wade

À rapprocher du néerlandais waden et de l'allemand waten.

to wade (infinitive)
wades (present third-person singular)
waded (preterite)
waded (participle past)
wading (participle present)

wade in

faire quelque chose de façon péremptoire ou sans état d’âme

wade through

se farcir, venir à bout, dans le cadre d’une tâche longue et fastidieuse

Traverser une étendue d’eau à pied, traverser à gué.

I found a place where I could wade the river - J’ai trouvé un endroit pour traverser la rivière à gué.


badge

(Vers 1400) En moyen anglais bagge (« emblème porté par les serviteurs pour signaler leur allégeance »), de l’ancien français bage (« charge, office »), plus avant, du latin médiéval bagea, bagia.

the badge of a policeman.

Heraldic badge.

Badge, porte-nom, carte d’identification donnant un accès.

Access badge.

Digital badge.


badge

Guests arrived and were counted and badged.

They were dressed in uniform, too, but theirs were everyday uniforms, not ceremonial. Dark olive cloth, worn and creased, badged here and there with the unfamiliar insignia of their rank.

My daughter's hands were raw and scraped from shucking four hundred oysters the night before, her knuckles badged with tiny, brilliant, forming scabs.


hover

to hover (infinitive)
hovers (present third-person singular)
hovered (preterite)
hovered (participle past)
hovering (participle present)

This time, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.

Cette fois, j’ai hésité entre les travaillistes et les libéraux-démocrates [NDT : partis britanniques].

Placer le curseur au-dessus d’un lien sans cliquer dessus.

A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

Une info-bulle apparaît quand tu passes le curseur sur ce lien.


rule

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The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.


rule

Du moyen anglais rulen, de l’ancien français riuler.

to rule (infinitive)
rules (present third-person singular)
ruled (preterite)
ruled (participle past)
ruling (participle present)

To rule a nation.

The new queen ruled wisely.

The judge ruled in her favor.

exceller, être très bon, être le meilleur.

This rock band rules!


lab

And no one thinks they’re implying that, after some nuclear mutation incident involving a chameleon in a lab, they now have the power to change their own skin pigmentation.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 50


perform

to perform (infinitive)
performs (present third-person singular)
performed (preterite)
performed (participle past)
performing (participle present)

Effectuer, exécuter, accomplir, réaliser.

perform a task

The little girl performed her long journey in safety;

La petite fille fit son long voyage en toute sécurité ;


performer

performer on the stage

Tom is a top performer in our department.

Tom est l'un des plus performants de notre département.


grieve

De l’ancien français grever, qui a la forme conjuguée (jeo) grieve.

to grieve (infinitive)
grieves (present third-person singular)
grieved (preterite)
grieved (participle past)
grieving (participle present)

It grieves me to see you like this.

She's still grieving for the loss of her loved one.

Déposer un grief par rapport à (un événement, etc.), surtout en contexte syndical.

The union grieved the reprimand against the worker.


elect

(Adjectif, nom) Du latin electus.
(Verbe) Du latin eligo.

He is the President-elect.


elect

Predestination is the belief that certain people are among the elect, and destined to go to heaven.


permeate

The concept of "iterable objects" is relatively recent in Python, but it has come to permeate the language‘s design.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 432


cult

Un mot anglais qui n’est pas péjoratif est sect.

The Cult of Apollo, the Eidos of Identity

"Screw cults' views!" shouted the counterprotestors repeatedly.


cult

The preacher eventually gathered a cult following.

A cult movie.


purpose

(Date à préciser) De l’ancien français porpos (nom) et porposer (verbe), dont sont issus le français propos et proposer.

to purpose (infinitive)
purposes (present third-person singular)
purposed (preterite)
purposed (participle past)
purposing (participle present)

You purpose to kill me

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, édition de 1869, page 78


indigenous

Dérivé de indigene, avec le suffixe -ous.

Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.

Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree, 1862

She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ch. 18, 1852

He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.

George MacDonald, "Stephen Archer" dans Stephen Archer and Other Tales, 1883


quarry

(Début XIVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais quirre ou moyen anglais querre.

The deer were driven off the fields and into cover. Just what the archers needed to bring their quarry into range.

Le cerf a été conduit hors des champs et à couvert. Juste ce dont les archers avaient besoin pour amener la proie à leur portée.

Bob Speirs, Bringing a bow to a gun fight, Black Hills Pioneer, 21 novembre 2019

Spot a squirrel up in the branches, make the shot, retrieve your quarry and paddle on down river until you find another.

Repérez un écureuil dans les branches, tirez, récupéréz votre proie et continuez à descendre la rivière jusqu’à en trouver un autre.

Brandon Butler, Many ways of hunting squirrels in the late fall, The Herald, 20 novembre 2019


quarry

The Bureau of Land Management is starting an environmental review of the proposal to expand the quarry from 23 to 321 acres and remove millions of tons of rock a year.

Le Bureau of Land Management commence une évaluation environnementale de la proposition d'étendre la carrière de 23 à 321 acres et d'extraire des millions de tonnes de roche par an.

The Associated Press, Glenwood Springs commits $1.25 million to fight quarry, The Denver Post, 17 novembre 2019

Using all-electric crushing and screening equipment allowed the operation to upgrade its production capacities even as the residential area creeped closer to the quarry.

L'utilisation de matériel de concassage et de criblage entièrement électrique a permis à l'opération d'améliorer ses capacités de production alors même que la zone résidentielle se rapproche de la carrière.

Estonia limestone quarry invests in full-electric processing, Aggregates Manager, 21 novembre 2019


quarry

Morceau de verre, de pierre ou de carrelage en forme de diamant.

A glass-stained quarry.

Un morceau de vitrail en forme de diamant.


cupboard

(Sens 1) (fin du XIVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais cuppeborde, cupbord. Peut-être interprété comme uncomposé de cup et de board.

(Sens 3) (début du XVIᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais cuppeborde, cupbord.

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Buffet, meuble qui sert à entreposer l’argenterie et la vaisselle.

Put the cups in the cupboard.

Armoire, placard, meuble de rangement avec généralement des portes et des étagères, utilisé pour le matériel de cuisine et la nourriture ou bien d’autres objets en tous genres.

Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.

Harry était habitué aux araignées car le placard sous les escalier en était rempli, et c'était là qu'il dormait.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers, 1997


trouble

to trouble (infinitive)
troubles (present third-person singular)
troubled (preterite)
troubled (participle past)
troubling (participle present)

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don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you

The treatment of the slaves troubled him deeply.

I’d be glad of your assistance if it won’t trouble you too much.


incident

The ray of light was incident on the reflective surface.


incident

Your diplomat refers to this occurrence as a regrettable incident.


dough

Du vieil anglais dāh issu du proto-germanique daigoz lui-même issu de l’indo-européen dʰigʰ- (pétrir).

Next, we knead the dough, so the bread will rise better in the oven.

cake dough, bread dough

Fric, De l’argent, du flouse, de l’oseille.

That's a lot of dough. How did you get it all?


pack

(XIIIᵉ siècle) Du néerlandais pak ; le verbe est le dénominal du nom, apparenté à packen (« empoigner ») en allemand.

to pack (infinitive)
packs (present third-person singular)
packed (preterite)
packed (participle past)
packing (participle present)

Faire ses valises, faire sa valise, faire la valise.

I'm leaving tomorrow, and I still haven't packed.


greatest thing since sliced bread

best thing since sliced bread
best thing since sliced pan

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Invention remarquable, le fil à couper le beurre.

It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread! What a brilliant idea!

C’est mieux que le fil à couper le beurre ! Quelle idée brillante !


patch

(XIVᵉ siècle) Étymologie obscure ; peut-être une variante de pieche, piece.

a patch of color

a patch of land


patch

to patch (infinitive)
patches (present third-person singular)
patched (preterite)
patched (participle past)
patching (participle present)

Patching is patting either the left, right, or both thighs with one’s hands.


performance

Soit dérivé du moyen anglais to perform (« accomplir, réaliser ») avec le suffixe d’origine française -ance, de l’ancien français parformer, soit directement du moyen français parformance.

Synchroniquementdérivé de perform (« accompler, réaliser »), avec le suffixe -ance.

The musicians put on a beautiful performance.

The performance of the athletes was remarkable.

La performance des athlètes était remarquable.


phase

(Date à préciser) Du grec ancien φάσις, phasis.

to phase (infinitive)
phases (present third-person singular)
phased (preterite)
phased (participle past)
phasing (participle present)

Échelonner, rendre quelque chose discontinu pendant une période.

The marketing department decided to phase out the old product.

Le service commercial a décidé de retirer progressivement l’ancien produit.


pimp

to pimp (infinitive)
pimps (present third-person singular)
pimped (preterite)
pimped (participle past)
pimping (participle present)

Pimp my ride.


pique

to pique (infinitive)
piques (present third-person singular)
piqued (preterite)
piqued (participle past)
piquing (participle present)

He greeted me coldly with merely a movement of the head and passed on, leaving me standing on the walk, with half-proffered hand, surprised and naturally somewhat piqued.

Ambrose Bierce, A Cold Greeting, 1888, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


originally

Dérivé de original, avec le suffixe -ly.

Originally, I was going to say no. But then I decided to agree.

À l’origine, originairement, au commencement.

Originally, people used horses, before the coming of the car.

He is originally from New Jersey, but now he lives in Boston.


lagoon

the lagoons of Venice

a lagoon in a tropical island


onset

Finally, from the onset of the insurrection, the Polish forces were aided by the civilian population and had surprise on their side as they attacked many separate groups of soldiers at the same time and the resistance to Russian forces quickly spread over the city.

Enfin, dès le début de l'insurrection, les forces polonaises ont été aidées par la population civile et ont bénéficié de l'effet de surprise tandis qu'elles attaquaient en même temps de nombreux différents groupes de soldats et que la résistance aux forces russes se propageait rapidement dans la ville.


awakening

He has an awakening interest in art.


award

To attribute an award.

