knack

Utilisé en tant que « compétence particulière » dès 1580 ^([1]). Possiblement du moyen anglais du XIVᵉ siècle krak (« un coup violent »), knakke, knakken, issu du moyen bas allemand, par onomatopée. Plus récemment, cognat avec l’allemand knacken (« craquer »).

The happiest knack of finding the rarest and most beautiful plants in the most perfect state

Le don le plus heureux de trouver les plantes les plus rares et les plus belles dans l’état le plus parfait

William Henry Harvey, Memoir, 26, cité par Ann B. Shteir, ODNB

The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;

Le sophiste court pour rendre obscur ce qui est clair et s’y attache par un certain talent ;

Platon, Sophist, traduction de Lesley Brown, 254a

The Knack …and How to Get It, titre original d’un film réalisé par Richard Lester.


pistachio

(1590) Du vénitien pistachio ou de l’italien pistacchio.

Sicily was initially settled by Greek colonists, who left a preference for fish, wheat, olives, grapes, broad beans, chickpeas, lentils, almonds, pistachios, and fresh vegetables.

La Sicile a d'abord été colonisée par des Grecs, qui y ont laissé un goût pour le poisson, le blé, les olives, le raisin, les fèves, les pois chiches, les lentilles, les amandes, les pistaches et les légumes frais.

Pistachio is a dull yellowish-green color resembling the pistachio nut.

Vert pistache est un vert jaunâtre terne, renvoyant à la couleur de la pistache.


resurface

(Verbe 1) → voir re- et surface
(Verbe 2) → voir re- et surface

to resurface (infinitive)
resurfaces (present third-person singular)
resurfaced (preterite)
resurfaced (participle past)
resurfacing (participle present)

Revenir à la surface, être à de nouveau présent.

As Zimbabwe Prepares to Vote, Robert Mugabe Resurfaces With a Message


downstream

downstream pollution


upstream

upstream pollution


coming out

Du verbe come out, signifiant à l’origine « se présenter à la haute société ».

Annonce publique de ses orientations sexuelles, en particulier homosexuelles.

More and more gays are doing their coming out nowadays.


auxlang

Langue artificielle destinée à être une langue véhiculaire et non une première langue.

Volapük was the fisrt auxlang to generate international interest.


come out

Composé de come et de out. Le sens de sexualité est issu du sens précédent : « se présenter à la haute société ».

to come out (infinitive)
comes out (present third-person singular)
came out (preterite)
coming out (participle present)

En français on a la locution nominale coming out.

Se présenter à la haute société, en parlant d’une débutante.

The duchess’s daughter came out last season, and is now a highlight of the social season.

La fille de la duchesse a fait sa sortie lors de la dernière saison sociale, et est à présent en prominence de cette saison-ci.

Annoncer publiquement ses propres orientations sexuelles, en particulier homosexuelles.

Today, more and more gays are coming out.

À présent, de plus en plus d’homosexuels se révèlent publiquement.


Anglo-Saxon

Dérivé de Saxon, avec le préfixe Anglo-.

The Anglo-Saxons spoke Old English.


Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-saxon (ou vieil anglais), langue germanique occidentale parlée en Angleterre entre le Vᵉ et le XIIᵉ siècle.

Old English, the ancestor language of modern English, is also called Anglo-Saxon.

Le vieil anglais, l'ancêtre de l'anglais moderne, est aussi appelé Anglo-saxon.


Python

(Nom propre 2) Hommage aux humoristes de Monty Python.

In this C code snippet, a program coded in the C language embeds the Python interpreter by linking in its libraries and passes it a Python assignment statement string to run.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly Media, 2013, p. 84


blessèd

Glorious and blessèd God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Thou art mine, and I am Thine.


conlang

Contraction de constructed language (langue construite).

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

Klingon language is a conlang.


has-been

Typiquement employé pour parler des personnalités et des célébrités dont la reconnaissance est derrière eux.

They’re just a couple of has-beens.

I think Apple Computer is a has-been.

John Gantz, “Things Look Better in the Long View”, InfoWorld, 7 (52) / 8 (1), page 19, 6 janvier 1986

Is it better to never be than to be and eventually become a has-been?

William Shatner, Up Till Now: The Autobiography, page 338, 2009


shorter

\ˈʃɔː.tə(ɹ)\

\ˈʃɔː.tə(ɹ)\

“And because of the development times getting shorter, and shorter and shorter – now they are basically back to two years – what we see happening is that they are not properly evaluated in the real world”, he added.

Euro NCAP ‘upset’ carmakers did the bare minimum with lane-keep assist, Which Car, 23 Nov 2023


backstroke

200 m backstroke , « 200 mètres dos »


cayenne

(1756) Du tupi kyynha, quiynha (« capsicum »), par la suite assimilé à Cayenne, capitale de la Guyane.

What's the difference between a cayenne and a jalapeno?

His barbeque sauce could use a hint of cayenne to heat it up a bit.


Veronica

Veronique, or Veronica, is no other than a corruption of vera icon, or vera effigies, said to be the exact representation of our Saviour's face, impressed upon a piece of linen, with which he wiped the sweat from his forehead in his way to the place of crucifixion.

Véronique, ou Veronica, n’est autre que l’altération de vera icon, ou effigie véritable, dont on dit qu’elle serait l’exacte représentation de la figure de notre Seigneur, apposée sur un tissu de lin avec lequel il avait essuyé la sueur de son front, en route vers le lieu de sa crucifixion.

Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter lV, 1763


prognostication

The next day, contrary to the prognostications of our guide was fine, although clouded

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, édition de 1869


apology

əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi

It appeared dry and cold; but at the bottom was dotted in with pencil an obscure apology, […]

Ce billet semblait sec et froid ; mais à la fin était griffonnée au crayon une confuse excuse, […]


tip over

He tipped over the flower pot on purpose.

Il renversa le pot de fleur délibérément.

I was walking by, and it just tipped over by itself.

Je passais à côté, et il/elle se renversa juste de lui/elle-même.


tongue-in-cheek

(Date à préciser) Littéralement « la langue dans la joue », → voir tongue et cheek.

Window Snyder is Chief Security Something-Or-Other (a tongue-in-cheek Chief Security Officer title) at Mozilla Corporation.

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

ArticleWindow Snyder sur Wikipédia en anglais


de rigueur

Emprunt non adapté. Emprunté au français de rigueur.

\də ɹɪ.ˈɡɜː(ɹ)\

They’re still stuck on that convention, which hasn’t changed since it stopped being de rigueur for the chap to turn up with a dripping slab of freshly killed mammoth and bunches of flowers became popular instead.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 96

Wearing a suit to a job interview is de rigueur.

Le port du costume-cravate pour un entretien d’embauche est de rigueur.


stepper

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

Some steppers are optimized for better high-speed performance, but they need to be paired with an appropriate driver to achieve that performance.


derelict

Du latin derelictus, participe passé de derelinquo (« abandonner »)dérivé de relinquere (« laisser, abandonner »), avec le préfixe de-.

more derelict (comparative)
most derelict (superlative)

There was a derelict ship on the island.


derelict

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee, 1907

Bien abandonné.
Bateau abandonné en mer ; épave.

There were three of the derelicts. Perhaps they’d been towed in together. The tugboat skippers had probably tried to leave them in a perfect line as a personal conceit.

Paria, clochard ; personne abandonnée ou délaissée.

A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax 1911


hick

Sticks Nix Hick Pix

Le bled dit niet aux films sur les péquenauds.


foment

foment revolution in (a country, an institution)

foment rebellion, foment heresy


Antarctic

I'll be spending six months in the Antarctic.


mastery

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

When you have achieved mastery of this skill, let's talk again.


blues

(Siècle à préciser) Dérivé de blue (« bleu »).

Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.


blues

My next number is a blues in G.


blues

If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues…

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883

Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel


how come

L’inversion du sujet avec l’interrogatif how « comment » et le verbe come « venir », littéralement « comment est venu que … ».

Cette locution ne transforme pas les phrases en l’inversion du sujet :
:* How come she went there?
:* Why did she go there?

Comment se fait-il que, comment se fait-ce, comment il se fait que, comment cela se fait, pourquoi.

How come she wasn’t there?

You didn’t call me. How come?

I don’t know how come you decided to leave the house without an umbrella.

I’d like to know how come he didn’t come.

Tell me how come.


how come

Le pourquoi d'une chose ; l'explication d’une raison.

I’m tired of your what fors, and your how comes.


what for

What for est un synonyme de why, mais il est plus fort et sous-entend que l'interlocuteur pourrait ne pas avoir de raison valable.

Pourquoi, dans quel but, pour quoi faire.

Tell me what for.

You say you want it done, but I still don't know what for.

Do it now! -- What for?

I don't know what they're doing all this for.


what for

Don't tell me what for! I'll give you a what for.

I'm tired of your what fors, and your how comes.


busing

Transport des étudiants par bus pour tenter de diminuer la discrimination sociale ou raciale.

Busing, the transporting of public school children to end racial segregation, was thrust back into national conversations when Senator Kamala Harris criticized Vice President Joe Biden over his record on it at the first Democratic presidential debate.

Penn State College of Education Center for Education and Civil Rights, 2019.


gl

Le terme gl s’utilise volontiers dans le domaine du jeu vidéo multijoueur, pour souhaiter bonne chance à ses coéquipiers ou adversaires avant de commencer une partie. Il est parfois accompagné de hf, have fun (« amusez-vous »).

gl hf !


bigotry

(1660)Dérivé de bigot, avec le suffixe -ry ; à rapprocher du français bigoterie.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan practiced extreme bigotry.


triable

A triable case.


nowaday

He is the inventor of the nowaday pencil.

Il est l’inventeur du stylo tel qu’on le connait aujourd’hui.


AI

And therein lies the problem: as Wikipedia’s visibility diminishes, reduced to mere training data for AI applications, it also loses prominence in the minds of readers and potential contributors. When someone notices a topic that is poorly described on Wikipedia, they might feel motivated to correct it. But this can-do spirit goes away when the error comes through an AI summary, where the source of the information isn’t clear.

