snoop

Du néerlandais snoepen (« manger discrètement »).

to snoop (infinitive)
snoops (present third-person singular)
snooped (preterite)
snooped (participle past)
snooping (participle present)

Observer discrètement, souvent en se cachant ; fouiner , espionner.

Why were you snooping among my things?


snooping

Violation d'accès à des données privées.

Snooping, in a security context, is unauthorized access to another person's or company's data.


tussle

As China and the United States engage in their latest trade tussle, most economists take it as given that China will achieve global economic supremacy in the long run, no matter what happens now.

Who’s going to win? Chinese workers or robots?, Market Watch, 2018-04


tussle

to tussle (infinitive)
tussles (present third-person singular)
tussled (preterite)
tussled (participle past)
tussling (participle present)

The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.


threnody

Du grec ancien θρηνῳδία, thrènodia, ( « thrénodie » ).

'1961, The moans redoubled, a loud threnody' in which babbled words were distinguishable.

Brian Aldiss, Hothouse, 2008, ch. 19, p. 181


by definition

→ voir by et definition, sens identique qu'en français.

This property holds for all polygons; and since, by definition, all triangles are polygons, it holds for all triangles.


netizen

Mot-valise de Net (« internet ») et de citizen (« citoyen »).

Even now, certain sections of the web remain perennially untouched by Chinese netizens.

Maintenant encore, certaines sections du Web restent durablement intouchées des citoyens d’Internet chinois.


Donald

(Date à préciser) Du gaélique écossais Dòmhnall.

Michael Flanders and Donald Swann were a famous comic pair.


sex up

[…] - a senior British official - had told him that the September Dossier had been « sexed up » […]

[…] — un agent britannique haut placé — lui avait dit que le September Dossier avait été rendu plus « excitant » […]


catchphrase

catchphrases (plural)
catch phrase (dated)
catch-phrase (dated)

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Phrase qui est répétée de façon récurrente ; rengaine.

The main result — the area of overlap between psychology and humanism — has come to be called, appropriately, “humanistic psychology” or the “human potential movement.” The movement’s catchphrases neatly catch the nature of this overlap: “self-realization,” “self-actualization,” “self-fulfillment,” “personal growth.”

PeggyRosenthal, Words and Values: Some Leading Words and where They Lead Us, 2005, ISBN 9780761831020, p. 60

I realised recently and with horror that I was a man without a catchphrase.
‘Surely every man needs a catchphrase?’ my friend had said, as we ambled past a park. I laugh, at first, before I realise I am laughing on my own.
‘Really? What’s yours?’ I ask.
‘Respect is due,’ he says.
‘Respect is due?’ I say. ‘Isn’t that Marc’s catchphrase?’
‘I taught him it,’ he says. ‘So it’s mine, really.’

Danny Wallace, Awkward Situations for Men, 2010, ISBN 9781407061627, p. 139


critical

Composé de critic et le suffixe -al. Critic est lui-même du latin criticus, issu du grec ancien κριτικός, (kritikós).

To remedy this, we will propose a Critical Medicines Act to reduce dependencies relating to critical medicines and ingredients, particularly for products where there are only a few supplying manufacturers or countries.

Pour y remédier, nous proposerons un acte législatif sur les médicaments critiques afin de réduire les dépendances concernant des médicaments et ingrédients critiques, en particulier pour les produits qui ne comptent que quelques fabricants ou pays fournisseurs.

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


conterminous

L’adjectif conterminous est suivi des prépositions with ou to pour traduire l’expression « limitrophe de » ou bien « adjacent à », « attenant à ».

New York’s borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are conterminous.

To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "conterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.


break in

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

It’s a new car. I’m still breaking it in.


-ford

Bradford, Bedford, Ilkford


-ham

Apparenté à home, du vieil anglais ham (« ville ») qui a aussi donné hamlet en anglais et hameau en français.

Wrexham, Wokingham, Birmingham, etc.


-cester

Cirencester, Worcester


jamboree

(1866) Apparait aux États-Unis avec le sens de « charivari, réjouissance bruyante ». Étymologie discutée :
:# De jam avec une finale influencée par shivaree (« charivari ») ;
:#Composé de jam et de bourrée ;
:# Modification arbitraire de jambone et le sens de « main comportant les cartes maitresses mettant fin au jeu ».

Le sens de « rassemblement scout » date de 1920.

dʒæm.bə.ˈɹiː

When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring,
To take the pay of the “Hudson’s Bay”, as their fathers did before,
They are all a-glee for the jamboree, and they make the Landing ring
With a whoop and a whirl, and a “Grab your girl”, and a rip and a skip and a roar.

What nice times we’ve had here, honey! What chats and jokes and good chummy jamborees!

Quel bon moments nous avons passé, chéri(e) ! Quel conversations et blagues et bon sociable "jamborees" !

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915

With her unlit heart. However cold you get, remember me. Gripped in solitude. There can't be a jamboree all the time.

Every Jamboree is a great event, both for its participants and a hosting country. Usually 40 000 scouts from more than 160 countries take part in the two weeks’ event along with other 65 000 visitors.

Chaque jamboree est un événement important, à la fois pour les participants et pour le pays hôte. En général, 40 000 scouts de plus de 160 pays, et 65 000 visiteurs participent à cet événement durant 15 jours.


ashamed

more ashamed (comparative)
most ashamed (superlative)

To be ashamed.


missus

What does the missus think about you coming home so late?

Qu'en pense ta femme quand tu rentres si tard?


as if

The old man stumbled, as if he were about to fall.

Le vieil homme trébucha, comme s’il était sur le point de tomber.


sit down

to sit down (infinitive)
sits down (present third-person singular)
sat down (preterite)
sat down (participle past)
sitting down (participle present)

After a brief, appalled glance at Lydia, Mrs Molesworth (Lil) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation, to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community.

Alice Thomas Ellis, Unexplained Laughter, 2012

I sat him down on the armchair.


babbittry

De la nouvelle de Sinclair Lewitt, Babbitt.