Our annual awards are the perfect opportunity to recognise and celebrate the incredible achievements of its members towards our shared goal of improved road safety accross Europe


aware

awarer (comparative)
awarest (superlative)

Are you aware that she was looking your way the whole evening?

Are you aware of the implications if this theory turns out to be true?


awkward

He’s incredibly awkward whenever he’s around girls.

In the early days, the road-making machinery and other earth-moving equipment was so awkward.

It was one of those awkward moments that I prefer to forget.

C’était un de ces moments malaisants que je préfère oublier.


avail

Charles May afterward related the unfortunate occurrence to his wife and explained that he had apologised to the son for the hasty blow, but without avail.

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

to no avail


avarice

With this there grows, In my most ill-compos’d affection, such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands.

Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them?

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part II, ch. vi, 1726

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.


aviation

(Date à préciser) Emprunt du français aviation, du latin avis (« oiseau »).

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

DreamWorks Animation, Columbus 81 Productions, Bee Movie, Paramount Pictures, 2007


avoid

to avoid (infinitive)
avoids (present third-person singular)
avoided (preterite)
avoided (participle past)
avoiding (participle present)

I avoid walking in the rain.


hoax

D'origine inconnue. Peut-être une forme corrompue de hocus comme dans l’incantation magique hocus-pocus.

My own attitude in writting is always that of a hoax weaver… — (Howard Philips Lovecraft, lettre à Clark Ashton Smith, 17 octobre 1930)
#*: Lorsque j’écris, j’agis toujours comme un tisseur de canulars…


below

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A program that implements this recursive algorithm is shown below.

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

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

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


savage

Via l’ancien français salvage, du latin silvaticus (« de forêt, forestier »), devenu *salvaticus en bas latin.

Comme le français sauvage (nom commun), ce mot est dorénavant offensant. On le trouve pourtant dans les ouvrages anciens (voir ci-dessus).

My Thoughts were now wholly employ’d about securing my self either against Savages, if any should appear

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 1. 1719.


savage

His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.


broach

Entamer, aborder (un sujet de conversation).

I hope you don't mind if I broach the subject.


archbishop

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of All England.

L'Archevêque de Cantorbéry est le primat de toute l'Angleterre.


skilful

more skilful (comparative)
most skilful (superlative)

Monsieur, I am not a skilful teacher, it is true, but practice improves; besides, I work under difficulties; here I only teach sewing.

Je suis, il est vrai, dit-elle, un triste professeur ; néanmoins la pratique me rendra plus habile. D’ailleurs je rencontre ici de nombreuses difficultés ; je n’enseigne que la couture.


hoof

Du vieil anglais hōf, du proto-germanique *hōfaz, de l’indo-européen commun *k̑oph₂ós.

Get your hooves off me!


column

She writes a weekly column in the newspaper.

Did you see the column today on the corruption scandal?


bairn

Du vieil anglais, issu du vieux norrois barn (« enfant »).

He would never again make the fire for her in the morning, nor yet keep the bairn when she was sick.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped et Catriona, page 32. Édition intégrée de 1962.


demonstrate

to demonstrate (infinitive)
demonstrates (present third-person singular)
demonstrated (preterite)
demonstrated (participle past)
demonstrating (participle present)

The scientist demonstrated the principle through an experiment.

The students were demonstrating for peace.


yew

Du moyen anglais ew, apparenté à Eibe en allemand, ijf en néerlandais, if en français.

The difficulty of procuring palms for that day's ceremonies (le dimanche des rameaux) led to the substitution of boughs of yew, willow, or other native trees. The Sunday was often designated by the names of these trees, as "Yew Sunday" or by the general term "Branch Sunday".

«Branch Sunday », dans Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913


fancy

fancier (comparative)
fanciest (superlative)

If you don't follow this practice, anyone reading your expressions will lose some time trying to figure out what kind of fancy stuff you tried to accomplish.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, p. 18


fancy

to fancy (infinitive)
fancies (present third-person singular)
fancied (preterite)
fancied (participle past)
fancying (participle present)

Do you fancy a drink?

Est-ce que ça te dit de boire un verre ?

He does what he fancies.


composure

The Patriarchal state, always a state of calmness and composure, was so particularly serene that evening as to be provoking.

Le Patriarche, qui se trouvait toujours dans un état de calme et de quiétude, paraissait, ce soir-là, d’une sérénité encore plus agaçante que de coutume.


fatty

De fat suffixé par -y ; apparenté au néerlandais vettig (« gras, graisseux ») et à l’allemand fettig (« gras »).

fattier (comparative)
fattiest (superlative)

A fatty reward for a fatty project!

Une grosse récompense pour un gros projet !


sack

En général, un sack est plus grand qu’un bag.

Sack of Rome

Licenciement. → voir get the sack et give the sack.

He got the sack for being late all the time.

Lit, pieu. → voir hit the sack, in the sack et sack out.

The civilian shook his head. He paused for a moment, then headed off to the bunk room. They’d be going out again before sunset, and he’d need the sack time.


sack

to sack (infinitive)
sacks (present third-person singular)
sacked (preterite)
sacked (participle past)
sacking (participle present)

Voyez ransack pour mettre à sac une maison ou un édifice.

Mettre à sac (une ville, un quartier), saccager, piller.

The Visigoth barbarians sacked Rome.

Les barbares Wisigoth ont mis Rome à sac.


prostitution

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At such establishments, where male entertainers flirt with female customers over food and drink, there are malicious schemes designed to trap the women into an endless cycle of debt that ultimately push them toward prostitution.

Karin Kaneko, Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law, Japan times, 6 October 2024


lottery

De l’italien lotteria composé de (lotto + -eria) calqué sur le mot loterie en français.

In order to win the top prize in a particular lottery, one must match all 6 numbers on his or her ticket to the 6 numbers between 1 and 49 that are drawn by the lottery organizer.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 87


proof

Il faut noter la différence entre proof et evidence, qui tous deux traduisent le mot preuve. Tout élément qui tend à appuyer la véracité d’une proposition est evidence; proof est réservé à la preuve définitive qui établit la proposition hors de tout doute. Si les vêtements d’un suspect sont tachés de sang, cela est evidence qu’il est le tueur; si un enregistrement vidéo le montre en train de poignarder la victime à mort, il s’agirait de proof. Dans le contexte juridique, preuve est le plus souvent traduit par evidence.

I now have the proof that she is guilty!

J’ai maintenant la preuve qu’elle est coupable !

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

Ce qui est affirmé sans preuve peut être nié sans preuve. — (Euclide de Mégare)

Could you look over this proof, and see if you can find any errors?

Pourriez-vous vérifier cette épreuve, et voir si vous pouvez trouver quelque erreur ?

You’ll receive the title to the automobile upon receipt of proof of ownership.

A level of 60 per cent alcohol is the same as 120 proof alcohol.


bargain

De l’ancien français bargaignier (« marchander »), apparenté à borrow.

The bargain was concluded upon the spot.

to strike a bargain, signer un marché, conclure un accord.

The department store has a sale on now. It's a great bargain!


cheat

to cheat (infinitive)
cheats (present third-person singular)
cheated (preterite)
cheated (participle past)
cheating (participle present)

Don’t trust him. He cheats at cards.

Ne lui fais pas confiance. Il triche aux cartes.

She cheated me. I want my money back.

Elle m’a roulé. Je veux qu’on me rende mon argent.

I wish someone had told me she was cheating on me.

J’aurais aimé que quelqu’un me dise qu’elle me trompait.


cheat

John and Peter were playing cheat.


scare

En moyen anglais skerren, du norrois skirra.

Johnny had a bad scare last night.

JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.


shatter

Du moyen anglais scateren, qui a également donné en anglais scatter.

to shatter (infinitive)
shatters (present third-person singular)
shattered (preterite)
shattered (participle past)
shattering (participle present)

The glass shattered.

Briser, fracasser, réduire en miettes quelque chose.

The rock shattered the window.


forward

Du vieil anglais foreweard ;dérivé de fore, avec le suffixe -ward.

Sir, don’t you believe you’re acting a little forward?

Monsieur, ne croyez-vous pas que vous vous comportez un peu effrontément ?


forward

to forward (infinitive)
forwards (present third-person singular)
forwarded (preterite)
forwarded (participle past)
forwarding (participle present)

She forwarded the email, package, letter, etc.

Elle réexpédia le courriel, le paquet, la lettre, etc.


frame

En moyen anglais framen ou framen (« construire »), apparenté à främja (« construire », « promouvoir ») en suédois, fremme (« promouvoir ») en danois, fremja (« réaliser ») en islandais ; du radical *promo (« devant, vers ») → voir from.

This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

In HTML, a window of the web browser can be divided into separate frames.

The windows of the GUI can have frames, panes, and panels.


frame

to frame (infinitive)
frames (present third-person singular)
framed (preterite)
framed (participle past)
framing (participle present)

frame a painting

(Sens figuré)''frame a story, a discussion


seat

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Banquette → voir seat of a car et car seat.

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.


waive

The administration waived the minimum age requirement for her.

The lawyer waived all future monetary claims.

The administration waived the fee on account of financial need.


feeling

She had a feeling that this was going to happen.


hearing

She has exceptionally good hearing.


scrap

scrap of paper, scrap of meat, scraps from the dinner table, scraps of cloth

scraps of cloth


denial

Despite his denials, the court found him guilty.

Denial is one of the stages of healing during grief.

She was saddened to receive a latter of denial for his visa.


store

to store (infinitive)
stores (present third-person singular)
stored (preterite)
stored (participle past)
storing (participle present)

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In a nutshell, an object is iterable if it is either a physically stored sequence in memory, or an object that generates one item at a time in the context of an iteration operation—a sort of "virtual" sequence.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 123

The majority of absorbed calcium is stored in the skeleton.

