alors que la personne ne veut pas l’utiliser pour se référer à elle-même


it

(1927) Premièrement utilisé par Rudyard Kipling dans Mrs. Bathurst (1904) signifiant une attraction sexuelle : ’Tisn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It. Puis la locution it girl a été popularisé par le film It (1927).

Le plus dans le vent, le plus à la mode.

Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the “it” bag.

Vibe, vol. 15, no. 9, page 202, Septembre 2007

With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year’s It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.

David Germain,Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press, 2010


metaphorically

Dérivé de metaphorical, avec le suffixe -ly.

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

She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with “hell following after.”

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


bout

et Verbe : Du moyen anglais bught, du vieil anglais byht.

The Reverend Meyer was not a stern man. His message of faith was that of mercy and love. He was quick to smile and to joke, and though his sermons were of necessity a serious business, for salvation was the most serious of human goals, it was his task, he thought, to emphasize God’s true nature. Love. Mercy. Charity. Redemption. His entire life, Meyer thought, was dedicated to helping people return after a bout of forgetfulness, to embrace despite rejection.

I had a bout of flu.

a bout of coughing.

a bout of insomnia.

a drinking bout.

She won the bout 2-nil.


bruit

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

Now that you know, please don't bruit it about.


magister

Du latin magister, apparenté à master, mister, maestro.

Maître, titulaire d’un diplôme de maîtrise.

Magister degree


indicium

that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.


fleur de lis

Fleur de lys. (Fleurs de lis au pluriel).

In this case they said that the scout movement was designed to teach the boys to be soldiers, and they quoted in, proof that the crest of the movement was, as they described it, "a crest of battle and bloodshed". I was asked by cable what I had to say about it. I telegraphed back: "The crest is the fleur de lys, a lily, the symbol of peace and purity".

Robert Baden-Powell, Lessons from the Varsity of Life, Chapter IX, Life Number 2, 1933

les orthographes "lys" et "lis" sont admises, même si la plus courante est "lys"


eat crow

(XIXᵉ siècle) Apparu dans les années 1870 aux États-Unis sour la forme eat boiled crow. D’origine inconnue - mais probablement parce que la viande du corbeau est peu appétissante.

to eat crow (infinitive)
eats crow (present third-person singular)
ate crow (preterite)
eaten crow (participle past)
eating crow (participle present)

He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself.

The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run.

In political libel, furthermore, a public recanting by the vilifier is more likely to be believed by the public, for it is well known that no politician likes to "eat crow" unless he has to.

J.C.N.P. "Libel Actions by Political Organizations," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 98, no. 6, page 883, 1950


economical

The car is very economical to run.

Économe (1: qui évite de dépenser de l’argent inutilement).

She is very economical when it comes to clothes.


lahar

Lahar ; coulée boueuse d’origine volcanique, qui détruit tout sur son passage.

Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.

Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, 1985, page 204


give the creeps

\ˌɡɪv ðə ˈkɹiːps\

Filer les jetons, donner la chair de poule, faire peur.

This gave me the creeps!


vice versa

Front to back and vice versa.

There are people whose face attracts and the character repels, and vice versa.

Il y a des personnes dont la figure attire et le caractère repousse, et vice versa.


rosé

White wines, red wines, and rosé wines.


blase

more blase (comparative)
most blase (superlative)
blasé

In mid-February a colleague mentioned that for the first time in his life he was more concerned than his mother, who had been relatively blase about the risks of Covid-19.

Mi-février, un collègue a mentionné que pour la première fois de sa vie il était plus inquiet pour sa mère, qui avait été relativement peu impressionnée des risques du Covid-19.

(anglais) Helen Ward, “We scientists said lock down. But UK politicians refused to listen”, dans The Guardian, 15 avril 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/15/uk-government-coronavirus-science-who-advice texte intégral


Estonia

After the 2007 Russian cyberattack on Estonian government institutions, Estonia became a global leader in cybersecurity and home to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence, which is a cyber-defense hub that supports member nations with cyber-defense expertise.

DavidShedd et Ivana Stradner, « Countering Russia’s Influence Operations in the Balkans », realcleardefense.com, 8 août 2020


zzz

Buzzing bee, buzzing bee, zzz, zzz, zzz.

Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ way, 1990


Polish

Do you speak Polish?


Polish

Ce gentilé est toujours collectif en anglais. Pour le singulier on dit a Pole.

The Polish are a people who come from Poland.

Les Polonais forment un peuple qui est originaire de Pologne.


D-Day

Composé de D et de day (« jour »), ce premier êtant l’initiale de day pour renforcer l’importance de ce jour.

The anniversary of D-Day was always special to her family.


fucking

Dérivé de fuck, avec le suffixe -ing. Participe présent de fuck.

fuckin’
fuckin (colloquial)
freaking
freakin’
freakin (euphemism)

A fucking job.


fucking

Positif
Incomparable
fuckin’
fuckin (colloquial)
freaking
freakin’
freakin (euphemism)

It’s fucking good!

Tell me that you miss me
That you're fucking proud and you're glad I ain't six feet
Double up the crowd, I'm allowed with my mystery
You should turn the sound real loud so you feel me


fucking

fuckings (plural)
fuckin’
fuckin (colloquial)
freaking
freakin’
freakin (euphemism)

I like a cigarette after a good fucking.

J’aime une cigarette après une bonne baise.


lee

Côté abrité, sous le vent d’un objet ; abri.

"In a shallow creek in the lee of the southern Armed Cliff the anchor was thrown over, and there they rode the night."

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968, éd. 2004


mean

Du vieil anglais mǣnan (« signifier »), issu du proto-indo-européen *meyn- (« penser »). Apparenté à l’allemand meinen et au néerlandais menen.

to mean (infinitive)
means (present third-person singular)
meant (preterite)
meant (participle past)
meaning (participle present)

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What does it mean?

I meant to buy some gum, but I forgot.

If the butler wasn’t in the house at the time, then that means that the maid must be the murderer!

Être sérieux dans. Note d’usage : Le COD est ce que dit le sujet.

I really mean what I said.


mean

Du vieil anglais mǣne (« commun »). Apparenté à l’allemand gemein et au néerlandais gemeen.

meaner (comparative)
meanest (superlative)

She is very mean-spirited.

He is mean to not share his food.

“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.”

— Pour un loup, non, certes, dit Tabaqui ; mais pour moi, mince personnage, un os sec est un festin.

He is a mean golfer.


-en

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

Suffixe flexionnel pour former le participe passé de certains verbes irréguliers.

given

rotten

Suffixe pour noter le participe passé d’une façon généralisée, réalisé comme soit -ed, -en ou -t, pour le distinguer du prétérit.

In all regular verbs the past tense (V-ed) and the past participle (V-en) are formed by adding [d/t/ɪd], in spelling -(e)d to the infinitive.

László Budai, English syntax: (theory and practice), 1986,ISBN 9789631795585, p. 11

When you have a perfective structure, we pair the auxiliary have with an -en participle. The progressive is a pairing of the verb be with an -ing progressive form. Finally the passive is a pairing of the verb be with an -en participle. This is summarized in the following chart.
a) Simple past and Present: V+ed/V+s/V+Ø
b) Modal: modal V
c) Perfective: have V+en
d) Progressive: be V+ing
e) Passive: be V+en

Andrew Carnie,Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 2013, ISBN 9781118697795

Verbs function in the nominal group in one of two forms:
(i) present (active) participle, V-ing, e.g. losing, as in a losing battle;
(ii) past (passive, or intransitive) participle, V-en, e.g. lost, as in a lost cause.