Stephen Harrison, Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?, The Guardian, 12 septembre 2024


AI

Four general categories of computer interface signals are involved: Digital Inputs (DI), Analog Inputs (AI), Digital Outputs (DO) and Analog Outputs (AO). The DIs, usually implemented with TTL compatible OV or +5V logic signals, provide inputs from switches and other digital sources. The AIs provide inputs from potentiometer type transducers and other analog sources 1n the form of d.c. voltages, typically in the −10V to +10V range.

Instrument Society of America, Advances in Instrumentation: Proceedings of the 38th ISA Conference, 1983,ISBN 9780876647806


MD

Sans réverbère c’était pas commode à trouver. C’était bien incliné comme pente. Enfin tout de même la quatrième encoignure, le perron qu’il avait dit qu’on remarque, et la plaque, je sens le relief avec mes doigts. C’est bien ça, Etrosohn M. D., medecine doctor ça fait en anglais.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Londres, Gallimard, 2022


ID

to ID (infinitive)
IDs (present third-person singular)
IDed (preterite)
IDed (participle past)
IDing (participle present)

Children and Mother IDed, Car Submerged

Enfants et mère identifiés, voiture noyée.

Tao takes a Bond moment in front of the camera as he IDs himself and takes off his sunglasses.

Tao prend un instant à la Bond devant la caméra alors qu’il s’identifie et retire ses lunettes de soleil.

JaneSt. Clair, The Closer 312: ’Til Death Do Us Part, Part I,

“[…] This guy”—Maxwell tapped the photo—“is positively ID’d as an Air Force colonel. […]”


IR

(1) Initiales de infrared (« infrarouge »).

(2) Initiales de information retrieval (« recherche d'information »).

We compare the physical properties of local DOGs with a control sample of galaxies that have lower S12μm/S0.22μm but have similar redshift, IR luminosity, and stellar mass distributions. […] Many physical properties of local DOGs are similar to those of high-z DOGs, even though the IR luminosities of local objects are an order of magnitude lower than for the high-z objects: the presence of two classes (active galactic nuclei- and star formation-dominated) of DOGs, abnormal faintness in the UV rather than extreme brightness in the mid-infrared, and diverse optical morphology.

Ho SeongHwang, Margaret J. Geller, Dust-Obscured Galaxies in the Local Universe, 2013


IM

The paper discusses the development of a performance measurement methodology for Idea Management (IM), i.e., a system that supports nonprofessional innovation as a way to the continuous improvement of organisations.


IM

Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients.


IM

to IM (infinitive)
IMs (present third-person singular)
IMed (preterite)
IMed (participle past)
IMing (participle present)

Just recently, my seventeen-year-old son was IMing back and forth with a girl he knows; and before they ended their conversation, she informed him that she doesn’t normally IM a guy first.

Vicki Courtney, TeenVirtue 2: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Relationships, 2006,ISBN 9780805441918, p. 26


MO

Another drug-pusher ripoff, done very efficiently—but not the same guy who’d taken Ju-Ju down. Different MO.


it’s all Greek to me

Cité pour la première fois comme « c'était du grec pour moi » dans Jules César de William Shakespeare, peut-être traduit d'une phrase de latin médiéval.

\ɪts ɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː\

\ɪts ɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː\

ɪts ɔl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-it's all Greek to me.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-it's all Greek to me.ogg

Cette locution n’existe qu’à la première personne du singulier, c’est-à-dire avec me.

C’est de l’hébreu, c’est du chinois, c’est du russe, c’est du javanais.

I tried reading the instructions, but it’s all Greek to me.

J’ai essayé de lire les instructions, mais c’est de l’hébreu pour moi.


printout

Impression, tirage (sur papier), sortie (sur imprimante), édition informatique.

I never like to read from the computer screen; I always make printouts.

J’aime pas lire à l’écran, j’imprime tout sur papier.


printing

This is the third printing of the second edition of this book.

The manuscript has been proofread twice. It's ready for printing.

Without modern printing, we would not have so many books.


MP

(Sigle) Sigle ayant plusieurs sens et étymologies :

(Sens 1 (police militaire)) De military et police.

(Sens 2 (membre de la police militaire)) De military et policeman.

(Sens 3 (député)) De member et parliament, dans « Member of Parliament ».

The Liberal MP Craig Kelly has said he could “actively campaign for the no side” if Ken Wyatt pursues an ambitious proposal for Indigenous constitutional recognition.

HelenSullivan, « Morning mail: UK ambassador quits, MP warns Wyatt, Blues win Origin thriller », The Guardian, 10 juillet 2019


PR

(Sigle). (Siècle à préciser) Initiales de public relations.

(Sigle). (Siècle à préciser) Initiales de proportional representation.

We have a few people on the ground in India; they’re (…) helping with PR – letting the public know that Wikipedia exists in all those Indian languages.

Nous avons quelques personnes sur le terrain en Inde ; elles […] aident pour les relations publiques — permettant au public de savoir que Wikipédia existe dans toutes ces langues indiennes.

Jimmy Wales, entretien sur foreignpolicy.com, novembre 2011


PR

At last year’s conference about 80% of constituency party delegates voted in favour of embracing PR.

Lors de la conférence de l’année dernière, à peu près 80% des délégués des partis de circonscription ont voté pour l’adoption de la représentation proportionnelle.

Peter Walker et Aubrey Allegretti, « Labour delegates back motion calling on party to back PR », article dans The Guardian, septembre 2022


sulky

sulkier (comparative)
sulkiest (superlative)

The sulky child.


ergonomics

Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.

Ergonomics are complications to be avoided.


sweepstake

Composé de sweep (« balayer ») et de stake (« enjeu »).

In the United States, sweepstake sponsors are very careful to disassociate themselves from any suggestion that players must pay to enter, or pay to win, as this would constitute gambling.


worrying

This is a very worrying situation.


well-being

Motcomposé de well (« bien ») et de being (« étant »).

We have now recognised the necessity to the mental well-being of mankind

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 94


in-law

Par dérivation régressive de mother-in-law, brother-in-law, etc.

Essentiellement utilisé au pluriel en signifiant la belle-famille entière.

We're having the in-laws over for dinner on Saturday.


whomever

Quiconque, qui que ce soit, n’importe qui.

I don’t care whomever he’s voting for.


whomever

Whomever can we trust?


fundament

Logic is a fundament of discourse.


take seriously

Some of the best minds of my feminist generation, whose works I once treasured, had to die before they would be taken seriously in the mass media.

Certains des esprits les plus brillants de ma génération de féministes, dont j’ai un jour vénéré les œuvres, ont dû mourir avant d’être pris au sérieux dans les médias grand public.

Phyllis Chesler, « Woke Andrea Dworkin » [en ligne], Tablet, section « Arts & Letters », New York, le 9 avril 2021. Consulté le 13 mai 2024.


skyrocket

Mot-valise de sky « ciel » et to rocket « accélerer ».

to skyrocket (infinitive)
skyrockets (present third-person singular)
skyrocketed (preterite)
skyrocketed (participle past)
skyrocketing (participle present)

We’ll hopefully see the number of patched DNS servers skyrocket in the next few days.


shake hands

to shake hands (infinitive)
shakes hands (present third-person singular)
shook hands (preterite)
shaken hands (participle past)
shaking hands (participle present)

Let’s shake hands and make up.

Serrons-nous la main et réconcilions-nous.


shake one’s head

to shake one’s head (infinitive)
shakes one’s head (present third-person singular)
shook one’s head (preterite)
shaken one’s head (participle past)
shaking one’s head (participle present)
shake one’s head no

He didn’t answer out loud, but only shook his head no.

When asked if she wanted an ice cream, she shook her head.


arabica

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin Arabica (« arabique »).

A naturally decaffeinated arabica coffee.


arabica

What makes an arabica an arabica? For a start, the arabicas generally are weaker in caffeine - from 0.8 to 1.5 percent, versus the 1.6 to 2.5 percent in the robustas.

Qu’est-ce qui différencie un arabica d’un robusta ? En premier, les arabicas sont généralement moins forts en caféine : de 0,8 à 1,5 %, contre 1,6 à 2,5 % pour les robustas.


on the premises

The bread is baked daily on the premises.


off the premises

Get off the premises before I throw you out!


revival

(Siècle à préciser) De to revive (« revivre, faire revivre ») avec le suffixe -al.

Revival in a Christian context generally refers to a specific period of spiritual renewal in the life of the Church.

Dans un contexte chrétien, le terme revival désigne généralement une période spécifique de reviviscence spirituelle dans la vie de l'Église.


roundabout

roundabout way


roundabout

rotary

s'emploie plus souvent en Nouvelle-Angleterre

Carrefour giratoire, giratoire, rond-point.

In rural areas, that means replacing intersections with roundabouts — a change associated with cutting crash rates by more than 50 percent.

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


advisory

The institution appointed an advisory committee to make suggestions about future directions.

The traffic sign with the suggested speed for exit ramps is advisory only.


winning

Who has the winning number?


tied

The score is tied: 3 - 3.


tie score

Pour match nul, voyez aussi « ex æquo ».

It's a tie score: 3 - 3.


get to

to get to (infinitive)
gets to (present third-person singular)
got to (preterite)
got to ou gotten to (participle past)
getting to (participle present)

This job is really getting to me.


up early

You're up early this morning.


on all fours

(Date à préciser)Composé de on, all et fours.

The roof of the cave was very low, and we had to proceed on all fours.

Le plafond de la grotte était très bas, et nous dûmes poursuivre à quatre pattes.


manage to

After much effort, she managed to build a working model.


wry

more wry (comparative)
most wry (superlative)

She has a wry sense of humor.


disciplinarian

Dérivé de discipline, avec le suffixe -arian.

Disciplinaire (personne qui fait régner la discipline).

He is the chief disciplinarian in the school.

C’est le disciplinaire en chef de l’école.


sarcastic

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

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


georgette

Silk is sold under a wide variety of trade names, including satin, foulard, faille, crepe de chine, pongee, taffeta, georgette, jersey, etc.

Erich Urbach, Philip Morris Gottlieb, Allergy, Grune & Stratton, 1946, p. 245


manuscript

Du latin manualis (« relatif aux mains ») et du latin scriptum (« quelque chose d’écrit »). référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

At the ceremony, held each spring, the author selected for that year’s text holds a reading in the future forest before delivering the manuscript.

Lors de la cérémonie, qui a lieu chaque année au printemps, l'auteur selectionné pour le texte de l'année en fait une lecture dans la future forêt avant d'en remettre le manuscript.