Scientific Opinion on re-evaluation of calcium carbonate (E 170) as a food additive , EFSA Journal 2011;9(7):2318


sign

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On parle d’un road sign (panneau routier), poster (affiche), [handwritten] sign (écriteau) ou billboard (pancarte/affiche). On dit souvent simplement sign. Un movie/film poster n’est pas un sign.

Since the Middle Ages, the sign for a barber has been a pole with red and white stripes.

Depuis le Moyen Âge, l'enseigne du barbier est un poteau à rayures rouges et blanches.

sign of the times

If I am wrong, then let the gods give us a sign.

Si je me trompe, alors, que les dieux nous donnent un signe.


spur

Le sens initial est « donner un coup de pied », de là « éperonner » ; apparenté en anglais à spurn (« repousser »), dans les autres langues à spoor (« trace [de pied] », « piste ») en néerlandais, à Spur (« trace », « piste ») et à Sporn (« éperon », « ergot ») en allemand .

Lives he, good uncle? Thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.

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

William Shakespeare, Henry V, Acte IV, Scène VI, ligne 4


spur

to spur (infinitive)
spurs (present third-person singular)
spurred (preterite)
spurred (participle past)
spurring (participle present)

Inciter, pousser à.
Suivi d’un verbe (emploi de on)

It just spurs me on to get more work done.

Cela me pousse simplement à travailler davantage.


dubious

more dubious (comparative)
most dubious (superlative)

He has the dubious distinction of being the only man to have run the course in the wrong direction.

Il a la douteuse distinction d’être le seul homme à avoir couru la course dans la mauvaise direction.

I am rather dubious as to whether he will succeed.

Je suis assez dubitatif quant à son succès futur.


eschew

to eschew (infinitive)
eschews (present third-person singular)
eschewed (preterite)
eschewed (participle past)
eschewing (participle present)

By eschewing insights from dynamic semantics on how logical form is constructed and interpreted, Hobbs inter alia (Hobbs, 1979); 1985; Hobbs et al., 1993 tend to exploit commonsense reasoning in cases where the simpler mechanisms from dynamic semantics would do.

AlexLascarides & Nicholas Asher, Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics With Discourse Structure, 2007


rack

Baie, armoire climatisée pour ranger des serveurs.

A metal frame hanging from the ceiling awaited to route plugs and fiber connections to 10 experimental server racks that have yet to arrive.

Une ossature métallique suspendue au plafond attendait d’acheminer les prises et les connexions en fibre optique vers 10 racks de serveurs expérimentaux qui n’étaient pas encore arrivés.

Matt Day, ’’Amazon Turns to Cloud Hardware to Outrun Microsoft and Google, Blooberg Businessweek, 3 décembre 2019

But still, arguing that not giving a student a specific computing device spells academic doom is a bit like saying a medieval torture rack provides just a bit of a stretch.

Mais quand même, prétendre que le fait de ne pas donner à un étudiant un appareil informatique spécifique le condamne à l'échec académique est un peu comme dire qu’un chevalet de torture ne fournit juste qu’un peu d’étirement.

Dan Robitzski, Apple Exec: Kids With Chromebooks Are “Not Going to Succeed”, Futurism, 14 novembre 2019

We presumably wouldn’t bring back medieval methods like the rack, the iron maiden, or thumbscrews, even if we thought they might work.

Nous ne réinstaurerions pas l’usage de méthodes médiévales comme le chevalet, la vierge de fer ou les poucettes, même si nous pensions qu’elles pourraient fonctionner.

Jim Geraghty, The CIA Torture Bombshell That Didn’t Change Anything, National Review, 20 novembre 2019

Crémaillère, tige dentée permettant un déplacement linéaire.

The combination of rack and pinion are often uses as a part of linear actuator.

La combinaison de la crémaillère et du pignon est souvent utilisée comme partie d’un actionneur linéaire.

Sandesh, Rack And Pinion Market to Witness an Outstanding Growth During 2017 to 2027, Herald Research, 19 novembre 2019

Manual actuators are unpowered and use a rotating knob or handwheel to operate. There are several types including those with lead screws, racks and pinions, belt drive, etc. each having its specific load and drive force capability.

Les actionneurs manuels ne sont pas alimentés et fonctionnent à l’aide d’un bouton rotatif ou d’une manivelle. Il en existe plusieurs types, y compris ceux avec vis à tête filetée, crémaillères et pignons, transmission par courroie, etc. ayant chacun leur capacité spécifique de charge et de force motrice.

Complete Guide to Actuators (Types, Attributes, Applications and Suppliers) Thomas Net

His monstrous, knotty, bulging rack of antlers would measure more than 280 inches.

Sa monstrueuse, noueuse et imposante ramure mesurera plus de 280 pouces.

Tony Kennedy, Fenced hunting preserves have become a flash point over who is to blame for the spread of chronic wasting disease., StarTribune, 26 novembre 2019

Only a strong, mature buck will grow the heavy rack with lots of points that is so coveted by trophy-hunters.

Seul un mâle puissant et mature aura une lourde ramure avec de nombreuses pointes, tant convoitée par les chasseurs de trophée.

John Burdick, Ask a naturalist: When and why do deer lose their antlers? , Hudson Valley One, 12 novembre 2019

Subs use the "hot rack" system—as soon as you get out of a bunk, someone else gets in.

Les sous-mariniers utilisent la technique du « lit chaud ». Dès qu’un sort de la couchette, un autre y va.

Marty Smith, When Do Sailors on Submarines Masturbate?, Willamette Week, 21 novembre 2019

You've obviously never been in the military, where at the end of the 12 of 16 hour weekend shift, you need some caffeine to get to your rack / bunk / bed and the only thing coming out of the coffee urn needs to be cut with a fork and knife.

Vous n'avez clairement jamais été à l'armée, où à la fin d'un service de 12 ou 16 heures le week-end, vous avez besoin de caféine pour atteindre votre couchette / lit superposé / lit et la seule chose qui sort de la cafetière doit être coupée avec une fourchette et un couteau.

VTCC-99, Giftory: Frame-by-frame Highlight Reel Of Virginia Tech’s 45-0 Spanking Of Georgia Tech, The Key Play

Snooker games start with a rack of fifteen red-colored balls that are each valued at 1 point.

Les parties de billard commencent avec un rack de quinze boules rouges qui ont chacune une valeur de 1 point.

Scott McNeely, Ultimate Book of Sports, page 143, 2012

We do need to bottle-feed and stimulate them to urinate when they are very small, but as soon as that’s done and they’re drinking from a bottle, we put them on a feeding rack and we are pretty much hands-off.

Nous devons les nourrir au biberon et les inciter à uriner lorsqu’ils sont très petits, mais dès que c’est fait et qu’ils boivent à la bouteille, nous les mettons sur un râtelier à fourrage et nous ne les touchons plus vraiment.

Lisa Deaderick, Although she ‘can’t save them all,’ wildlife rehabilitation expert is saving as many as she can, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 novembre 2019

Feeding hay in a rack or a “hay ring” limits the opportunity that animals have to trample or soil hay if you intend to provide more than a day’s worth of hay at one time.

Si vous comptez mettre à disposition plus d'une ration journalière de foin à la fois, placer le foin dans un râtelier à fourrage limite la possibilité pour les animaux de piétiner ou souiller le foin.

Stephen Boyles, Feeding Management to Minimize Hay Waste, Drovers, 30 janvier 2019

Poitrine, paire de seins d’une femme, généralement imposante.

My friend Marcus snapped a picture in the car to commemorate the magic of my perky rack.

Mon ami Marcus a pris une photo dans la voiture pour célébrer la magie de mon joyeux décolleté.

Haely White, Samantha Gutstadt, When Pump And Dump Goes Terribly Wrong, Romper.com, 14 octobre 2019

If you haven’t yet, tell your boss you’ll be a few minutes and go check out your rack.

Si ce n’est pas encore fait, dites à votre patron que vous vous absentez quelques minutes et allez regarder vos seins.

Rhian Deutrom, Women everywhere are spotting the same freckle on their boob, News.com.au, 4 juin 2019

Cooking the bacon on a rack makes the bacon crisper, and lets the grease drip off the bacon as it cooks.

Cuire du bacon sur une grille le rend plus croustillant, et laisse la graisse couler pendant la cuisson.

Vanessa Greaves, The Easiest, No-Mess Way to Cook Bacon, All Recipes


rack

The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, and are perceived below, pass without noise.

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

Francis Bacon, William Rawley, Sylva Sylvarum or A Natural History in Ten Centuries, 1669

Three wives sat up in the light-house tower,
And they trimm’d the lamps as the sun went down;
They look’d at the squall, and they look’d at the shower,
And the night rack came rolling up ragged and brown!

Charles Kingsley, The Three Fishers, 1851


rack

Queso fresco and rough-chopped cilantro topped the uncut rack, and it came with a side of sauce that I hadn’t seen anywhere near barbecue before.

Daniel Vaughn, These Flavorful Pork Ribs Reflect Houston’s Diversity of Tastes, Texas Monthly, 13 novembre 2019

I ordered the oven-roasted rack of lamb for my main course.

Pamela Goldman, Parisian Jubilee in Sutton Place NYC, Patch.com, 25 novembre 2019


rack

The “rack” of the racking horse refers to its gait, a bi-lateral four-beat gait that is not a pace or a trot.

Kelly Kazek, Just what is a racking horse? Decatur event celebrates unique breed April 24-27, AL.com, 13 avril 2013

“She showed very little speed, and I was not congratulating myself at all,” Stone told The Enquirer in 1900. “She was inclined to mix gaits and rack, and would do most anything but trot.”

Jeff Suess, Our history: Maud S was our legendary race horse, Cincinnati.com,1ᵉʳ mai 2019


rack

I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack, ruin, and destruction to millions of Hindus.

Mehr Gill, Explained: The ‘philosophy’ of Nathuram Godse, and his admirers over the years, The Indian Express, 29 novembre 2019


rack

Fourrure de jeunes lapins âgés de deux mois.

Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker'. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.

« Rabbit Skin » dans All the Year Round, 13 février 1869, page 247

The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.

Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1879, page 380

Rabbit skins are sorted into wholes, halves, quarters, racks, and suckers, or very small skins.

Henry Poland, Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce, page 289, 1892


rack

(Début XVᵉ siècle) Par verbalisation du nom commun 1.

to rack (infinitive)
racks (present third-person singular)
racked (preterite)
racked (participle past)
racking (participle present)

Placer des boules de billard dans un triangle.

In the game, the 15 pool balls are racked, and a player sinks them until one is left; then the 14 sunk balls are put back on the table, and the player keeps going, as long as there is no miss.

Dans le jeu, les 15 boules de billard sont placées, et le joueur les rentre dans les trous jusqu’à ce qu’il n’en reste qu’une ; alors, les 14 boules rentrées sont replacées sur le billard, et le joueur continue tant qu’il ne rate pas.

Victor Mather, After Much Effort, an ‘Unbreakable’ Record in Straight Pool Is Topped, The New York Times, 28 mai 2019

[…] for, though the rebellious attempts were so exceedingly heinous, yet, out of her princely mercy, no man was racked, tortured, or pressed to speak any thing further than of their own accord and willing minds for discharge of their consciences.

Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2


rack

(XVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais rakken, de l’ancien français reequier, probablement du latin reaedificare (« réparer, améliorer »).

Some wine makers rack only once and others will rack four or five times depending upon the flavor profile they’re going for and how clear they want the wine.

Certains fabricants de vin soutirent une seule fois et d’autres vont le faire quatre ou cinq fois, en fonction de la saveur ou de la clarté du vin qu’ils cherchent.

Racking off the Lees, Winemaker’s Academy, 15 juillet 2012

The juice was racked and fermented in stainless steel.

Le jus a été soutiré et fermenté dans un conteneur en acier inoxydable.

Bob Highfill, FTV: Yes, Lodi makes white wines perfect for summer sipping, Recordnet.com, 25 juin 2019


rack

(1530) Probablement par altération de rock, lui-même du moyen anglais rokken, du vieil anglais roccian. À rapprocher du vieil haut allemand rucken.

Hayworth is a five-gaited horse, meaning he can walk, trot, slow gait, rack, and canter.

Hayworth est un cheval qui a cinq allures. Cela veut dire qu’il peut marcher, trotter, avancer lentement, ambler et galoper.

Alexis Gemelas, One Girl, Three Horses, 12 Years and Counting, Cleveland.com, 30 janvier 2019

They’re the high-stepper horses that rack and gait, and I don’t know anyone in the industry that came from this background, which is really cool, actually.

Cynthia Holt, Zellda and Erin, Two Works in Progress, America’s Best Racing, 8 novembre 2019


bilberry

Motdérivé de berry, avec le préfixe bil-.

Linton looked at me, but did not answer; and, after keeping her seat by his side, another ten minutes, during which his head fell drowsily on his breast, and he uttered nothing except suppressed moans of exhaustion, or pain, Cathy began to seek solace in looking for bilberries, and sharing the produce of her researches with me: she did not offer them to him, for she saw further notice would only weary and annoy.

Linton m’a regardée sans répondre. Après être restée dix minutes assise près de lui, au cours desquelles, n’en pouvant plus, il a laissé tomber sa tête sur sa poitrine en poussant des gémissements étouffés de douleur ou d’épuisement, la Cathy se mit à chercher une consolation en cueillant des myrtilles et en partageant avec moi le produit de la cueillette, sans lui en offrir, car elle voyait que cela ne ferait que le fatiguer et l’ennuyer. — (Emily Brontë, Les Hauts de Hurtebise, traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) parPatrick Reumaux, Chapitre XXVI, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2024, Paris, page 350, ISBN 9782251455358)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter XII, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 243


thicken

And this may help to thicken other proofs.

Rendre plus fréquent, augmenter la cadence.

to thicken blows

to thicken a sauce


measure

(Nom) Du latin mensura.
(Verbe) Du latin mensuro.

to measure (infinitive)
measures (present third-person singular)
measured (preterite)
measured (participle past)
measuring (participle present)

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

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

The amount of an analyte captured by the HRP is made quantitative by measuring the color formation on the addition of a chromogenic HRP substrate.

Ajit Sadana, Fractal Binding and Dissociation Kinetics for Different Biosensor Applications, 2005, page 141


grope

to grope (infinitive)
gropes (present third-person singular)
groped (preterite)
groped (participle past)
groping (participle present)

Se repérer à tâtons dans le noir, chercher à l'aveuglette.

It was pitch dark; here and there a white gate or a white stone in the wall guided them for a short space across the night; but for the most part it was at a foot pace, and almost groping, that they picked their way through that resonant blackness to their solemn and isolated destination.

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher, 1884


clout

Apparenté à cleat en anglais, Kloß en allemand ; le sens de « pouvoir », désormais prédominant, est un néologisme de la région de Chicago.

'Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.

Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding, 1910


porter

Du moyen français porteour (« porteur »).

Oh, Mr Porter! What shall I do?
I want to go to Birmingham, and they're taking me on to Crewe.
Take me back to London, as quickly as you can,
Oh, Mr Porter! What a silly girl I am!

George Le Brunn, Oh Mr Porter, chanson de 1893 (chanté par Marie Lloyd).


osier

might possibly be as tough as the Sallows, and Willows, and Osiers in England

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 126. 1719.


scarce

De l’ancien français scars, eschars (« chiche, mesquin, avare »).

I scarce know what to call them

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719, page 176


shield

(nom commun) Du vieil anglais scield.
(verbe) Du vieil anglais scieldan.

Noble families during the Middle Ages had a shield that represented them.

Ancient soldiers faught with a sword and a shield.


shield

to shield (infinitive)
shields (present third-person singular)
shielded (preterite)
shielded (participle past)
shielding (participle present)

Twisted pair cables are often shielded in order to limit electromagnetic interferences.

Les câbles à paires torsadées sont souvent blindés afin de limier les interférences électromagnétiques.


target

(Nom commun) (1300) Du moyen français targette, diminutif de l’anglo-saxon targe et de l’ancien français targe (« bouclier léger ») (XIIᵉ siècle), tous les deux issus du vieux-francique *targa (« bouclier »), du proto-germanique *targǭ (« rebord »), de l’indo-européen *dArg'h. Apparenté au vieux haut allemand zarga (allemand Zarge).

You hit the centre of the target.

What is their sales target?


brazen

Motdérivé de brass, avec le suffixe -en, littéralement « de laiton », comparez avec golden. Le sens de « éhonté » est peut-être équivalent avec, en français, celle de garder une expression faciale « de marbre ».

to brazen (infinitive)
brazens (present third-person singular)
brazened (preterite)
brazened (participle past)
brazening (participle present)

Agir de façon éhontée, hardie, impudente.

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.


zest

The lights, the fire, the beating rain upon the window, the cold, incongruous work that lay before them, added zest to their enjoyment of the meal.


pusillanimous

more pusillanimous (comparative)
most pusillanimous (superlative)

The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner.

Le soldat déserta son escadron d’une manière peureuse.


loot

Objets de valeur (argent, bijoux…) obtenus par le vol, butin.

The burglars took the loot and ran.


consider

Du moyen anglais consideren, qui vient de l'ancien français considerer (« considérer »), issu du latin considerare.

to consider (infinitive)
considers (present third-person singular)
considered (preterite)
considered (participle past)
considering (participle present)

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

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


considerable

Dérivé de consider, avec le suffixe -able.

From one manuscript to another, there were considerable changes and much progress

D’un manuscrit à l’autre les changements, les progrès apparaissent considérables.

Raymond Cazelles, Les très Riches heures du Duc de Berry, éditions Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974


falsehood

Fausse déclaration (notamment une déclaration intentionnellement fausse), mensonge.

They gave credence to every signature Trumpist falsehood …

JasonWilson, « OANN: what is the alternative far-right media outlet Trump is pushing? », The Guardian, 16 novembre 2020


fiddle

Du moyen anglais fithele, issu du vieil anglais fiðele (« instrument à cordes »), apparenté à Fiedel en allemand, fiðla (« violon ») en islandais.

Violon traditionnel, par opposition au violon classique « violin ».

When I play it like this, it’s a fiddle; when I play it like that, it’s a violin.

Quand je joue comme ceci c’est du violon traditionnel ; quand je joue comme cela du violon classique.

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Diguedon, don don
Le chat et le violon
La vache par-dessus la lune à saute-mouton
Le petit chien a ri
De voir cette fantaisie
Et le plat avec la cuillère s’est enfui.

To play second fiddle.

That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.

La configuration de ce paramètre est juste un détail pour régler la luminosité.

A tax fiddle.


fiddle

to fiddle (infinitive)
fiddles (present third-person singular)
fiddled (preterite)
fiddled (participle past)
fiddling (participle present)

You’re fiddling your life away.

I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.

J’ai besoin de régler les paramètres lumineux pour obtenir une image nette.

Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.

Fred a été licencié quand les inspecteurs l’ont attrapé en train de complexifier les livres.


resort

(XIVᵉ siècle) De l'ancien français resort ^([1]).

Since you give me no other choice, this is my last resort.

Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels.

What a beautiful resort this is for a vacation!


resort

to resort (infinitive)
resorts (present third-person singular)
resorted (preterite)
resorted (participle past)
resorting (participle present)

If you leave me no other choice, I will resort to violence.

Si vous ne me laissez pas le choix, je recourrai à la violence.


miserable

It is sad that the poor lead such miserable lives.

I shall be a star! And you shall go back to your miserable little life.

Yesterday I was happy. But after hearing about our friends, I feel completely miserable now.

That miserable old man! How could he do such a thing?


miserable

Unfortunately, the miserable will always be among us.


relax

Se détendre, se relaxer, se reposer, reposer.

Relax! You’ve been working hard.

You’ll have to relax your arm, if I’m to take your blood pressure.

relax one's mind


lecture

Conférence, exposé, présentation magistrale.