In the early 1970s, the fable of the brash American tourist of the 1950s and 1960s, rich with dollars and Babbittry.


nevermind

(Régionalisme) Concentration particulière sur quelque chose, attention.

Hell, they’ve got groundrules and guidelines comin’ out the kazoo, but do they pay any nevermind to ’em?

It's Too Late to Leave Early, William Walling, 2002

... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind.

The Way West, page 22, A.B. Guthrie, Jr. 1949

"Neither one," Joe said. "Not that it's any nevermind o' yours, Mr. Wickersham.

Blood at Bear Lake, page 76, Gary Franklin, 2008

(Régionalisme) Conséquence, changement significatif ou effet sur une situation ou un état ; différence.

If'n it makes any nevermind, you'll be grubbin' alongside me.

O'Rourke's Revenge, page 21, Larry Jay Martin, 2005

Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make any nevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.

Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.


nevermind

to nevermind (infinitive)
neverminds (present third-person singular)
neverminded (preterite)
neverminded (participle past)
neverminding (participle present)

Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding. Let's nevermind, huh?

Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.

The Arkansas: An American River, page 159, William Mills, 1989

Variante orthographique non standard de never mind.

Nevermind that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life.

Nevermind where the eggs & sperm came from. Nevermind how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing.

The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), page 399, Alexander T. Newport, 2005


never mind

Contraction de « never you mind » (« ne vous inquiétez pas »).

But close enough in spirit as to make no never mind.

Fire and Ice, page 159, Dana Stabenow, 1998


retro

Retro style is the style of the 50s, 60s or 70s. It is currently undergoing a revival with many new products coming out with a retro look.


IIRC

(Sigle). (Date à préciser) Sigle de if I recall correctly ou if I remember correctly « si je me souviens bien ».

I don't agree with you. IIRC, Milano won this match.

Je ne suis pas d’accord avec toi. Si je me souviens bien, Milan avait gagné ce match.


highly

more highly (comparative)
most highly (superlative)

Steven was a highly succesful politician before becoming a teacher.

Steven eut beaucoup de succès en tant que politicien avant de devenir professeur.


alphagram

Mot-valise composé d’alphabetical et d’anagram.

The alphagram of the word alphabetical is AAABCEHILLPT.


clearance

De clear avec le suffixe -ance qui sert à former des noms communs.

He has the highest level of clearance on this ship.

Il a le niveau d’autorisation le plus élevé possible sur ce bateau.


awry

more awry (comparative)
most awry (superlative)

Initially, things looked good. But soon their plans went awry.


awry

D'une manière inappropriée, incorrectement.

He tried to be philosophical about it. In his years as a “player,” he’d seen operations go awry for the most ridiculous of reasons.


Nail

Transcription d’un prénom coranique signifiant « destiné à…, voué à… ».

First name : Nail

Un Curriculum vitæ du site www.jobgate.fr


morat

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

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


yeoman

Du moyen anglais yoman, du vieil anglais geaman, du moyen néerlandais goymann (« arbitre »), du proto-germanique *gawi.

Sous-officier de marine affecté au travail de bureau.

“Ever know a ship that had secrets? Captain’s got a yeoman. Yeomen talk,” the machinist explained, completing the reassembly process.


Mainiac

Mot-valise de Maine (l’État des États-Unis) et de maniac (« maniaque »).

Hey, Mainiac! What the hell do you think you are doing?!? Drive better!

Hé ! Espèce d'habitant du Maine à la noix ! Qu'est-ce que tu fous ? Apprends à conduire !


deformation

(Date à préciser) Composé du verbe to deform avec le suffixe -ation.

Einstein's general theory of relativity posits that gravity creates a deformation of space.


hopefully

Première attestation en 1630-1640 . Dérivé de hopeful (« encourageant, prometteur ») avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former des adverbes.

Hopefully my father will arrive in time for the show.

In justifying the new parking structure the council looked hopefully to rising retail sales downtown.


likely to

La locution s'emploie surtout dans la forme : to be likely to.

They are likely to succeed if they keep trying.

* C'est probable qu'ils réussiront s'ils continuent à essayer.


prolix

more prolix (comparative)
most prolix (superlative)

People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.

Bossi—Necrologia G. C. Leonardo Sismondi., 1843, vol. LXXII, issue CXLIV,p. 333


MILF

(Acronyme) Initiales de mother I’d like to fuck.

The young man could not deny his attraction to older women. He didn't want a girlfriend his age but the charming MILF who lived next door.

Le jeune homme ne pouvait pas nier son attirance pour les femmes plus âgées. Il ne voulait pas d’une petite amie de son âge mais de la charmante MILF qui vivait à côté.


Montgomery

Du français Montgommery → voir Colleville-Montgomery, Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery et Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery.

Montgomery Clift.


Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery.


sod

Nom 2, verbe 2, interjection : Apocope de sodomize.

Forme de verbe, adjectif, nom 3 : Dérivation régressive du participe passé sodden.

You mean old sod!

poor sod.

unlucky sod.


sod

to sod (infinitive)
sods (present third-person singular)
sodded (preterite)
sodded (participle past)
sodding (participle present)

Sod him!

Sod it!

Sod that bastard!


sod

more sod (comparative)
most sod (superlative)

Incomplètement levé, en parlant de pain.

sod damper


sod

And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / ’Another sod, so help me God, / That’s fourteen in a flamin’ row.

Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid, 1954, cité dans Tom Burton, Words in Your Ear, Wakefield Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120


mould

I put the clay in the mould before baking it.


mould

to mould (infinitive)
moulds (present third-person singular)
moulded (preterite)
moulded (participle past)
moulding (participle present)
mold

We'll mould this into the right shape.


Douglas

Du gaélique écossais Dúbhghlas, composé de dubh (« noir ») et de glas (« ruisseau »). Le nom de famille dérive de celui de la localité écossaise, le prénom du nom de famille.

La capitale de l’île de Man a le même sens et partage les mêmes étymons celtiques

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton.

Douglas Fairbanks.

Douglas MacArthur.


Douglas

The Clan Douglas.

Clifford Hugh Douglas.

Alec Douglas-Home.

Alfred Douglas.


