bursa

Synovial bursa sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais) .


Tłı̨chǫ

“There’s a scenario that’s happening and that scenario is trying to get the Yellowknives under one roof with Tłı̨chǫ and that’s not a dream for Akaitcho people. That’s not where we’re going,” said Sangris.

« YKDFN pushes back against Tłı̨chǫ’s call to be included in Yellowknife land acknowledgments », dans CBC, 1 septembre 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ykdfn-tlicho-land-recognition-1.6568720 texte intégral


supersede

to supersede (infinitive)
supersedes (present third-person singular)
superseded (preterite)
superseded (participle past)
superseding (participle present)

À cause d'une fausse association avec cede (« céder ») et secede (« faire sécession »), *supercede est une erreur commune d'orthographe.

General relativity superseded classical mechanics.

La relativité générale a supplanté le mécanique classique.


variance

So far from this, they were unhappily compelled to devise how they might worship without giving offence to any of their gods, who were all at such variance among themselves, that, had their worshippers imitated their quarrelling, the State must have fallen to pieces for want of the bond of concord, as it soon afterwards began to do through civil wars, when the morals of the people were changed and corrupted.

Bien au contraire, ils étaient hélas contraints de chercher comment vénérer leurs dieux sans en offenser d’autres, car il régnait parmi ces divinités une telle atmosphère de dissension que, si leurs adorateurs avaient suivi leur exemple belliqueux, l’absence de liens d’harmonie aurait fait éclater l’État en morceaux, comme cela s’est d’ailleurs produit peu de temps après sous l’effet des guerres civiles, une fois que la moralité du peuple avait été changée et corrompue.

Henry Paolucci, The Political Writings of St. Augiustine – Edited, with an Introduction, by Henry Paolucci – Including an Interpretative Analysis by Dino Bigongiari, 1962, p. 174


eugenics

Mot formé en 1883 par le savant anglais Francis Galton, fondateur de cette science,composé de ευ-, eu et de γένος, guénos.

Eugenics is the belief that societies can be improved by selective breeding and that the state should encourage the “enlightened” to have more children and discourage the lower orders, whether the poor, the disabled or the immigrant, from breeding.

Kenan Malik, [ « The spirit of eugenics is still with us, as immigrants know to their cost »]. Theguardian.com, 6 octobre 2019.


crypto

Technologie de crypto-jeton ou de cryptomonnaie.

The government is looking to classify crypto as an asset class, as demanded by the crypto exchanges, rather than as a currency, two sources told Reuters.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its final disclosure framework for banks’ crypto asset exposures and amendments to its crypto prudential standard on July 17. The disclosure framework includes a standardised table and templates outlining the requirements for banks to disclose qualitative and quantitative information on crypto assets.

Thomas Chow, Basel Committee finalises crypto asset disclosure rules, centralbanking.com, 18 juillet 2024


instanciation

[Alt: attention] Cette graphie est considérée comme fautive par certains. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

We compute an instanciation of N″, in a polynomial time, by translating N″ in the point algebra and by applying the topological sort for example.

Pedro Barahona, José J. Alferes, in Artificial Intelligence, 9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings, Springer, Évora, Portugal, septembre 1999

Given a template instance I need to know which module caused this template to be instanciated. I don't need the module the template was declared in but instead the module that triggered the instanciation.

Étant donnée une instance de modèle j’ai besoin de savoir quel module a provoqué l’instanciation de ce modèle. J’ai pas besoin du module dans lequel le modèle a été déclaré mais plutôt celui qui a déclenché l’instanciation.

Benjamin Thaut, Finding the module that caused a template instanciation sur forum.dlang.org. Mis en ligne le 18 décembre 2017, consulté le 29 mai 2020


-let

Suffixe utilisé pour former le nom des petits de certains animaux.

pig → piglet


tonga

Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling, 1890


interaction

\ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən\

Be aware of interactions between different medications.

I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people.


boo

She jumped out and shouted “Boo!” to scare her friend.


boo

Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.

The sportsman endured the boos of the crowd.


boo

to boo (infinitive)
boos (present third-person singular)
booed (preterite)
booed (participle past)
booing (participle present)

The audience booed the performers.


cheer

De l’anglo-normand chere, issu de l’ancien français chiere, du latin cara.

The player got a cheer from the crowd.


cheer

to cheer (infinitive)
cheers (present third-person singular)
cheered (preterite)
cheered (participle past)
cheering (participle present)

The crowd cheered loudly.

In your time, I’m no longer hеre
But I am here today
And I’ll always bе cheering for you, right here
Cheering for you, my only self


router

Rabot fait comme un wastringue, pour travailler les bords intérieurs de châssis circulaires.

It's especially crucial when using a planer, jointer, or router, not to mention a chisel, plane or spokeshave.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 51


uncross

He uncrossed his arms

Il décroisa ses bras


coverage

Motdérivé de cover, avec le suffixe -age.

There was no coverage of the event.

L'évènement n'a pas été suivi par les médias.


Auster

Paul Auster.


analog

Analogique (par opposition à « numérique »).

Is that signal analog or digital?


obfuscate

Du latin fuscare (assombrir), avec le préfixe ob- qui signifie vers, pour…

Brouiller un message, embrouiller pour cacher la vérité.

The only reason to change software after the election would be to obfuscate evidence of fraud and/or to correct program errors that would de-certify the election.

Russell James Ransland, Jr. (co-fondateur de Allied Security Operations Group) et Matthew DePerno (attorney),« Antrim Michigan Forensics Report », section B (« Purpose and preliminary conclusions », point 19, page 4. Daté du 12 décembre 2020. Mis en ligne le 14 décembre 2020.


hitter

Jackson is the best hitter on that team. : Jackson est le meilleur frappeur de cette équipe.


Vladimir

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.


burden

To reduce the burden on main Gentoo repository, older versions of Wine will be available only in the wine overlay.

NP-Hardass, Old Wine versions moving to wine-overlay, gentoo.org, 21/11/2017


combine

to combine (infinitive)
combines (present third-person singular)
combined (preterite)
combined (participle past)
combining (participle present)

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

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


proxy

Du moyen anglais procracie, emprunt à l’anglo-normand procuracie, du latin médiéval procuratia, du latin procuratio.

Procuration, surtout celle donnée par une société.

"We have already executed the proxy in your favour," O’Leary said in an open letter.

Fondé de pouvoir, surtout celui qui agit au nom d’une société.

Transport Minister has declined Ryanair’s offer to act as the budget airline’s proxy at rival carrier Aer Lingus’s annual general meeting.


proxy

Qui agit pour le compte d’un autre acteur.

By providing proxy allies with more sophisticated know-how, the country could expand hybrid operations against US interests and allies and fundamentally disrupt international investment in the Middle East.

En fournissant à ses proxys un savoir-faire plus sophistiqué, le pays pourrait étendre ses opérations hybrides contre les intérêts américains et ceux de ces alliés et perturber de manière significative les investissements internationaux au Moyen-Orient.

AbdolrasoolDivsallar et Marc Otte, « Reviving the Security Function: EU's Path to Save the JCPOA », Security Policy Brief, juillet 2019


voila

Emprunt du français voilà, les diacritiques n’étant pas obligatoires en anglais.

Voilà. Utilisé, dans le style plaisant, quand on montre quelque chose de nouveau et satisfaisant, souvent après and (« et »).

“I am delighted to hear that. Because in such cases—even when the woman is a thoroughly good creature—she can’t help looking for a compensation. A charming fellow comes along—and voila!” Charlotte sat mutely staring at the floor, and Felix presently added, “Do go on with your slipper, I like to see you work.”

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

HenryJames, The Europeans, Chapter XI, 1923

It took chutzpah to make a lamp out of anything: turn a spaghetti colander or a fruit basket upside down, drill a hole in the center, add a bulb, a socket and a wire, and voila, a hanging lamp.

Il fallait de l’audace pour faire une lampe à partir de n’importe quoi : retourner une passoire à spaghettis ou un panier de fruits, creuser un trou en son centre, ajouter une ampoule, un embout et un fil ; et voilà, une suspension.

DorothyKalins, « Design of the Times », Newsweek, 2006


transie

[…] understand that we need to work on our own issues as transies, and that we need to prepare for the "next transformation" […]

Sandy Stone, in TransSisters: the Journal of Transsexual Feminism (Spring 1995), 1995.

How interesting it would be to watch and assist her as she grows to fully embrace her womanhood, and how delightful to lend your masculine touch to her life.
Oh, yes, when I think of the "masculine touch" I immediately envision a transie.

Mrs Butkus, Re: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Transfan Wannabe, alt.support.srs,Usenet


rutile

(1803) Dulatin rutilus (« rouge »), en référence à la couleur de certains de ces minéraux.

Rutile helps one raise one's capacity to sens good or bad « vibes » giving one the opportunity to embrace or disengage from the person or activity.

Le rutile aide à augmenter sa capacité à ressentir les bonnes ou mauvaises « vibrations », ce qui donne l'occasion de saisir ou de se désengager d'une personne ou d'une activité.

Robert Simmons et Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones, Revised Edition : Who They Are and What They Teach, 2015


capitalise

Where did the funds come from that capitalized this bank?

You forgot to capitalize the first word of the sentence.

A person’s name is always capitalized. un nom de personne prend toujours la majuscule


cicatrise

De l’ancien français cicatriser, issu du latin cicātrīx (« cicatrice »).

to cicatrise (infinitive)
cicatrises (present third-person singular)
cicatrised (preterite)
cicatrised (participle past)
cicatrising (participle present)
cicatrize

But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.

The Thousand Nights and One Night, traduit par Powys Mathers, 1923


collapse

The collapse of the building injured many people.

L’effondrement du gratte-ciel a blessé de nombreuses personnes.

The Middle Ages experienced a collapse of civilization.

Le Moyen-Âge a vécu un renversement de civilisation.


collapse

to collapse (infinitive)
collapses (present third-person singular)
collapsed (preterite)
collapsed (participle past)
collapsing (participle present)

This collapsible cup takes up less space when you collapse it.

The runaway shopping cart collapsed the stack of cans.

The wall is going to collapse.