Forest of the Future Library, Atlas Obscura


wickedness

Du moyen anglais wickednes, wikkednes, wikkednesse et wikednesse ; équivalent audérivé de wicked, avec le suffixe -ness.

There is too much wickedness in the world.


tributary

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

The weaker nation became a tributary of the stronger nation.

The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River.


go back

Composé de go (« aller ») et de back (« retour »).

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

We always remember our childhood home, but we can never really go back.


floppy disk

Composé de floppy (« souple ») et de disk (« disque »).

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

Floppy disks: headed for the museum, or treasured home for your data? When Sony said this week it was halting the production of floppy disks, the Magazine set out to discover who still buys and uses this anachronistic computer storage medium.

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


Benjamin

Benjamin of Tudela.


reminder

For many Americans, clothes lines are an unwanted reminder of a more frugal age, says Dave Rapaport, senior director of corporate consciousness at Seventh Generation, a firm that sells eco-friendly household products.

Tom Geoghegan, The fight against clothes line bans, BBC News, 7 octobre 2010


distributor

Dérivé de distribute, avec le suffixe -or.

I have a special distributor who finds me these products to sell.


vending machine

(Date à préciser) → voir vending et machine

Distributeur automatique de nourriture, boisson, etc.

Starting next year, vending machines all over the country will have fewer junk food options, and more healthy ones.

À partir de l'année prochaine, les distributeurs automatiques de nourriture de tout le pays proposeront moins de malbouffe, et plus de produits sains.

TimConvy, Healthier Vending Machine Snacks, Y98 Radio, 25 octobre 2019


financial

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

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

The policy package known as Abenomics appears to have influenced the Japanese economy drastically, in particular, in the financial markets.

Ippei Fujiwara, Policy Regime Change Against Chronic Deflation?, 2015


specifics

Enough of the generalities. Give me the specifics.


generality

She explained it to me in full generality.

Généralités, lieu commun, généralisation.

She spoke only in generalities. There's no definite commitment.


unashamed

Unashamed n’est pas nécessairement un antonyme d’ashamed ; cela dépend du sens.

Assuré (qui est hardi, aussi en mauvaise part), éhonté.

He acted as a spy in a completely unashamed manner.

Il agit tel un espion d’une manière complètement éhontée.


unscrupulous

Dérivé de scrupulous, avec le préfixe un-.

Sans scrupules, peu scrupuleux, malhonnête inconscient.

Repeating the amount in two different forms makes it much more difficult for an unscrupulous employee or vendor to modify the amount on the cheque before depositing it.

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


chubby

chubbier (comparative)
chubbiest (superlative)

Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.

De toute évidence, l’enfant potelé mangeait trop.

It’s quite normal for healthy babies to have chubby cheeks.

Il est tout à fait normal pour les bébés sains d’avoir des joues potelées.


skin and bones

Composé de skin (« peau ») et de bones (« os »).

You have to eat more. You're all skin and bones.

nothing but skin and bones, to be reduced to skin and bones, to be just skin and bones


or so

L'expression s'emploie après de la phrase nominale.

The trip will take about three hours or so.

Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)

Un affreux temps de novembre ; il y avait autant de boue dans les rues que si les eaux du déluge venaient seulement d’abandonner la surface de la terre, et l’on ne serait pas surpris de rencontrer un mégalosaure, long d’environ douze mètres, gravissant, dans la vase, tel un lézard éléphantesque, la colline de Holborn.


syntactic

Du latin syntacticus, du grec ancien συντακτικός, suntaktikós.

more syntactic (comparative)
most syntactic (superlative)

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


factor in

Did you factor in the overhead for labor in calculating the total cost?


unpack

to unpack (infinitive)
unpacks (present third-person singular)
unpacked (preterite)
unpacked (participle past)
unpacking (participle present)

Now that you've arrived, why don't you unpack your suitcase?

Why don't you unpack the box of books that arrived in the mail?


get off one’s chest

to get off one’s chest (infinitive)
gets off one’s chest (present third-person singular)
got off one’s chest (preterite)
getting off one’s chest (participle present)

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Se confier, confier quelque chose à quelqu’un, dire ce qu’on a sur le cœur.

Thanks for listening to me. I had to get that off my chest.

Merci de m’avoir écouté(e). Il fallait que je me confie.


doubloon

six Doubloons of Gold, and some small Bars or Wedges of Gold

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 228. 1719.


off site

The company managers decided to hold a special meeting off site, to avoid the reporters.


subsoil

The soil has eroded away, and there's only subsoil left.


conk

The blow conked him out.

She conked the man on the head with a baseball bat.

The falling brick conked his head.


hit one’s head against the wall

Stop hitting your head against the wall. There’s nothing that you could have done differently.


stethoscope

(1820) Du français stéthoscope, terme créé par son inventeur en 1819, dérivé du préfixe stétho-, avec le suffixe -scope. Le préfixe est issu du grec ancien στῆθος, stễthos (« poitrine »).

As Batson applied his stethoscope to the chest of the dead man, I glanced at our hostess not without interest.

Tandis que Batson appliquait son stéthoscope sur la poitrine du mort, je jetais un regard non sans intérêt à notre hôtesse.

Richard Austin Freeman, A Silent Witness, 1915, chapitre 4

I again place my stethoscope upon the chest, but no sound reaches my ear. I listen for five—for ten—for twenty seconds. There is nothing; all the vital reactions have disappeared.

Je place à nouveau mon stéthoscope sur la poitrine, mais aucun son ne parvient à mon oreille. J'écoute pendant cinq, dix, vingt secondes. Il n'y a rien ; toutes les réactions vitales ont disparu.

Harry E. Mereness, «The Chair », Weird Tales, volume 1, nᵒ 4, 1923

The prize was awarded to Professor Andral, who claimed that listening to the heart-sounds by means of the stethoscope was the surest way of ascertaining whether death had taken place or not, because with this instrument could still be heard the movement of the heart-valves, when by all other tests one could no longer detect any sign of life.

Le prix a été décerné au professeur Andral, qui prétendait que l'écoute des bruits du cœur au moyen du stéthoscope était le moyen le plus sûr de déterminer si la mort avait eu lieu ou non, car avec cet instrument, il était possible d'entendre le mouvement des valvules cardiaques, là où, avec tous les autres tests, on ne pouvait plus détecter aucun signe de vie.

Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum, «Physiology of Freezing », Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, septembre 1887


stethoscope

to stethoscope (infinitive)
stethoscopes (present third-person singular)
stethoscoped (preterite)
stethoscoped (participle past)
stethoscoping (participle present)

Stéthoscoper, ausculter avec un stéthoscope.

I was examined, stethoscoped, asked questions, gazed at.

J'ai été examiné, stéthoscopé, interrogé, observé.

Forrest Reid, Following Darkness, 1912, chapitre 56

“Mr. Clute,” he said, when he had thumped him and stethoscoped him and tried all his tests, “you are a remarkable man. You have a body like a steel engine and a constitution like a horse. How many years did I give you?”

« Mr. Clute », dit-il après qu'il l'ai frappé puis stéthoscopé. Vous avez un corps comme un moteur en acier et la constitution d'un cheval. Combien d'années vous ai-je donné ?

Ellis Parker Butler, « Beating the Law », The Red Book Magazine, volume 18, nᵒ 6, 1912


textbook

A math textbook.


sierra

(1610) De l’espagnol sierra (« chaine de montagnes »).

The Sierra Nevada.


haphazard

(1670)Composé de hap (« chance ») et de hazard (« hasard »), hap est désuet et apparenté à happen (« survenir, arriver »).

Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.

N’effectuez pas des changements aussi hasardeux dans les paramètres ; à la place, ajustez les boutons précautionneusement, un peu à chaque fois.

TDD is a dicipline to help you grow a quality design, not just a haphazard approach to verify pieces of a system.

Le TDD est une discipline qui vous aide à concevoir un système de qualité, pas une approche désordonnée de vérification de certains éléments qui le composent.

Jeff Langh, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013, page 69.


arguably

Adverbedérivé de arguable (« argumentable »), avec le suffixe -ly.

\ˈɑːgjʊəblɪ\

Comme l’adjectif arguable dont il est dérivé, l’adverbe arguably veut dire que la prépondérance de l'évidence est positive, par contre ne pourra jamais être totalement confirmée. Il est à éviter dans les discours fermes et directs, car ce mot amène une subjectivité dans la vision contextuelle.

possiblement, fort probablement, sans doute, apparemment, vraisemblablement, en toute vraisemblance.

They are arguably the biggest band of the 90s and of the new millennium, with millions of record sales worldwide and perhaps could be regarded as the greatest pop band of the modern era.

James McCarthy,Take That: Uncensored on the Record, page 5. Coda Books, 2012.

The largest collection of human knowledge ever amassed, available to everyone online for free, it is arguably the greatest achievement of the digital age.

Carl Miller,« China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits ». BBC News, 5 octobre 2019.

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

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


questionable

Dérivé de question, avec le suffixe -able.

Arguable signifie que la prépondérance de la preuve est positive, bien que questionable veuille dire que la prépondérance de la preuve est négative.

It’s questionable whether the hypothesis is true.

On peut se demander si l’hypothèse est vraie.

I find his moral foundation to be questionable.

Je trouve que ses fondements moraux sont douteux.


freehand

This is a freehand drawing.


freehand

I drew it freehand.


side by side

The two friends walked merrily on, side by side.

Les deux amis poursuivirent joyeusement leur chemin, côte à côte.


classifieds

De classified, car les petites annonces sont classées par domaines, de façon générale.

He ran an ad in the classifieds.

J’ai fait passer une annonce dans les petites annonces.


make redundant

Three hundred workers were made redundant yesterday.


counterfeit

This is a counterfeit twenty dollar bill.


counterfeit

This twenty dollar bill is a counterfeit.


counterfeit

They were counterfeiting twenty dollar bills.


counterfeiting

Counterfeiting is a serious crime.


thinking

the thinking man's guide to football


thinking

His thinking has also influenced everyone else’s thinking.

Sa pensée a aussi influencé celle de tout le monde.

What is your thinking on our situation?

Quelle est votre réflexion sur notre situation ?


meltdown

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Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown

Chez les personnes autistes, situation où la personne est en incapacité à retenir une surcharge sensorielle, déclenchant une crise de colère.