Douglas

The earl of Douglas.


likelihood

Dérivé de likely, avec le suffixe -hood.

Vraisemblance, plausibilité, probabilité, chances de.

Jess Sprengle, LPC, a therapist who specializes in eating disorders, told Teen Vogue that being raised in diet culture increases the likelihood of developing disordered eating later in life.

Jess Sprengle, LPC, une thérapeute spécialiste des troubles alimentaires, a affirmé à Teen Vogue que le fait d’être élevé dans la culture du régime augmente les chances de développer un trouble alimentaire plus tard dans la vie.

Fortesa Latifi, « “Almond Mom” Is Going Viral on TikTok as Creators Call Out Diet Culture », Teen Vogue,1ᵉʳ février 2023


Max

Max Hastings.


Johnson

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de John, avec le suffixe -son, soit littéralement « fils de John ».

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

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

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


Kurt

Kurt Vonnegut.


Harry

(Date à préciser) Diminutif de Harold ou de Henry.

Harry Potter.


Samuel

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

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


Hollywood

Composé de holly (« houx ») et wood (« bois »).

Quartier de Los Angeles, ville de la Californie.

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

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


arrear

De l’ancien français arriere, apparenté à rear (« arrière »).

My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off.


setter

(Vers 1400)Dérivé de set (« poser, placer »), avec le suffixe -er ; (1570) au sens de « race de chien ».

Celui qui pose une question ou une énigme. Il est surtout utilisé en combinaison avec un autre nom :

Question setter.

Crossword setter.


custodian

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The building’s custodian.


batch

to batch (infinitive)
batches (present third-person singular)
batched (preterite)
batched (participle past)
batching (participle present)

I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.


Ford

Henry Ford.


Kennedy

Du gaélique irlandais Ó Ceannéidigh (« O’Kennedy ») ; ou du gaélique écossais Ceannaideach, les deux signifiant « tête laide ».

Joseph Patrick Kennedy.

Douglas Kennedy.


Stanley

Composé de stone (« pierre ») et de lea (« pré »), littéralement « champ pierreux ».

Le nom de famille et le prénom dérivent du toponyme.

Stanley Kubrick.


Stanley

Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley.


you know

— You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in… 60 years.

— Vous savez, Mr. Thatcher, avec un déficit d’un million de dollars par an, je devrai fermer dans… 60 ans.

I don’t usually get nervous in games and, you know, taking free kicks and penalties but that’s the first time I’ve been that nervous in, in a game, where I have to, I’m in a situation where I’m, you know, I’m needed to score.

Je ne suis pas nerveux d'habitude dans les matchs et, tu vois, au moment de tirer des coups francs et des penalties, mais c'est la première fois que je suis aussi nerveux dans, dans un match, où je dois, je suis dans une situation où je dois marquer, quoi.

Interview avecDavid Beckham, England soccer team prospects, BBC, 2002


Gordon

The clan Gordon.

The duke of Gordon.

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6ᵗʰ Duke of Gordon.

Adoniram Judson Gordon.


Gordon

Gordon Douglas Rowley.


Lewis

(Prénom, nom de famille) Variante de Louis.

(Île écossaise) Du gaélique écossais Leòdhas.

Lewis Carroll.


Lewis

Jerry Lewis.


Lewis

The Isle of Lewis.


next to

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Next to tears.


pay attention

De pay (« payer, donner ») et de attention (« attention »).

Faire attention (à), prêter attention (à).

Pay attention to your teacher.

Pay attention to what’s happening around you.

Tiens compte de ce qu’il se passe autour de toi.


draw attention to

Littéralement : « attirer l’attention de quelqu'un », → voir draw et attention.

I want to draw your attention to the following points.


drowning

Drowing is a horrible way to die.

In 2021, among EU countries, the highest number of drowning and submersion deaths was reported in Romania (1 033), 21% of all drowning fatalities in the EU. France (653), Poland (466) and Germany (457) followed at a distance(...) drowning deaths among males were more than twice as high as those among females in nearly all EU countries. The only exceptions were Austria (33 males, 19 females) and Malta (1 males and 2 females).

En 2021, pour les pays UE, les plus nombreuses morts par noyade et submersion sont rapportées en Roumanie (1 033), 21% de toutes les tués par noyades dans l'UE. France (653), Pologne (466) et Allemagne (457) suivent à distance (...) les morts des hommes par noyade sont le double des morts des femmes dans presque tous les pays de l'UE. Les seules exceptions sont l'Autriche (33 hommes, 19 femmes) et Malte (1 homme et 2 femmes).

Eurostat, Rise in drowning fatalities in 2021, Eurostat, 27 août 2024


seamless

Dérivé de seam, avec le suffixe -less (« sans »).

Transparent. De manière transparente. Ininterrompu ou homogène. Sans coupures.

The transition was seamless.

La transition s'est faite de manière transparente et sans failles.


scramble

to scramble (infinitive)
scrambles (present third-person singular)
scrambled (preterite)
scrambled (participle past)
scrambling (participle present)

(intransitif) Se bousculer, se disputer, se brouiller.

Some people scramble on Black Friday.


scramble

Décollage d’urgence en raison d'une alerte.

A scramble is an emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid/There comes the sound of the guns sending flak/Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne/Got to get up for the coming attack

Iron Maiden, Aces High (album Powerslace, 1984)


prosaic

more prosaic (comparative)
most prosaic (superlative)

Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be


sequestration

(Droit)'The goods are under sequestration'.

discharge the sequestration

sequestration of one's goods

Carbon sequestration is one of the proposed remedies for global warming.


run aground

A vast container ship has run aground in the Suez canal after being blown off course by a “gust of wind”, causing a huge traffic jam of vessels at either end of the vital international trade artery.

Un énorme porte-conteneurs est échoué dans le canal de Suez après avoir été dévié hors de sa trajectoire par une « bourrasque de vent », causant un long bouchon de bateaux des deux côtés de cette artère marchande internationale vitale.