The building has collapsed.


conjure

to conjure (infinitive)
conjures (present third-person singular)
conjured (preterite)
conjured (participle past)
conjuring (participle present)

conjure a demon


refit

As outlined in the framework for office accommodation and accommodation services, Public Works and Government Services Canada is responsible for decisions on the most effective/efficient use of inventory (owned, leased, lease-purchase), planning and funding rent, fit-up/refit, and base building improvements (in Crown-owned facilities).

Tel qu’exposé dans le cadre de gestion des locaux à bureaux et des services de logement, Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada a la responsabilité de prendre les décisions concernant le répertoire des locaux utilisés avec la plus grande efficacité (achat, location, crédit-bail), la planification et le financement de la location, l’aménagement et le réaménagement et les améliorations apportées aux immeubles de base (installations appartenant à la Couronne).


dissent

to dissent (infinitive)
dissents (present third-person singular)
dissented (preterite)
dissented (participle past)
dissenting (participle present)

dissenting opinion


fend

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

To fend against the cold.

We had to fend for ourselves until we were rescued.


fie

Fie on thee!


protégée

Though formerly a protégée and friend of Sarkozy, Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.

The Week, issue 700 (31 janvier 2009), News, Talking points, page 21, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”


radiescence

At any rate in his [Dr. Akin] discourse, instead of dwelling simply on the subject of the origin of light or luminosity, he intended to speak of the origin of the state of radiation, or of radiescence, in general. Radiescence, he said, may be engendered in matter in three different modes.

Calcescence, The Saturday Review, 23 janvier 1864


haves

The haves and the have nots.


pipes

The pipes in the house are old and are starting to leak.


pend

to pend (infinitive)
pends (present third-person singular)
pended (preterite)
pended (participle past)
pending (participle present)

That project has been pended until further notice. (Ce projet a été retardé jusqu’à nouvel ordre)


juche

The DPRK claims that juche is Kim Il Sung’s creative application of Marxist-Leninist principles to the modern political realities in North Korea. Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il have successfully wielded the juche idea as a political shibboleth to evoke a fiercely nationalistic drive for North Korean independence and to justify policies of self-reliance and self-denial in the face of famine and economic stagnation in North

La RPDC affirme que le juche est l’application créative par Kim Il Sung des principes marxistes-léninistes aux réalités politiques modernes de la Corée du Nord. Kim Il Sung et son fils Kim Jong Il ont utilisé avec succès l’idée du juche comme un schibboleth politique pour évoquer une campagne farouchement nationaliste en faveur de l’indépendance de la Corée du Nord et pour justifier les politiques d’autonomie et d’abnégation face à la famine et à la stagnation économique en Corée du Nord.

Grace Lee, The Political Philosophy of Juche, Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, Time Magazine, 2003


soggy

soggier (comparative)
soggiest (superlative)

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

Trempé, détrempé, mouillé, saturé d’humidité, imprégné d’humidité, gorgé d’humidité : cet adjectif qualifie des substantifs désignant des matières spongieuses, absorbantes, et possède une nuance péjorative qui confère aux substantifs ainsi qualifiés un caractère désagréable, répugnant, voire obscène.

Soggy bread.

Soggy lawn.

Soggy wad of cotton wool.

Soggy lessons.


use

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Robust Footman-use (noun).wav

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Robust Footman-use (verb).wav

This tool has many uses.


use

to use (infinitive)
uses (present third-person singular)
used (preterite)
used (participle past)
using (participle present)

La locution used to se prononce \ˈjust.tu\ (États-Unis) ou \ˈjuːst.tu\ (Royaume-Uni).

I use tools when I’m working.

Write a program that implements Euclid's algorithm and uses it to determine the greatest common divisor of two integers entered by the user.

Écrivez un programme qui implémente l'algorithme d'Euclide et l'utilise pour déterminer le plus grand commun diviseur de deux entiers entrés par l'utilisateur.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 133


amuse

to amuse (infinitive)
amuses (present third-person singular)
amused (preterite)
amused (participle past)
amusing (participle present)

« We’re not amused », se serait contentée de dire Sa Gracieuse Majesté.

Le spectre de Tabas, L'Orient-Le Jour.com, 30 novembre 2011


apprise

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

Ambrose Bierce, One of the Missing, 1888, éd. 2008


argue

to argue (infinitive)
argues (present third-person singular)
argued (preterite)
argued (participle past)
arguing (participle present)

I’m tired of having you always argue.

J’en ai marre que vous vous disputiez tout le temps.

He argued his case well.


arrive

to arrive (infinitive)
arrives (present third-person singular)
arrived (preterite)
arrived (participle past)
arriving (participle present)

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

We arrived at eight PM famished.

We arrived and booked in.

He had finally arrived on Broadway.


assemble

They had to first assemble a prototype.

Let's assemble a team to get this done.

I suppose you're wondering why I've assembled you all together here.

It was easier than he thought to assemble the bed.

Le montage du lit a été plus facile qu'il ne le pensait.


survive

De l’ancien français sourvivre, (ancien français tardif survivre).

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

Survivre (demeurer en vie après une autre personne)

The wife survived her husband by only three months.


suppose

to suppose (infinitive)
supposes (present third-person singular)
supposed (preterite)
supposed (participle past)
supposing (participle present)
s’pose

Even supposing that what you say is true, this still doesn’t justify the action that you propose.

Même en admettant que ce que vous dites soit vrai, ceci ne justifie toujours pas l’action que vous proposez.


supervise

These systems are considered to be Level 2 automation where the driver is supposed to supervise at all times as opposed to Level 3 where the vehicle takes full control.

EU set to approve ‘hands off’ level 2 driving systems despite safety fears, ETSC, 19 mars 2024


suit

suitor

prétendant à la main d’une femme ; plaideur, poursuivant en justice

A law suit.

bathing suit.

Diving suit, scaphandre.

Space suit, scaphandre spatial.

speedsuit, trifonction

Couleur de la cartes (parmi "trèfle", "carreau", "coeur" et "pique").

In cards, the four suits are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades.

Each card has one of four suits along with a value.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 88


suit

We can meet on Wednesday the first, if it suits you.

Nous pouvons nous voir mercredi premier, si cela vous convient.


attend

to attend (infinitive)
attends (present third-person singular)
attended (preterite)
attended (participle past)
attending (participle present)

I will attend the meeting.


attire

There was an apparent negligence in his attire. His cap was worn with the visor a trifle askew; his coat was buttoned only at the sword-belt, showing a considerable expanse of white shirt, <...>.

Ambrose Bierce, The Affair at Coulter’s Notch, 1891, éd. 2008


attire

attire somebody in something.


retire

to retire (infinitive)
retires (present third-person singular)
retired (preterite)
retired (participle past)
retiring (participle present)

back down

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

Partir à la retraite, prendre sa retraite.

I’ll retire from my job when I reach 62.

The school decided to retire him early.

These obsolete models were retired years ago.

I’m sleepy. I think I’ll retire now.


replace

Mettre à la place de, remplacer, substituer.

To repair it you can replace this key by another.

These clothes are too old, replace them with new ones.


relate

to relate (infinitive)
relates (present third-person singular)
related (preterite)
related (participle past)
relating (participle present)

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

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

I find it difficult to relate to others because I’m extremely introverted.

Je trouve qu’il est difficile de me mettre en relation avec les autres parce que je suis extrêmement introverti.


commit

to commit (infinitive)
commits (present third-person singular)
committed (preterite)
committed (participle past)
committing (participle present)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-commit.wav

When did she commit the crime?

I’ve committed my assistant to working with you on the project for the next two weeks.

J’ai chargé mon assistant de travailler avec vous sur le projet pendant les deux semaines à venir.


commit

She committed to working weekends until the job was finished.

Elle s’investit en travaillant les fins de semaine jusqu’à ce que le travail fût terminé.


commute

Du latin commuto, commutare (« commuter »).

Faire la navette entre le domicile et le travail.

Because of the traffic, it was taking her two hours to commute to her job each day.

À cause du trafic, cela lui prenait deux heures pour faire la navette à son travail chaque jour.

These two variables commute.


compare

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Show that the energy lost per revolution is small compared to the electron’s kinetic energy.

Allan Adams, 8:04 Quantum Mechanics — Problem Set 1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 05/02/2013

In absolute numbers, road transport has the highest cost in terms of human life when compared with other modes of transport. In 2016 to 2020, road fatalities in the EU, excluding the United Kingdom, averaged 22 420 per year compared with 19 rail passenger fatalities. The most recent fatal air accident involving an EU carrier occurred in 2016, when two lives were lost.

En chiffres absolus, le transport routier est le plus meurtrier de tous les modes de transport. De 2016 à 2020, dans l’Union européenne (à l’exclusion du Royaume-Uni), 22 240 personnes en moyenne ont trouvé la mort chaque année dans des accidents de la route, contre 19 voyageurs tués dans des accidents de chemin de fer. Le plus récent accident aérien mortel impliquant un transporteur européen est survenu en 2016 et a coûté la vie à deux personnes

Special report Reaching EU road safety objectives, Time to move up a gear, EN 2024 04, Rapport spécial Sécurité routière, L’UE doit mettre les bouchées doubles pour atteindre ses objectifs, FR 2024 04

Former les trois formes de comparatifs de (un adjectif).

We compare "good" as "good", "better", "best".


compare

Être comparable (souvent utilisé dans une tournure négative).

A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare.


range

Du moyen anglais rengen,qui vient de l'ancien français rengier, variante du mot rangier (« ranger »).

(Mathématiques) Le terme range en anglais est ambigu. Il peut être le codomaine ou limage d'une fonction.

long-range cannon


compromise

to compromise (infinitive)
compromises (present third-person singular)
compromised (preterite)
compromised (participle past)
compromising (participle present)

We don’t have to fight. Let’s try to compromise.

Nous ne sommes pas obligés de nous battre. Essayons d’aboutir à un compromis.

We are all going to have to compromise, we are all going to have to swallow our pride and put up with something for a matter of days to allow that to happen, and get on with it.

Sarah Marsh,« Johnson could face no-confidence vote next week to halt no-deal Brexit ». Theguardian.com, 28 septembre 2019. Note : la journaliste rapportait un propos de la Première ministre d'Écosse Nicola Sturgeon, tenu au micro de BBC Scotland.

By giving this information to the enemy, you’ve hopelessly compromised our position.

En donnant cette information à l’ennemi, vous avez désespérément compromis notre position.