Dans un environnement trop riche sensoriellement […] toute sollicitation extérieure, toute contrainte sociale supplémentaire devient insupportable, et si l'entourage pousse à la communication, cela peut mener au meltdown.

David Gourion, Séverine Leduc, Éloge des intelligences atypiques, Odile Jacob; 2018


mouthwash

\ˈmaʊθ.ˌwɒʃ\

What brand of mouthwash do you use?

Quelle marque de gargarisme utilises-tu ?


gargling

Gargarisme (action de se gargariser la gorge).

The doctor recommends gargling with this once a day.


Soviet

(XXᵉ siècle) Du russe совет, soviet (« conseil »).

Soviétique (habitant ou citoyen de l'Union Soviétique).

Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets

Conditionné pour répondre à toutes les menaces
Des discours rhétoriques des Soviétiques

Gordon Sumner, Russians, in The Dream of the Blue Turtles, juin 1985


Soviet

Soviétique ; relatif à l'Union Soviétique.

A Soviet republic.


english

Mouvement de tournoiement ou rotatif imprimé à une balle autour de son axe vertical.

You can’t hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.

Tu ne peux pas la toucher directement, mais peut-être si tu lui imprimes un mouvement de tournoiement.


implausible

Dérivé de plausible, avec le préfixe im-.

Non plausible, qui provoque l’incrédulité.

A variety of implausible usage scenarios are described.


overtly

(XIVᵉ siècle)Dérivé de overt, avec le suffixe -ly.

Grice (1975) also suggested that philosophy must consider the ways in which speakers go beyond what is strictly, overtly said by their utterances to consider what is contextually implicated by them.

Grice (1975) a également suggéré que la philosophie doit prendre en compte les façons dont les locuteurs vont au-delà de ce qui est strictement, ouvertement dit par leurs énoncés afin de considérer ce qui est contextuellement impliqué par ceux-ci.

Michael P. Wolf, Philosophy of Language, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


vaunted

more vaunted (comparative)
most vaunted (superlative)

The search giant on Friday announced a tweak to the software underlying its vaunted search engine that is meant to better interpret queries when written in sentence form.

Le géant de la recherche a annoncé vendredi un ajustement du logiciel derrière son fameux moteur de recherche dans le but de mieux interpréter les requêtes rédigées sous forme de phrase.

GregBensinger, Google is making a big change to its vaunted search engine. You might not notice., The Washington Post, 25 octobre 2019


flickering

Dérivé de flicker, avec le suffixe -ing.

Does that constant flickering bother you?


turn signal

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Use your turn signal before turning!


hallucinate

Attention. Il s'agit d'un faux-ami. To hallucinate n'est pas halluciner.

I think I'm hallucinating.


hallucinating

The hallucinating soldier was taken to the hospital.

They are often deluded, hallucinating, and confused in a new highly manipulative environment, in their altered states of consciousness.

The Cult Phenomenon in the United States, 1979


momentarily

Here the team began whooping and shouting and singing with joy, though Jolly Cholly had momentarily to turn away, to struggle against the tears that were forming in his eyes.

Ici, l’équipe commença à hurler, crier et chanter de joie, bien que Jolly Cholly ait dû momentanément se détourner pour lutter contre les larmes qui lui venaient aux yeux. (Note : le roman a été publié en français, en 1980, aux éditions Gallimard, collection « Du monde entier », sous le titre Le Grand Roman américain.)

Philip Roth, The Great American Novel, page 242. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers, 2013. Réédition de l'original paru en 1973.


discord

(Date à préciser) Du latin discordia via l’ancien français descorde.

To sow discord.

The apple of discord.


remains

Restes, la dépouille mortelle d'un être.

The Buddha exhorted his followers not to worship him but to give his remains the honours of a Chakravartin (Emperor). Accordingly, stūpas were erected over his remains and in his memory, and homage was rendered to them.

K. R. Subramanian, Buddhist Remains in Āndhra and The History of Āndhra between 225 & 610 A.D.,chapitre II (« The Monuments of Āndhra »), sous-chapitre « Stūpas », pages 13-14. Madras (Chennai)-Vepery, Diocesan Press, 1932 [fac-similé : Asian Educational Services, 1989].

It is understood that once the kupuna leaves this world to journey on to the spiritual world, their remains should never be disturbed.

Daniel Akaka, 26 octobre 1990. Congressional Record : Proceedings and debates of the 101st Congress, second session, volume 136, part 24, page 35678. United States Givernment Printing Office, 1990.

Spain’s supreme court is expected to announce on Tuesday whether General Franco’s remains can be exhumed from the vast mausoleum outside Madrid where they have lain since the dictator’s death in 1975.

Sam Jones,« Spain’s supreme court to rule on Franco exhumation expected to cause upset ». Theguardian.com, 22 septembre 2019.


ivoride

BX Plastics made xylonite (also known as celluloid or ivoride).

BX Plastics sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


revolutionise

to revolutionise (infinitive)
revolutionises (present third-person singular)
revolutionised (preterite)
revolutionised (participle past)
revolutionising (participle present)

This technological domain is already being touted as the next step forward in computing power, and some studies claim that it could revolutionise naval navigation by replacing GPS with atomic clocks or greatly enhance defensive/offensive cryptography capabilities.

Daniel Fiott, «Digitalising Defence », European Union Institute for Security Studies, 11 mars 2020


gnaw

Du moyen anglais gnawen, gnaȝen, lui-même du vieil anglais gnagan (« mordre avec persistance »).

The dog gnawed the bone until there was none left.

Le chien a rongé l’os jusqu’à ce qu’il n’en reste rien.

The dog gnawed on the bone.

This problem has been gnawing at me for a while now.

Ça fait longtemps que ce problème me harcèle.

I have a gnawing suspicion that he’s lying.


butterflyfish

Butterflyfish, with their amazing array of colors and patterns, are among the most common sights on reefs throughout the world.

Les poissons-papillons, avec leur incroyable gamme de couleurs et de motifs, font partie de ce que l’on voit le plus fréquemment sur les récifs partout dans le monde.

"Butterflyfish", National Geographic, Consulté le 5 avril 2024


fishmonger

\ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)\

And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]

Et Susan, sûre de la réponse à l’avance, demanderait à Cook de passer à la poissonnerie pour un bon petit morceau de saumon, […]

Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf, H. Liveright (publisher), 1931, page 225

Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.

Le maquereau de Cornouailles, le haddock fumé, le hareng écossais et les ailes de raies d’une blancheur de perle sont tous étalés sur un lit de glace pilée chez le poissonnier.

Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn, Murdoch Books, 2007,ISBN 9781921259890, page 157

Souteneur, barbeau, maquereau, proxénète.

"Excellent well ; you are a fishmonger."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, dit par Hamlet à Polonius. (Acte 2, Scène 2)


fishy

What is that fishy odor?

I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.

Je ne lui fais pas confiance ; ses déclarations me paraissent douteuses.


Marseillais

Ce mot est un gentilé. Un gentilé désigne les habitants d’un lieu, les personnes qui en sont originaires ou qui le représentent (par exemple, les membres d’une équipe sportive).

Born of the best Greeks, who dared to risk long voyages and whose ships took routes through the Adriatic gulf and the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Marseillais naturally turned to commerce.

Juno Thérèse Takeda,Between Crown & Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (MD), 2011


aurate

Du latin aurum, « or », avec le suffixe -ate.

Ammonia forms with it the highly explosive compound known as fulminating gold. Alkalies [sic] dissolve it, forming salts known as aurates, having the general formula MAuO₂.

Henry Louis, A handbook of gold milling, 1902


Unicode

The character class \w, which matches any alphanumeric character, will match a different set of characters depending on the configured locale and the support of Unicode.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, page 13


eerie

Du moyen anglais eri (« peureux »), du vieil anglais earg (« lâche, peureux »).

eerier (comparative)
eeriest (superlative)
eery

Effrayant, de manière sombre, vague et mystérieuse

The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.

Les bruits inquiétants semblent provenir du cimetière après minuit.

It was eerie underneath. It always was, but comfortable, too.

The parallels were eerie.

La similitude (ou la comparaison) est effrayante.

Carole Cadwalladr, Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident, The Guardian, Sun 22 Sep 2024, dimanche 22 septembre 2024


murderball

Composé de murder (« meurtre ») et de ball (« ballon, balle »).

The game they devised was called murderball, owing to the rather violent collisions between chair, floor and human flesh and bone that it encouraged. After a little while, and presumably a meeting or two with some rebranding consultants, it became known as wheelchair rugby.

Steven Gauge, The Bluffer's Guide to Rugby, Bluffer's Guides, 2014, page 93


shambolic

Composé de shambles (« grand désordre »), -o- et -ic, avec le -o- interconsonnantique qui permet d'éviter le groupe de consonnes /mbl/. Possiblement sous l'influence du mot symbolic.

more shambolic (comparative)
most shambolic (superlative)

“The government is making a shambolic mess of Brexit and the British people know it,” said Gareth Thomas.

Rob Merrick, « Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong », The Independent, 5 juin 2018

Rishi Sunak’s election campaign has been criticised as shambolic after he visited the Titanic Quarter in Belfast, where a journalist asked him if he was captain of a sinking ship.

Andrew Sparrow, « Clark and Mackinlay join more than 70 Tory MPs saying they will stand down at the election – UK politics live », The Guardian, 24 mai 2024


preconceived

A jury should never have a preconceived opinion.


forethought

Dérivé de thought, avec le préfixe fore-.

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With a little forethought, you wouldn't have gotten into this predicament.

-- Avec un peu de prévoyance, tu ne serais dans cette situation délicate.

Please use some forethought, and don't just rush into things.


drafty

Dérivé de draft (« courant d’air »), avec le suffixe -y .

more drafty (comparative)
most drafty (superlative)
draftier (comparative)
draftiest (superlative)
draughty

It's drafty in here. Please close the window.


draughty

Dérivé de draught (« courant d’air »), avec le suffixe -y.

more draughty (comparative)
most draughty (superlative)
draughtier (comparative)
draughtiest (superlative)
drafty

It’s draughty in here. Please close the window.


so much

Composé de so (« si ») et de much (« beaucoup de »).

\ˌsəʊ ˈmʌtʃ\

On emploie so much pour les objets indénombrables (so much milk, so much joy, so much money), et on emploie so many pour les objets dénombrables (so many liters of milk, so many good memories, so many dollars).