M.A.K. Halliday et Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar,4ᵉ éd., 2013, ISBN 9781135983413, p. 379


-en

Suffixe flexionnel pour former le pluriel de quelques noms irréguliers.

children

oxen


-en

Suffixe verbal pour former à partir d’un adjectif un verbe signifiant le changement.

whiten

strengthen

fasten


assemblage

large assemblages of men

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, pages 101-2, édition de 1869


bail

Nom des deux petits témoins horizontaux qui forment le guichet.

If the ball hits the wicket and the bails fall off, the batsman is out.

Si la balle touche le guichet et que les deux témoins tombent, le batteur est éliminé.


balancer

Dérivé de balance (« balancer »), avec le suffixe -er.

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A tire balancer.


banderole

Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.

Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, 1786


béguin

I see now. And you have a béguin for her too? It is no use, I warn you.


bookmaker

Personne qui imprime et assemble les livres.

Gutenberg developed the printing press, and so became the first modern bookmaker.

The bookmaker has to set the odds for the racing bets.


bourgeoisie

The louche world of kept women from troubled backgrounds crashed into the propriety of the grande bourgeoisie at Brossard’s trial.


boyau

(Siècle à préciser) Du français boyau, apparenté à bowel.

Boyau, galerie étroite servant de communication entre des tranchées.

Boyaus were typically constructed in a zigzag pattern to prevent exposure to direct enemy fire from the front.


bric-à-brac

The point that tickled Argyll’s interest was that the second Stonehouse, by repute, had seen himself as an artist-collector whose accumulations were not merely an assorted lumping together of high-quality bric-à-brac.

Le point qui avait chatouillé l’intérêt d’Argyll était que le deuxième Stonehouse était réputé se considérer comme un artiste-collectionneur dont les accumulations n’étaient pas simplement un amalgame de bric-à-brac de haute qualité.

Iain Pears, The Immaculate Deception, éditions Collins Crime, 2000, page 38

I can only wonder that the world has not been tired out and disgusted with Japanese bric-à-brac. And had we not been in such bad straits of taste ourselves, such would have been the case.

Je ne peux que m'étonner que le monde n'ait pas été fatigué et dégoûté du bric-à-brac japonais. Et si nous n'avions pas été nous-mêmes dans de si mauvais goûts, cela aurait été le cas.

John La Farge, An Artist’s Letters from Japan, Good Press, 2021, page 123


brassière

Real women’s clothes — silk stockings, high-heeled shoes, brassière, and one of those corsets with the straps hanging down and all.

J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 65, 1951, ISBN 0140012486


break

Du vieil anglais brecan (« casser, briser, fracasser ; détruire ») (verbe fort de classe IV ; prétérit bræc, participe passé brocen), du proto-germanique *brekanan (cf. vieux saxon brekan, vieux frison breka, néerlandais breken, vieux haut allemand brehhan, allemand brechen, gotique 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽, brikan), d’une racine de l’indo-européen commun *bhreg- (« briser »). Apparenté au latin frangere (« briser ») et au français broyer.

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Donner/foutre la paix à quelqu’un ; laisser respirer/souffler.

Give me a break. I'm trying as hard as I can.

Laissez-moi respirer. J’essaie aussi dur que je peux.


break

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

Agir contre, ne pas respecter, enfreindre.

To break the law.


brusque

If I want to be brusque, I will say Open the window! But if my intention is to sound nice, I may cast my command as a question: Could you open the window?.

Alexandra Aikhenvald, Imperatives and Commands, 2010, Oxford University Press, page 8

He was brusque, authoritative, given to contradiction, rough though never dirty in his personal belongings, and inclined to indulge in a sort of quiet raillery.

Anthony Trollope, Dr Thorne, 1858, chapitre 3


cafard

At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits’ end to devise a means of rousing her.


cachet

These new sunglasses currently have a special cachet.

Ces nouvelles lunettes de soleil ont actuellement un cachet spécial.


calèche

Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a calèche, with four horses, drove up behind us


camper

There were thousands of campers at the music festival.


camarilla

The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.


carrier

He’s a disease carrier.

Il est porteur d’une maladie. (ici, « porteur » est un adjectif)


carnage

Du moyen français carnage, issu du latin carnaticum (« abattage des animaux »), lui-même dérivé de carnem, accusatif de caro (« viande »).

\ˈkɑː.nɪd͡ʒ\

\ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ\

\ˈkɑː.nɪd͡ʒ\

\ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ\

The folks at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) are constantly trying to find solutions to the carnage on American roads, which has been getting worse recently, with more than 40,000 Americans killed in road accidents each year.

Steve Hanley, IIHS Study Highlights Risk Of Using Driver Assistance Technology, Clear Technica . com, 18 septembre 2024


Gaul

Asterix the Gaul.


Dollar

Dollar Academy.


Julian

Julian calendar.


Watt

James Watt.


Regina

Du latin regina (« reine »), la capitale de la Saskatchewan est ainsi nommée en l’honneur de Victoria, reine d’Angleterre.

Regina King.


causal

causal relationship


verboten

(Siècle à préciser) Emprunt à l’allemand verboten.

Formellement interdit, strictement défendu (sous-entendu de manière péremptoire ou autoritaire).

INTJ mom: "OK. Autumn, are you ready to be cooperative?"
INFJ daughter: "No, actually, I’m still thankful for the election."
ISFJ dad: "I said that’s verboten!"
ENTP son: "Shots fired!"
INFJ daughter: "I will not be silenced!"

Mère INTJ : "D’accord. Autumn, prête à coopérer maintenant ?"
Fille INFJ : "Non, vraiment, je suis toujours reconnaissante pour l’élection."
Père ISFJ : "J’ai dit : Verboten !"
Fils ENTP : "Et pan !"
Fille INFJ : "On ne me fera pas taire !"

Frank James, « 16 Personalities at a Big Family Dinner », 3:53 [écouter en ligne], États-Unis, 16 décembre 2024. Consulté le 15 février 2025


Texas

I’ve been living in Texas for a dozen years.


chiffon

Her dresses are made from these marvelous chiffons.


clairvoyant

more clairvoyant (comparative)
most clairvoyant (superlative)

ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt

But if the death in the dream had a long context, agreeing point for point with every feature that attended the real death ; if the subject were constantly having such dreams, all equally perfect, and if on awaking he had a habit of acting immediately as if they were true and so getting ‘the start’ of his more tardily informed neighbors, – we should probably all have to admit that he had some mysterious kind of clairvoyant power, that his dreams in an inscrutable way knew just those realities which they figured, and that the word ‘coincidence’ failed to touch the root of the matter.

William James, The principles of psychology, chapitre 8


Manx

The Manx are now a minority in their homeland and so many of the new residents take exception to the disruption that the TT brings to their adopted home; […] — (Bill Snelling, dans My TT: The TT Archivist, BBC Isle of Man, 2007)
#*: La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. ([server.dummy/w/index.php?action=edit&title=Manx Ajouter])

I have two Manxes.


Pentagon

Pentagone (quartier-général des forces armées américaines).

The Pentagon declined to comment and referred inquiries to the White House.

KatrinaManson, « Donald Trump sacks defence secretary Mark Esper », The Financial Times, 9 novembre 2020


Patrick

Saint Patrick.


PIN

(Acronyme) Initiales de personal identification number.

(Acronyme) Initiales de preferred IUPAC name.

The PIN-Entry package contains a collection of simple PIN or pass-phrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the Ägypten project.

Beyond Linux From Scratch, version 2020-09-03, pinentry-1.1.0


Hades

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Hades had tried to kill me three times so far, with the Fury, the Minotaur and the hellhound.

Jusqu'à présent Hadès avait essayé de me tuer trois fois : avec la Furie, le Minotaure et le Chien des Enfers.

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Puffin Books, 2009, page 144.


Elisabeth

Elisabeth Moss.


Gustav

Gustav Vasa.


clinquant

Du français clinquant, apparenté à clink.

Today the French,
All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,
Shone down the English.


clique

The clique number is the number of vertices in a maximum clique of a given graph.