(anglais) Martin Farrer, Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship sur The Guardian, 24 mars 2021. Consulté le 24 mars 2021


clean out

to clean out (infinitive)
cleans out (present third-person singular)
cleaned out (preterite)
cleaned out (participle past)
cleaning out (participle present)

I said I'm sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry, but tonight I'm cleanin’ out my closet

Eminem « Cleanin’ out my Closet », circa 2002

I'm not playing any more cards tonight. You've totally cleaned me out.


Kent

Mot celtique, attesté par le latin Cantium.

Since 1942, the title of duke of Kent has been held by Prince Edward, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.


Kent

Kent Haruf.


Kent

Bonnie Kent.


bleaching

\ˈbliːt͡ʃɪŋ\

Grammaticalization is often associated with 'semantic bleaching', and this 'bleaching' is the result of reanalysis […] But there is no evidence that the bleaching of the meaning of do played any role in the causation of this sequence of events. — (Frederick J. Newmeyer⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, Language Form and Language Function, 2000, ISBN 9780262640442, page 249)
#*: La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. ([server.dummy/w/index.php?action=edit&title=bleaching Ajouter])

In the development of the prepositional phrase, which did not exist in PIE, one can see a grammaticalization based on a double bleaching. […] Many of these combinations are achieved by lexical bleaching of the grammatical element and grammatical bleaching of the lexical element, as in the prepositional phrases in (11).
(11) French English
 en auto by car — (Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, Sarah Rose, Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIᵗʰ International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 2007, ISBN 9789027289292, page 165)
#*: La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. ([server.dummy/w/index.php?action=edit&title=bleaching Ajouter])


themself

Themself vient de l’emploi du they singulier pour une personne de genre inconnu, par analogie avec la distinction entre yourselves et yourself comme réflexif de you, pronom pluriel à l'origine. Il est proscrit par certaines autorités en faveur de themselves ou himself or herself, mais de plus en plus usité, au fur et à mesure de l'acceptation du they singulier. Dans l’exemple ci-dessus, « somebody could hurt himself or herself » serait beaucoup plus formel, mais aussi beaucoup plus long et boiteux.

Se, lui-même, elle-même, ellui-même ; réflexif du pronom they lorsque utilisé au singulier.

Somebody could hurt themself.

If someone wants a car like mine, they can buy one for themself.

Quelqu'un qui voudrait une voiture comme la mienne pourrait en acheter une pour ellui-même.

Alex can investigate it themself.


Stan

Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson was an English comic actor, director and writer who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber, was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer.


darting

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

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


driving

Automated vehicles, also known as self-driving vehicles, are defined under the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 as a vehicle designed or adapted to be capable, in at least some circumstances or situations, of safely driving themselves, and that may lawfully be used when driving themselves, in at least some circumstances or situations, on roads or other public places in Great Britain. A vehicle is “driving itself” if it is operating in a mode in which it is not being controlled, and does not need to be monitored, by an individual.

SMMT publishes guiding principles for marketing automated vehicles, SMMT, 22 novembre 2021

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

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

On September 11, 2024, East Japan Railway announced it would launch self-driving trains by 2028. Japan Times said its driverless locomotive will make operations more efficient and sustainable. JR East explained it will install autonomous trains for the Joetsu Shinkansen line between the Tokyo and Niigata stations.

Dale Arasa, Japan to launch self-driving trains in 2028, Asian network, 13 septembre 2024


knowing

Knowing glance, knowing look, knowing smile.


John Doe

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de John et de Doe

\ˌdʒɒn ˈdəʊ\

Untel, Monsieur X, Tartempion, etc. (pantonyme désignant un homme inconnu).

By manipulating the use of Lucy’s first name, the intentional use of mismatched gender pronouns, and by referring to her as “John Doe (Lucy) Hicks,” Lucy’s rendering of her own person was placed under erasure in a manner easily digested.

Rolando René Longoria II, body branded: LGBT hate murder, legal personhood, and social responses in the Oxnard, California case of Lawrence King, 2014, page 249

(Police) Nom utilisé pour désigner un cadavre masculin dont l’identité est inconnue.


contrive

De l'ancien français controver, composé de con- et trover (« trouver »).

to contrive (infinitive)
contrives (present third-person singular)
contrived (preterite)
contrived (participle past)
contriving (participle present)

To contrive is to invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.


CamelCase

(Date à préciser) → voir camel et case, litt. « casse de chameau » : il s’agit d’une allusion aux bosses des chameaux, par analogie avec les majuscules intermédiaires par rapport au mot qui les contient.

Pratique d’écriture qui consiste à accoler les mots sans espace ni tiret mais un mettant une capitale à chaque mot.

The word « CamelCase » is by itself an example of CamelCase.

Le mot « CamelCase » est lui-même un exemple de CamelCase.

It’s called CamelCase because the two capital letters resemble a twohumped camel.

On parle de CamelCase parce que les deux lettres majuscules ressemblent à un chameau à deux bosses.

Jason Cole, Helen Foster, Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course, page 158, 2007


sending

The e-mail sendings.


brewer

Bill’s library began receiving donations in his last years in office. Including, in 1999, one million dollars from a major beer brewer.

Chuck Dixon (textes) et Brett R. Smith (dessins), Clinton Cash : a graphic novel. Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, 2016. P. 9 planche 5.


carouse

to carouse (infinitive)
carouses (present third-person singular)
caroused (preterite)
caroused (participle past)
carousing (participle present)

One was the great fire on shore, by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 182. 1883.


dally

Du moyen anglais dalyen, de l’anglo-normand delaier, de l’ancien français delaier, du latin deliquo (« décanter, transvaser, éclaircir »).

to dally (infinitive)
dallies (present third-person singular)
dallied (preterite)
dallied (participle past)
dallying (participle present)

Perdre du temps ; procrastiner, lambiner, lanterner, trainer.

Next came the necessity of finding something approximating an LZ so that he could get the hell out of this place. It wasn’t a time to panic, but he couldn’t dally either. Come daylight there would be more troops here, and if their commander was a competent one, he’d want to know if there might be an enemy reconnaissance element on his turf.


dreamer

Composé de dream (« rêve ») avec le suffixe -er.

It you interrupt a dreamer, he or she will still remember the dream in the first few seconds.