Because the additional authentication is only employed after an account has been compromised, its presence will also signal an authorized user that their data was stolen.

Eric A. Fisch et Gregory B. White, Secure Computers and Networks: Analysis, Design, and Implementation,chapitre 8 (« Damage Control and Assessment »), sous-chapitre 8.1 (« Damage Control »), page 121. CRC Press, 1999.


condescend

to condescend (infinitive)
condescends (present third-person singular)
condescended (preterite)
condescended (participle past)
condescending (participle present)

The duchess condescended to attend the party, even though she felt that it was below her station in life.


configure

There's more than one way to configure it when you build it.


confine

He was a king within the confines of his own apartment.


consent

More critically, informed consent is lacking for these types of data collection.

How much data does your car collect on you? Stephanie Wallcraft, the Star, Sat., Nov. 27, 2021

The council said the flag required planning consent following post-Brexit legislation.

EU flag must be removed from outside former MEP's house, council orders, BBC, 23 May 2024


consent

to consent (infinitive)
consents (present third-person singular)
consented (preterite)
consented (participle past)
consenting (participle present)

The patient consented to the operation.


consume

to consume (infinitive)
consumes (present third-person singular)
consumed (preterite)
consumed (participle past)
consuming (participle present)

The fire consumed the wood house.

The average American consumes 100 grams of protein per day.


propose

to propose (infinitive)
proposes (present third-person singular)
proposed (preterite)
proposed (participle past)
proposing (participle present)

Demander en mariage, demander la main de.

He proposed to her last night and she accepted him.

Il lui a demandé sa main la nuit dernière, et elle l’a accepté.


promise

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

And that’s a promise.


promise

to promise (infinitive)
promises (present third-person singular)
promised (preterite)
promised (participle past)
promising (participle present)

I promise.

He promised to never return to this town again.

Il a promis de ne plus jamais revenir dans cette ville.

I can't promise success, but I'll do the best I can.

Je ne peux promettre le succès, mais je ferai du mieux que je pourrai.


correspond

Du moyen français correspondre, issu du latin respondeo (« correspondre, répondre ») avec le préfixe com- (« avec »).

to correspond (infinitive)
corresponds (present third-person singular)
corresponded (preterite)
corresponded (participle past)
corresponding (participle present)

ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɑnd

ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑnd

Correspondre, répondre (suivi de la préposition with).

I’ve been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.

Je corresponds avec mon correspondant allemand depuis trois ans.


persuade

(c. 1510) Emprunt au moyen français persuader.

to persuade (infinitive)
persuades (present third-person singular)
persuaded (preterite)
persuaded (participle past)
persuading (participle present)

You’ll never persuade me of that.


permit

Du moyen anglais permitten, du français permettre.

to permit (infinitive)
permits (present third-person singular)
permitted (preterite)
permitted (participle past)
permitting (participle present)

Attention! Le sens ordinaire de permit est forcément transitif, pas comme permettre.

The new speed limit permits people to drive over 60 miles per hour.

as soon as circumstances permit, if time permits

dès que les circonstances le permettent, si le temps le permet


pave

to pave (infinitive)
paves (present third-person singular)
paved (preterite)
paved (participle past)
paving (participle present)

Mercedes-Benz has received approval for a self-driving system paving the way for it to be able to offer the technology to customers where national legislation allows its use.

09/12/2021, Fleet news, Mercedes-Benz self-driving car technology approved for use


descend

(1300) ^([1]) Du moyen anglais decenden, emprunté à l’ancien français descendre ^([1]), du latin dēscendere (« descendre ») ^([1]), dérivé de scandere (« grimper ») avec le suffixe de- , de l’indo-européen commun *skand- ^([1]) (« sauter »).

to descend (infinitive)
descends (present third-person singular)
descended (preterite)
descended (participle past)
descending (participle present)

The angels will descend from heaven amongst us.

Les anges descendront du ciel parmi nous.

They descended the river in boats.


pane

Du moyen anglais pane, pan, de l’ancien français pan, du latin pannus. Doublet de pagne, pan et pannus.

The window panes look beautiful when they're covered with frost during the winter.

The three-dimensional effect of the panes in the door adds to the charm.

This window has several panes, each providing different information.


observe

to observe (infinitive)
observes (present third-person singular)
observed (preterite)
observed (participle past)
observing (participle present)

Why is that man observing us so closely?

Pourquoi cet homme nous observe-t-il si attentivement ?

She travelled to Spain to observe a total solar eclipse.

Elle s'est déplacée en Espagne pour observer une éclipse solaire totale.

Observer, suivre, respecter (un système d'heure ou de calendrier, un jour férié, etc.)

Does the bank observe Monday as a legal holiday?

La banque respecte-t-elle un jour férié ce lundi ?

Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving time.

La Saskatchewan n'utilise pas l'heure d'été.


dispose

to dispose (infinitive)
disposes (present third-person singular)
disposed (preterite)
disposed (participle past)
disposing (participle present)

(Suivi de la préposition of) Éliminer, se débarrasser de.

I disposed of my old computer.

Je me suis débarrassé de mon ancien ordinateur.

In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.

En ces temps incertains, je suis enclin à la prudence.


née

Qualifie le nom de jeune fille d’une femme.

Mrs. Smith, née Jones.


data

Du latin data, pluriel de datum, participe passé neutre de dare (« donner »).

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

Datum vient du latin, dont le pluriel est data. Cependant, en anglais, suite aux siècles, on utilise souvent data comme nom indénombrable et donc le verbe qui le suit est au singulier. Certains latinistes préfèrent utiliser le verbe au pluriel.

You don't need any sci-fi or rocket science knowledge of Python (no prior knowledge of image processing, data processig, etc.) to dive into the ocean of Regular Expression.

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

While the AI regulatory regime, when established, may not cover all aspects of AV systems, it would establish significant rules for AI in a cross-sectoral manner. These rules may include data governance, data sharing and trading, risk assessment and management, technical robustness, safety and accountability, and may affect the adoption of AVs in Thailand to a certain extent.

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

An investigation by consumer advocacy group Choice found most of Australia's popular car brands collect and share "driver data", ranging from braking patterns to video footage. Kia and Hyundai collect voice recognition data from inside their cars and sell it to an artificial intelligence software training company.

James Purtill, These car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties, ABC Science, ABC news Australie, Tue 8 Oct


cognate

English ward is a cognate of guard, and of French garder.

Le mot anglais ward a la même racine que le mot guard, et que le mot français garder.

English ward, English guard, and French garder are all cognates.

Les mots anglais ward et guard ainsi que le mot français garder ont tous la même étymologie.


cognate

In English ward is cognate with guard, and both are cognate with French garder.

Les mots anglais ward et guard ont la même origine, qui est également celle du mot français garder.

English ward, English guard, Icelandic vörður and French garder are all cognate.

Les mots ward en anglais, guard en anglais, vörður en islandais et garder en français ont tous la même étymologie.


consistent

more consistent (comparative)
most consistent (superlative)

Récurrent de façon stricte, régulière, fiable.

A consistent usage of well-defined key terms helps understanding.

L’usage récurrent de mots clé bien définis aide à la compréhension.


refuse

to refuse (infinitive)
refuses (present third-person singular)
refused (preterite)
refused (participle past)
refusing (participle present)

— I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.

— Je vais lui faire une offre qu’il ne pourra pas refuser.


camera

Lights, cameras, action!


banana

A banana republic.


tale

Du vieil anglais talu. Même racine que tell.

It was the jackal –Tabaqui, the Dish-licker– and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.

C’était le chacal — Tabaqui le Lèche-Plat — et les loups de l'Inde méprisent Tabaqui parce qu'il rôde partout faisant du grabuge, colportant des histoires et mangeant des chiffons et des morceaux de cuir dans les tas d'ordures aux portes des villages.


adamantine

Du latin adamantinus, grec ancien ἀδαμάντινος, adamāntinos (« adamantin »).

more adamantine (comparative)
most adamantine (superlative)

There were guards in all four towers, two of them smoking. That had to mean their officer was asleep. The NVA had adamantine discipline and punished transgressions harshly—death was not an uncommon price for even a minor offense.


allusive

more allusive (comparative)
most allusive (superlative)

His speech was allusive.


vichyssoise

It’s vichyssoise, sir, it’s supposed to be cold.

C’est de la vichyssoise, monsieur, c’est censé être froid.

Batman Returns, dit par Alfred à 38:42. 1992


corrective

more corrective (comparative)
most corrective (superlative)

As the currents were changing rapidly the captain had to make many corrective course changes.


recluse

(Vers 1200) De l’ancien français recluse, forme féminine de reclus, lui-même du latin tardif reclusus (« renfermé »), participe passé du latin tardif recludere (« enfermer, enclore »). Désignait à l’origine spécifiquement un membre d’une communauté religieuse. Ce terme est aussi en partie issu du latin médiéval reclusus, reclusa. Le sens non religieux actuel est attesté dès la fin du xviiᵉ.

I’m not abusive
I’m a recluse with hyperacusis
Trying to unwind and I find you obtrusive
So now you find out how tiny my fuse is

Je ne suis pas abusif
Je suis un ermite hyperacousique
Essayant de se reposer et je te trouve gênant
Donc ta va maintenant découvrir à quel point je suis impatient

Dan Bull, Quiet Please!. Mis en ligne le 1ᵉʳ juin 2023


toolbox

The cyst-dividing bacterium Ramlibacter tataouinensis TTB310 genome reveals a well-stocked toolbox for adaptation to a desert environment.

Les secrets d'adaptation de la "bactérie du désert", Techno-Science, 5 septembre 2011


mooch

Peut-être de l’ancien français mucher (« musser », « cacher »).

Ou par dérivation du sens argotique de mouche (mouchard = délateur, informateur).

to mooch (infinitive)
mooches (present third-person singular)
mooched (preterite)
mooched (participle past)
mooching (participle present)

What he liked most was to […] stay there, if it pleased him, for two or three days at a time, doing nothing, mooching. (Daphne du Maurier, The Apple Tree)

All the inhabitants of Hampton and Moulsey dress themselves up in boating costume, and come and mooch round the lock with their dogs, and flirt, and smoke, and watch the boats; and, altogether, what with the caps and jackets of the men, the pretty coloured dresses of the women, the excited dogs, the moving boats, the white sails, the pleasant landscape, and the sparkling water, it is one of the gayest sights I know of near this dull old London town.