Le nombre de clique est le nombre de sommets dans une clique maximale d’un graphe donné.


cohabitation

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Commentators agreed that Mr Chirac's unusually aggressive remarks, followed by the equally fierce response of Mr Jospin's government, signalled the beginning of the end for the tense but so far civil "cohabitation" under which the two men have ruled France since 1997.


colporteur

We need colporteurs, who will go forth to circulate our publications everywhere.

Il nous faut des colporteurs, qui partiront pour distribuer nos publications partout.


compilation

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Compilation is simply a translation step, and byte code is a lower-level, platform-independent representation of your source code.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, page 31


commission

The car salesperson was working on commission.


commission

They commissioned a new mural to be placed at the rear of the plaza.


compact

more compact (comparative)
most compact (superlative)

The recursive algorithm for computing Fibonacci numbers is compact, but it is slow, even when working with fairly modest values.

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


concierge

(1640) Du français concierge, issu de l'ancien français conserve, lui-même issu du latin conservus (« co-serviteur »).

Meanwhile, the concierge flourishes in her lodge, which is generally a very spick-and- span place, especially in the newly built houses.

Pendant ce temps, la concierge s'épanouit dans sa loge, qui est généralement un endroit très soigné, surtout dans les maisons nouvellement construites.

Albert Dresden Vandam, French Men and French Manners, éditions Chapman & Hall, 1895, page 39

Employé, dans le secteur de l’hôtellerie de luxe (4 ou 5 étoiles et palaces, dont les principales fonctions sont d’accueillir, de renseigner et de conseiller les clients.

I want to leave this book with the concierge. Be right back.

Je veux laisser ce livre au concierge. Je reviens tout de suite.

Réplique du personnage de Michael Armstrong (joué parPaul Newman, vers 13 minutes 40 secondes, dans le film Torn Curtain (1966), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock, sur un scénario de Brian Moore

Valenti is part of a select group of hotel concierges who belong to Les Cles d'Or, the prestigious international organization of concierges.

Valenti fait partie d'un groupe restreint de concierges d'hôtels appartenant aux Cles d'Or, la prestigieuse organisation internationale des concierges.

Peter Greenberg, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, Villard Books, 2004, page 139


conduit

Black female bodies became the conduit of non-normativity via which White, heterosexual, male sexuality, culture, identity, and privilege normalized itself.

Rolando René Longoria II, body branded: LGBT hate murder, legal personhood, and social responses in the Oxnard, California case of Lawrence King, 2014, page 245


quaint

De l’ancien français coint, cointe → voir acquaint.

The neighbourhood of Pangbourne, where the quaint little Swan Inn stands, must be as familiar to the habitués of the Art Exhibitions as it is to its own inhabitants.

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

Her quaint sense of style makes her stand out in a cosmopolitan city like New York.


splinter

Dérivé du verbe splint avec le suffixe -er.

to splinter (infinitive)
splinters (present third-person singular)
splintered (preterite)
splintered (participle past)
splintering (participle present)

(en parlant d’un groupe, d’une fête) Scinder, fragmenter.

The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.

The unpopular new policies splintered the company.


honeycomb

Percer de très nombreuses galeries, comme un rayon de ruche.

We know that many of these islands are honeycombed with caverns and vast subterranean spaces, literally underground lands running in some cases far out beneath the ocean floor.

Nous savons que beaucoup de ces îles sont criblées de cavernes et de vastes espaces souterrains, littéralement des contrées sous terre s’étendant dans certains cas fort loin sous le plancher océanique.

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


assuage

Du moyen anglais aswagen, de l’ancien français asuagier (« apaiser, calmer »), du latin assuavio,dérivé de suavis (« doux »), avec le préfixe ad-, littéralement « rendre plus doux ».

to assuage (infinitive)
assuages (present third-person singular)
assuaged (preterite)
assuaged (participle past)
assuaging (participle present)
asswage (dated)

Assouvir, adoucir ; diminuer en intensité.

He wondered what the man’s problem was that to assuage it he had to come from wherever his home might be to this place, risking his physical safety so that he might shorten his life with drugs.

It seemed like nothing could assuage her.


delay

De l’ancien français delaiier (XIVᵉ siècle), de [de] privatif et [laier] (« laisser, quitter »).

En anglais, le mot delay implique un retard ou un délai qui n'est pas souhaité.

There will be a short delay while we verify our records.


delay

to delay (infinitive)
delays (present third-person singular)
delayed (preterite)
delayed (participle past)
delaying (participle present)

The fire delayed the train.

We’ll have to delay the decision until we have more information.

They delayed and delayed until the opportunity was gone.


beggar

De l’ancien français begart (« mendiant »).

Beggars can’t be choosers.

À cheval donné, on ne regarde pas la denture.


bluff

(Date à préciser) Apparenté avec moyen bas allemand blaff.

Falaise ou autre massif en escarpement, situé en bord de mer ou près d’un ravin ou d’une plaine.

The whole of the city is built on bluffs several hundred feet above the surrounding landscape, and is accessible by elevators on the southwestern and northeastern sides.

Thunder Bluff - Zone sur World of Warcraft – Wowhead


chunk

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Variante nasale de chuck (« morceau de viande »).

Échantillon d’une matière, généralement de taille imposante.

A chunk of granite.


contravention

Déverbal de contravene sur le modèle de intervene, intervention.

That action is in contravention of the law.


contention

Opinion, conviction, avis, point de vue (que l’on défend dans un débat).

It is my contention that only the greatest works make beautiful ruins.

Mon opinion est que seules les plus grandes œuvres font de belles ruines.

In contention.


contretemps

But for these small contretemps, all had been going smoothly.

Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit, John Lane Publishers (London) & Dodd Mead Publishers (New York), 1924


coolie

Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.


corrigible

(Siècle à préciser) Du français corrigible.

Bending down his corrigible neck.


corruption

(Date à préciser) Du latin corruptio (« altération »).

There was a lot of corruption in government. You could only get things done if you paid substantial bribes.

Il y avait beaucoup de corruption dans le gouvernement. Vous ne pouviez faire avancer les choses que si vous payiez des pots-de-vin substantiels.


corsage

boutonniere

une fleur portée à la laboutonnière (généralement par un homme)

Boutonnière de fleurs, petit bouquet (généralement porté par les femmes sur une robe de soirée).

(États-Unis) Her date gave her a corsage for the high school prom.


corselet

corselets (plural)
corcelet
corselette
corslet

With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.


corset

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In recent years, the term "corset" has also been borrowed by the fashion industry to refer to tops which, to varying degrees mimic the look of traditional corsets without actually acting as one.


costumier

Costumier (celui ou celle qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes).

I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 209, 1897


crevasse

The mountaineer fell into a deep crevasse.


crucifixion

Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the 'vilest' crimes, such as slave rebellion.


danger

He’s in danger.


dénouement

(Date à préciser) Du français dénouement.

although the details of my last chapter have somewhat retarded the progress of that dénouement with which this volume is destined to close, yet I do not think the destined reader will regret lingering over a scene in which, after years of restless enterprise and exile, he beholds the asylum which fortune had prepared for the most extraordinary character with which I have adorned these pages.

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

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton), page 465, 1840

This should also be the case at the Sixth Summit in Havana although the dénouement of this particular question will certainly depend on the ratio of forces in the movement itself.

Savez novinara Jugoslavije, Review of International Affairs, page 10, 1950

In a ‘well-made’ play, action should be organised in three sections: exposition of the central problem, alarms and excursions, dénouement. The plot should hinge on a secret or a dilemma which affects the main character; the audience is allowed only hints and glimpses of this as the play proceeds, and all is fully revealed only as the action moves towards dénouement.