Thank you for bringing so much joy to our family.

Merci à vous d’apporter tant de joie à notre famille.


so much

\ˌsəʊ ˈmʌtʃ\

It rained so much, that the road became flooded.

Il a tant plu que la route a été inondée.

The new apartment is so much larger than the old one that we could fit two of the old apartments in the same space.

Le nouvel appartement est tellement plus grand que l’ancien que l’on pourrait mettre deux fois l’ancien appartement dans le même espace.


so many

(Date à préciser) Composé de so (« si ») et de many (« beaucoup de »).

How did you ever acquire so many books?

Comment as-tu jamais pu acquérir tant de livres ?


every nook and cranny

I looked for it in every nook and cranny, but I couldn't find it.


so much as

If you so much as say one word to him, then I’m walking out immediately.

Si tu lui dis ne serait-ce qu’un mot, alors je sors immédiatement.


as long as

We'll continue for as long as it takes.

As long as you're going to the snack bar anyway, could you bring me back a coffee?

As long as you stay in the house, you can do whatever you want.


burble

Isn't it wonderful to sit here listening to the burbling brook?


burble

Like classical music, the burble of a restaurant made them more spendthrift, while football commentary and pop music increased the canniness of their decisions.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 77


disable

to disable (infinitive)
disables (present third-person singular)
disabled (preterite)
disabled (participle past)
disabling (participle present)

to disable the enemy vessel

Falling of the horse disabled him.

The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

Le pilote dut désactiver le pilote automatique de son avion.


divest

Altération de devest, issu du latin divestire.

to divest (infinitive)
divests (present third-person singular)
divested (preterite)
divested (participle past)
divesting (participle present)

You shall never divest me of my right to free speech.

Que vous ne me priviez jamais de mon droit à la liberté d’expression.

(Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)) Désinvestir.

In 2011, the company divested an 81% majority stake in its Chinese subsidiary.

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


crowbar

\ˈkɹoʊ.ˌbɑɹ\

What we all want is a level of integration that magically blends separately developed tools into a well designed suite. And it should be simple enough that existing tools can be moved to the platform without using a shoehorn or a crowbar.


trauma

(1693) Du grec ancien τραῦμα, trauma (« blessure »).

Head trauma.

Rape victims almost always suffer from trauma.

Les victimes de viol souffrent presque toujours d’un trauma.


leftover

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Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.

Are we having leftovers for dinner again?

Allons-nous encore manger des restes au dîner ?


paronym

Du grec ancien παρά, pará, et ὄνομα, ónoma.

Ce mot est un faux-ami. Le sens 2 est probablement une erreur à cause de la langue maternelle de l’auteur.

Words are said to be Paronyms when they are derived from the same root, whether that root belongs to the original English (Anglo-Saxon) stock, or has been introduced into the language from some other tongue. For instance, the following words are paronyms, being all derived from the Latin root, signifying to put or place: compose, depose, interpose, oppose, dispose, impose, expose, repose, transpose, propose, and suppose.

John Mitchell Bonnell, A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, 1867, page 38

Paronyms are morphologically variant (and, for the most part meaning related, but not univocal) n-tuples derived (synchronically) from a common root. […] for example ‘explain’, ‘explanation’, ‘explicable’ and ‘explicability’, and, in Latin, explaneo and explanatio.

James F. Ross, Portraying Analogy, 1981,ISBN 9780521238052, p. 137

Two words are paronyms when their phonemic representations are similar but not identical.

Salvatore Attardo, Linguistic Theories of Humor, 1994,ISBN 9783110219029, pp. 110-111


karst

(Siècle à préciser) De Kras, région (→ voir kraj) slovène de plateaux calcaires au modelé caractéristique. Le mot fut germanisé en « karst » quand le pays fut intégré à l’empire austro-hongrois.

In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.

M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal, 1978, vol. 144, no. 2, page 200

The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.

Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com, 2ç mai 2009


jointer

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Plus grand type de rabot utilisé par un menuisier.

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

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


mechanically

Dérivé de mechanical, avec le suffixe -ly.

As he came opposite his division and brigade commanders at the roadside he saluted mechanically and was about to pass on.

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


waiver

De l’anglo-normand weyver, de l’ancien français weyver (gaiver, guesver), même sens.

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

She asked for a waiver from the fee due to poverty.


inappropriate

Inapproprié, mal à propos (qui ne convient pas).

Inappropriate speed (with regard to visibility, road conditions, traffic situations, and speed limits) is the biggest problem, involved in 31.5% of cases of injuries, and 47% of cases of deaths in road crashes.

Road safety performance review, Speed limit enforcement needs to be prioritized in Moldova to better protect the safe movement of people, says new UN Road Safety Performance Review, UNECE, 19 August 2024


inhospitable

Dérivé de hospitable, avec le préfixe in-.

The Mojave Desert is one of the most inhospitable regions on Earth.


nauseous

I feel nauseous.

What a nauseous sight!


nauseated

I feel nauseated.


sickly

sicklier (comparative)
sickliest (superlative)

Chétif, maladif, valétudinaire, malingre.

Due to an illness at birth, the boy was always sickly.


prodigal

So! The prodigal son returns.

Don’t be so prodigal. You’ll need those things later.


shrubbery

\ˈʃɹʌb.ə.ɹi\

The house has a lot of shrubbery around it.


nimble

De l’anglo-saxon qui signifiait « rapide à saisir ou à comprendre ».

nimbler (comparative)
nimblest (superlative)

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

Agile, souple (en parlant d’une personne, des doigts, des pieds).

He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.

She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.


spoilage

food spoilage


embed

to embed (infinitive)
embeds (present third-person singular)
embedded (preterite)
embedded (participle past)
embedding (participle present)

To embed/imbed est déplacer au-dessous, mais près de la surface. To implant est déplacer profondement au-dessous de la surface.

We can embed this medical device under your skin.

The roots of the old tree were deeply embedded in the foundation of the house.

The lectern contained an embedded microphone that the politician had not noticed.

The torus S¹×S¹ can be embedded in ℝ³.

Embarquer, encapsuler (un document, des données, un programme...).

In this C code snippet, a program coded in the C language embeds the Python interpreter by linking in its libraries and passes it a Python assignment statement string to run.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 84


imbed

We can imbed this medical device under your skin.

The roots of the old tree were deeply imbedded in the foundation of the house.


impassion

Her speech impassioned the feelings of the crowd.


impassioned

He gave an impassioned speech.


bureaucracy

Du francais bureaucratie, mot créé en 1759 par l’économiste Vincent de Gournay avec bureau et -cratie

bjʊəˈɹɒk.ɹə.si

The bureaucracy here is actually reasonably efficient.

The whole project has turned into a huge bureaucracy.


bureaucratic

It's a bureaucratic affair.

the European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.

Thhis is a bureaucratic mess.


roster

The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.


necker

Dérivé de neck (« se bécoter »), avec le suffixe -er.

We all ate at the Liberty Grill, and then Bernice and I drove her family's Pontiac upriver, to a hill overlooking Tongue Point, where plenty of neckers were fogging up the windows.

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II, 2008


gamble

to gamble (infinitive)
gambles (present third-person singular)
gambled (preterite)
gambled (participle past)
gambling (participle present)

She decided to gamble everything on the new strategy.

He is always gambling at the casinos.


gamble

It’s a gamble, but we have no other choice but to try it.


at stake

There’s a lot at stake here. Think carefully before you decide.

Il y a beaucoup en jeu ici. Réfléchissez attentivement avant de décider.


fumigate

Because the house was infested with insects, we had to fumigate the house.


infestation

infestation of termites


adherent

Représentant (défenseur d’une doctrine).

He was an adherent of the most fundamentalist form of his religion.

Il était un représentant de la forme la plus intégriste de sa religion.


tarn

Du vieux nordique tjǫrn ("petit lac de montagne sans affluent"). Apparenté au norvégien tjern ("petit lac de forêt ou montagne").

Petit lac de montagne, spécialement dans le nord de l'Angleterre.

I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn : Je freinai mon cheval au bord escarpé d'un épouvantable tarn noir.


demise

Du latin demissa, participe passé féminin singulier de demittere, apparemment via le français démise, participe passé féminin singulier de démettre.

Such a solitary demise would have been unimaginable to anyone who knew Firestone in the late nineteen-sixties, when she was at the epicenter of the radical-feminist movement, surrounded by some of the same women who, a month after her death, gathered in St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, to pay their respects.

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


disbarred

A disbarred lawyer was arrested yesterday on charges of stealing more than $400000.


towelette

Composé de towel avec le diminutif -ette.

The folded moist towelette was smaller than my palm, but when unfolded at least cleaned my hands.

La lingette humide pliée était plus petite que ma paume, mais dépliée permit au moins de me nettoyer les mains.


blatant

more blatant (comparative)
most blatant (superlative)

She was caught in a blatant lie.


pain in the ass

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de pain (« douleur »), in, the et ass (« cul »), littéralement « douleur au cul ».

pains in the ass (plural)
pain in the arse
pain in the butt

He is a pain in the ass.

He consoled himself with the thought that good enough was good enough, while perfect was always a pain in the ass and often not worth the effort anyway.


course of time

In the course of time, he'll slowly forget.


spitting image

D’abord, on a dit « spit and image » ; après quelque temps, on l’a entendu comme « spitting image ». → voir spit et image.

Your daughter is the spitting image of you.


portray

to portray (infinitive)
portrays (present third-person singular)
portrayed (preterite)
portrayed (participle past)
portraying (participle present)

The politician portrayed her opponent as mean and unlikable.

The artist portrayed the family using soft, cool colors.


touch wood

L’expression a ses origines avant les chrétiens. C’est peut-être d’origine druidique. Les druides croyaient qu’il y avait des esprits dans tout ce qui vit, y compris les arbres.

And the reds are going to avoid relegation this year, touch wood.


divorced

It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.

Malheureusement, 43% des mariages sont aujourd’hui rompus.


stoically

Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.

Christopher Reich, Rules of Betrayal, chapter 41, page 208, 2010

Regardless of how involved Carl outwardly appears, inside he holds himself stoically detached.

Larry Morton Gernsbacher, The Suicide Syndrome: Origins, Manifestations, and Alleviation of Human Self-destructiveness, page 143, 1985


Baal

There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.