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


inclusive

Inclus, en parlant des extrêmes d’une fourchette.

Numbers 1 to 10 inclusive

Nombres 1 à 10 inclus


segue

De l’italien seguire (« suit »), du latin sequor.

to segue (infinitive)
segues (present third-person singular)
segued (preterite)
segued (participle past)
segueing (participle present)

Passer d’un thème à un autre ; enchaîner.

Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.

Enchaîner ; passer d’un sujet à l’autre.

“Well, ain’t that just too fuckin’ bad?” Eddie segued into his own agenda.

« C’est dommage. » Eddie enchaîna sur ses propres préoccupations.


ages

Longtemps, une longue durée, une éternité, depuis toujours.

You were here ages. What did you do?

Tu a été ici pendant longtemps. Qu’est-ce que tu as fait ?


tops

Your essay should be two pages, tops.


scrubs

The nurse is wearing her scrubs.


lots

I love you lots.

— Do you have any money?
— Yes, I’ve got lots.

— Avez-vous de l’argent ?
— Oui, j’en ai beaucoup.


kicks

I did it for kicks.


Lara

Lara Croft.


mapping

Though dictionaries are the only core mapping type, all of these others are instances of mappings, and support most of the same operations.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 281


conf

Forme apocopée de configuration, voir aussi config.

Extra JSON values can be specified in the conf file using the syntax json:{...}.


achievement

De l'ancien français achevement, lui-même du verbe achever, achiever.

Une récompense pour avoir fini une quête spécifique, ou avoir rempli un certain objectif.

Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.

Finir le jeu ne vous donne pas un score de 100 % tant que vous n'avez pas débloqué tous les succès.


desktop

Mot formé à partir des mots desk (bureau au sens de meuble) et top (qui ici signifie « dessus, sur »).

conçu pour être utilisé sur un bureau ou qui peut être utilisé sur un bureau

I am very eager to try the new desktop computer I have just bought.

J'ai hâte d'essayer le nouvel ordinateur de bureau que je viens d'acheter .


o’clock

Provient de la contraction de l’expression complète of the clock (littéralement « de l’horloge »). La contraction s’est faite en deux étapes, passant de of the clock à o’th’clock puis enfin à l’expression actuelle. Il convient de noter que, de nos jours, cette particule tend à disparaître du langage parlé pour ne laisser place qu’au chiffre de l’heure.

Ce mot est placé après un nombre entier de 1 à 12 pour l’heure exacte, et il n’est pas utilisé entre l’heure et la minute ou devant a.m. ou p.m..
:* 10:00 → ten o’clock
:* 10:30 → ten thirty ou half past ten
:* 10:00 a.m. → ten a.m.

Heure peut se traduire en anglais par o’clock, hour ou time. → voir heure.

Heure. Note d’usage : Placé après un nombre entier de 1 à 12 pour l’heure exacte.

It is one o’clock.

Go there at 7 o’clock.

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

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

The target is at 3 o’clock.


amicability

Aspects of cooperation and amicability among all cultures should be stressed over conflict and violence.


amicableness

Then there was tea, and thus all ended in amicableness.


attn.

(Abréviation) Par abréviation de to the attention of.

attn Finn Wilcox, ABC Company, 321 Main Street, Springfield AZ 22134

A l'attention de Finn Wilcox, ABC Company, 321 rue principale, Springfield AZ 22134


borough

Du vieil anglais burh. À comparer avec -bury et -brough, apparenté à bourg.

Division administrative de certaines villes (telles que Londres ou New York).

New York is divided into five boroughs.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.


caryatid

\kɛrˈiːɑːtˈɪd\

\kɛrˈiːɑːtˈɪd\

The small porch on the temple’s south end, known as the Porch of the Caryatids, features six female figures supporrting an Ionic entablature.


demesne

De l’anglo-normand demeyne, demene, issu de l’ancien français demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (« puissance ») (qui a donné en français domaine), un nom tiré d’un adjectif, issu du latin dominicus (« appartenant à un seigneur ou un maître »), dérivé de dominus (« maître, propriétaire »).

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;

John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, lignes 5-6, 1816

I could spot no friendly native to tell me where I might find Bobbie. I proceeded, therefore, to roam hither and thither about the grounds and messuages in the hope of locating her, wishing that I had a couple of bloodhounds to aid me in my task, for the Travers demesne is a spacious one and there was a considerable amount of sunshine above, though none, I need scarcely mention, in my heart.

P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapitre III, 1960

One minute before his death, as we were crossing from his demesne to mine and had begun working up between the junipers and ornamental shrubs, a Red Admirable (see note to line 270) came dizzily whirling around us like a colored flame.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, commentaire, note aux lignes 993-995, 1962


extradite

France also refuses to extradite people to countries where they could face the death penalty.


intaglio

(1644) ^([1]). De l'italien intaglio ^([1]) ; de intagliare.

Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the Chinese.

Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool, 1919, éd. 2001, ISBN 0803282680


intaglio

Intaglioed in the maroon leather cover of the book was a golden faceless figurine.


lambast

to lambast (infinitive)
lambasts (present third-person singular)
lambastted (preterite)
lambastted (participle past)
lambastting (participle present)
lambaste

Frapper sévèrement, fustiger, sermonner, sévèrement, blâmer

She is extremely open with her criticism, she lambasted a waiter last week just because the soup was cold.


loonie

I have a loonie and some quarters in my wallet.


prophylactical

But most important is the prophylactical effect and the strengthening of the whole organism.


xebec

xebecs (plural)
chebeque (archaic)
shebeck (archaic)
xebeck (archaic)
zebec
zebeck

Xebecs were armed with 16-24 cannons and took on a crew of 300-450.

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


zwieback

Emprunt à l’allemand Zwieback (« cuit deux fois »).

Zwieback appears on supply lists for troops in the American Civil War.


lats

Latvian lats.


herbage

Herbage (les plantes, comme le gazon, en général).

the black ground was covered with herbage

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 93, édition de 1869


tech

Technologique, du secteur de la technologie.

Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.

Tech stocks are down on NASDAQ.


tech

I can't understand all this new tech.


lonely

lonelier (comparative)
loneliest (superlative)

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

lonely man

lonely people

I get so lonely I could die.

Je suis si délaissé que je pourrais [en] mourir.

Elvis Presley, Mae B Axton, Tommy Durden, heartbreak hotel

lonely place

Love is a lonely place without you
I miss you

L′amour est un endroit isolé sans toi
Tu me manques.


John

(Date à préciser) Du latin Johannes, via l’ancien français Jehan.

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

Prénom masculin anglais, correspondant à Jean en français.

The speaker, John Bercow, has said the House of Commons will reconvene from Wednesday morning, as opposition parties called on Boris Johnson to resign for unlawfully asking the Queen to prorogue parliament.

Le speaker, John Bercow, a déclaré que la Chambre des Communes se réunira à partir de mercredi matin, alors que les partis d'oppositions appelaient Boris Johnson à démissionner pour avoir illégalement demandé à la reine de proroger le Parlement.

Rowena Mason et Peter Walker, «MPs to return immediately in wake of supreme court ruling », The Guardian, 24 septembre 2019


quota

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Apparenté à quote, du latin quota, sous-entendant pars. Il avait le sens de « quote-part, part proportionnelle » ; le sens moderne de « limite aux importations, à l’immigration » date de 1921.

An import quota is a trade restriction on the quantity of goods imported into a country.

Un quota d’importation est une limite sur la quantité de produits importés d’un pays donné.


suffering

Life is suffering. — La vie est la souffrance.


patter

Trottinement, bruit de petits pas pressés.

He could hear the rustle of wings, and the light patter as they searched the floor.


scraggy

Dérivé d’une forme dialectale scrag (« souche d’arbre »). À rapprocher du moyen anglais scrogge qui désigne une clairière qui vient d’être débroussaillée et encore hérissée de souches.

scraggier (comparative)
scraggiest (superlative)

Scraggy neck.

Scraggy wrist.

The tree was scraggy and of depressing thinness.

L’arbre était décharné et d’une minceur déprimante.


hallux

His left foot winced. The hallux nail, ill-cut, / Assailed its neighbour toe with a shrewd nip.


buzzword

Their salespeople know all the right buzzwords, but they can't really help you solve your problems.

Leurs vendeurs connaissent tout le jargon technique mais sont incapables de vous aider à résoudre vos problèmes.


headbutt

Composé de head (« tête ») et de butt (« coup [de tête, de corne] »).

The fight ended after an illegal headbutt.

Le combat se termina après un coup de tête illégal.


headbutt

to headbutt (infinitive)
headbutts (present third-person singular)
headbutted (preterite)
headbutted (participle past)
headbutting (participle present)

He headbutted him in the first round.

Il lui donna un coup de tête dans le premier round.


ure

De l’anglo-normand eure, de l’ancien français uevre (« œuvre »), du latin opera (« travail, œuvre »).

to ure (infinitive)
ures (present third-person singular)
ured (preterite)
ured (participle past)
uring (participle present)

The French soldiers […] from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms.


Marathon

‘Well, if you’re so damned brave and athletic why don’t you prove it by ridding Marathon of that damned bull?’

Stephen Fry, Heroes, Penguin Books, 2019, p. 368


Athena

‘It was a trick,’ I said. ‘A strategy worthy of Athena.’

- C'était une ruse, ai-je dit. Une stratégie digne d'Athéna.

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, 2009, page 321.


teasing

Teasing is cruel.


indignant

As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solenmly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary […].

Dès qu’elle fut partie, Lady Windermere revint dans la galerie de peintures, où un économiste de renom expliquait solennellement la théorie scientifique devant un virtuose hongrois scandalisé […].

Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s crime, éditions Folio bilingue, traduction de François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, avril 2005


Samaria

At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samaria—northern Israel— forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.

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


starling

De star (d’une racine indo-européenne) et du suffixe -ling.

On retrouve la racine dans le latin sturnus (d’où l’italien storno, le français étourneau, sterne) aussi bien que dans la plupart des langues germaniques (allemand Star, danois stær).

Flocks of starlings, rustling like silk, flew to fresh pasture.


-ness

Apparenté à -nis en allemand et néerlandais.