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, p. IX, 1994

A great writer, and one very dear to me, thinks that the long episodes which interrupt the progress of the story … are artistic devices for impressing the reader with a sense of the slow movement of life; and in truth, it is only in fiction that the dénouement usually lies close to the exposition.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, p. XXXVII, 2003


destitution

Du français destitution, issu du latin dēstitūtiōnem, dérivé de dēstituo.

To alleviate the impact of destitution.


devise

to devise (infinitive)
devises (present third-person singular)
devised (preterite)
devised (participle past)
devising (participle present)

Our hero seemed trapped, but he then devised a plan of great ingenuity.

Notre héros semblait piégé, mais il 'conçut' ensuite un plan d’une grande ingéniosité.

Thomas Edison devised a new type of device to record sound.

Thomas Edison inventa un nouveau type d’appareil pour enregistrer le son.


diminution

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The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.


disponible

(Date à préciser) Du français disponible, et de mots similaires dans d’autres langues.

more disponible (comparative)
most disponible (superlative)

[Alt: attention] Il s’agit d’un terme utilisé qui n’est pas d’un usage standard. Est principalement utilisé par des personnes dont l’anglais n’est pas leur langue maternelle.

This is a comm, if anyone wants to do a 10 Dollar commission I am disponible and Open

C’est une commission, si quelqu’un·e veut faire une commission de 10 dollars, je suis disponible et ouvert·e

Tweet de @TheBlackSunKing publié le 24 février 2022 à 12h23

Also, any mod team want some background artist? I am disponible, here some samples i did:

Tweet de @Its_me_umishi publié le 7 septembre 2021 à 19h12


dock

When I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the "Spy-glass," and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks,

Quand nous eûmes déjeuné, M. Trelawney me chargea de porter un mot à John Silver, à l’enseigne de la Longue-Vue, ajoutant que je la trouverais aisément en suivant la ligne des quais.

Endroit où l’accusé est assis, dans la salle d’audience d’un tribunal.

Bring the prisoner to the dock.

Dock leaves are used to treat nettle stings.


dock

to dock (infinitive)
docks (present third-person singular)
docked (preterite)
docked (participle past)
docking (participle present)

En anglais, on parle des "docks" (pluriel) comme les bâtiments qui bordent les quais.

Se mettre au quai, arriver à un port, (pour un bateau).

You'll have to wait. The ship is still docking.

If that happens again, I'm going to dock your wages.


drageoir

Wordlessly, Johanna handed me two E capsules from a little gold drageoir.

Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, 2001


doublet

Etymologically speaking, the words car and chariot, guest and host, frail and fragile, guardian and warden, hotel, hostel and hospital, loyal and legal, master, mister and magistrate, poison and potion, royal and regal, sure and secure, scatter and shatter, vine and wine are doublets.

Then was it that men began to tie their breeches to their doublets, and not their doublets to their breeches.

Rabelais, Gargantua, traduction Thomas Urquhart et Peter Antony Motteux, 1900


dressage

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The typical guest for our Stay and Learn Dressage riding vacation is a non-smoking person or a couple who consider themselves “horse people” and “outdoor types”.


douceur

Pourboire, cadeau en espèces pour « adoucir » le comportement d’une personne.

When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow.

Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard, 1863

Pericles gave a handsome douceur to the Spartan commanders to withdraw without fighting.


dubitation

Du français dubitation. Le mot s’est écrit dubytacion au 15ᵉ siècle, dubitacion et dubitatioun au 16ᵉ siècle.

doubtfulness

Dubitation, action de mettre en doute, doute, hésitation.

I…Alle that my progenitouris hath…seyn, ffeythfully beleve withowtyn alle dubytacion.

Coventry Mystery Plays, page 67 (Shakespeare Society; published 1841–53), circa 1450

The Chamæleon…eftir sum dubitatioun come to Striueling.

George Buchanan, Chamæleon, page 51, 1570

All my dubitation and distress were gone, for I had something to do, although what I could not yet tell.

George MacDonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, chapter 32, 1867


ducat

the Captain … gave me 20 Ducats for the Leopard’s Skin, and 40 for the Lyon’s Skin

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 38. 1719.


embonpoint

His figure inclined to embonpoint

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 74, 1897


ennui

Emprunt au français ennui, de l’ancien français enui.

acedia

Ennui ; lassitude, langueur temporaire, mélancolie

“Well, not here, it doesn’t,” Kelly replied, looking around the boat to make sure that there was no loose gear. Below, he knew, everything was in its proper place, because it always was, ennui or not. Then he switched on his marine radio. He caught a weather forecast at once, one that ended with the usual warning.


examiner

The examiner will make the decision.

academic examiner, bank examiner, patent examiner


expertise

(Siècle à préciser) Du français expertise.

She has a lot of expertise in nanoengineering.

Elle a beaucoup de savoir-faire en nano-ingénierie.

Sorry. I can’t give you an opinion. It’s outside my expertise.

Désolé. Je ne peux pas te donner d’opinion. C’est hors de mon champ de compétence.


expiration

He continued to drive after the expiration of his driver's license.

His expiration shocked us all.


exportation

The exportation of controlled merchandise without a license is illegal.


extension

attendant

Poste d’une installation téléphonique privée

Délai, prolongation consentie pour achever la réalisation d’un projet.

Could I have an extension on the deadline?

Pourrais-je avoir un délai par rapport à l’échéance ?


extraction

Mineral extraction is an important source of raw materials for industry.


extraordinaire

Contrairement à la plupart des adjectifs anglais, celui-ci est postposé.

He is known as a general extraordinaire.

Il est connu en tant que général extraordinaire.


familial

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin familia avec le suffixe -al.

Mark had to skip work due to familial obligations.


fanfare

They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.


féerie

Féerie, pièce de théâtre où figurent les fées.

Syd’s féerie entourage and girlies in drifting crinoline went out of the window, of course, along with his animated scarecrows.

Jeremy Harding, ‘Afternoonishness’, London Review of Books, 2003, 25:1


faubourg

By the time that I was quite clear of the city’s unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.’s per g. are few.

Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me., 1973 (Penguin 2001, page 81)


fez

Tommy Cooper wore a fez.


fiscal

Abenomics, as mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, was first presented by the Abe administration as consisting of the three 'arrows' of aggressive monetary policy, flexible fiscal policy and a growth strategy.

Brian K. MacLean, Hassan Bougrine, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Aggregate Demand and Employment: International Perspectives, 2020


flamboyant

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

more flamboyant (comparative)
most flamboyant (superlative)

As Zorin’s henchwoman May Day, the filmmakers cast flamboyant model and recording star Grace Jones.

Pour interpréter May Day, l’acolyte de Zorin, les cinéastes ont choisi Grace Jones, mannequin extravagant et vedette du disque.

Documentaire vidéo Inside a View to a Kill (narré par Rosemary Lord), vers 3 minutes 20 secondes, réalisé par John Cork sur un scénario de Bruce Scrivally, sorti en 2000 en accompagnement d'une édition DVD du film A View to a Kill (1985).


floral

I really like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.


formol

Stain by Levaditi’s method as follows: Fix fragments of tissue not more than 1 mm. thick in 10% formol solution for twenty-four hours. Rinse in distilled water and harden in 96% alcohol for twenty-four hours. Then wash in distilled water for some minutes.

«Parasitic Diseases », dans Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911


foulard

The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of foulard (or foulard silk, I don’t know which is proper), with a small blue spot in it.


fracture

Du latin fractura, dérivé de frango (« briser »).

ˈfɹæk.tʃə(ɹ)

The site of fracture was bleedy.

L’emplacement de la fracture était recouvert de sang.


franchise

He received the franchise to operate a McDonald’s in the new neighborhood.

Nous avons reçu une franchise de McDonald’s dans le nouveau voisinage.


friable

Du latin friabilis, dérivé de frio (« effriter »).

Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.

Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, 1977


fret

Du moyen anglais fretan (« manger ») un anciendérivé de eat, avec le préfixe for-.

to fret (infinitive)
frets (present third-person singular)
fretted (preterite)
fretted (participle past)
fretting (participle present)

Don't fret, my friend; it isn't the end of the world!


friction

Du latin frictio (« action de frotter »).

When two objects rub together, the friction causes them to heat up.

The friction with the ground eventually caused the block to slow down and stop.


frisson

\ˈfɹiː.sɔ̃ː\

\ˈfɹiː.sɔ̃ː\

I felt a frisson just as they were about to announce the winner in my category.

Je ressentis un frisson juste quand ils étaient sur le point d’annoncer le vainqueur dans ma catégorie.

Whenever the villain’s theme played in the movie I felt a sudden frisson down my back.

À chaque fois que l’on entendait la mélodie du méchant dans le film, je ressentais un frisson soudain dans le bas du dos.


fuser

In the electrostatic process, the fuser is the means by which toner is permanently fixed to the sheet of paper by heat and/or pressure rollers.

Dans le procédé électrostatique, le fixeur est le moyen par lequel la poudre d’encre est fixée de façon permanente à la feuille de papier par l’effet de la chaleur ou de rouleaux presseurs.


genet

(XXᵉ siècle)Dérivé de gene, avec le suffixe -et.

In many vines, a proportion of stems is formed by clonal extension of larger individuals (genets) such vegetative offshoots (ramets) may develop their own root systems, becoming separate indivduals, but remain difficult to distinguish from true genets without extensive excavation.

Elwyne E. Hegarty bet Guy Caballé, Distribution of vines in forest communities dans The Biology of Vines, Cambridge, 2009, page 313


gipsy

These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of them in my book.


gourmandise

to gourmandise (infinitive)
gourmandises (present third-person singular)
gourmandised (preterite)
gourmandised (participle past)
gourmandising (participle present)
gormandise
gourmandize
gormandize

A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising, whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient’s judgment, been examining.

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, livre 3, chapitre IV, Happy, 1843

Even as the envoys from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United States gourmandised their way through the eight savoury courses served on silver plates and the two dessert courses brought in on plates of solid gold, their ears were bombarded by the multiple counterpoint and polyphony of sixteen bands in Mexico City's main square or Zócalo below.

Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution, Pimlico (2001),ISBN 9780712666770, page 2, 2000

[…] but there was no cream, no butter, no foie gras, no soufflés, no beef fillet steaks, no rich sauces or runny cheeses such as I had been gourmandising on for a whole week – not to mention the many bottles of champagne, wine and brandy.

Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me!, Matador (2008),ISBN 9781906510435, page 146, 2008


grime

Du moyen anglais grim (« crasse qui recouvre le visage ») et, plus avant, spécialisation du sens du vieil anglais grīma (« masque »), les plus anciens maquillage sont faits de suie.

Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.


groom

(1809) Dénominal du nom passé du sens de « servir », « s’occuper des chevaux, étriller » à celui de « nettoyer, rendre propre ».

to groom (infinitive)
grooms (present third-person singular)
groomed (preterite)
groomed (participle past)
grooming (participle present)

An impeccably groomed man.

Un homme impeccablement soigné. (Traduction littérale)

Préparer, apprêter (en parlant d’une personne que l’on destine à un poste ou une fonction particulière).

How extremists groomed loner to be suicide bomber.

Comment les/des extrémistes ont préparé une personne solitaire à commettre un attentat-suicide à la bombe.

Craig Brown, news.scotsman.com, 16 octobre 2008


vertex

Dans le sens « le point le plus haut de quelque chose », apex est plus commun.

We consider two vertices in this graph G.

On considère deux sommets dans ce graphe G.


ho

Land ho!


homo-

Du grec ancien ὁμός, homós (« semblable, pareil »), ou encore de l’adverbe ὁμοῦ, homoû de même signification.

Homonym.


homo-

Homophobia.


ichneumon

Ada’s unique Lorelei Underwing had died, paralyzed by some ichneumon that had not been deceived by those clever prominences and fungoid smudges.

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, 1969, page 43


illumination

The photographer carefully arranged the illumination in the scene.

the illumination of letters in medieval manuscripts


immigrant

An immigrant family.


imperturbable

I think he is one of the most resolute men I ever saw, and yet the most calm. He seems absolutely imperturbable.


incandescent

Compact fluorescents are typically rated at 7,500 to 10,000 hours, and incandescents at about 1,500 hours.

Matthew L. Wald, Room Improve, New York Times, 1ᵉʳ mars 2007


incapable

Adjectifdérivé de capable, avec le préfixe in-.

He is incapable of completing a single job correctly.


indigent

The indigent must be taken care of.


inextricable

Humans and their environment have an inextricable link.

Les humains et leur environnement ont un lien inextricable.


inexistence

Dérivé de existence, avec le préfixe in-, celui-ci étant utilisé dans le sens différents selon le sens attribué au mot.

Berkeley’s theory of the creature’s permanent inexistence in God evoked a suspicion of pantheism.

Louis Dupre, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture, 2005, page 303


influencer

Dérivé de influence, avec le suffixe -er.

Marketing is often done through influencers on social media who do not disclose whether they have a financial incentive to market certain crypto-assets, particularly the recent rise in non-fungible token art (NFT art) linked to various celebrities and sportspeople.

Leur commercialisation est souvent confiée à des influenceurs sur les réseaux sociaux qui ne déclarent pas publiquement qu’ils ont un intérêt économique à commercialiser certains crypto-actifs. C’est notamment le cas avec la récente montée en puissance des jetons non fongibles artistiques (NFT art) dont la valeur symbolique est associée à diverses célébrités et personnalités du monde du sport.

Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Rapporteur), Louise GRABO (Corapporteure), Avis du Comité économique et social européen sur le thème «Les crypto-actifs: enjeux et possibilités» (2022/C 486/05) Décision de l’assemblée plénière 24.3.2022, Résultat du vote (pour/contre/abstentions) 148/0/3, Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, 21.12.2022


initial

Du latin initialis (« primitif, primordial »).

After an initial false start, everything went well.

Après un faux départ initial, tout alla bien.


initial

The initials of the project formed an unsatisfactory acronym.

Les initiales du projet formaient un acronyme insatisfaisant.

He has the initials JFK, just like John F. Kennedy.

Ses initiales sont J.F.K., tout comme pour John F. Kennedy.


initial

to initial (infinitive)
initials (present third-person singular)
initialed (preterite)
initialed (participle past)
initialing (participle present)

He initialed the document in all three places, as requested.

Il parapha le document aux trois endroits, comme demandé.


inscrutable

Du latin inscrutabilis, composé de in- (« non ») et de scrutare (« examiner »), ce qui correspond à l’anglais scrutable accompagné du préfixe in-.

more inscrutable (comparative)
most inscrutable (superlative)

His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.

Des années plus tard, ses théories obscures deviendraient les éléments de base d'une toute nouvelle science.

She called my vanity license plate inscrutable! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!

Elle a qualifié d'incompréhensible ma plaque d'immatriculation personnalisée! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarant!

Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), 30 Rock, 2007


inspirer

Inspirateur (celui ou celle qui inspire).

TO the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings


intercostal

intercostal muscle


interstice

the network of windows, beaded gas-lamps and shops, with its black interstices of roofs that made up the town at night.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 136, 1897


introduction

(Siècle à préciser) De l’ancien français introduction.