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


rotor

(1873) Contraction irrégulière de rotator, probablement influencée par motor (« moteur »).

\ˈɹəʊ.tə(ɹ)\

Helicopter rotor.


startup

Startup details are inherently platform-specific

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 27

Jeune entreprise qui connait une croissance rapide.

She joined a startup right after college.

After college, she decided to join a hi-tech startup company, for the greater freedom and the stock options.


practical joke

antic

farce (blague, action qui a quelque chose de plaisant, de bouffon ou de ridicule)

As a practical joke, he set a bucket of water above the door, so that the next person to enter the room would upset the bucket and cause the water to fall on himself.


translingual

Dérivé de lingual, avec le préfixe trans-.

Multilingue, qui existe en plusieurs langues.

The nose’s comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.

English Comedy, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan (eds), 1994

Translingue, qui veut dire la même chose dans toutes les langues, on dit aussi transparent ou universel.

No is the translingual symbol for the chemistry element nobelium.

Plurilingue, polyglotte, qui contient plusieurs langues dans un même texte.

Darien can make translingual jokes.

Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise, W. Redfern, 1985

Multilingue, qui fonctionne avec plusieurs langages informatiques.

This receiver, as translator, then performs a kind of “translingual transfer” to encode in a second language a new message that is intended to “mean the same”…

Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies, James S. Holmes, 1986

Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.

Chem. Senses, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, 1985


quadlet

Dérivé du préfixe quad-, avec le suffixe -let.

The Titan IV, Stage II, injector, shown in Fig. 5.3, uses a double doublet, or quadlet, pattern for the hypergolic propellants nitrogen tetroxide and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH. In a quadlet, two streams of fuel and two streams of oxidizer are all directed at the same point.

Charles D. Brown, Spacecraft Propulsion, AIAA Education Series, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington (DC), 1996

The read quadlet transaction is used for minimum information transfer to access a single quadlet (four bytes) aligned register of the CSR structure.

László Böszörményi, Günther Hölzl, Emaneul Pirker, Parallel Cluster Computing with IEEE1394–1995, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1557: Peter Zinterhof, Marian Vajteršic, Andreas Uhl, éditeurs, Parallel Computation: 4th International ACPC Conference including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics (ParNum ’99) and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia, Salzburg, Austria, February 1999, Proceedings, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999


piggyback

\ˈpɪ.ɡɪˌbæk\

A piggyback ride.

Until this time the railroads had favored piggyback services (...)

John H. Mahoney, Intermodal Freight Transportation, 1985

With a piggyback loan, you can get around having to pay private mortgage insurance.

Suze Orman, The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, 2005


piggyback

\ˈpɪ.ɡɪˌbæk\

Riding piggyback.

A tariff provision that came piggyback with the tax bill.

TheFreeDictionary.com, Farlex, Inc., 2010 → consulter cet ouvrage


extant

Du latin extans, participe présent de latin extō.

Qui existe encore, par opposition à extinct.

Research should focus on whether it was an ancient and now extinct or an extant biosphere that is responsible for the martian methane.

La recherche devrait se concentrer sur la question de savoir si c’est une biosphère ancienne et maintenant éteinte ou une biosphère toujours existante qui est responsable du méthane martien.


befall

to befall (infinitive)
befalls (present third-person singular)
befell (preterite)
befallen (participle past)
befalling (participle present)

Nicholas starts for Yorkshire. Of his Leave-taking and his Fellow-Travellers, and what befell them on the Road

Nicolas part pour le Yorkshire. Ses adieux. Ses compagnons de voyage, et ce qui leur arrive en route.

Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby


bereave

Du vieil anglais bereofan,dérivé de reave (« piller »), avec le préfixe be-.

to bereave (infinitive)
bereaves (present third-person singular)
bereaved ou bereft (preterite)
bereaved ou bereft (participle past)
bereaving (participle present)

Death bereaved him of his wife.

The castaways were bereft of hope.


xenophobic

Dérivé de xenophobe, avec le suffixe -ic.

But we can look at the general atmosphere and here there are some similarities with the early 1990s. The first and most obvious is that we once again have a right-wing, xenophobic party in the parliament.

Tim Mansel, Sweden alarmed by series of 'racist' shootings, BBC News, 28 octobre 2010


convener

(Siècle à préciser) → voir convene et -er

Personne qui convoque (à une réunion, etc.) ; convoqueur.

The convener of this happened to be an American.

La personne convoquant pour ceci se trouvait être américaine.


clitic

(Date à préciser) Du grec ancien κλιτικός, klitikós (« flexionnel »).

In English, the possessive -’s is a clitic.

En anglais, le possessif -’s est un clitique.


Ames

Oakes Ames.


Avon

À rapprocher du gallois afon (« rivière »), du gaulois *abona.

Warwickshire Avon

Rivière du Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, etc.

Avon, nom de quelques rivières en Angleterre et en Écosse :

Rivière du Wiltshire et du Somerset (Angleterre) s’écoulant de Acton Turville jusqu’au canal de Bristol à Avonmouth.

The Avon has a drainage area of 1,132 square miles (2,932 square km) and a fall of 500 feet (150 metres).

1=«River Avon » sur le site de Britannica

Rivière du Devon (Angleterre) s’écoulant de Dartmoor jusqu’au canal de Bristol à Bigbury-on-Sea.

Here the Avon skirts the village on the eastern side before bearing west.

1=«Explore the River Avon » sur visitsouthdevon.co.uk, 29 novembre 2019

Rivière du Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire et Gloucestershire (Angleterre) s’écoulant de Naseby jusqu’à la Severn à Tewkesbury.

The River Avon joins the River Severn at Tewkesbury and is navigable upstream to Alveston Weir.

1=«River Avon – Warwickshire » sur waterways.org.uk


Barry

(Localité galloise) Du gaélique écossais Barraidh.

(Prénom, nom de famille) Du gaélique irlandais Barra, lui-même dérivé de fionn et barr : « tête blonde ».

Barry Sonnenfeld.


Barry

Rick Barry.


Beaufort

Du français Beaufort. Le nom de la maison de Beaufort dérive de Montmorency-Beaufort, autrefois propriété du duc de Lancastre, Jean de Gand.

Francis Beaufort, hydrographe britannique.

Louisa Beaufort.


Beaumont

The House of Beaumont was one of the great Anglo-Norman baronial noble families, who became rooted in England after the Norman Conquest.


Cox

The street signs, in traditional white lettering on a blue background reading “British MP. Killed for her convictions”, reflect the community’s wish “to pay homage to the pro-European MP”, local newspaper L’Yonne Republicaine wrote. … At a name-changing ceremony on the unremarkable road running through a housing estate behind the library in the town’s Morlande district, mayor Jean-Yves Caullet said Cox was a “committed female politician murdered for her ideas, her convictions”.

KimWhillsher, « From Rue Jo Cox to Place Victor Hugo via Gare Rosa Parks: how France honours the dead », The Guardian, 27 novembre 2017


Hamelin

(Prénom, nom de famille) Du français Hamelin.

Hamelin de Ballon.


Hamelin

Bob Hamelin.


Laz

(Laze) Du turc Laz.
(Prénom) Diminutif de Lazarus.

The Laz language.


Laz

Laz Alonso.


Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy.


Percy

Du français Percy, de la baronnie de Percy-en-Auge.

My name is Harry Percy.

William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Acte V, Scène IV, 1597


Percy

I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.

Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, 2008

aussi utilisé comme variantes de Piers, Percival


Quincy

Du français Quincy, nom de famille normand devenu prénom.

Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester.


Quincy

Quincy Jones.


Saône

A summer voyage on the river Saône.

Titre d’une œuvre de Philip Gilbert Hamerton, édition Roberts brothers, 1887, 368 pages


Servian

one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire.


Vernon

Du français Vernon (spécifiquement, la ville de l’Eure).

Richard Vernon.


dance-floor

No rap release had a more natural feel for blues and funk structures (see Big Boi’s “Church” and “Bowtie”), and no ambitious double album from any genre had a summer-pop hit as undeniable as Andre 3000’s “Hey Ya!” (complete with the dance-floor chant “shake it like a Polaroid picture”).

Seth Colter Walls,Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Newsweek, 2010


pyrate

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by pyrates

Titre complet de l’ouvrage Robinson Crusoe, 1719.


hurrah

When Johnny comes marching home again
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then
Hurrah! Hurrah!

Louis Lambert, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, 1863


hurrah

The last hurrah.


bespeak

to bespeak (infinitive)
bespeaks (present third-person singular)
bespoke (preterite)
bespoken (participle past)
bespeaking (participle present)

On trouve aussi les archaïsmes bespake au prétérit et bespoke au participe passé.

Demander à l’avance, retenir à l’avance.

Passwords strike me as this kind of precaution. They bespeak danger.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 73


durum

Durum wheat is one of the commodities for which there is intense trade.

Le blé dur est l’une des denrées qui sont l’objet d’un commerce intense.


dogwood

Hardest hit are species that don't respond well to temperature increases, including buttercups, dogwoods, lilies, orchids, roses and violets.


röntgen

No, not these Röntgen vibrations — I don't know that these others of mine have been described.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 172, 1897


tainted

Tainted bacon.

China investigates tainted eggs in new food scare.


melamine

The toxic chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, state media has reported.


start up

Émerger, se dégager, se faire jour subitement.

A million hungry operative men started up, in utmost paroxysm of desperate protest against their lot;

Un million d’hommes employés affamés émergèrent, dans un extrême paroxysme de protestation désespérée contre leur sort ;

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection


premises

I own these premises.

Lieux (au sens de propriété foncière, construite ou non).

I'll give you a tour of the premises.

Ces premises sont terre à l’amende

Stationnement interdit (patois de Guernesey)


off license

De take off « emporter » et license « permisson ».

Searching for an off licence? This is the right place.


glazed

A white, glazed bowl of the Yuan Dynasty.

Strawberry glazed cupcakes.

Glazed duck.

Glazed eyes.


f-word

De f, première lettre de fuck, et de word, locution euphémiste utilisée par tabou et conventions sociales ou pour contourner la censure qui touche les médias grand public, afin d’éviter de dire ce mot.

En français ficher a eu la tâche de remplacer foutre, ce qui explique le participe passé irrégulier de ce verbe du premier groupe, fichu qui fait pendant à foutu.