He gave a lecture on quasars yesterday.

To read a lecture.

A curtain lecture : réprimande (d’une femme à son mari).


lecture

to lecture (infinitive)
lectures (present third-person singular)
lectured (preterite)
lectured (participle past)
lecturing (participle present)

Sermonner, faire des remontrances, débiter une tirade.

Emily’s father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.


hire

to hire (infinitive)
hires (present third-person singular)
hired (preterite)
hired (participle past)
hiring (participle present)

I decided to hire her for the job.

J’ai décidé de l’embaucher pour ce boulot.


majority

The majority of absorbed calcium is stored in the skeleton.

La majorité du calcium absorbé est stockée dans le squelette.

Scientific Opinion on re-evaluation of calcium carbonate (E 170) as a food additive , EFSA Journal 2011;9(7):2318


pleasant

pleasanter (comparative)
pleasantest (superlative)

pleasant countryside


demand

I will not leave until you satisfy my demand!

the economic laws of supply and demand


demand

to demand (infinitive)
demands (present third-person singular)
demanded (preterite)
demanded (participle past)
demanding (participle present)

I demand that you return my money!


wish

to wish (infinitive)
wishes (present third-person singular)
wished (preterite)
wished (participle past)
wishing (participle present)

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

I wish I were taller. (subjonctif passé)

I wish you a happy new year.


practice

I'll follow whatever is the current practice.


wild

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Ce qui existe à l'état sauvage ou dans la nature.

It's easy to forget that animals in the wild are dangerous.

On oublie facilement que ces animaux sont dangereux à l'état sauvage [ou bien, plus généralement : on oublie facilement que les animaux sauvages sont dangereux.]


possession

Du latin possessio ; → voir possess et -ton

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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

The book was her sole possession.

She lost all her possessions in the fire.

Elle perdit tous ses biens dans l’incendie.


sight

sightsee

faire du tourisme, visiter les points d'intérêt

I'm a tourist here for the next two days, and I want to see the most important sights.

Air, allure, apparence, aspect, spectacle.

What a sight you were, after you fell in the mud!

Hands up! I have you in my sights!


command

De l'ancien français comander (qui a donné commander), qui vient du latin commendare.

He took command of the regiment.

The captain gave a command and he expects to be obeyed.

Your command of English is excellent.


spine

Du latin espina, via l’ancien français espina.

back cover

(Imprimerie) Dos d'un cahier, d'un livre

Grow a spine!


team

Du vieil anglais team, apparenté à tie, tow (« attacher, tirer »), lui sont apparentés toom (« bride ») en néerlandais, Zaum (id.) en allemand.

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

Attelage, ensemble des bêtes de somme qui tirent un véhicule.

The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.

Équipe, ensemble de personnes engagées dans une même activité.

The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.

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, page 17

Psychologists recruited avid fans of Manchester United. Fans wrote about what ManU meant to them, and were told they would record a short video tribute to their team in another building.


lavish

more lavish (comparative)
most lavish (superlative)

Henry’s death was followed by a lavish hand-out of lands and honours to the new power group.

La mort de Henry fut suivie par un don excessif de terres et d’honneurs au nouveau groupe de pouvoir.


vivid

more vivid (comparative)
most vivid (superlative)

vivid imagery


wizard

(Siècle à préciser) Du moyen anglais wys (« sage »), avec le suffixe -ard.

The Wizard of Oz.


barren

(XIIIᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français baraine.

barren landscape

The queen was barren, leaving the kingdom with no heir.


beyond

Du vieil anglais beġeondan (« au-delà de »).

New operating systems, and new versions of existing systems, may also provide execution techniques beyond those outlined here.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 85


beyond

To infinity… and beyond!


bough

Du moyen anglais, du vieil anglais bōg (« épaule, branche »), du proto-germanique *bōguz (« bras, épaule »), de l’indo-européen commun *bʰāǵʰus (« bras »).

cut not the bough that you are standing upon

comparer à scier la branche sur laquelle on est assis

Durant la saison de Noël, on montre souvent un bough of holly (un anneau avec quelques rubans ou autre décoration).

Branche ou rameau d'arbre, arbuste ou arbrisseau.

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;(…)

Heureux, heureux rameaux, qui ne sauriez répandre
Votre feuillage, ni jamais, dire au Printemps adieu !

John Keats, strophe III d’'Ode sur une urne grecque' dans 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems', 1819

When the Corn was ſow'd, I had no Harrow, but was forced to go over it my ſelf, and drag a great heavy Bough of a Tree over it, to Scratch it, as it may be call'd, rather than Rake or harrow it.

Daniel Defoe, 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', page 139, Londres, 1719

“No need,” he said, “long words to make,
And little heed we thy lies now,
But if she doom thee to the bough. (…)”

William Morris, 'The Fostering of Aslaug' dans 'The Earthly Paradise: A Poem', part IV, page 77, Londres, F. S. Ellis, 1870.


blunt

blunter (comparative)
bluntest (superlative)

It will take twice as long if you're using blunt instruments.

Ça te prendra deux fois plus de temps si tu utilises des instruments émoussés.

I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's important that you understand.

Désolé d'être direct, mais il est important que tu comprennes.


callous

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

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


hazard

Feu de détresse (le plus souvent au pluriel).

Just because you have your hazards on doesn't mean they won't give you a ticket for stopping here.

Ce n'est pas parce que tu as mis tes feux de détresse que tu peux t'arrêter ici sans qu'on te verbalise.


hazard

to hazard (infinitive)
hazards (present third-person singular)
hazarded (preterite)
hazarded (participle past)
hazarding (participle present)

“I think,” I hazarded finally, “It is possible that some members of that race peopling the ancient continent which we know existed here in the Pacific, have survived.”

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


empower

to empower (infinitive)
empowers (present third-person singular)
empowered (preterite)
empowered (participle past)
empowering (participle present)

Encapaciter, donner la capacité pour faire quelque chose, donner les moyens de faire quelque chose.

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


starve

to starve (infinitive)
starves (present third-person singular)
starved (preterite)
starved (participle past)
starving (participle present)

There was no food in the apartment, and one theory is that Firestone starved, though no autopsy was conducted, by preference of her Orthodox Jewish family.

Il n’y avait rien à manger dans l’appartement, et une des théories veut que Firestone soit morte de faim, bien qu’aucune autopsie n’ait été pratiquée, selon le souhait de sa famille juive orthodoxe.

Susan Faludi, "The Death of a Revolutionary" [en ligne], The New Yorker (American chronicles), 8 avril 2013. Consulté le 1ᵉʳ mai 2024


zealous

more zealous (comparative)
most zealous (superlative)
zelous

Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:

James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, new ed. by John Wilson Croker, volume 1, page 238, 1831

And there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.

Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940, page 61, 1940

Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.

Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, page 122, 2004


adept

more adept (comparative)
most adept (superlative)
adepter (comparative)
adeptest (superlative)

“I am adept with light weapons,” the Prince said.


afire

my skin was presently afire, my body afire

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 181, 1897


assay

They did an assay to verify the composition of the gold sample.


baton

Thousands of young people came pouring into the meeting ground from all directions, shouting slogans. The police attacked with tear gas and batons.

Des milliers de jeunes ont afflué de toutes parts sur le lieu de rassemblement en criant des slogans. La police a attaqué avec des gaz lacrymogènes et des matraques.

Mark Shepard, Gandhi Today: A report on Mahatma Gandhi’s Successors, Simple Productions, 1987 (réédition 2012), chapitre 2 (« The Saint and the Socialist »), page 32.

Conductors who use batons often consider it important that there be a good balance point between the handle and the tip of the stick at the place where it is held between the index finger and the thumb.

Les chefs d’orchestre qui utilisent des baguettes considèrent souvent qu’il est important qu’il y ait un bon point d’équilibre entre le manche et le bout du bâton à l'endroit où celui-ci est tenu entre l’index et le pouce.

Emily Freeman Brown, A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor, Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, article « balance point of the baton », page 28.

The baton exchange in the 4 X 400 - meter relay is as important as in the shorter sprint relays.

L’échange de témoin dans le relais 4 X 400 mètres est aussi important que dans les courses de relais plus courtes.

Joseph L. Rogers (coordinateur du projet), USA Track & Field Coaching Manual, USA Track & Field, collection « Human Kinetics », 2000, page 134.

Bâton ou cotice, disposée en bande ou en barre, et pouvant servir de brisure.

The eldest son of this Earl removed his father’s baton from his arms, and charged Beaufort upon a fesse on a silver shield, thus recognizing the heraldic propriety of retaining an Abatement, though rejecting the baton.

Le fils aîné de ce comte retira de ses armes le bâton de son père et chargea Beaufort sur une fasce sur un bouclier d’argent, reconnaissant ainsi la conformité héraldique du maintien de cette brisure, tout en rejetant le bâton.

Charles Boutell, Heraldry, Historical and Popular, Windsor and Newton, 1863, chapitre XXVIII (« Augmentation and Abatement »), section II (« Abatement »), page 390.


cue

It was he who was staging the play – was giving the actors their cues.

Agatha Christie, The coming of Mr. Quin, dans The Mysterious Mr. Quin


fray

to fray (infinitive)
frays (present third-person singular)
frayed (preterite)
frayed (participle past)
fraying (participle present)

The halter was loose on her, and frayed at the edges. Perhaps she’d recently lost weight, or maybe she’d deliberately bought it overlarge. Whatever the reason, it showed quite a bit of her chest.

Le dos nu qu’elle portait lui était large, et effiloché aux extrémités. Peut-être avait-elle maigri récemment, ou l’avait-elle préféré trop grand. Quelle qu’en fut la raison, il en révélait pas mal de sa poitrine.

The ribbon frayed at the cut end.

The stressful day ended in frayed nerves.