ˌɪn.tɹəˈdʌk.ʃən

Abenomics, as mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, was first presented by the Abe administration as consisting of the three 'arrows' of aggressive monetary policy, flexible fiscal policy and a growth strategy.


intervention

Therefore, developing an AV-specific regulatory framework – such as requirements for: (1) driving control records, which should be required at all times during the use of automated driving systems; or (2) notifications or alerts given to the driver of potential risks requiring human intervention during the use of automated driving – would be necessary to fill these gaps and provide more precise determinations of liabilities in relation to AVs, as well as more practical and informative evidence to be presented to the court.

Drive toward driverless, Asia Business law journal, 17 May 2024


intrusion

Dérivé de intrude, avec le suffixe -tion.

\ɪnˈtɹʉː.ʒən\

Disease and famine present an unfortunate intrusion into daily life.


jacquerie

A jacquerie, even if carried out with the most respectful of intentions, cannot fail to leave some traces of embarrassment behind it.

“Is that what you’re setting your hopes on, man? What do you expect? A housewives’ rebellion? A Jacquerie?[”]

Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapitre 18, page 185, ¶ 9

Whenever a jacquerie occurred, the authorities looked "upon it as a revolt of the underdog against his native oppressor."

G Krishnan-Kutty, Peasantry in India, p. 71


junior

Humorous books for junior readers are often ignored by the critical community, due, in part, to what Milner Davis describes as a “conventional bias against comic genres” (1996: 101), and I consider this a serious oversight within the field of children's literature.

Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, 2010

There she is: Lady Margaret Hall, eight years junior to me, exhibitioner where I was top scholar.

The percentage of pupils completing the ninth year is constantly rising where junior high schools have been established.


junior

four years his junior.

The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.


lance

Emprunt à l’ancien français, du latin lancea.

Effectuer une incision pour ouvrir un furoncle, etc.

The doctor lanced the boil, and added an ointment and bandage to keep it from getting infected.

Le médecin a effectué une incision sur le furoncle et a ajouté une pommade et un pansement pour éviter qu'il ne s'infecte.


latter

The latter half.

(Avec the) Ce dernier, celui-ci. Note d’usage : Le verbe s’accorde en nombre avec le nom substitué.

Which of the two do you prefer, the former or the latter?

Lequel des deux préfères-tu, celui-là ou celui-ci ?

These lectureships were endowed by Mrs. Haskell, and are known as the Haskell Lectures and the Barrows Lectures. The former are given yearly at the university, the latter are delivered in alternate years in cities of India.

Frederick Starr, «Science at the University of Chicago », dans Popular Science Monthly, vol. 51, octobre 1897


lazaret

The first lazaret was established by Venice in 1423.

Lazaretto sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


loge

Du français loge, apparenté à lobby, lodge.

About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, page 70

Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.


lucre

… it’s only fair that you should pocket the lucre. I’ve had my share already.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Le Voleur de cadavres


macabre

more macabre (comparative)
most macabre (superlative)

\məˈkɑː.bɹə\

There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world […] In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.

George C. Booth, Mexico’s School-made Society, 1941, page 106

Macabre, morbide, gothique, thanatophile.

Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.

Theodore Ziolkowski, « Wagner’s Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery », dans Werner Sollors (éd.), The Return of Thematic Criticism, 1993, pages 274-275

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.

H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, Introduction, 1927 [1938]


malcontent

The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.


malt

Issu du vieil anglais malt, lui-même du saxon occidental mealt, d'après le verbe proto-germanique *maltam "action de fermentation" (qui donne entre autres l’allemand Malz, le néerlandais mout, etc.). D'après une racine probable proto-indo-européenne *mel- ("doux"), rappelant le sucre par fermentation dans l'eau.

[…] If barley be wanting to make into malt
 We must be contented and think it no fault
 For we can make liquor, to sweeten our lips
 Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips.

(Si l’orge tient à se transformer en malt
 Il faut nous en contenter et n’y voir aucun mal
Car, pour adoucir nos lèvres, l'alcool peut s'octroyer
 De citrouilles et panais et copeaux de noyer.)— (chanson du folklore américain (auteur anonyme), New England’s Annoyances, 1643)


manœuvre

Variante orthographique de manoeuvre. En anglais, la ligature est optionnelle.

The excitement of these last manœuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 212, 1883


manifestation

Signe, expression, manifestation (action de manifester).

manifestation of joy, of disease, of ethnic pride, etc.


marinade

Marinating is the process of soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking. […] The liquid in question, the marinade, can be either acidic (made with ingredients such as vinegar, lemon juice, or wine) or enzymatic (made with ingredients such as pineapple, papaya, yogurt, or ginger).

Marination sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


marital

Her marital relations are her own concern.

Ses relations conjugales ne regardent qu’elle.

The couple settled down into marital bliss.

Le couple s’est rangé dans la félicité conjugale.

What do the marital laws say?


matrimonial

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In a recent study, we carried out an innovative experiment on a large matrimonial website to understand the marital preferences of men. We found a striking penalty for employed women in the “marriage market”, especially in north India.

Dans une étude récente, nous avons mené une expérience innovante sur un grand site matrimonial afin de comprendre les préférences maritales des hommes. Nous avons constaté un désavantage frappant pour les femmes salariées sur le « marché du mariage », en particulier dans le nord de l’Inde.

Abhishek Arora, Diva Dhar, Farzana Afridi et Kanika Mahajan, « Misogyny in the matrimonial market: Data shows Indian men prefer wives without jobs », The Indian Express,1ᵉʳ avril 2023


matinée

(Siècle à préciser) Du français matinée.

Spectacle, pièce de théâtre, film ou évènement sportif se déroulant le matin ou l’après-midi.

My grandmother hardly ever even goes out of the house, except maybe to see a goddam matinée or something.

Ma grand-mère ne sort presque jamais de la maison, sauf peut-être pour aller voir un putain de spectacle ou autre.

J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 62, 1951, ISBN 0140012486

I made a couple of ad-lib jokes about him during a matinée and ran straight into him in the wings where he was skulking in a baseball cap.

J'ai fait quelques blagues improvisées sur lui pendant un spectacle et je suis tombé directement sur lui dans les coulisses où il se cachait avec une casquette de baseball.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 239


vice-

Second en rang hiérarchique. Il y a deux orthographes possibles : mot indépendant (forme nominale), ou lié au mot qui suit par un trait d'union (forme préfixale) ; l'usage dépend du milieu, du pays ou de l'époque. → voir vice

The vice president (vice-president) decided to quit.

Le vice-président a choisi de démissionner.


mêlée

Jaffers was struck under the jaw, and, turning, caught at something that intervened between him and Huxter in the mêlée, […]

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 71, 1897. En italiques dans l’original.


migration

Bird migration.


mixture

(Siècle à préciser) Du moyen anglais, issu de l’ancien français, lui-même issu du latin mixtura (« un mélange »), du verbe miscere (« mélanger »).

Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 1, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 5


mire

(Date à préciser) Du proto-germanique *miuzijō.

When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire.

Quand Caliban était paresseux et négligeait son travail, Ariel (qui était invisible à tous les yeux sauf ceux de Prospero) venait furtivement et le pinçait, et le faisait parfois dégringoler dans le bourbier.

Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, Hatier, collection « Les Classiques pour tous » nᵒ 223, page 51


mire

to mire (infinitive)
mires (present third-person singular)
mired (preterite)
mired (participle past)
miring (participle present)

Mark carefully increased the engine's speed while he eased the steering wheel back toward the road's center but the car, mired in a wet, slushy depression, failed to respond and came to a stop.

Roger Willey, Way Through the Storm, Author House, 30 juin 2010


monotone

more monotone (comparative)
most monotone (superlative)

The director explained the rules in a monotone voice.

Le directeur expliqua les règles d'une voix monotone.

My nephew insisted on wearing a monotone suit.

Mon neveu exigea de porter un costume monochrome.


monotone

Son monocorde, que ce soit une voix ou autre.

She spoke in a soft monotone.