And I waited for your kiss / Waited for the bliss / Like dreamers do. -- Like Dreamers Do, The Beatles.

She's a dreamer, but she never acts.


downtown

It was an old friend from college, a city planner in Los Angeles, who first persuaded me to give him a tour of downtown San Jose nearly 20 years ago.

That shot came from way downtown.


willy-nilly

(1608) Altération de l’anglais ancien I will I nill, « je ferai je ne ferai pas ».

Bon gré mal gré, de façon incontrôlée, non réfléchie ; n’importe comment.

We support wind energy. It doesn’t mean we want to go willy-nilly in planting wind farms everywhere.

Nous soutenons l’énergie éolienne. Cela ne veut pas dire que nous voulons le faire n’importe comment en installant des fermes éoliennes partout.

Jacqueline Savitz, citée par The Seattle Times, avril 2009


heaps

He’s heaps clever.


informal

The author had an excellent grasp of informal street language.


successfully

Composé de successful avec le suffixe -ly.

He successfully climbed the mountain.

They successfully completed their project together.

You have successfully won the championship game.


St John

Betta St. John.


St John

St. John Philby.


gusty

gustier (comparative)
gustiest (superlative)

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, […]

J’étais à Paris en 18… Après une sombre et orageuse soirée d’automne, je jouissais de la double volupté de la méditation et d’une pipe d’écume de mer, en compagnie de mon ami Dupin, […]


detector

Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.


meanly

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

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They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 4, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 20


moiety

Communauté. Chez les Aborigènes australiens, dont un peuple était partagé en deux — et seulement deux — communautés.

The Yolngu people divide society into two moieties: Dhuwa and Yirritja.


jaunty

De la prononciation janty, du français gentil.

jauntier (comparative)
jauntiest (superlative)

The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne.

He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.

He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.


bromide

Composé de brom(ine) avec le suffixe -ide.

We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.


snug

snugger (comparative)
snuggest (superlative)

I felt nice and snug under this big blanket.

Je me sentais bien et confortable sous cette grosse couverture.


snug

to snug (infinitive)
snugs (present third-person singular)
snugged (preterite)
snugged (participle past)
snugging (participle present)

He was snug in his bed.


stinging

Stinging wasps didn't like his kind either, and they often killed spiders. If just one stinging wasp could kill him, how could he capture forty-seven of them?

Les guêpes piqueuses n'aimaient pas non plus son espèce, et elles tuaient souvent des araignées. Si une seule guêpe piqueuse pouvait le tuer, comment pourrait-il en capturer quarante-sept ?

Colin G. Jamieson, Spider’s Treasure Chest of Stories, Balboa Press, 2014, page

In an extraordinary New Year’s Day session, the Republican-controlled Senate easily turned aside the veto, dismissing Trump’s objections to the $740 billion bill and handing him a stinging rebuke just weeks before he leaves the White House.

Lors d’une session extraordinaire le jour du Nouvel An, le Sénat contrôlé par les républicains a facilement rejeté le veto, rejetant les objections de Trump au projet de loi de 740 milliards de dollars et lui adressant un désaveu cinglant quelques semaines seulement avant qu’il ne quitte la Maison Blanche.

Associated Press, « In a stinging rebuke, US Congress overrides Trump's veto of defense bill », 2 janvier 2021, sur Arab News


edgy

edgier (comparative)
edgiest (superlative)

Edgy style.

Provocatif et à la limite d’être acceptable.

Edgy comments.


thirties

She is in her thirties.


bedwet

De bed (« lit ») et to wet (« mouiller »).

to bedwet (infinitive)
bedwets (present third-person singular)
bedwetted (preterite)
bedwetted (participle past)
bedwetting (participle present)

La locution to wet the bed est beaucoup plus courante.

It has been found that some 10% of 5-year-olds are still bedwetting, and that 5% of 9- and 10-year-olds continue to bedwet.

Franklin Henry Ellis, Hugh R. K. Barber, John M. Loré, Julian T. Hoff, Loose Leaf Reference Services, William A. Gay, A. Richard Kendall, Benjamin Franklin Rush, Harry S. Goldsmith, John R. Denton, Lester Karafin, Dean De Witt Lewis, Neurosurgery, 1985

In general, children who do not bedwet have normal bladder capacity for their age, roughly calculated in ounces by adding two to their age in years.

Max Maizels, Diane Rosenbaum, Barbara Keating, Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting, 1999

About 10 percent of children still bedwet at 4, 5, 6, and even older.

Parents' Magazine Editors, Suzanne M. Levine, Parents Magazine, The Parent's Answer Book: From Birth Through Age Five, 2000


in on it

He was in on it all along. I knew we shouldn't have trusted him.

Do you think she's in on the plot?


probity

She questioned the probity of his conduct.


antepenultimate

This book has ten chapters — chapter 8 is the antepenultimate one.


iniquity

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I found them living in this den of iniquity.

Je les ai trouvé(e)s vivant dans ce lieu de perdition.


perpetuate

Perpétuer. Pérenniser, pour une chose souhaitable seulement.

The royal family sought to perpetuate itself as constitutional monarchs.

Both sides believe they have right on their side and use it as an excuse to perpetuate bloodshed

Kenan Malik, Israel is not ‘saving western civilisation’. Nor is Hamas leading ‘the resistance’ , Sun 13 Oct 2024 09.00 to 9.20 CEST


opprobrium

I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 175, édition de 1869


secular

The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.


deviation

A deviation from these rules is allowed only under special circumstances.

Abnormal psychology includes a study of sexual deviation and perversion.

What is the standard deviation for a bell curve?


hornswoggle

to hornswoggle (infinitive)
hornswoggles (present third-person singular)
hornswoggled (preterite)
hornswoggled (participle past)
hornswoggling (participle present)

Don’t let them hornswoggle you into buying anything you don’t need.


curfew

Egyptian army warned not to violate the curfew begun at 16:00.

L’armée égyptienne a averti de ne pas violer le couvre-feu commencé à 16h00.

Sri Lanka has imposed a country-wide curfew after successive days of mob attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned shops in three districts.