La journée éprouvante de termina en nerfs à vif.


grippe

Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"

Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, chapitre IV, D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1907 (OCLC 24962326).


hurtle

to hurtle (infinitive)
hurtles (present third-person singular)
hurtled (preterite)
hurtled (participle past)
hurtling (participle present)

The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

La voiture dévalait la colline à 90 kilomètres par heure.

Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.


lull

to lull (infinitive)
lulls (present third-person singular)
lulled (preterite)
lulled (participle past)
lulling (participle present)

People were lulled into a false sense of security.

Another danger was hallucination. Kelly had an active mind, and he was now in an environment devoid of input. Worse, his body was being lulled. He was in a nearly weightless state, rather like it must have been in the womb, and the sheer comfort of the experience was dangerous.


mew

to mew (infinitive)
mews (present third-person singular)
mewed (preterite)
mewed (participle past)
mewing (participle present)

Pousser son cri pour une mouette ou un busard.

Kelly awoke at his accustomed time, thirty minutes before sunrise, to the mewing of gulls and saw the first dull glow on the eastern horizon.


mew

Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, John Wolfe pour William Bonsonbie, Londres, 1590 (OCLC 960102938)

Cage pour les faucons, en particulier pendant la mue.

A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

Robert Burton sous le pseudonyme Democrite Junior, The Anatomy of Melancholy (L’Anatomie de la mélancolie⁽ᶠʳ⁾), John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1624, 2ᵉ édition (1ʳᵉ édition 1621) (réimpression 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638 et 1651) (OCLC 54573970)


mew

to mew (infinitive)
mews (present third-person singular)
mewed (preterite)
mewed (participle past)
mewing (participle present)
mue

[…] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, chapitre V, The Hogarth Press, Londres, 1928 (réimpression 2015)

The hawk mewed his feathers.

Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt’ments of their ſilken pride; …

Francis Quarles, Feast for Wormes, Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, partie 10, Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, Londres, 1620 (OCLC 270804816)

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns…

John Dryden, Cinyras and Myrrha, extrait du dixième livres des Métamorphoses d’Ovide, dans Fables, Ancient and Modern, Jacob Tonson, Londres, 1700 (OCLC 228732415), page 184


mew

Du moyen anglais mewe, du vieil anglais mæw, du proto-germanique *maihwaz, *maiwaz (« mouette, goéland »).

A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […].

From helm to sea they saw him leap, / As arrow from the string, / And dive into the water deep, / As mew upon the wing.

J.J.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954


negate

The ammendment to the law negated' the intended effect of the law.

The slovenly way he lived his life negated his good intentions.

Mettre à la forme négative, multiplier par -1 (un nombre positif).

Negate the item and append the result of the negation to values.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 93


pew

Du moyen anglais pewe, lui-même du moyen français puie (« balustrade »).

The sofa is crammed like a chapel pew, with English actors telling their juiciest genitalia stories while the host sniggers in a three-piece suit.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 37


rugger

With a muttered apology the master rushed out of the sick-room like a rugger forward breaking loose from the scrum, leaving his visitor bemused with shock.

Anthony Buckeridge, Thanks to Jennings, Collins, 1958


strop

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

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


whet

to whet (infinitive)
whets (present third-person singular)
whetted (preterite)
whetted (participle past)
whetting (participle present)

whet one's appetite


wile

Apparenté à guile (« tromperie ») issu de l’ancien français.

Feminine wiles.


strait

Indirectement du latin strictus, par l'intermédiaire de l'ancien français estreit, "étroit, serré".
Dans les langues latines on trouvait essentiellement deux racines pour exprimer le rétrécissement d'une voie: la forme latine angustus a ainsi donné, par exemple, l'espagnol "angostura", rétrécissement, détroit, tandis que strictus a donné "estreit" et "strait(s)".

Strait of Magellan


controversy

The greatest measure of a man is not the way he handles times of comfort but in the way he rises through controversy and challenges.

La meilleure mesure d’un homme n’est pas la manière dont il se comporte en des temps confortables mais dans la manière dont il s’élève à travers la controverse et les défis.


arrest

to arrest (infinitive)
arrests (present third-person singular)
arrested (preterite)
arrested (participle past)
arresting (participle present)

I was half minded to hit his silly countenance, but I arrested my doubled fist.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 184, 1879


troop

Troops along the southern border were obstructed at Al-Tanf, a crucial crossing into Iraq.

John Foster, Oil and World Politics, 2018, page 80


banner

army banner (standard), parade banner, publicity banner, banner at the top of the front page of a newspaper


blanch

Du moyen anglais blaunchen, de l’ancien français blanchir, de ancien français blanc, du latin médiéval blancus, du vieux-francique *blank, du proto-germanique *blankza, de l’indo-européen commun *bʰleyǵ-.

to blanch (infinitive)
blanches (present third-person singular)
blanched (preterite)
blanched (participle past)
blanching (participle present)

His cheek blanched with fear.

The rose blanches in the sun.

I had not been pulling for more than a minute or so, when George noticed something black floating on the water, and we drew up to it. George leant over, as we neared it, and laid hold of it. And then he drew back with a cry, and a blanched face.
It was the dead body of a woman.

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

Nurse Cramer’s face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 1961 (OCLC 1023879857), page 171

Enlever la couleur, rendre blanc, blanchir.

to blanch linen

Age has blanched his hair.

Donner une apparence favorable à quelque chose. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture, 1680


blanch

Variante de blench, même origine proto-indo-européene.

Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.

Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, William Standby⁽ᵉⁿ⁾ for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, Londres, 1622

Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.

Sir Henry Wotton, Wottonianæ, 1624–39 (1ʳᵉ édition 1651), page 343

Francis Bacon, The Essayes⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, « Of Counsel », Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, Londres, 1625, 3ᵉ édition (OCLC 863521290)


brace

(Date à préciser) De l’ancien français brace.

However, for most new users the lack of the braces and semicolons used to mark blocks and statements in many other languages seems to be the most novel syntactic feature of Python

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 388


brace

to brace (infinitive)
braces (present third-person singular)
braced (preterite)
braced (participle past)
bracing (participle present)

Retenir son souffle, se préparer au pire.

Brace for impact.


brink

Du moyen bas allemand brink qui donne aussi Brink en allemand ; apparenté à front via le latin.

The brink of a well.

To be upon the very brink of a precipice.

To be upon the brink of ruin.


brisk

more brisk (comparative)
most brisk (superlative)

Jack’s first impression of London was that it would be a fine town to walk in, and he moved at his usual brisk pace, unchanged since his stint in the Marine Corps, marking time unconsciously by tapping the edge of his clipboard against his leg.


buzz

Common in the hunting community, Fuzz Buzz refers to the hype around when Deer have yet to shed the "velvet" from their antlers.

Commun dans la communauté des chasseurs, Fuzz Buzz fait référence au battage médiatique autour duquel les cerfs n'ont pas encore jeté le « velours » de leurs bois.

Give me a buzz, will ya?

All that alcohol gave me a buzz.


buzz

to buzz (infinitive)
buzzes (present third-person singular)
buzzed (preterite)
buzzed (participle past)
buzzing (participle present)

A buzzing insect.

A buzzing engine

Wait a minute and I’ll buzz you in.

Attends une minute, je vais t’ouvrir [en utilisant le système d’ouverture à distance].

Give me your phone number and I’ll buzz you.

Donne-moi ton numéro de téléphone et je te passerai un coup de fil.


calculation

A car with an active real-time data connection can incorporate more autonomous driving features, which need to make constant calculations about the vehicle’s surrounding environment to keep its occupants safe.

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


cancellation

De cancel avec le suffixe -ation qui indique l'action de.

Lady Gaga embarked early on her 2009–11 Monster Ball Tour due to the cancellation of her Fame Kills tour with Kanye West?


caution

De l'ancien français caution, qui vient du latin cautio (« prudence »).

But he determined to proceed with cunning and caution, […].

Mais il résolut de procéder avec prudence et précaution, […].

Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844


celebration

ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən

ˌsɛlˈbɹeɪ.ʃən

Il s'agit d'un faux-ami. En français, célébration souvent a un sens religieux. Le mot n'est pas synonyme de fête en français.

That's great news! Let's buy some beer and have a celebration.

Célébration (religieuse ou d'autre cérémonie).

celebration of communion


cherish

De cheriss--, racine de l’ancien français cherir.

to cherish (infinitive)
cherishes (present third-person singular)
cherished (preterite)
cherished (participle past)
cherishing (participle present)

I will always cherish my only son.

Garder présent à l'esprit, caresser, ressasser, ruminer.

He cherished no resentments, and his anger gone, was quick to make overtures for reconciliation.

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

By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her. (Mansfield Park - Jane Austen)

Au bout de onze ans cependant, madame Price ne put se résoudre à conserver plus long-temps de l’orgueil et du ressentiment, et à perdre une liaison de famille qui pouvait lui donner de l’assistance.


circumstance

Du moyen anglais circumstaunce, de l’ancien français circonstance, du latin circumstantia.

to circumstance (infinitive)
circumstances (present third-person singular)
circumstanced (preterite)
circumstanced (participle past)
circumstancing (participle present)

Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.

Frank marmonna quelque chose. Des nouvelles lui étaient parvenues que son père n'était pas placé dans une situation financière confortable.

Anthony Trollope, « Matrimonial Prospects » dans Doctor Thorne, volume I, Chapman & Hall, Londres, page 184.


concede

Du français concéder, depuis le latin concedere.

to concede (infinitive)
concedes (present third-person singular)
conceded (preterite)
conceded (participle past)
conceding (participle present)

The chess grand master conceded the game.

The losing general saw that the battle was hopeless, and conceded.


concentrate

(Verbe) (Vers 1630) De l’italien concentrare.

to concentrate (infinitive)
concentrates (present third-person singular)
concentrated (preterite)
concentrated (participle past)
concentrating (participle present)

The magnifying class concentrates the rays of the Sun.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I have to finish reading this book by tomorrow, and I can't concentrate while you're playing that flute!

to concentrate acid by evaporation.


concentrate

tomato concentrate.


consequence

All of this is a consequence of your refusal to listen to reason.