Elle parla sur un ton doux et monocorde.


morgue

Police morgue


nasal

The original nasal kid is doing damage

Beastie Boys, Root Down, Ill Communication, 1994


natal

Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.

Les tortues de mer retournent sur leurs plages natales pour nidifier.


noblesse

I yow took
out of youre pouere array
And putte yow
in estaat of heigh noblesse.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 1395


nomenclature

Du latin nomenclatura (sens identique), de nomen (« nom »), classis (« classe ») et le suffixe -ura.

After all, one of the hotly contested issues in autonomous or semi-autonomous driving is nomenclature clarity.

Après tout, un des sujet les plus contestés en conduite autonome ou semi-autonome est la clarté de la nomenclature (des définitions des concepts)

Roger C. Lanctot, DCAS: A Show of Hands...Off, Linkedin, 14 aout 2024


nonpareil

(Date à préciser) Du français nonpareil.

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Sans égal, sans rival, sans pareil, unique.

Jerry Lewis, génie inégalé de la comédie, meurt à 91 ans

Duane Borge et Mike Barnes,« Jerry Lewis, Nonpareil Genius of Comedy, Dies at 91 », Hollywoodreporter.com, 20 août 2017


observant

Dérivé de observe, avec le suffixe -ant.

more observant (comparative)
most observant (superlative)

Why didn’t you notice it? You’re not very observant today.

Pourquoi ne l’as-tu pas remarqué ? Tu n’es pas très observateur aujourd’hui.

Respectueux (des traditions, de la loi…), pratiquant.

She used to go to church regularly, but she’s no longer observant.

Elle allait à l’église régulièrement, mais elle n’est plus pratiquante.


onyx

They want Belgravia townhouses, stripped back, knocked through and ruined with onyx and granite and marble.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 175


opopanax

They were hit by a strong polyaromatic gust … which included alcohol fumes, tobacco and hemp-smoke, a spectrum of inexpensive scent in which opopanax and vervain figured prominently.

Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, 2007, page 450


oracle

Service qui connecte des smart contracts avec le monde extérieur dans le but de fournir des informations externes à la blockchain.

The attack was perpetrated by an attacker who manipulated an oracle, which then allowed them to execute a flash loan attack on the project.

L’attaque a été effectuée par un attaquant qui a manipulé un oracle, qui lui a ensuite permis d’exécuter une attaque par flash loan sur le projet.

Molly White, 0VIX Protocol exploited for $2 million sur web3isgoinggreat.com. Mis en ligne le 29 avril 2023


oppression

The traditional family structure, Firestone argued, was at the core of women’s oppression.

La structure familiale traditionnelle, soutenait Firestone, était au cœur de l’oppression des femmes.

Susan Faludi, "The Death of a Revolutionary" [en ligne], The New Yorker (American chronicles), 8 avril 2013. Consulté le 8 mai 2024


organisation

\ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən\

\ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən\

ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən

The Human Rights organisation protested the abuse of the local people.

L’organisation des Droits de l’Homme a protesté contre les abus envers la population locale.


orle

The arms of Balliol is gules an orle argent.


outré

Du français outré, participe passé de outrer.

more outré (comparative)
most outré (superlative)

To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.

David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare,page 261, 1992


partial

more partial (comparative)
most partial (superlative)

What you’ve done so far is only a partial solution.

Todd ordered for both of us: white wine for me, red for himself. Grilled chicken for me, steak for himself. Black coffee for me, cheesecake for himself. Todd is partial to cheesecake.

Jenna Bennett, Contract Pending, 2011, page 131


partial

Vue partielle (en MVC) : fragment de vue.

Adding partials files for head and footer

Fernando Monteiro, 6.x Blueprints, Packt Publishing Ltd, 26 août 2016


pathos

They said he never once suggested by his tone or manner that he was singing anything funny – that would spoil it. It was his air of seriousness, almost of pathos, that made it so irresistibly amusing.

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


peloton

A regiment of cavalry consists of six squadrons, each squadron of four pelotons, each peloton of two companies, each company of two escouardes, and each escouarde of two men.

Colonel R. W. H. Howard Vyse, Some Account of the Composition and Force of the Egyptian Army, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, 1840, Part III

The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.

Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track


penchant

She has a penchant for fancy clothes.


persuasion

She has strong powers of persuastion.

And are you a member of the Jewish persuasion or the Christian persuasion?


phosphate

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

Boisson gazeuse contenant de l’acide phosphorique, généralement aromatisée avec du sirop à base de fruits.

An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]


pillage

The fields about it were overgrown with brambles, the fences gone, even the few negro quarters, and outhouses generally, fallen partly into ruin by neglect and pillage; ….


pigment

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Carotenoid pigments are red, orange, or yellow.

Les pigments caroténoïdes sont rouges, oranges ou jaunes.

Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask ; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board.

Oswald, mettez en perce le baril de notre vin le plus vieux ; servez sur la table le meilleur hydromel, l’ale la plus forte, le plus riche morat, le cidre le plus mousseux, les pigments les plus odorants.


pigmentation

Dérivé de pigment, avec le suffixe -ation.

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In order to help understand the pigmentary changes which occur throughout the aging process and in the management of aging skin, it is necessary to examine how pigmentation varies among different ethnicities

Afin d'aider à comprendre les changements pigmentaires qui se produisent tout au long du vieillissement et dans la gestion du vieillissement cutané, il est nécessaire d'examiner comment la pigmentation varie selon différentes ethnies.

Miranda A. Farage, Textbook of Aging Skin, 2009


pliant

(Siècle à préciser) Du moyen anglais, du français pliant.

more pliant (comparative)
most pliant (superlative)

A pliant body.

He has a very pliant personality.


pointillé

Technique décorative consistant à créer des motifs en pointillant la surface.

Pointillé was commonly used to decorate arms and armor starting in the fifteenth century.

Le pointillé était couramment utilisé pour décorer les armes et armures à partir du XVe siècle.


pochard

Red-crested pochard.

Common pochard.


polo

A polo shirt.


populace

Population ; Ensemble d’individus formant une catégorie particulière dans un pays.

The Internet has now made highly technical information available to the broader populace.


pore

Du moyen anglais poren, d’origine obscure.

to pore (infinitive)
pores (present third-person singular)
pored (preterite)
pored (participle past)
poring (participle present)

She pored over the document, trying to find a loophole.

Elle lut attentivement le document, à la recherche d’une faille.


putrescible

more putrescible (comparative)
most putrescible (superlative)

The burying of wood in water, which dissolves out or alters its putrescible constituents, has long been practised as a means of seasoning.

Dry Rot, article de l’Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, 1911

For waste that is putrescible or may be infectious, on-site incineration is ideal.

National Research Council (U.S.), Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Disposing of Chemicals,page 158, 1995

Some of the storefronts that sell dried clams and sea urchins and putrescible vegetables give it a kind of squalid character.”

James Barron, “Museum Plans to Move to Its Symbolic Home, ‘Littler Italy’”, New York Times, 24 avril 2007


quiche

Courgettes form a mild base for a quiche that is transformed with tangy feta and an equally punchy olive tapenade – perfect picnic fodder.

Les courgettes forment une base douce pour une quiche qui est transformée avec de la feta acidulée et une tapenade d'olive ayant tout autant de punch ; un plat parfait pour un pique-nique.

TomKerridge, Courgette and black olive quiche recipe, The Telegraph, 12 novembre 2019


radius

The diameter is twice the length of the radius.


rajah

(Siècle à préciser) Du sanskrit राजा, rājā d'une racine indoeuropéenne dont est issu rex en latin et, par conséquence, roi en français.

The rajah of Udaipur.


ravage

Al-Tanf was ravaged by weather and downright neglect.

Samuel M. Katz, No Shadows in the Desert, 2020


rectitude

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.