Michael Safi and agencies, « Sri Lanka imposes curfew after mobs target mosques ». Theguardian.com, 13 mai 2019.


paroxysm

These paroxysms pass from him like a cloud from before the sun

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 24, édition de 1869


peregrination

They were eager to hear about her peregrinations.


evenly

He made sure that the sweets were evenly shared among the children.

Entièrement (dans une opération de division).

12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.

2, 3, 4 et 6 sont des diviseurs entiers de 12.

A proper divisor of a positive integer, n, is a positive integer less that n which divides evenly into n.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 85


furnishings

Dérivé de furnishing, avec le suffixe -s.

Ménage (les meubles et ustensiles nécessaires à un ménage).

After they moved into the new house, it took them a full year before they had enough furnishings to live comfortably.


XL

Très grand (surtout utilisé pour les tailles de vêtements).

“Sizes within the chains vary a lot, for example I just tried on two shirts in Vero Moda, one in size L and the other in XL. The one in L was bit too big, whereas the XL was too small. The same applies to H&M: the sizes vary a lot and I have clothes from M to XL from there.”

Large?: Clothing Sizes and Size Labeling, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009,ISBN 9789289318068, page 76


Stuart

Variante de Stewart, lui-même de stewart (« régisseur, intendant »).

The house of Stuart.

Clan Stuart of Bute.

§ Stuart.


Stuart

Stuart McQuarrie.

Stuart O'Keefe.


Chuck

Chuck Norris.


Bruce

Bruce Willis


Craig

Du gaélique écossais creag (« roc, pierre »), équivalent -pour le sens- à Pierre.

Craig Forsyth.

Craig Breen.


Craig

Alec Craig.

Tully Craig.


Graham

James Graham, huitième duc de Montrose.


Graham

Variante de Grantham ; nom amené en Écosse au XIIᵉ siècle par William de Graham qui a fondé le clan Graham.

Grahams (plural)
Graeme
Grahame
Grayham
Greim
Greyham

James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose.


Graham

Graham Greene.

Graham McTavish.


Vanessa

(1726) Apparaît pour la première fois dans le poème autobiographique Cadenus and Vanessa de Jonathan Swift, dédié à son amie Esther Vanhomrigh reprenant les premières lettres de son nom de famille et de son prénom Van-homrigh et Es-ther.

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Cadenus and Vanessa.

Vanessa Bell.

Vanessa Kirby.

Vanessa Redgrave.


Clare

(Village et comté irlandais) Du gaélique irlandais Clár, Cláir, de clár (« planche »).

John Clare.


Clare

Saint Clare of Assisi.

Clare Wood.


Gina

Gina Bellman.


Joanne

Joanne Woodward.


Joan

Joan of Arc, Jeanne d’Arc.

Joan Baez.

Joan Crawford.


luckiest

We who have lived in England since 1945 have been among the luckiest people in the existence of Homo sapiens, rich, peaceful and healthy. Not uniquely so: the lot of the whole Western world has been comparable, and in several countries slightly better.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 890


look askance

Regarder de travers, regarder du coin de l'œil.

He looked at me askance, in a way that reminded me I can't talk to everyone in the same way I talk to Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 97

la locution verbale est suivie de la préposition at


verbosity

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

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


yank

to yank (infinitive)
yanks (present third-person singular)
yanked (preterite)
yanked (participle past)
yanking (participle present)

They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

Ils retirèrent le produit dès qu’ils apprirent qu’il était dangereux.


desirous

De l’ancien français desirrous, → voir desire et -ous.

At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question; but at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 3. 1883.


kino

The chief supply of kino is from an East Indian leguminous tree, the Pterocarpus Marsupium. Other sources are the African Pterocarpus erinaceus, the tropical American sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), and several Australian Eucalypti. See Botany Bay kino.


facilities

Ce terme est toujours pluriel ; il peut faire référence indifféremment à un ou plusieurs lieux. La même règle s’applique avec le terme toilettes en français.

Toilettes, w.-c. (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).

I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door.

The facilites are clean in that restaurant.

Les toilettes de ce restaurant sont propres.

The facilites are pretty clean in this city.

Les toilettes sont plutôt propres dans cette ville.


publisher

You may know Katharine Graham’s name from the 2017 film The Post, where Meryl Streep played the fearless publisher of The Washington Post who risked her career and reputation to publish the Pentagon Papers.

Peut-être connaissez-vous le nom de Katharine Graham grâce au film Pentagon Papers de 2017, où Meryl Streep joue le rôle de l’intrépide éditrice du Washington Post qui a mis sa carrière et sa réputation en péril pour la publication des Pentagon Papers.

"Meet the Presses: Katharine Graham, the First Female Publisher of the 20th Century", Letterpress Play, 15 septembre 2020

I told myself that if publishers would not publish my work, I would bypass them altogether.

Je me suis dit que si les maisons d’édition ne voulaient pas publier mon travail, je me passerais tout simplement d’elles.— (Andrea Dworkin, Notre sang : Discours et prophéties sur la politique sexuelle, Préface, trad. par Camille Chaplain et Harmony Devillard, des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, Paris, 2021, page 11)

Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics, Preface, Perigee Books, New York, 1981 (1976), page xi


specialist

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


presidential

→ voir president et -ial (président et -iel en français).

more presidential (comparative)
most presidential (superlative)

The presidential elections are a hot topic in the news.

Les élections présidentielles sont un sujet brûlant de l'actualité.

The presidential candidate campaigned across the country.

Le candidat présidentiel a fait campagne dans tout le pays.


publishing

The Project is performing satisfactorily and its development objectives have already been almost entirely met through the successful completion of all components except for one—publishing of new textbooks.

« Restructuring Paper on a Proposed Project Restructuring of the Education Modernization Project to the Republic of Tajikistan », dans Document of The World Bank, 20 février 2011 https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/pt/964111468133772394/pdf/601510PJPR0v1011Restructuring0Paper.pdf texte intégral. Consulté le 4 novembre 2023

Forme courte de book publishing ou publishing industry : Édition.