-ité ; Suffixe apposé à un adjectif pour former un nom indiquant une qualité, un état en relation avec l’adjectif.

calm → calmness

dark → darkness

Suffixe apposé à un nom pour former un nom, souvent un néologisme, dans le domaine de la philosophie, indiquant une qualité, un état.

tree → treeness


kleenex

Stop sniffling, and use a kleenex.


Kiev

(Date à préciser) Ellipse de chicken Kiev

Poulet à la mode de Kiev, poulet à la kiévienne.

I suppose there’s a Chicken Marketing Board somewhere which logs this vital information, analyses the results and then sends front-line dispatches to all its producers, instructing them to ditch the cacciatore, double the Kiev and keep the ready-breaded thighs rolling.


porpoise

“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. […]”

« Il y a un marsouin juste derrière moi, et il me marche sur la queue. […] »

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lobster Quadrille


Thames

The Thames is the largest river in England.


peer-reviewed

Évalué, revu par des pairs, par d’autres spécialistes du domaine considéré.

[…] candidate has published X papers in peer-reviewed journals.


gore

(Nom 1) Du vieil anglais gor apparenté à goor (« sale, cradingue ») en néerlandais.

(Nom 2, verbe) Du vieil anglais gāra (« pointe »).

Sang versé, épanchement, gore, violence.

The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

« The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés », dans The Onion, 23 février 2017


gore

to gore (infinitive)
gores (present third-person singular)
goreed (preterite)
goreed (participle past)
goreing (participle present)

Percer d’un coup de corne ou d’un objet pointu.

The bull gored the matador.


Ct

Seuil de cycles, ou cycle-seuil, cycle de seuil : lors d'un test PCR, nombre de cycles d'amplification permettant de détecter la présence du gène viral recherché.

Le Ct (cycle de seuil) correspond à l’intersection entre une courbe d’amplification et une ligne de seuil (figure 1B). Il correspond à une mesure relative de la concentration de la cible dans la réaction de PCR.

« PCR en temps réel : Comprendre la valeur Ct », Thermosisher


offset

Like strings and lists, items in a tuple are accessed by offset (not by key); they support all the offset-based operations, such as indexing and slicing.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 284


platypus

Du grec ancien πλατύς, platús (« plat ») et πούς, poús (« pied »). Cela signifie donc « qui a les pieds plats ».

Le pluriel le plus courant est platypuses, mais on rencontre aussi platypus (forme invariable), platypi (forme latine, commune mais impropre puisque platypus n'est pas un mot d'origine latine), ou même platypodes (forme grecque, correcte mais très rare)

L'appellation platypus avait au départ été choisie pour représenter l'ornithorynque, d'un point de vue de la classification. Mais le genre Platypus existait déjà, et représentait un coléoptère. On choisit donc de nommer l’animal Ornithorhynchus anatinus, mais platypus est resté comme nom vernaculaire en anglais et dans quelques autres langues.

"ʻI never thought of God as humorous,ʼ said Father Stone.
ʻThe creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man? Oh, come now!ʼ Father Peregrine laughed ."

Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1950, éd. 2008, ISBN 9780006479239


serial

(1840) En référence aux ouvrages de Charles Dickens (publiés en parties séquentielles, en tant que série) ; dérivé de series avec le suffixe -al, sur le modèle du latin seriālis qui vient de seriēs et de -ālis. Apparenté à l’italien seriale.

Sériel, qui se produit en série et parfois de façon périodique.

The serial killer had a string of victims across seven states.

Le tueur en série a fait plusieurs victimes dans sept États différents.


serialization

Dérivé de serial, avec le suffixe -ization.

The pickle module performs what is known as object serlialization—converting objects to and from strings of bytes—but requires very little work on our part.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 299


unlucky

(Siècle à préciser) De l’adjectif lucky (« heureux ») avec le préfixe de négation un-.

unluckier (comparative)
unluckiest (superlative)

Malheureux, fâcheux, malencontreux, malchanceux, qui porte malheur.

Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces. (The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling)

Or, Tabaqui le savait aussi bien que personne, il n'y a rien de plus fâcheux que de louer des enfants à leur visage ;

"[…] It is very unlucky; but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now."

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


neptunate

Dérivé de neptunium, avec le suffixe -ate.

By fusion of the neptunate of sodium with potassium bisulphate and treatment with water, the hydrate of neptunic acid was obtained in a pure condition. Neptunium may be distinguished from niobium and ilmenium by its having, along with tantalum, the property of forming an amorphous insoluble precipitate on the addition of caustic soda to the boiling solution of the fluoride ; the other two form crystalline and easily soluble compounds.

Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature, Volume 15, 1877


four-letter word

De four, letter et word (« mot en quatre lettres »), référence à des mots comme shit (« merde »), cock (« bite »), fuck (« baiser »), cunt (« con ») ou piss (« pisse »).

four-letter words (plural)
F-word
f-word

\ˌfɔɹ ˌlɛt.ɚ ˈwɝd\

\ˌfɔː ˌlɛt.ə ˈwɜːd\

He has said a four-letter word.


Io

Io, meanwhile, charged on along the northern shore of the Aegean Sea, swimming over at the place where Europe becomes Asia, the spot we still call in her honour the cow-crossing, or in Greek, the Bosporus.


tag

Du moyen anglais tagge, du proto-germanique *tag-. Apparenté au suédois tagg (« épine »).

Étiquette, plaque d’immatriculation, médaille d’identification (animaux, soldats).

Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought

L'évitement du débat politique par des étiquetages crus et insultants tel que coconut(*) étouffe ou réprime la diversité de pensée. (*) Le mot coconut (littéralement noix de coco) n'est pas traduit car polysémique en anglais.

Kenan Malik, Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times, The Guardian, dimanche 22 Sep 2024


spinster

I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front.

Je fus entraîné devant l’autel et avant de savoir où j’en étais, je me surpris marmottant des réponses qu’on me soufflait à l’oreille et jurant des choses que j’ignorais totalement, en somme assistant au mariage de Mademoiselle Irène Adler et de Godfrey Norton, célibataire. Ce fut l’affaire d’un instant, et aussitôt le monsieur d’un côté, la dame de l’autre, se confondirent en remerciements, tandis qu’en face de moi je voyais la figure rayonnante du pasteur.

Arthur Conan Doyle, « A Scandal in Bohemia »


hexa-

Hexameter.


lithography

(1813) De l’allemand Lithographie, lui-même du grec ancien λίθος, lithos (« pierre ») et γράφειν (« écrire »).

The artist uses the process of lithography to create prints, or lithographs.

L’artiste emploie le procédé de la lithographie pour créer des tirages, ou lithographies.


gimp

to gimp (infinitive)
gimps (present third-person singular)
gimped (preterite)
gimped (participle past)
gimping (participle present)

They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.

Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, How to Cook Vegetables, 1890, p. 25


gimp

(États-Unis) (Ca. 1925) Influence de l’anglais limp.

Dominé, presque toujours homme, vêtu généralement en cuir noir.

Bring out the gimp.
The gimp’s sleepin…
So I guess you just have to go wak’m up, won’t you.


craw

Apparenté au moyen bas-allemand krage (« cou, col ») (d’où viennent le danois krave et l’allemand Kragen (« col »)).

to craw (infinitive)
craws (present third-person singular)
crawed (preterite)
crawed (participle past)
crawing (participle present)

The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.

David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch, 1828


mulled wine

He drank too much mulled wine'.


needless

more needless (comparative)
most needless (superlative)

This new project of yours will only be a needless expense.


premise

There is something wrong about premise number 2.

Quelque chose cloche avec la prémisse 2.


sidereal

The whole sky, though lit by the sidereal rays, seemed black by contrast with the whiteness of the waters. By Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea


snowball fight

Composé de snowball (« boule de neige ») et de fight (« bataille »).

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There was a snowball fight at school.

Il y a eu une bataille de boules de neige à l’école.


swordfish

Du moyen anglais swerdfysche,composé de sword et de fish.

Standing in a boat in swelling seas he can spear a darting swordfish, and he can flick up a trout from the fast waters of a stream with his fingers.

Stephen Fry, Heroes, Penguin Books, 2019, p. 13


Scott

Nom de famille anglais porté des personnes de descendance écossaise.

Walter Scott.


Scott

Prénom masculin ayant pour origine le nom de famille.

Scott McKenzie.


Moses

Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!

Moïse suppose que ses os sont des roses,
Mais Moïse suppose à tort,
Moïse il sait que ses os ne sont pas des roses,
Comme Moïse suppose qu’ils sont !


involuntarily

He involuntarily overheard the conversation.

Il a involontairement entendu la conversation.


machine language

Machine language is certainly the most efficient language on the Apple, albeit the least pleasant in which to code. The Monitor has special facilities for those of you who are determined to use machine language to simplify creating, writing, and debugging machine language programs.

Apple II Reference Manual, Cupertino, Apple Computer Inc., 1979, p. 48


source code

Moreover, because Python comes with complete source code, it empowers developers, leading to the creation of a large team of implementation experts.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 17


debugger

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, p. 86


poke

I gave him a poke to wake him up.

Je lui donnai une pichenette pour le réveiller.


poke

to poke (infinitive)
pokes (present third-person singular)
poked (preterite)
poked (participle past)
poking (participle present)

The horse-drawn carriage just poked along.

Le chariot tiré par un cheval est juste passé à côté.


limbo

How low can you go, when you dance the limbo?

Combien de temps peux-tu tenir, quand tu danses le limbo ?


career

Du français carrière, du latin carrāria.

In recent years, while IceT has steered his career away from recorded music, he has continued to tout his streetcred.

Josephine Metcalf, Carina Spaulding, African American Culture and Society After Rodney King, 2016


budge

(1590) ^([1]). Du moyen français bouger ^([1]) ; probablement de l'occitan bolegar ^([1]).

to budge (infinitive)
budges (present third-person singular)
budged (preterite)
budged (participle past)
budging (participle present)

Cautious experiment had shown that a stiff push was needed to budge them.


spokesperson

Modification non sexiste de spokesman (« porte-parole homme ») et de spokeswoman (« porte-parole femme ») utilisant le nom neutre person (« personne »).

spokespersons (plural)
spokespeople (plural)

A police spokesperson said drink-driving was a "potentially deadly and stupid crime".

« Police warn drinking and driving is 'deadly and stupid' », bbc.com, 2 December 2021


hacker

Composé du verbe hack et du suffixe -er.