Thomas Jefferson, et al., Declaration of Independence, 4 juillet 1776


redingote

(Date à préciser) Réemprunté au français redingote, de l'anglais riding coat.

\ˈɹɛ.dɪŋ.ɡəʊt\

In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte.

Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia, Penguin Books, Londres, 2007 (1941)


remembrance

(Date à préciser) Emprunt à l’ancien français remembrance. Voir ci-dessus.

The American holiday, Memorial Day, is in remembrance of the dead from past wars.

Le jour férié américain Memorial Day est consacré au souvenir des morts des guerres passées.


rictus

his face was a rictus of sheer delight

Valves plugs pumps to erase / rictus from my face.


ridicule

As a result of this affair, the politician was held up to ridicule in the press.

À la suite de cette affaire, l'homme politique a été tourné en ridicule dans la presse.


ridicule

After Sibella ridicules his offer of marriage, Louis attends her wedding to Lionel (...)

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

Contributeurs de Wikipédia,article « Kind Hearts and Coronets », date non connue


rioter

The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.

Les émeutiers ont érigé une barricade de fortune et ont fait pleuvoir sur la police des pierres qui se situaient derrière.


rochet

Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white,
The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state,
Above their rochets button'd fair before,
And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.

Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv


rock

(Nom 1) (XIIIᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français roque (« roche »). (1908) « pierre précieuse ».

(Verbe, nom 2, adjectif) (XIVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais rokken, apparenté au suédois rycka (« tirer brusquement »), à l’allemand rücken (« déplacer, pousser »). (1948) « danser sur un rythme rapide » (We’re gonna rock). Le nom est le déverbal du verbe.

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Stop throwing rocks. You’re going to hurt someone.

Arrête de jeter des pierres. Tu vas blesser quelqu’un.

There are three types of rock: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Il y a trois types de roches : éruptives, sédimentaires, et métamorphiques.


rock

to rock (infinitive)
rocks (present third-person singular)
rocked (preterite)
rocked (participle past)
rocking (participle present)

A single crash of cymbals and how it rocked the lives of an American family.

Alfred Hitchcock, L’Homme qui en savait trop (version de 1956). La citation apparaît à la fin du générique, avant le commencement du film.

This new video game rocks!

Wow, you rock!


rock

So adjusting for inflation I'm looking at half a rock?


rock

Rock music.

Rock star.


risque

more risque (comparative)
most risque (superlative)
risqué

The new play is very risque.


sabotage

to sabotage (infinitive)
sabotages (present third-person singular)
sabotaged (preterite)
sabotaged (participle past)
sabotaging (participle present)

\ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ\

Hypnosis or relaxation is very difficult to use and usually not feasible with the patient who is denying, resisting or sabotaging treatment efforts.

Michael A. Gass,Rebuilding Therapy: Overcoming the Past for a More Effective Future, page 32. Fraeger, 1997.

We did not want to sabotage the project after it went on-line, because we wanted to avoid causing power blackouts to residential areas.

Ann Hansen,Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla, page 87. Between the Lines, 2001.

Her psychiatrist told her that she sabotages herself because she believes she’s not good enough to succeed.

Susan Scott,All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada, page 81. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Could the car have been sabotaged? Could someone have cut the brake line?

Leslie Meier,Mistletoe Murder, page 127. Kensington Books, 2008.


salep

Salep was a popular beverage in the lands of the Ottoman Empire. Its consumption spread beyond there to England and Germany before the rise of coffee and tea and it was later offered as an alternative beverage in coffee houses.

salep sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


sanatorium

(1839) Dérivé savant du latin sanator (« guérisseur ») ; la variante sanitarium, dérive de sanitas (« santé »).

sanatoriums (plural)
sanitorium
sanitarium

The U.S. cereal company began in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1906, founded by W.K. Kellogg (1860-1951), business manager of the Battle Creek Sanatorium, as Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.


savant

Few persons, out of Germany, even comprehend the meaning of the doctrine which Wilhelm Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 103


savoir-faire

\ˌsævwɑː ˈfɛə\

Habilité à dire ou faire ce qui est adapté en chaque occasion, savoir-faire, savoir-vivre.

I've got the savoir-faire with the unique rhymin’

Beastie Boys, Sure Shot, Ill Communication, 1994


scion

It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.

Cholem Aleikhem, An Early Passover, 1966, Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24.

He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away? – David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, 1986, Penguin, paperback edition, page 72.


schooner

Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.


seiche

Simulations show that the tsunami stabilized into a 7-meter-high long-duration seiche with a frequency (11.45 millihertz) and slow amplitude decay that were nearly identical to the seismic signal.

Kristian Svennevig et al., A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days,Science, volume 385, nᵒ 6714, 12 Sep 2024, pages 1196-1205.


seller

Dérivé du verbe sell (« vendre ») avec le suffixe -er (« -eur »).

Vendeur, vendeuse. Personne qui vend. Note d’usage : Très souvent modifié par un nom de marchandise.

She is a painting seller.


signer

Composé de sign#en, sign, -er#en et -er.

John Hancock is a famous signer of the Declaration of Independence.


sombre

(Date à préciser) Emprunt au français sombre.

"It was one of Papua’s yellow mornings when she shows herself in her sombrest, most baleful mood."

Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool, 1919, édition 2001, ISBN 0803282680


strychnine

They may soon be sugar-free, but they’ll still be laced with strychnine.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 46


stylite

Du grec ecclésiastique στυλίτης, stulites, du grec ancien στῦλος, stulos (« pilier »).

Daniel, the famous stylite of the city, actually descended from his pillar for the first time in fifteen years, terrifying Basiliscus into the withdrawal of his edict.

John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin 1998, p. 53, 1997

Stylites often became major players in Church politics, shouting down their theological pronouncements from their little elevated balconies to the expectant crowds below, or giving personalized advice to those favoured enough to climb the ladder and join them on their platform.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 208, 2009


suffrage

(Siècle à préciser) Du français suffrage, lui-même du latin suffragium.

But it wasn’t until a law called the Equal Franchise Act in 1928 that suffrage was extended to all women over the age 21, meaning that women finally had the same voting rights as men.

Mais ce n’est pas avant une loi promulguée en 1928 que l’on appelle l’Equal Franchise Act que le droit de vote fut étendu à toutes les femmes de plus de 21 ans, c’est-à-dire que les femmes eurent enfin le même droit de voter que les hommes.

"How UK women get the vote: Suffragettes, suffragists and the Representation of the People Act 1918" [texte intégral], CBBC, 6 février 2019. Consulté le 4 mars 2024


suicide

He committed suicide last year.

The police determined that it was a suicide.

La police a déterminé que c’était un suicide.


surcharge

(XVᵉ siècle) Du français surcharger → voir charge.

\sɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ\

Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.


surcharge

to surcharge (infinitive)
surcharges (present third-person singular)
surcharged (preterite)
surcharged (participle past)
surcharging (participle present)

\sɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ\

To surcharge a ship.


surplus

a surplus over what was planned ; a surplus of good will

China has a large surplus in trade with the United States.

Surplus (du producteur, du consommateur).

The government has a constant problem in how to manage the surplus agricultural production.


sus

(Date à préciser) Apocope de suspicious.

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In the game Among Us, on a long enough timeline, absolutely everything and everyone will be declared as “pretty sus” at some point. “Sus” is a convenient shorthand for suspicious; it’s easy to type, even on a mobile device, and it gets your point across quickly.

Dans le jeu Among Us, au bout d’un certain temps, absolument tout et tout le monde va être déclaré « plutôt suspect ». « Sus » est un raccourci pratique pour suspicious ; c’est facile à taper, même sur mobile, et ça permet d’être compris rapidement.

Cass Marshall, Among Us fans are calling everything ‘pretty sus,’ and it keeps working sur Polygon, 21 septembre 2020. Consulté le 2 octobre 2020