The ins and outs of breaking into book publishing have long been opaque. As part of our efforts to build a more diverse community of employees and create more pathways to publishing, we’ve created this guide to help demystify the process. While these tips and resources are predominately for entry-level or mid-level professionals, there are takeaways that can be utilized at all levels of a publishing career.

« How to Get Into Publishing: Tips to help navigate the process of finding a career in the publishing world. », dans Penguin Random House, 29 décembre 2022 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/get-into-publishing/ texte intégral. Consulté le 4 novembre 2023


constitutional

Dérivé de constitution, avec le suffixe -al.

more constitutional (comparative)
most constitutional (superlative)

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.

Le Royaume-Uni est une monarchie constitutionnelle.


elaborate

to elaborate (infinitive)
elaborates (present third-person singular)
elaborated (preterite)
elaborated (participle past)
elaborating (participle present)

Élaborer, expliquer plus avant, donner des détails.

Would you care to elaborate?

Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?


sweeping

Under the direction of David Lean, the man responsible for Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge over the River Kwai, this sweeping drama came alive despite massive production obstacles and a brutal shooting schedule.

Sous la direction de David Lean, l'homme responsable de Lawrence d’Arabie et du Pont sur la rivière Kwai, ce drame de grande envergure a pris vie malgré d'énormes obstacles de production et un calendrier de tournage brutal.

Omar Sharif, Introduction vidéo à l'édition collector 2 DVD du Docteur Jivago, 2001.

On the issues both sides cared about, the Law School had won a sweeping victory.

Sur les questions auxquelles les deux parties se souciaient, la faculté de droit avait remporté une victoire écrasante.

Douglas Laycock, Desegregation, Affirmative Action, and the Ten-Percent Law, dans The Texas Book : Profiles, History and Reminiscences of the University (sous la direction de Richard A. Holland), page 182, University of Texas Press, 2006


catalyst

Composé de catalysis et du suffixe -ist.

Enzymes, the catalysts of biological systems, are remarkable molecular devices that determine the pattern of chemical transformations.

Lubert Stryer Biochemistry, 3ᵉ édition, page 177, 1988

Economic development and integration are working as a catalyst for peace.

Le développement et l’intégration économique ont servi de catalyseur pour la paix.

It was a morning baptized by my first cup of coffee, freshly brewed over a gravel-bar fire, while they celebrated with the stronger catalyst of sour-mash whiskey in their fishing-vest cups.

Ernest George Schwiebert, Trout, volume 2, 1978

Israel’s fear for the reactor—rather than Egypt’s of it—was the greater catalyst for war.

Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East, page 76, 2004

Rosa Parks was a true catalyst for change and she was only one person. Hearing about Rosa Parks and her protest showed me that there is hope for me and all the students in Ms. G’s classes to truly be catalysts for change.

The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing Change Themselves and the World Around Them, Diary 74, 2006


portability

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The examples in this book were run on a Windows 7 and 8 ultrabook, through Python's portability makes this mostly a moot point, especially in this fundamentals-focused book.

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


physically

Dérivé de physical, avec le suffixe -ly.

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

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


dynamics

[Alt: attention] Attention : il y a une différence entre le nom dynamic et le nom dynamics (sens #2).

Kinematics and dynamics.

Dynamique ; caractère, nature, de ce qui est en mouvement.

Social dynamics.


frustrate

to frustrate (infinitive)
frustrates (present third-person singular)
frustrated (preterite)
frustrated (participle past)
frustrating (participle present)

I felt very frustrated with their inept handling of my case.

La façon idiote dont ils se sont occupés de mon cas m’a franchement énervée.


frustrating

more frustrating (comparative)
most frustrating (superlative)

It was frustrating to have to battle the traffic each day.

C’était agaçant de devoir affronter la circulation jour après jour.


proportional

more proportional (comparative)
most proportional (superlative)

This is referred to as linear growth because the number of recursive calls is directly proportional to the value of the argument provided when the function is first called.

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


televised

Tonight, President Trump will make a televised address explaining his new plan for Afghanistan.

Trump’s ‘strategy’ on Afghanistan: Let the next president figure it out, Washington Post, 2017-08


racketeering

Dérivé de racketeer, avec le suffixe -ing.

The mobsters were convicted of the crime of racketeering.


mass transit

Le nom collectif est mass transit. Un transport en commun spécifique est un mass transit system.

Transport en commun de masse, en particulier pour les trajets quotidiens.

Mass transit is used by millions of commuters every day.

Due to population growth, the city will need to enlarge its mass transit system.


public transit

Le nom collectif est public transit. Un transport en commun spécifique est un public transit system.

Public transit is used by millions of commuters every day.

Due to population growth, the city will need to enlarge its public transit system.


Mass

Paris is worth a Mass.

Paris vaut bien une messe. — (Henri IV de France)


public transport

Le nom collectif est public transport. Un transport en commun spécifique est un public transport system.

Public transport is used by millions of commuters every day.

Due to population growth, the city will need to enlarge its public transport system.


cost an arm and a leg

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de cost

It cost me an arm and a leg, but I bought it anyway.


working order

I fixed it. It's now in good working order.


tick

My dog has ticks.


tick

I placed a tick in the box to place me on the mailing list.


tick

I ticked the box to place me on the mailing list.


check mark

I placed a check mark in the box to place me on the mailing list.


multiculturalism

(XXᵉ siècle) Composé de multi-, de cultural et du suffixe -ism.

Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice.

Britain has pursued a policy of multiculturalism - allowing people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society.

David Davis MP, Daily Telegraph, 3 août 2005

Earlier this year he said multiculturalism had “failed”, that immigrants needed to “melt” into French society, and that “we do not want ostentatious prayers in the street in France.”

"On a mat and a prayer", The Economist, 7 avril 2011


IOU

Par l’homonymie avec I owe you (« Je vous dois (de l’argent) »). À comparer Les Amis de L’ABC en français, qui a la signification « Les Amis de l’Abaissé » (dans Les Misérables par Victor Hugo).

\ˌaɪ.ˌəʊ.ˈjuː\

I don’t have any money, but I’ll give you an IOU for it.