The f-word has become so commonplace it now seems acceptable in everyday conversation. Is it no longer obscene?

A lot of posters in freechat think the f-word is acceptable to post in a link and deem it not to be an adult word.

An American judge has given warning that a landmark court ruling on the use of “fleeting expletives” could open the gates to a flood of celebrity f-words on primetime television.


Spider-Man

Composé de spider (« araignée ») et de man (« homme »).

Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man.
Is he strong? Listen bud—
He’s got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread?
Take a look overhead.
Hey there! There goes the Spider-Man.
In the chill of the night,
At the scene of the crime,
Like a streak of light,
He arrives just in time!
Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Wealth and fame, he’s ignored—
Action is his reward.
To him
Life is a great big bang-up—
Wherever there’s a hang-up,
You’ll find the Spider-Man!

L’Araignée, l’Araignée,
est un être bien singulier.
Dans sa toile, il attend
D’attraper les brigands.
Attention ! Car l’Araignée est là.
Il est fort, agressif— Il a du sang radioactif.
Il s’envole sur un fil,
Et il fait fi du péril.
Attention ! Car l’Araignée est là.
Si parfois, la nuit,
on découvre un mystère,
l’Araignée surgit aussi vite que l’éclair.
L’Araignée, l’Araignée,
toujours là pour nous protéger.
Il apporte des secours,
Et ne veux rien en retour.
Pour lui
La vie est un combat—
Et de l’action, il y en a
Quand l’Araignée est là ! — (V.F. officielle)


fuckup

(Siècle à préciser) Déverbal de fuck up.Composé de fuck et de up.

You’ve got to fire that fuckup.

Traduction : Tu dois virer ce bon a rien.


defunct

Du latin defunctus, participe passé de defungi, « finir ».

Qui a stoppé son activité, a fait banqueroute, ou a été dissout.

It is a defunct company.


running

I wasn't very impressed by his running of the business while I was gone.


based

Dérivé du mot basehead, référence à la cocaïne free base. Utilisé par le musicien Lil B pour décrire son style de vie.

Louable et admirable, souvent en exprimant un point de vue controversé.

You are based as fuck

Based and red pilled.


closed

The car door is already closed.


closing

A closing argument.


bethink

to bethink (infinitive)
bethinks (present third-person singular)
bethought (preterite)
bethought (participle past)
bethinking (participle present)

I bethought my self, however, that perhaps the Skin of him might one way or other be of some Value to us

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 32. 1719.


a la

YouTube plans to sell search-based ads a la Google.


checksum

De check (« contrôler ») et sum (« somme »).

In the original protocol, clients send a checksum of the whole file to the destination server.


deuce

De l’ancien français deus (« deux »). Pour l’égalité au tennis : provient du fait que les deux joueurs ont le même score. Pour le diable : semble provenir du fait que Dieu est considéré comme le numéro 1, alors que le diable est le numéro 2.

To be at deuce.

Deux, surtout en parlant d’un jeu de cartes.

A pack of cards goes from ace to deuce.

Un jeu de cartes va de l’as jusqu’au deux.

What the deuce are you doing?

How the deuce are we going make it?


Santa Claus

Du néerlandais Sante klaas, dérivé du personnage historique de saint Nicholas, évêque de Myre, en Asie Mineure.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington misunderstands the name of Santa Claus and calls him Sandy Claws.

Dans L’Étrange Noël de monsieur Jack, Jack Skellington comprend le nom du père Noël de travers et l’appelle Perce-Oreilles.


halter

: Du moyen anglais halter, helter, helfter, du proto-germanique *halftrijaz.

Dos nu, généralement tenu par des sangles autour du cou.

Pam went below, careful to hold on to the rails as she carried her backpack. She hadn’t been wearing much. She reappeared in a few minutes wearing even less, short-shorts and a halter, no shoes, and perceptibly more relaxed. She had dancer’s legs, Kelly noticed, slim and very feminine. Also very pale, which surprised him. 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. Kelly caught himself shifting his eyes, and chastised himself for ogling the girl. But Pam made it hard not to. Now she grasped his upper arm and sat up against him. Looking over, he could see right down the halter just as far as he wanted.


blazer

(XVᵉ siècle)Dérivé de blaze (« flamboyer »), avec le suffixe -er.

Le sens (2) qui réfère à un vêtement semble attesté depuis les années 1880. Ce sens fait référence aux vestes de flanelle rouge portées par club d’aviron de Lady Margaret, au St. John College de Cambridge.

Précédemment, le mot avait pris le sens de « qui attire l’attention » en anglais américain (1845).

John is wearing a blazer.


Santa

I am glad to see you Santa.

Dear Santa,


candid

Du latin candidus dérivé du nom condor (« blanc »).

Franc, sincère (en parlant d’une personne, d’un sourire, d’une critique).

Asked about the Brexit vote, the candid president told Marr: «I am not the one to judge or comment on the decision of your people.»

By Oli Smith, Sunday express, 21 janvier 2018


hijab

Many muslim women wear a hijab when outdoors.

De nombreuses femmes musulmanes portent un hijab à l’extérieur.


spawn

(1413) Du moyen anglais spawne, spawnen.

spawn of the devil


breakcore

The most defining characteristic of breakcore is the drum work, which is often based on the manipulation of the Amen break and other classic jungle and hip-hop breaks, at high BPM.

breakcore sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


scorch

Du moyen anglais scorchen, peut-être issu du vieux norrois skorpna.

to scorch (infinitive)
scorches (present third-person singular)
scorched (preterite)
scorched (participle past)
scorching (participle present)

High winds have fanned blazes from Santa Barbara to Anaheim since Thursday, scorching an estimated 35,000 acres of land.


tantalizingly

Number theory is rich in problems of an especially sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but difficult to solve.

Practicing to Take the GRE General Test, 1990


encompassing

All of them will be seen as different aspects of a more encompassing structure.

Ils seront tous vus comme différents aspects d’une structure plus large.


facet

They are just facets of a larger structure.

Ce sont seulement des facettes différentes d’une structure plus grande.


Somme

La Bataille de la Somme, de juin à novembre 1916.

Many lives were lost at the Somme.


no-brainer

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S’utilise pour qualifier une décision, un choix d’une évidence flagrante, ou encore une tâche ne nécessitant aucun effort intellectuel.

I need about fifty hors d’oeuvres: some no-brainers, a few half-brainers, and some sweets.

Il me faut environ cinquante hors-d’œuvre : certains très faciles à préparer, quelques-uns assez, et quelques friandises.

Automotive no-brainers: some driving practices are so dangerous we don’t need to be reminded of them. Or do we?

Évidences automobiles : certains comportements de conduite sont tellement dangereux que nous n’avons pas besoin que l’on nous les rappelle. Est-ce bien le cas ?


-ine

Suffixe d'une substance chimique :
Élément halogène.

fluorine.

iodine.

Chlorine.

La base radicale est un composé organique azoté.

Quinine.

Cystine.

Suffixe d'une substance chimique :
Les mélanges.

Gasoline.

-in, suffixe pour créer quelques gentilés.

Florentine.

Byzantine.

Levantine.

Palatine.


leat

Probablement du moyen anglais lete (« rencontre ou intersection de deux voies »), du vieil anglais ġelǣte comme le vieil anglais wætergelæt (« aqueduc, canal »), du proto-germanique {{recons|lang-mot-vedette=en|lētą|proto-germanique, *galētą.

Bief, cours d’eau artificiel, canal, rigole, aqueduc.

They’re sometimes linked by sluices and leat channels to a moat around the manor house.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 61


docent

Du latin docens (« enseignant »), participe présent de doceo « enseigner ».

Guide bénévole, chargé des visiteurs dans un musée, un aquarium, un zoo.

Derived from the Latin word docēns, which means to teach or lecture, a docent at a natural history museum, zoo or aquarium is more than just a well-recognized uniformed volunteer answering questions for visitors.

Jordan Carlton Schaul, Docent Corps : The LA Zoo’s Conduit for Teaching Natural History and Conservation Education, National Geographic, 5 décembre 2013


Caroline

(1650-1660) Du latin médiéval Carolus (« Charles »).

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Relatif aux rois Charles Ier et Charles II d'Angleterre.

Although Massinger was already a playwright of some significance, his early works were largely collaborative efforts, many co-written John Fletcher: his major sole-authored works were all produced during the Caroline reign.

Bien que Massinger était déjà un dramaturge d'une certaine importance, ses premières œuvres étaient majoritairement collaboratives, beaucoup ayant été co-écrites avec John Fletcher. Ses travaux majeurs rédigés seul furent tous écrits durant le règne carolin.

Julie Sanders, Caroline drama: The plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome, 1999, éditions Liverpool University Press, 2018


bon mot

Mot d’esprit, trait d’esprit ingénieux, souvent humoristique.

His little bon mot, for some reason, didn’nt seem quite so urbane at the moment.

Son petit bon mot, pour une raison quelconque, ne semblait pas si suave sur le moment.

Iain Pears, The Immaculate Deception, éditions Collins Crime, 2000, page 3

The long life of this anecdote shows that a bon mot was a collective creation, and that its success depended on the arbitration of worldly society. What made a response a bon mot or a mot d’esprit? Its success.

La longue durée de vie de cette anecdote montre qu’un bon mot était une création collective, et que son succès dépendait de l’arbitrage de la société mondaine. Qu’est-ce qui faisait d’une réponse un bon mot ou un mot d’esprit ? Son succès.

Antoine Lilti, The World of the Salons : Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-century Paris, Oxford University Press, 2015, page 138


tarpaulin

(Vers 1600)Composé de tar et de palling, littéralement « toile goudronnée », de pall (« drap »).

Throw a tarpaulin over that woodpile before it gets wet.


kinky

kinkier (comparative)
kinkiest (superlative)

Kinky hair.

We had kinky sex in a car.

Nous avons eu des relations sexuelles excentriques dans une voiture.

Coquin, qui aime les expériences sexuelles sortant de l’ordinaire.

What a kinky boy !


forensic

Du latin forensis (« devant le forum, judiciaire »).

Qui concerne l’usage de la science dans le cadre des actions légales.

Fire investigators […] and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites, interviewing witnesses, and following leads.


fraudster

Case law suggests that a number of decisions in this category involve a fraudster obtaining valuable goods on credit by representing themselves as someone else.