Only later, when many of the lab’s scientists and software superstars had departed, would hackers fully realize the unique and ephemeral world they had once inhabited.


Parisian

\pə.ˈɹɪʒ.ən\

Yesterday, I met a Parisian in London.

Hier, j’ai rencontré un Parisien à Londres.


off the wall

\ɒf ðə wɔːl\

His ideas are a bit off the wall.

This album is off the wall.


en-

Enamour, engulf, enshroud, entrust.


bootstrap

L’usage de ce mot pour désigner un chargement à partir de presque rien est traditionnellement expliqué par une allusion à l’exploit imaginé par l’auteur des aventures du Baron de Münchhausen, qui consistait à s’extraire d’un marécage en se tirant soi-même par les languettes de ses souliers ; mais cette étymologie a été démentie.

to bootstrap (infinitive)
bootstraps (present third-person singular)
bootstrapped (preterite)
bootstrapped (participle past)
bootstrapping (participle present)

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Charger et démarrer un programme, en particulier un système d’exploitation, sur un ordinateur, à partir d’un strict minimum d’information

On early computers, it was necessary to enter the bootstrap program in memory through toggle switches.

Sur les premiers ordinateurs, il fallait introduire en mémoire le programme d'amorçage (ou de démarrage) à partir [d'une batterie] de commutateurs.


bidule

The use of a plastic bidule or insert into the neck of the bottle...


feudal

The responsibility of a sacred monarch requires him to transcend simply populist measures and to ensure his superiority over a natural calamity through both economic and spiritual means. In Putin’s case, this was doubly important, since the fires had demonstrated a systemic vulnerability that is common to feudal social structures: a near total lack of control over the local fiefdoms of regional governors, and the resulting absence of an infrastructure aimed at responding to cataclysms.

Anna Arutunyan, The Putin Mystique: Inside Russia’s power cult, Skyscraper Publications, 2014, page 60


ludicrous

more ludicrous (comparative)
most ludicrous (superlative)

ˈlʉː.dɪ.kɹəs

In the Bible, Sarah thought it ludicrous for her to be able to have a baby at her age.

Dans la Bible, Sarah trouvait ridicule qu’elle fût capable d’avoir un bébé à son âge.


speculation

This is pure speculation.


SAO

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory : « Observatoire astrophysique du Smithsonian ».

Vega appears in the SAO catalog as SAO 67174.


loveless

Theirs was a loveless marriage, they stayed together even if they didn't care for each other.

Le leur a été un mariage sans amour, ils sont restés ensemble même s'ils ne ressentaient rien l'un pour l'autre.


weapon of mass destruction

Composé de weapon (« arme »), de mass (« masse ») et de destruction (même sens).

Another domain of international life beyond those already discussed–sovereignty, self-determination, humanitarian intervention, combating terrorism, and frustrating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction–involves climate change.

RichardHaass, A world in disarray, 2018, Penguin Books, p. 138


asshole

He’s acting like an asshole.

Why are such a stupid asshole?

Dead Kennedys, « Advice from Christmas Past », Plastic Surgery Disasters, 1982


troon

Personne trans, le plus souvent une femme trans.

Me when a friend lies to me about their gender and turns out to be some troon. (Im a hateful schizo)

@SlaveryEnj0yer, Twitter, 14 Novembre 2023

Parfois utilisé par retournement du stigmate


machinist

Du français machiniste, ou construit avec machine suffixé par -ist.

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Expressing that he likes the profession of machinist, Akkaş stated that there are important recommendations about success in his book […]

Exprimant qu’il aime la profession de mécanicien, Akkaş a dit qu’il y avait d’importantes recommandations à propos du succès de son livre […]

LeventElmastaş, Machinist Writer Set an Example for Future Generations, RaillyNews, 29/07/2019


boast

"I am a bombshell now", she boasts.

"Je suis une bombe sexuelle maintenant" fanfaronne-t-elle.

Pouvoir s’enorgueillir de ; posséder quelque chose de spécial.

The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.

L’hôtel peut s’enorgueillir de l’une des meilleures vues sur la mer.


cute

cuter (comparative)
cutest (superlative)

Quite cute! Always nice to see a class-room setting.


puck

(Palet) Forme collatérale de poke avec le sens de « ce qu’on pousse » → voir push.

(Démon) Du moyen anglais puke apparenté à spook, spooky (« spectre », « effrayant »), à l’allemand Spuk, spuken (« spectre », « hanter »).

William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.


harmony

Attesté pour la première fois en 1602 ; provient du moyen anglais armonye, qui vient de l’ancien français harmonie/armonie, qui découle du latin harmonia, ce dernier trouvant son origine dans le grec ancien ἁρμονία, harmonia (« articulation, union, accord, harmonie sonore »).

Gartside's aim was to illustrate the harmonies and contrasting hues of primary and secondary colors in a more organic, and perhaps less scientifically far-fetched, manner than the schematic color wheels of its famous forefathers.

Le but de Gartside était d’illustrer les harmonies et les contrastes entre couleurs primaires et secondaires d'une manière plus organique, et peut-être moins farfelue d’un point de vue scientifique, que les cercles chromatiques schématiques de ses célèbres prédécesseurs.

« Mary Gartside, the Woman Who Redefined Color », P55 Art , 17 avril 2022


Danish

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

The Danish are a people who come from Denmark.


Danish

The Danes speak Danish.


organization

Dérivé de organize, avec le suffixe -ation.

\ˌɔː.ɡə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən\

\ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən\

\ˌɔː.ɡə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən\

\ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən\

ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩

The Organization of American States has as its members all of the countries of the Americas.

The neighborhood formed an organization to bring people closer together.

Your office is such a mess! There is no organization to it.


pilgrim

Forme simplifiée de l’ancien français pelerin ou pelegrin, du latin peregrinus.

Samuel Fuller was one of the band of Pilgrims that fled from England to Leyden, Holland, in 1609.

Lucy Mary Kellogg, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, 1975, page 1


checkers

Checkers, variante du jeu de dames jouée sur 64 cases.

Or, for instance, when it came to lying: in elementary school one would play checkers with the boys. My mother had said don’t lie and had also told me that I had to lose at games to the boys if I wanted them to like me. These were irreconcilable opposites. It was, first of all, virtually impossible to lose to the boys in an honest game of checkers. Second, who wanted to? Third, how would I ever respect him or them in the morning? It did strike me that the boys you had to lose to weren’t worth having, but my argument made no impression on my mother nor on anyone else I was ever to meet until the women’s movement.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Plato », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 24


checkerboard

The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.


Buenos Aires

De l’espagnol Buenos Aires (« les bons airs »).

At first they did so much together—played tennis, visited museums, took trips to Palm Beach, Buenos Aires, Rome.

Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper, Sphere, 2012, page 54


due to

Bien que l’emploi de due to en tant que locution prépositive soit courant, certains locuteurs désapprouvent et recommandent owing to à la place, réservant due à son usage en tant qu’adjectif seulement.

En français, on rencontre l’anglicisme dû à.

The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.

Fatal fall of Wright airship, The New York Times, 1908

All of this is due to your refusal to listen to reason.

Tout cela est consécutif à votre refus d’écouter la raison.


borrower

L'anglais distingue entre lend « prêter » et borrow « emprunter ; faire un emprunt ».

The lender gives a loan to the borrower.

Neither a lender nor a borrower be. (Shakespeare: Hamlet (1601) acte I, sc. 3)


body shop

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He went to the body shop to see how much it would cost to remove the dent from his car.

Il s'est rendu à la carrosserie pour savoir combien coûterait le débosselage de sa voiture.


bodywork

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After this bodywork, the car will look as good as new.

Après cette réparation de la carrosserie, la voiture aura l’air neuve.


contemporary

Long and chequered history of Manchester United Football Club (fondly called ManU by the band of ardent supporters) brings to life one of the most popular clichés in contemporary marketing, which is, 'Think global, act local'.

Ayantunji Gbadamosi, Ian Bathgate, Sonny Nwankwo, Principles of Marketing: A Value-Based Approach, 2013


womanhood

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Defoe may have intended to write an exposé of the criminal underworld, but he also created an indomitable character, who belied the idea of helpless and submissive womanhood.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 285


seat belt

Composé de seat (« siège ») et de belt (« ceinture »).

Although the passengers on the right side of the bus were outside of the impact and intrusion zone, many of them were thrown out of their seats during the collision sequence and sustained injuries because the bus’s seat belts were inaccessible and not used.


inequality

Dérivé de equality, avec le préfixe in-.

Can you solve this inequality?

If you change the signs, then the inequality will be reversed.


assassination

Dérivé de assassinate, avec le suffixe -ion.

Magnicide; assassinat à mobile politique.

the Kennedy assassination


apprenticeship

Dérivé de apprentice (« apprenti »), avec le suffixe -ship.

\əˈpɹɛntɪsʃɪp\

Apprentissage ; système d'enseignement d'un métier.

Terrorism, like any other profession, has its apprenticeship.


figure out

to figure out (infinitive)
figures out (present third-person singular)
figured out (preterite)
figured out (participle past)
figuring out (participle present)

\ˌfɪɡ.ə ˈaʊt\

Don’t worry. I’ll figure out later where to find an apartment.


double cross

I trusted you! Is this a double cross?

Je te faisais confiance ! Est-ce une trahison ?


laziness

In most cases where the dot is used, it could be considered overkill (or just a symptom of laziness for writing regular expressions.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, page 14


koa

Luthiers use a lot of maple and mahogany in their instruments, as well as a whole panoply of choices for a guitar's body and accessories—from African ebony to Hawaiian koa to the “Cadillac” of guitar species: Brazilian rosewood.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 47


redundancy

Du latin redundantia (« trop-plein, excès »).

Staff redundancy is needed in the event that a supervisor and key unit supervisors are not present or unable to act in an emergency.

The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels.

1983, UK House of Commons, Papers by Command, Volume 40


capitalize

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(orthographe utilisée principalement aux États-Unis)

Where did the funds come from that capitalized this bank?

You forgot to capitalize the first word of the sentence.

A person’s name is always capitalized.

Capitalize a lowercase "i" if it is preceded by a space and followed by a space, period, exclamation mark, question mark or apostrophe.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 69


Reformation

The Reformation is usually considered to have started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses, authored by Martin Luther in 1517.


commentary

The sports announcer gave a running commentary about the game.