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


consternation

It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.


continuation

This new road is actually the continuation of the road on which we were originally driving.

Cette nouvelle route est en fait la suite de la route sur laquelle nous conduisions à l’origine.

The continuation of this state of war is driving both nations into ruin.

La continuation/poursuite de cet état de guerre est en train de conduire les deux nations à la ruine.

The current project represents the continuation of a project that was originally begun over a hundred years ago.

Le projet courant représente la reprise d’un projet qui fut originellement lancé il y a plus de cent ans.


crucial

Troops along the southern border were obstructed at Al-Tanf, a crucial crossing into Iraq.


denomination

Dans le sens nom, on préfère traduire dénomination par designation et pas par denomination.

Which Christian denomination is she a member of?

De quelle confession chrétienne est-elle membre ?

We are non-denominational. We have members who are Christian, Jewish, Moslem and Hindu.

Nous n’avons pas de confession spécifique. Nous avons des membres qui sont chrétiens, juifs, musulmans et hindous.

What denomination would you like? Ten or twenty dollar bills?

Quelle coupure souhaitez-vous ? Des billets de dix ou de vingt dollars ?

What is the official denomination for this document?

Quel est le nom officiel de ce document ?


designation

What is the Latin designation for the metal tin?


despicable

more despicable (comparative)
most despicable (superlative)

But this creature is despicable by nature, and incapable of any trace of all generous and noble deeds.

Mais cette créature est abjecte par nature, et incapable d’aucune trace de quelconques actes nobles ou généreux.

Henry Brougham, The Oration of Demosthenes Upon the Crown


disarray

\ˌdɪs.əˈɹeɪ\

\ˌdɪs.əˈɹeɪ\

Governments were in disarray and at least one prostitution charge was withdrawn by the Crown Wednesday as the effects of a landmark ruling that decriminalized prostitution in Ontario began to be felt.

Les gouvernements ont été très troublés, et au moins une accusation de prostitution a été retirée par la Couronne ce mercredi alors que les effets d’une décision historique qui a décriminalisé la prostitution en Ontario ont commencé à se faire sentir.


discrimination

Sexual or racial discrimination.


drab

(1715) Apparenté à drape, du français drap.

Pour l’adjectif : « de la couleur du drap » à moins qu’il ne soit apparenté à drabble (« salir, souiller »).

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

John Hanſell, of Bridport, in Dorſetſhire, ſail-cloth manufacturer, ſtates in his evidence, that the ſale of coarſe woollen cloath was not then a twentieth part of what it had been for the common people formerly, owing to their ſubſtituting Ruſſia drabs and ravenſduck as garments in place of the coarſe woollens.

Examinator’s Letters, or, A Mirror for British Monopolists and Irish Financiers, Dublin, 1786


drab

drabber (comparative)
drabbest (superlative)

You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

Vous comprenez, je ne crois pas que les bibliothèques doivent être des endroits mornes où les gens s’assoient en silence, et cela est la raison principale de notre politique d’employer des animaux sauvages comme bibliothécaires.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus, saison 1 épisode 10

Not the drab complainer she ended up with.

Pas ce geignard ennuyeux avec qui elle a fini.


earnest

Apparenté à ernst (« sérieux ») en allemand.

earnester (comparative)
earnestest (superlative)
more earnest (comparative)
most earnest (superlative)

Just ahead walked Lakla in earnest talk with Rador, and content enough was I for a time to watch her.

Lakla marcha juste devant en discussion sérieuse avec Rador, et j’étais assez satisfait pour une fois de la regarder.

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

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

les gamins se font un jeu de lancer des pierres aux grenouilles, mais les grenouilles, elles, en meurent vraiment, et non par jeu

Bion de Borysthène, cité par Plutarque, Œuvres morales, 965 A-B


enigmatic

She is a very enigmatic individual.

These bureaucratic rules are very enigmatic.


enlighten

Probablement composé de light « lumière » et du circonfixe en- -en. → voir en- et lighten

Éclairer, apprendre à, informer, renseigner.

I'm waiting. Enlighten me with your wisdom.

Another storm enlightened Jura

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 59, édition de 1869


espy

De l’ancien français espier (« épier »), → voir spy.

When he espy’d me, he came running to me

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 244. 1719.


exhortation

\ˌɛɡ.zɔːɹ.ˈteɪ.ʃən\

He gave an exhortation for the employees to work harder during the rush period.

Il exhorta les employés à travailler plus dur durant l’heure de pointe.


faint

De l'ancien français faint (« mou, sans ardeur »).

She was so shocked at the news that she immediately fell into a faint.


fairly

Everyone agree that she was treated fairly.

Tout le monde s'accorde à dire qu'elle a été traitée "équitablement"

The road is fairly straight, but not completely.

Cette route est plutôt droite, mais pas complètement.

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

L'algorithme récursif pour calculer les nombres de Fibonacci est court, mais lent, même en travaillant avec des valeurs "relativement" faibles.

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


fake

fake smile, fake beauty


fake

— Voulez-vous dire qu’on s’en serait servi pour tuer Honest Mike ? — Ce qu’il y a de sûr, c'est que j’ai saisi encore deux autres mots qui revenaient en conjonction avec ceux-là : head et fake. Head, je sais ce que ça veut dire ; ça veut dire tête. Et fake... — Fake est un mot d'argot qui veut dire fraude, truquage.

Régis Messac, la Taupe d'or [1934], éditions de la Grange Batelière, 2021, première partie, chapitre III, p. 67


fake

to fake (infinitive)
fakes (present third-person singular)
faked (preterite)
faked (participle past)
faking (participle present)

Ignore it. He’s faking.


fellow

For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow…
Which nobody can deny,
Which nobody can deny,
Which nobody can deny.
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow…
Which nobody can deny!

Car c’est un bon camarade,
Car c’est un bon camarade,
Car c’est un bon camarade…
Et nul ne peut le nier,
Et nul ne peut le nier,
Et nul ne peut le nier.
Car c’est un bon camarade,
Car c’est un bon camarade,
Car c’est un bon camarade…
Et nul ne peut le nier !

Fellow citizen

Fellow countryman

Fellow men

Fellow man

Collègue ou pair, partageant un intérêt ou une activité commune.

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

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

Fellows of the Royal Society.

Titre honorifique dans les grandes sociétés anglo-saxonnes, généralement réservé aux branches techniques ou technologiques.

He is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing.


flake

(XIVᵉ siècle) Du vieil anglais flauke apparenté à vlak (« plaque, plan ») en néerlandais, Flocke en allemand.

corn flakes.

Flakes of dandruff.

Lithic flake.

There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.

Fish flake.

She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.


flake

to e (infinitive)
es (present third-person singular)
ed (preterite)
ed (participle past)
ing (participle present)

The paint flaked off after only a year.

La peinture a commencé à s’écailler après quelques années.

He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.

Il avait promis de venir aider mais il s’est débiné.


flirt

(XVIᵉ siècle) Comme flip, flick, d’une onomatopée. Le sens initial est « flanquer, flaquer » (voir ce mot). To flirt a fan (attesté vers 1660) signifiait « ouvrir et fermer un éventail d’un coup sec » et faisait partie de l’arsenal de la séduction d’une coquette. De là le sens de « séduire » ; mais le sens de « coup » peut, en soi, prendre une connotation sexuelle (c’est un bon coup).

Le français fleureter peut aussi avoir joué un rôle dans la dérivation sémantique vers « faire la cour ».

Several little flirts and vibrations.

Plusieurs petits coups secs et vibrations.

[…] with many a flirt and flutter […]

[…] avec beaucoup de hochements et de battements d’ailes […]

He’s such a flirt.


flirt

to flirt (infinitive)
flirts (present third-person singular)
flirted (preterite)
flirted (participle past)
flirting (participle present)

They flirt water in each other's faces.

Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.

The bird flirted about in its nest.

The girl loved to flirt with the boys.

La fille aimait flirter avec les garçons.

The trampoline artist flirted with death every day.

Le/la trampoliniste flirtait avec la mort chaque jour.


foundation

faʊ̯nˈdeɪ̯.ʃn̩

\fæɔnˈdæɪ.ʃən\

It’s important to build on a firm foundation.

Il est important de construire sur un fond solide.

One must build the foundation of a building before the ground floor.

Il faut construire la fondation d’un bâtiment avant le rez-de-chaussée.

History will look back on this as the foundation of a new dynasty.

L’histoire regardera ceci comme la fondation d’une nouvelle dynastie.

The next step is to put some foundation.

L’étape suivante consiste à mettre du fond de teint.


freak

D’origine inconnue. Peut-être du moyen anglais frek, du vieil anglais frec.

A freak storm is a storm that occurs without warning.

Un orage soudain est un orage qui survient sans prévenir.


fright

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I was dreadfully frighted (that I must acknowledge) when I perceiv’d him to run my Way

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 239. 1719.


frontier

(Adjectif, nom) De front avec le suffixe -ier.

de pointe (dans le cas de frontier technologies)

We will step up our investment in the next wave of frontier technologies, in particular supercomputing, semiconductors, the Internet of Things, genomics, quantum computing, space tech and beyond.

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

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


frontier

We’re goin’ back to the wild frontier
Back to the wild frontier, it’s calling

Nous revenons vers la frontière sauvage — La frontière sauvage nous appelle

Gary Moore, Wild Frontier, album Wild Frontier, 10 Records/Virgin, 1987

thou hast talk'd.
Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets

Et tu parlais — de sorties, de retraites, de tranchées, de tentes, — de palissades, de fortins, de parapets, ([traduction de François-Victor Hugo], 1872)

William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, acte II scène 3, 1597


gather

to gather (infinitive)
gathers (present third-person singular)
gathered (preterite)
gathered (participle past)
gathering (participle present)

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Let’s gather up a big pile of leaves, and play in it!

She’s gathered a huge fortune over the years through her hard work.

The crowd gathered around their hero.


gather

Let’s all gather together and discuss this in a civilized manner.