La jurisprudence donne à penser qu’un certain nombre de décisions de cette catégorie mettent en cause un escroc obtenant des biens de valeur à crédit en se présentant comme étant quelqu’un d’autre.

Linda Mulcahy, John Tillotson, Contract Law in Perspective, 2004


facsimile

(Vers 1690) Du latin fac simile (« fais pareil »).

To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” dans Twentieth Century Theories of Art, 1990

Beginning in the late 1930s, the Finch Facsimile system was used to transmit a "radio newspaper" to private homes via commercial AM radio stations and ordinary radio receivers equipped with Finch's printer, which used thermal paper.

Fax sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


devout

The devout always come to the important religious services.


Emmanuel

Some call their sons Emmanuel : this is too bold. The name is proper to Christ, therefore not to be communicated to any creature.

Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, 1629


sake

For the sake of somebody.

Pour quelqu’un, par égard pour quelqu’un, dans l’intérêt de quelqu’un.

For the sake of it.


AOA

Zone commerciale formée de l’Asie, de l’Océanie et de l’Afrique.

Zone Asia, Oceania and Africa (AOA) will now include the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Zone AOA represents CHF 17.5 billion in annual sales.

La zone Asie, Océanie et Afrique (AOA) comprendra dorénavant le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord (MOAN). La zone AOA représente un volume de ventes annuelles 17,5 milliards de CHF.

Nestlé sharpens geographic focus, creates Zones North America and Greater China sur Nestlé, 2021-10-13. Consulté le 2023-08-07


AOA

Département du British Museum consacré à l’Afrique, à l’Océanie et aux Amériques.

During my six week volunteer placement with AOA, I gained broad insight into a variety of tasks, ranging from the photography and measurement of Australian flint blades for the museum database, to organizing, numbering and archiving a series of pictorial collections from around the world donated to the British Museum by explorers and anthropologists.

Durant mes six semaines de volontariat à l’AOA, j’ai pu avoir un aperçu sur une grande varété de tâches, allant de la photographie à la mesure des lames de silex australiennes pour la base de données du musée, à l’organisation, la numérotation et l’archivage de séries de collections picturales venant du monde entier et données au British Museum par des explorateurs et des anthropologues.

George King, George King at the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (AOA), British Museum sur Utrecht University, 2014. Consulté le 2023-8-17


hyperthymesia

Due to a condition called hyperthymesia, Jill Price can recall practically every day of her life.

Where can I get detailed info about hyperthymesia?

'A case of hyperthymesia: rethinking the role of the amygdala in autobiographical memory. — (site 'www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)


Taoiseach

Premier ministre de la République d’Irlande.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has rejected suggestions that policies implemented when he was in power have contributed to Ireland's economic crisis.

L’ancien premier ministre Bertie Ahern a rejeté l’idée que la politique appliquée quand il était en poste ait contribué à la crise économique en Irlande.


embryophyte

Tim Lenton provided the 38th NPS delegates with new evidence that this oxygenation was a result of the photosynthesis of the newly evolved embryophytes, not ancient forests or cyanobacteria as previously thought.

From sea to summit: plant colonisation of the land, Sarah Jose, Official blog of the New physiologist trust le 23 novembre 2016


middle name

Composé de middle (« intermédiaire ») et de name (« nom »).

Deuxième prénom, entre le prénom et le nom de famille.

Henry Darwin Rogers, the third of the brothers, was born in Philadelphia, August 1, 1808, and died near Glasgow, Scotland, May 29, 1866. His middle name was given him in honor of Erasmus Darwin, of whose poem, The Botanic Garden, his father was a great admirer.

Sketch of Henry Darwin Rogers, dans Popular Science Monthly, vol. 50, 1896

Caractère, activité, etc. qui décrit très justement une personne.

Like fishing? Fishing is my middle name.

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Chapitre IV, 1920


waldo

De la nouvelle Waldo de Robert A. Heinlein, publiée en 1940, tirant son titre du héros, Waldo F. Jones qui a inventé ces appareils pour compenser les effets de sa myasthénie.

Appareil qui reproduit les mouvements d’un opérateur.

Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.

Waldo fléchit et étendit ses doigts doucement ; les deux paires de machines à l’écran suivaient avec un parallélisme exact et simultané.


iconic

Composé d’icon (« icône ») avec le suffixe -ic.

He is the most iconic figure of this literary genre.

C’est le représentant le plus emblématique de ce genre littéraire.


stud

(Nom 1) Du vieil anglais stod ou stood, apparenté à steed ; à Stute (« jument ») en allemand, à stoet (« troupe, cortège, procession ») en néerlandais, à stádo (« troupeau ») en tchèque.

(Nom 2) Du moyen anglais studu, apparenté à Stütze (« soutien, support ») en allemand, au norrois stoð qui donne le suédois stöd.

Haras, troupeau d’animaux reproducteurs & endroit où ils sont gardés.

He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

He’s a stud.


stud

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs.

She’s wearing studs in her ears.

If you’re looking for a species that will provide structural strength but is easy to handle and not to heavy, like for wall studs and rafters, then you want a softwood, also know as conifer.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 46


Sandy

Diminutif de Alexander (XVᵉ siècle), mais également d’autres prénoms (voir le sens 2).

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington misunderstands the name of Santa Claus and calls him “Sandy Claws”.

Dans L’Étrange Noël de monsieur Jack, Jack Skellington comprend de travers le nom de Santa Claus (« Père Noël » en anglais) et l’appelle « Sandy Claws » [littéralement Sandy Griffes].


serendipity

(1754) De Serendip, ancien nom du Sri Lanka, d’après un conte traditionnel persan Les Trois Princes de Serendip de Horace Walpole (1754) dans lequel les héros étaient tout le temps en train de trouver par accident ce qu’ils ne recherchaient pas.

I wanted to show how a number of ideas that today we consider false actually changed the world (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) and how, in the best instances, false beliefs and discoveries totally without credibility could then lead to the discovery of something true (or at least something we consider true today). In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity. An excellent example of it is given us by Columbus, who — believing he could reach the Indies by sailing westward — actually discovered America, which he had not intended to discover.

Umberto Eco, Serendipities. Language and lunacy, Orion Books, 1999, pp. IX-X.


no one

No one is here.

No one but me.


annus horribilis

(XIXᵉ siècle) Du latin annus, « année », et horribilis, « horrible ». Le Figaro affirme que l’expression aurait été créée par Élisabeth II, par référence à l’Annus Mirabilis de John Dryden (1666), après plusieurs séparations familiales et l’incendie d’un de ses châteaux. Cependant on retrouve des attestations de l’expression datant du XIXᵉ siècle.

In A.D 1854 was announced the ominous dogma of the “Immaculate Conception” of the Virgin. This cast a stumbling-block, dishearting indeed, in the way of those who thought they were in the path which should unerring lead to “unity” on the episcopal foundation. But in 1870, annus horribilis, the dogma of “Infallibility” for ever closed the door of hope.

The London Quarterly Reviwex, Volume 75, 1891, page 105


star system

Composé de star (« étoile ») et de system (« système ») : littéralement « système d'étoiles ».

Multiple star systems are systems of more than two stars.

The star system put an emphasis on image rather than on acting, although discreet acting, voice, and dancing lessons were a common part of the regimen.


overrated

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She is an overrated singer.


grunge

The cinema floor was covered in grunge deposited by the crowds.

Le sol du cinéma était couvert de détritus déposés par les foules.

Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.

Alice aimait porter du tissu écossais et des jeans troués, et écouter du grunge.


breeding

Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.


mike

The mike was still on when the politician made that remark.

Le micro était toujours branché quand l’homme politique a fait cette remarque.


victor

He lay on his back motionless, but his eyes, now full of consciousness, watched each action of his victor—as the fallen bird regards the fowler—jealous of every movement.

Il reposait sur son dos sans bouger, mais ses yeux, maintenant emplis de conscience, regardaient chaque action de son vainqueur — comme l’oiseau tombé regarde le chasseur — jaloux de chaque mouvement.

James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, 1841

It was hideous for a girl to be brazenly out for the kill or to enjoy the status of victor or to enjoy her own intelligence and its application in real time.

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


tetanus

Lockjaw is a popular name for trismus, also applied to tetanus.


President-elect

Composé de president (« président ») et de elect (« élu mais pas encore en fonction »).

Président élu mais pas encore en fonction (aux États-Unis le président est élu le 8 novembre, mais prend effectivement ses fonctions que le 20 janvier de l’année suivante).

The President of the European Council Charles Michel spoke today Monday 23 November 2020 with President-elect Joe Biden and congratulated him on his election as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris as the future Vice-President.

Conseil européen, « Communiqué de presse :Read out of the phone call between President Charles Michel and US President-elect Joe Biden », consilium.europa.eu, 23 novembre 2020


president-elect

Président élu mais pas encore en fonction.

The GSA announcement means the president-elect now has access to top security briefings, office space and government officials as he prepares to take office on 20 January.

BBC News, «Trump accepts US presidency transition to Biden must begin », BBC News, 24 novembre 2020


Briton

De l’ancien français Breton (« Breton »), venant du latin Britto.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

James Thomson (paroles), Thomas Arne (musique), Rule, Britannia!, 1740


Brit

Nom : Apocope de Briton (« Britannique »).

« Est-ce que vous voulez que je guérisse pour que je puisse continuer à donner 40 000 € par mois à votre père ? », s’emporte « Brit », dans un audio posté sur Instagram

journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 9 septembre 2022, page 22


Will

Chris Rock a déjà passé des Oscars 2022 pour le moins difficiles, après l’épisode de la gifle reçue par l’acteur Will Smith.

journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 2 septembre 2022, page 17

Will Parker, photographe, a capturé l’extraordinaire migration de crabes rouges, sur l’île Christmas, située dans l’océan Indien.

journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 23 novembre 2022, page 28

The great Will : (Familier)William Shakespeare.


chat up

(Date à préciser)Composé de chat (« bavarder ») et de up.

He chatted Rachel up. [ou] He chatted up Rachel.


matinee

(Siècle à préciser) Du français matinée.

Film ou performance qui a lieu le matin ou en début d’après-midi.

We would do a matinee and be back on the train before rush hour.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 85


factorial

factorial prime.