Le commentateur sportif commenta la partie de manière ininterrompue.

The books Caesar’s Commentaries describe several wars in which Caesar was involved.

Les livres Commentaires de César décrivent plusieurs guerres auxquelles César prit part.


DJ

to DJ (infinitive)
DJs (present third-person singular)
DJed (preterite)
DJed (participle past)
DJing (participle present)
deejay

En anglais, le sigle a un accent tonique normalement à la dernière syllabe, mais ce mot a un accent tonique à la première syllabe.

He DJed at a radio station.


password

(Date à préciser)Composé de pass (« passer ») et de word (« mot »).

You’ll need the password to get inside the camp.

Vous aurez besoin du mot de passe pour entrer dans le camp.

A strong password has letters, numbers and special characters.

Un mot de passe fort a des lettres, des chiffres et des caractères spéciaux.


including

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

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


Burgundy

He chose a group of three brothers to illuminate it, Paul, Herman and Jean de Limbourg. Their uncle was the painter Jean Malouel, who worked for the Duke of Burgundy.

[…] Il a choisi pour l’illustrer une équipe de trois frères : Paul, Hernan et Jean de Limbourg, neveux d’un peintre du duc de Bourgogne.

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


Miranda

Miranda Richardson.


Umbriel

(1712) Dérivé du latin umbra (« ombre »).

For, that sad moment, when the Sylphs withdrew,
And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,
Umbriel, a dusky melancholy Spright,
As ever sully'd the fair face of Light,
Down to the Central Earth, his proper Scene,
Repairs to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV


tungstate

(Date à préciser) De l’anglais tungsten, avec le suffixe -ate.

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The only tungstates hitherto observed in the mineral kingdom are the three following; namely, 1. Tungstate of lime. 2. Wolfram, or tungstate of iron and manganese. 3. Tungstate of lead.

ThomasThomson, Outlines of Mineralogy, Geology, and Mineral Analysis, Volume 2, 1836


uranate

(Date à préciser) D’uranium avec le suffixe -ate.

Acetate of uranic oxide and silver-oxide yields uranate of silver-oxide when boiled with water.


cradle

Amritsar is the cradle of Sikh culture in the Indian part of the Punjab.


round trip

He is making a round trip.


one way

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One way ticket.

One way street.


latch

(nom commun) Du moyen anglais latche.
(verbe) Du moyen anglais lacchen.

The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, 1912

door latch.


latch

to latch (infinitive)
latches (present third-person singular)
latched (preterite)
latched (participle past)
latching (participle present)

Where hearing should not latch them.

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth,


forfeit

When the other team didn't show, the game was declared a forfeit.


forfeit

Perdre un droit, une chose, par défaut d'avoir payé la somme due

Because he didn't pay his dues, he forfeited the right to use the club facilities.

When he didn't pay the interest on the mortgage, he forfeited his house to the bank.


drought

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Climate change, on the other hand, has caused severe and frequent drought events leading to the death of livestock and human beings, while displacing hundreds of thousand.

Par ailleurs, le changement climatique a provoqué des épisodes de sécheresse rigoureux et fréquents, provoquant la mort de bétail et d’êtres humains, et provoquant le déplacement de centaines de milliers de personnes.

Land Degradation and Desertification in Africa, PNUE, 2017, page 2


handcuff

Composé de hand (« main ») et de cuff (« manchette »).

to handcuff (infinitive)
handcuffs (present third-person singular)
handcuffed (preterite)
handcuffed (participle past)
handcuffing (participle present)

The policeman handcuffed the burglar.

“And why,” he wanted to know, “are Venables and Atkinson wearing their ties round their wrists ? Is it a new fashion ?” “No, sir, they're handcuffed,” Jennings explained.

Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings follows a clue, Collins, 1951


cell phone

(Date à préciser) → voir cellular et telephone

cell phones (plural)
cellphone
cell-phone

On some basic cell phones, text messages can be sent using the numeric keypad.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 103


favored

Sea Biscuit is the horse favored to win.


favoured

Sea Biscuit is the horse favoured to win.


reenlist

The soldier decided to reenlist.


reengage

The producer decided to reengage the troupe of actors for another engagement.

In driving a car with manual transmission, be sure to reengage the clutch before driving away.


reenlistment

The rate of reenlistment of soldiers is always a concern for the military.


outta

I’m outta here!


fandom

(Date à préciser) De fan et -dom pour domain.

Ensemble des fans d’une pratique, d’un sport, d’une personne, considéré en tant que groupe.

Il y a la Sherlock Fandom, composée de Sherlockians. Les membres de la Fandom d’Harry Potter sont appelés PotterHead.


gotcha

Contraction de got you, prétérit de get you (« avoir vous »).

I gotcha!


gotcha

Be careful with the gotchas.


repeal

the repeal of a law

When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.

Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom? Wednesday June 02, 2021


laptop

(XXᵉ siècle) Motcomposé de lap (« genou, giron ») et de top (« dessus »).

Did you bring your laptop for the presentation?


marital status

My marital status indicates that I am single.

Mon état civil indique que je suis célibataire.


resemblance

; he knew only that he had passed far beyond the town limits and was traversing a lonely region by a road that bore no resemblance to the one by which he had left the village.

Ambrose Bierce, A Wireless Message, 1905, éd. 2008


electric outlet

Prise de courant, Prise (de courant), prise électrique.

You need to put the plug in the electric outlet before you can turn on the lamp.


take out

À emporter (La forme du nom est plus courante.).

Let's order some take out food.


take out

Let's order some take out.


take out

to take out (infinitive)
takes out (present third-person singular)
took out (preterite)
taken out (participle past)
taking out (participle present)

Please take out the trash before the whole house starts to smell


Lausanne

I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 58, édition de 1869


centauresque

A centauresque drawing.


etiquette

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

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


abridged

more abridged (comparative)
most abridged (superlative)

The magazine publishes abridged versions of recent, original stories.

Abridged books are not suitable for students of a literature course.


disposable

The product comes with a disposable applicator.

The culture of disposable consumer items places an additional burden on recycling.


ordinance

The town passed a municipal ordinance against littering on school property.


mechanism

There is no mechanism to pay a temporary employee.

The mechanism inside this machine is very complicated.


in vitro

(1892) ou (Vers 1894) Du latin,composé de in (« dans ») et de vitro (« verre »).

\ɪn ˈvɪ.tɹəʊ\

En éprouvette, en laboratoire, en dehors de l’organisme vivant.

While there are similarities between in vivo and in vitro studies, and they are both used to understand the human body, there are many important differences in how these studies are conducted, how they can be interpreted, and the practical applications of any discoveries which are made.

Même s’il existe des similitudes entre les études in vivo et in vitro et qu’elles sont toutes deux utilisées pour comprendre le corps humain, il y a de nombreuses différences dans la manière dont elles sont menées, comment elles peuvent être interprétées et dans les applications pratiques des découvertes effectuées.

LynneEldridge, « What Does In Vivo and In Vitro Mean? », Verywell Health, 18 novembre 2019


in vivo

(1898) ou (1901) Du latin,composé de in (« dans ») et de vivo (« vivre »).


doublespeak

Composé de double et de speak (« parler »).

Bureaucracies frequently spawn euphemisms intentionally, as doublespeak expressions. For example, in the past, the US military used the term "sunshine units" for contamination by radioactive isotopes.


goal average

Goal difference has often replaced the older goal average, or goal ratio. Goal average is the number of goals scored divided by the number of goals conceded, and is therefore a dimensionless quantity.

Goal difference sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


researcher

Dérivé de research, avec le suffixe -er.

\ɹɪˈsəɹ.tʃəɹ\

The researchers are looking for a cure for the common cold.


searcher

He is a searcher after truth.


comprehension

Syntaxe compacte engendrant une liste, notamment dans un cadre de programmation fonctionnelle.

We've been focusing on list comprehensions and generators in this chapter, but keep in mind that there are two other comprehension expression forms: set and dictionary comprehensions are also available as of Python 3.0.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python, 4th Edition, O’REILLY, 2009


Hanover

The house of Hanover is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and [the] United Kingdom.

La maison de Hanovre est une dynastie royale allemande qui a régné sur le royaume de Hanovre, la Grande-Bretagne, et le Royaume-Uni.


medlar

De l’ancien français mesle → voir nèfle et probable assimilation ou confusion avec mesler, medler (« mêler ») → voir medley et meddle.

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

Loquat, néflier du Japon, Rosaceae Maloideae Eriobotrya.

Japanese medlar.


hobo

Travailleur étasunien sans domicile fixe se déplaçant de ville en ville, le plus souvent en se cachant dans des trains de marchandises, et vivant de travaux saisonniers et d'expédients.

Une voie de chemin de fer traverse cette aridité sale de sa nudité rectiligne, protégée par des grillages, comme pour la mettre à l’abri des mouches. Les mouches, en l’espèce, ce sont les redoutables hobos, graine de voleurs possibles, et qui, en tout cas, n'hésitent jamais à se procurer le transport gratuit d’une ville à l’autre en sautant sur le marchepied des wagons de marchandise.

Régis Messac, la Taupe d'or [1934], éditions de la Grange Batelière, 2021, 1e partie, chap. 1


Cremona

The Grenadiers of Austria are proper men and tall;
The Grenadiers of Austria have scaled the city wall;
They have marched from far away
Ere the dawning of the day,
And the morning saw them masters of Cremona.


goy

(1835) De l’hébreu גוי, ɡoy (« peuple, nation »).

Jonas used to laugh. "What do I care for the Goyim," he said, but Isaac was different. He would talk thee a Megillah about Equality and Brotherhood,—one would have thought, he was reading something aloud out of the newspaper,—and what he meant was that the Yüd and the Goy were now alike.

Martha Wolfenstein, « A Renegade », dans Jewish Publication Society of America, 1905


confetti

The simplest confetti is simply shredded paper and can be made with scissors or a paper shredder.


gamut

(Vers 1520) Contraction du latin gamma ut (« gamme d’ut »). Voir aussi solmization.

"I, for one, had gone through, as I’m sure members of this committee had, a gamut of emotions over those four days."