I gather that you don't like her any more.


gauge

La prononciation est \ɡeɪd͡ʒ\ et non *\ɡɔːd͡ʒ\.

Standard gauge track is much wider than narrow gauge track.


corpulent

The landlord is a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical protrusion

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 276, 1897


gleam

The waxed table had a beautiful gleam to it.

As she thought about it, a gleam appeared in her eyes.

Alors qu’elle y songeait, une lueur parut dans ses yeux.


gloomy

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de gloom, avec le suffixe -y.

gloomier (comparative)
gloomiest (superlative)

The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the library; now musing mournfully, one of us despairingly, on our loss; now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future.

Le soir des obsèques, ma jeune dame et moi étions assises dans la bibliothèque ; tantôt nous rêvions avec tristesse, et l’une de nous avec désespoir, à la perte que nous venions de faire, tantôt nous hasardions des conjectures sur le sombre avenir. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XXIX, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 393)

Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter XV, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 295


grant

to grant (infinitive)
grants (present third-person singular)
granted (preterite)
granted (participle past)
granting (participle present)

Not all of them were great, I grant you, but so many were great movies!

Tous n'étaient pas géniaux, je vous l'accorde, mais beaucoup étaient de grands films !

Leonard Maltin, vers 0 minute 30 secondes, dans le documentaire Topaz: an Appreciation by FilmCritic/Historian Leonard Maltin (2000), réalisé parLaurent Bouzereau, joint à une édition en DVD du film L’Étau (1969), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock


greet

Du moyen anglais greten, venant du vieil anglais gretan.

to greet (infinitive)
greets (present third-person singular)
greeted (preterite)
greeted (participle past)
greeting (participle present)

John and Elisa greet their friends at the door and welcome them.

John et Elisa accueillent leurs amis sur le pas de la porte et leur souhaitent la bienvenue.


grief

(XIIIᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français grief.

Good grief!

To cause grief.


growl

to growl (infinitive)
growls (present third-person singular)
growled (preterite)
growled (participle past)
growling (participle present)

The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.

(intransitif) Grogner, râler, grommeler.

To growl is to utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

The dog growled at me as I walked past.

"Well, who's a better right?" growled the gamekeeper. "A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Dr. Livesey, I should think." (Treasure Island _ Robert Louis Stevenson)

N’en avait-il pas le droit ? grommela le garde-chasse. Il ferait beau voir que le squire se privât de parler pour complaire au docteur Livesey. »


heave

to heave (infinitive)
heaves (present third-person singular)
heaved ou hove (preterite)
heaved ou hove (participle past)
heaving (participle present)

The undergrowth on either side of him ripped with a noise like torn canvas, and the saplings that he heaved away right and left with his shoulders sprang back again and banged him on the flank, and great trails of creepers, all matted together, hung from his tusks as he threw his head from side to side and plowed out his pathway.

Les broussailles éventrées craquaient des deux côtés avec un bruit de toile déchirée ; les jeunes pousses qu’il écartait des épaules rebondissaient en arrière et lui cinglaient les flancs ; de grandes traînées de lianes emmêlées et compactes pendaient de ses défenses, tandis qu’il jetait la tête de part et d’autre et se creusait son chemin.


hedge

Du moyen anglais hegge, du vieil anglais hecg, du proto-germanique *xaʒjaz du proto-indo-européen *kaghi̯on. → voir haw.

When asked to make a definitive statement, she continued to hedge.


heed

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

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

We take no heed, as a rule, of the different way in which the same things look and sound and smell at different distances and under different circumstances. (William James, The principles of psychology, 1890, p. 231.)

Nous ne prenons pas garde, en règle générale, aux différentes façons selon lesquelles les mêmes choses paraissent et sonnent et sentent à différentes distances, et selon les différentes circonstances.


heighten

heightened awareness

heightened sense of anxiety

heighten the wall


hoot

The owl continued to hoot in the night.

Le hibou continua à ululer dans la nuit.


impart

to impart (infinitive)
imparts (present third-person singular)
imparted (preterite)
imparted (participle past)
imparting (participle present)

Communiquer, transmettre (un savoir, une valeur).

The experts will impart their knowlege to the amateurs.

Les plus expérimentés transmettront leur savoir aux amateurs.

The first Missionary institution to impart Western style education in India was the Scottish Church College, Calcutta.

La première institution missionnaire à dispenser une éducation de style occidental en Inde fut le Scottish Church College, à Calcutta.

Conférer, donner (une propriété, une caractéristique).

This will impart a delicate peach flavor to the cake.

Cela donnera au gâteau un délicat parfum de pêche.

Cobalt compounds have been used for centuries to impart a rich blue color to glass, glazes, and ceramics.

Des composés du cobalt ont été utilisés pendant des siècles pour conférer une belle couleur bleue au verre, aux émaux et aux céramiques.

Imprimer, donner (un mouvement, une vitesse, une force).

The tennismen have several techniques to impart more velocity to the ball.

Les joueurs de tennis ont plusieurs techniques pour imprimer plus de vitesse à la balle.


inauguration

the preisdential inauguration


inbred

Before the crossings were constructed, ecologists were concerned that the bear population would start to become inbred.

Lian Morrison, Banff National Park Bears Use Highway Crossings to Find Mates, Liberty Voice, février 2014


inquiry

This affair demands a formal inquiry before it can be forgotten.

I have one more inquiry before I can decide about signing up for your service.


intervene

to intervene (infinitive)
intervenes (present third-person singular)
intervened (preterite)
intervened (participle past)
intervening (participle present)

The negotiations were making no progress. So she decided it was time to intervene.

He decided to intervene in the negotiations.


interact

(1805)Dérivé de act, avec le préfixe inter-.

to interact (infinitive)
interacts (present third-person singular)
interacted (preterite)
interacted (participle past)
interacting (participle present)

The way staff interact with each other during breaks can play an important role in the workplace.


folly

Labour used to be the party that saw the folly of leaving the EU

William Keegan,The Guardian, juillet 2017


maintain

to maintain (infinitive)
maintains (present third-person singular)
maintained (preterite)
maintained (participle past)
maintaining (participle present)

They are no longer maintaining the same level of service as last year.

Who maintains the equipment?

He still maintains that he was right to do it.

The government is failing to maintain the same level of service.

Who is maintaining the software?


preserve

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We enjoyed eating strawberry preserves on our toast.

Réserve pour la conservation d'animaux, d'écosytèmes, etc. ; réserve naturelle.

Visitors to the nature preserve are forbidden to litter, to let their dogs off the leash, or to harvest plants and berries from the woods.

In the late nineteen-sixties, Firestone and a small cadre of her “sisters” were at the radical edge of a movement that profoundly changed American society. At the time, women held almost no major elected positions, nearly every prestigious profession was a male preserve, homemaking was women’s highest calling, abortion was virtually illegal, and rape was a stigma to be borne in silence.

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


preserve

to preserve (infinitive)
preserves (present third-person singular)
preserved (preterite)
preserved (participle past)
preserving (participle present)

A refrigerator is used to preserve food.

I'm preserving the peaches so that we'll have preserves all through the winter.


inveterate

He is an inveterate gambler.


lack

However, for most new users the lack of the braces and semicolons used to mark blocks and statements in many other languages seems to be the most novel syntactic feature of Python

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 388


landscape

When we landscape it, it will look much better.

Quand nous l’aurons paysagé(e), il/elle aura bien meilleure allure.

The new building will look prettier when we finish the landscaping.

Le nouveau bâtiment sera plus joli quand nous aurons fini de paysager.


larch

Forestry research here has shown that the wholly synthetic soft timber fibre can be created leaving the harder trees, the oaks, the beeches and the larches and the pines, and even some of the deciduous hardwoods.

La recherche en foresterie ici a montré que la fibre de bois doux complètement synthétique peut être créée en laissant de côté les arbres plus durs, les chênes, les hêtres et les mélèzes et les pins, et même certains feuillus à feuilles caduques. (traduction : « bois doux » à préciser ou à vérifier)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus, saison 3 épisode 12 (A Book at Bedtime)


lease

(Bail, licence) (XIVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français lais (« ce qui est laissé »), voir ci-après pour le sens.

(Louer) (XVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français laissier (« laisser, lâcher »), comparer avec release (« relâcher »). Le sens de « louer » est proprement celui de « laisser la jouissance à quelqu'un en échange d'argent » et est aussi dans let (« laisser, louer »). Les mots lessor, lessee ont conservé l’orthographe avec deux \s\ de l’ancien français en raison du conservatisme de la langue juridique.

to lease (infinitive)
leases (present third-person singular)
leased (preterite)
leased (participle past)
leasing (participle present)

I’m leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I’m there for work.

Je loue un petit appartement à Runcorn pour un mois pendant que je suis là-bas pour le travail.


mall

Incertaine, probablement une variante de maul.

General Growth Properties Inc., the nation’s second-largest mall operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Thursday.


marvel

to marvel (infinitive)
marvels (present third-person singular)
marveled (preterite)
marveled (participle past)
marveling (participle present)
to marvel (infinitive)
marvels (present third-person singular)
marvelled (preterite)
marvelled (participle past)
marvelling (participle present)

He marveled at how the agents came flying in like they were “linebackers” as soon as the shooting started and he unbuttoned his white long sleeve shirt to show a large bruise on his right forearm.

Il s’est émerveillé de la façon dont les agents sont arrivés comme s’ils étaient des « secondeurs » dès que la fusillade a commencé et il a déboutonné sa chemise blanche à manches longues pour montrer une grande ecchymose sur son avant-bras droit.

Michael Goodwin, « Grateful, defiant Trump recounts surviving ‘surreal’ assassination attempt at rally: ‘I’m supposed to be dead’ »,nypost.com, 14 juillet 2024.


mesh

Du moyen anglais mesch, probablement du néerlandais moyen maesche.

The geometry of the mesh is defined by the n-dimensional points in combination with associated cell interpolation functions.