Victoria Prentis, cité dans PA Media, «Fisheries minister did not read Brexit bill as she was busy at nativity », The Guardian, 13 janvier 2021


calypso

(1934) Antonomase de Calypso pour transcrire le plus ancien kaiso (« musique caribéenne »).

As calypso developed, the role of the griot became known as a chantuelle and eventually, calypsonian.


gaur

The cameras also captured several records of gaur (Bos gaurus), barking deer or muntjak (Muntiacus spp.), Eurasian wild pig (Sus scrofa), and a few species of bears across the state.

Shreya Dasgupta,Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species Mongabay le 28 mars 2017


out of the box

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Au déballage (expression décrivant l’état d’un produit directement après avoir été déballé (à la sortie de l’emballage)).

This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.

Ce logiciel doit être opérationnel directement après l’installation, et sans aucune manipulation farfelue.


dart

Du moyen anglais, de l’ancien français dart dont est issu le français dard.

to dart (infinitive)
darts (present third-person singular)
darted (preterite)
darted (participle past)
darting (participle present)

"Oh! where, where is my uncle?" cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter …

« Mon oncle ! Où est mon oncle ? » s’écria Elizabeth, bondissant de son siège après avoir achevé la lecture de sa lettre … — (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 46, 1813)


dirk

to dirk (infinitive)
dirks (present third-person singular)
dirked (preterite)
dirked (participle past)
dirking (participle present)

Alan was dirking him with his left hand, but the fellow clung like a leech.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped et Catriona, page 47 ; édition intégrée de 1962


VTT

Table de jeu virtuelle ; désigne le fait de jouer aux jeux de rôle « sur table » (c’est-à-dire au jeu de société) par l’intermédiaire d’Internet, en utilisant un logiciel dédié ou bien des logiciels de téléréunion (conférence audio ou bien visioconférence, partage d’images…).

A virtual table top (or VTT) allows people to play RPGs that would traditionally take place face-to-face around a table. Using a computer, and usually video and audio, players and GM connect to the VTT and get their game on.

Une table de jeu virtuelle (ou TJV) permet à des personnes de jouer aux JdR qui se pratiquent traditionnellement en face-à-face autour d’une table. Avec un ordinateur, et habituellement de la vidéo et de l’audio, les MJ et les joueurs et joueuses se connectent à la TJV pour pouvoir jouer.

John Large, Choosing the Right Virtual Table Top for Your Game — RPT#663 sur Roleplaying Tips, 2021-05-24. Consulté le 2022-12-29

Avec ces virtual tabletop (« tables virtuelles »), ou « VTT », les jets de dés sont virtuels, tout comme les figurines et les cartes, et les joueurs restent confortablement chez eux plutôt que de se réunir dans une même pièce.

Louis Adam, « Sur Internet, le jeu de rôle réinvente ses codes », dans Le Monde, 2023-02-07 https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/02/07/sur-internet-le-jeu-de-role-reinvente-ses-codes_6160907_4408996.html texte intégral


vinous

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It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.


joie de vivre

Perhaps if the French have so much joie de vivre, it’s because they’re not looking for it.

Peut-être que si les français ont tant de joie de vivre, c’est parce qu’ils ne la cherchent pas.

Lisa, The Art of Serendipity: The Nonpursuit of Happiness, Fusac, 9 août 2017

The 8th edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), scheduled to be held at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) in Mcleodganj from 7th – 10th November, has opened amidst great excitement and joie de vivre despite the evening being damp and chilly.

L'ouverture de la 8ème édition du Festival International du Film de Dharamshala (DIFF), devant avoir lieu à l'Institut tibétain des arts du spectacle (TIPA) à Mcleodganj du 7 au 10 novembre, se déroula au milieu d'une grande excitation et joie de vivre, malgré une soirée humide et froide.

Murtaza Ali Khan, Dharamshala International Film Festival opens with great excitement and joie de vivre in Mcleodganj, National Herald, 8 novembre 2019


bon viveur

"The Hong Kong-born billionaire bon viveur known worldwide for his legendary parties' according to Condé Nast Traveller, who in 2017 proclaimed Tang one of their '50 Best Travellers of Our Time'.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 246


skiable

more skiable (comparative)
most skiable (superlative)

The new snow on the mountain was extremely skiable.


underdog

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de under et de dog.

Compétiteur dont les chances de succès sont minces, sous-chien.

In 2004, in Athens, the Americans were underdogs to the Chinese and the Canadians.

En 2004, à Athènes, les Américains étaient hors-course par rapport aux Chinois et aux Canadiens. (NDLR : dans les épreuves de plongeon des Jeux Olympiques)


starship

Composé de star (« étoile ») et de ship (« vaisseau »).

\ˈstɑɹ.ˌʃɪp\

\ˈstɑː.ˌʃɪp\

Starship troopers, roman de Robert A. Heinlein


considerateness

Dérivé de considerate, avec le suffixe -ness.

my prudence and considerateness

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, pages 19-20, édition de 1869


prudery

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Then I saw her frame convulse, shudderingly, her muscles reacting to her rapidly lowering temperature, and casting prudery to the winds, I threw myself down beside her and took her in my arms, pressing her body close to mine.

Puis je vis son ossature se convulser, en frissonnant, ses muscles réagissant à sa température qui baissait rapidement, et chassant au loin ma pruderie, je me jetai à terre derrière elle et la pris dans mes bras, serrant son corps près du mien.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land that Time Forgot


advertising

advertizing (positive)
more advertizing (comparative)
most advertizing (superlative)
advertizing

Their advertising budget is 100 millions for the year to come.


advertising

What do you do in terms of advertising?


baffle

to baffle (infinitive)
baffles (present third-person singular)
baffled (preterite)
baffled (participle past)
baffling (participle present)

If you don't already have a programming background, the language in the next few sections may be a bit baffling

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, page 16


igloo

(1824) De l’inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ, iglu (« maison »).

An igloo is made of snow.


freely

Wine was flowing freely.


lunet

our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried.


odyle

Construit sur Od avec le grec ancien ὕλη, húlē (« matière »)

Reichenbach called this magnetic force od or odyle.

Daniel J. Benor, Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing, 2004


know better

\nəʊ ˈbɛt.əʳ\

\nəʊ ˈbɛt.əʳ\

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de know

Ne pas se laisser prendre au piège ; savoir où l’on met les pieds.

Oreza looked forward and turned back. “Two anchors for that little puff o’ wind we had? They’re not far enough apart. Thought you knew better.”
“Chief Bosun’s Mate,” Kelly reminded him. “Since when does a bookkeeper get that snotty with a real seaman?”

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

I should have known better with a girl like you.

J’aurais dû me méfier (prendre garde, savoir où je mettais les pieds) avec une fille comme toi.

I should have known better than to take a chance on ever losing you

J’aurais dû trouver autre chose à faire (trouver mieux à faire, comprendre que ce n’était pas une chose à faire) que de courir le risque de te perdre à jamais.


happy end

Composé de happy (« heureux ») et de end (« fin »).

But where Americans see rising tides, others see the emergence of new rivers of history. Some may lead to happy ends, some may not.

KishoreMahbubani, The Curse of Good Intentions, Time, 2005


alternation

It is not intended to relate in detail the progress and incidents of that ghastly contest — a contest without vicissitudes, its alternations only different degrees of despair.

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

Whe using in bigger regular expressions, we will probably need to wrap our alternation inside parentheses to express that only that part is alternated and not the whole expression.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, p. 16


landslide

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Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot complained to reporters that sexism and racism were the reasons behind her landslide defeat in Chicago’s mayoral election.

La maire démocrate Lori Lightfoot s’est plaint auprès des journalistes du fait que le sexisme et le racisme étaient à l’origine de sa défaite écrasante aux élections municipales de Chicago.

Madeline Leesman, « Lightfoot Blames Racism, Sexism for Reelection Defeat », Townhall,1ᵉʳ mars 2023


impassable

more impassable (comparative)
most impassable (superlative)

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Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies, and impassable roads, (Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë)

Oh ! ce vent glacial, ce ciel sinistre du nord, ces routes impraticables,


eliminate

Du latin eliminare (« mettre dehors, à la porte »).

to eliminate (infinitive)
eliminates (present third-person singular)
eliminated (preterite)
eliminated (participle past)
eliminating (participle present)

əˈlɪm.ɪ.næɪt

The undesirable weeds have been eliminated.

Given two equations in "x" and "y", you can eliminate the "x", and then solve for "y".


jailer

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de jail, avec le suffixe -er.

jailers (plural)
jaileress (feminine)
gaoler

Five nights and four days I remained, altogether, seeing nobody but Hareton, once every morning, and he was a model of a jailer—surly, and dumb, and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense of justice or compassion.

J’y restai cinq nuits et quatre jours en tout, sans voir personne que Hareton une fois tous les matins. C’était le modèle des geôliers : sombre, muet, et sourd à toutes mes tentatives pour émouvoir ses sentiments de justice ou de compassion. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XXVII, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 379)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter XIII, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 271


ambuscade

After examining the ground carefully, to make himself sure that it contained no ambuscade, he made a signal to the other generals […]

Après avoir examiné le terrain soucieusement, afin de s’assurer qu’il n’y aurait aucune embuscade, il fit signal aux autres généraux […]

[…] when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt ; […]

[…] lorsqu’il grimpa prudemment à la fenêtre, il découvrit une embuscade, dans la personne de sa tante ; […]

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1.


pecuniary

Du latin pecuniarius, dérivé de pecunia (« l’argent »).

Pécuniaire, pécunier , relatif à l’argent.

what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances?

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 110


be there or be square

Littéralement : « soyez là ou soyez démodé » — square étant ici un adjectif qui veut dire « démodé ».

Expression encourageant quelqu’un à se présenter à un rendez-vous, un rassemblement, une fête.

There’s a huge party on Saturday night; be there or be square.

Il y a une fête énorme samedi soir ; c’est là qu’il faudra être.


fingerprint

De finger (« doigt ») et print (« empreinte »).

\ˈfɪŋ.ɡəɹ.ˌpɹɪnt\

\ˈfɪŋ.ɡəɹ.ˌpɹɪnt\

ˈfɪŋ.ɡɚ.ˌpɹɪnt

The policemen fingerprinted the suspects.

Les policiers ont pris les empreintes digitales des suspects.


thrifty

thriftier (comparative)
thriftiest (superlative)

By being thrifty, she can stretch her money further.