Je n’ai aucun argent, mais je vous donnerai une reconnaissance de dette en échange.

The obvious next question is : If money is a just a yardstick, what then does it measure ? The answer was simple : debt. A coin is, effectively, an IOU.

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

David Graeber, Debt, The first 5,000 years, 2011


hanker

to hanker (infinitive)
hankers (present third-person singular)
hankered (preterite)
hankered (participle past)
hankering (participle present)

Transitif avec le complément d’objet introduit par for ou after

I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. I know that the proper thing to do, when you get to a village or town, is to rush off to the churchyard, and enjoy the graves; but it is a recreation that I always deny myself.

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


pantagruelesque

Du nom du personnage du roman de François Rabelais, La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel, avec le suffixe -esque.

It was an enormous kitchen, a pantagruelesque restaurant, which could not cope with the appetite of the two million inhabitants.

Romain Rolland, traduction de Gilbert Cannan, Jean-Christophe in Paris, 1915


liquidity

Du latin liquiditas, apparenté à liquid.

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He further informed WP.29 on the ongoing liquidity crisis, at the UN, which unfortunately would also impact WP.29 as vacant posts in the secretariat cannot be filled.

Economic and Social Council, Reports of the
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations on its 193rd session
Administrative Committee of the 1958 Agreement on its eighty-seventh session
Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement on its seventieth session
Administrative Committee of the 1997 Agreement on its fifteenth session, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1179, United Nations ECE, 10 July 2024


nationwide

Composé de nation et wide (« au long de »).

more nationwide (comparative)
most nationwide (superlative)

L’adjectif anglais pourra souvent être traduit en recourant plutôt à une locution comme « à l’échelle du pays », « au niveau national ».

National, avec l’emphase sur le « pays entier ».

While the nationwide strategy for brittle books is now well articulated and broadly accepted, there is not yet such consensus regarding coordinated strategies for archival materials.

Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists,chapitre « Introduction », section « A Nationwide Strategy for Brittle Books », page 6, sous la direction de Lisa L. Fox pour l’Association of Research Libraries. American Libbrary Association, 1996 (1ʳᵉ édition : 1987, sous la direction de Nancy E. Gwinn).

In a nationwide survey conducted in 2006, the Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) found that there are currently in place or under development 266 separate systems that share information about crime.

Mark A. Randol,Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress, page 4. Congressional Research Service, collection « CRS Report for Congress », 2009.

Any effective response to the poppy boom must feature an integrated and nationwide approach in order to avoid merely displacing production from one region to another.

Cyrus Hodes et Mark Sedra, The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan,chapitre 3 (« The Opium Trade »), page 46. Routledge, collection « Adelphi Paper » nᵒ 391, 2013.


nationwide

À l’échelle du pays, réparti(e)s dans tout le pays.

… all citizens would presumably welcome a network of facilities operating nationwide, so long as none were close at hand.

R. Swarup, S. N. Mishra et V. P. Jauhari, Dimensions of Environmental Pollutions, chapitre 4 (« Waste Disposal »), page 99. Mittal Publications, collection « Encyclopaedia of Ecology, Environment and Pollution Control », 1992.

In fact, a recent study estimated that there currently are approximately 300 such groups nationwide that seek to counter the far right.

George Michael, Confronting Right Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA,chapitre 6 (« The watchdogs’ response to the far right »), page 173. Routledge, 2003.

Because of the social importance of post offices nationwide it is imperative that government and/or local authorities find ways of subsidising local post offices.

House of Commons [United Kingdom], Business and Enterprise Committee, offices - securing their future: eighth report of session 2008-09, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, page 131. The Stationery Office, 2009.


Nazi

Auschwitz was a Nazi concentration camp.

Auschwitz était un camp de concentration nazi.


Nazi

Personne très dure et considérée comme injustement oppressante.

I tried to get into the club, but the door Nazi threw me out.

J’ai essayé de rentrer dans la boîte, mais le fou furieux de la porte m’a jarté.


tithe

(c. 1200) Du vieil anglais teogoþa, teoþa (même sens).

(Fin du XIVᵉ siècle) Du vieil anglais teoþian.

The Mormons today continue the practice of giving tithes.


tithe

The Mormons today continue the practice of tithing.


boost

(1815) Apparait en anglais américain ; d’origine obscure ; à rapprocher de boast.

The association in Europe of red with revolutionary politics (on notion of blood and violence) is from at least 1297, but got a boost, in 1793, with the adoption of the red Phrygian cap (French bonnet rouge) as symbol of the French Revolution.


regulatory

Du verbe to regulate avec le suffixe -ory.

\ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lə.ˌtɔː.ɹi\

The executive branch enforces the regulatory rules.

The committee oversees the regulatory activities.


technically

Dérivé de technical, avec le suffixe -ly.

Technically, the third milleinum began on January 1st, year 2001, since there was no year 0.

His work is technically solid, but it lacks the right vision.


aggressively

Dérivé de aggressive, avec le suffixe -ly.

Some crypto-assets are aggressively advertised to the public, using marketing material and other information that may be unclear, incomplete, inaccurate or purposefully misleading, overstating the potential gains while overlooking the risks involved. Marketing is often done through influencers on social media who do not disclose whether they have a financial incentive to market certain crypto-assets, particularly the recent rise in non-fungible token art (NFT art) linked to various celebrities and sportspeople.

Certains crypto-actifs font l’objet d’une publicité agressive auprès du public, qui s’appuie sur du matériel promotionnel et d’autres informations parfois peu clairs, incomplets, inexacts ou délibérément trompeurs, et surestime les gains potentiels tout en négligeant de communiquer sur les risques encourus. Leur commercialisation est souvent confiée à des influenceurs sur les réseaux sociaux qui ne déclarent pas publiquement qu’ils ont un intérêt économique à commercialiser certains crypto-actifs. C’est notamment le cas avec la récente montée en puissance des jetons non fongibles artistiques (NFT art) dont la valeur symbolique est associée à diverses célébrités et personnalités du monde du sport.

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


foeticide

As well as being an issue of cultural preference, female foeticide is also an economic issue for families.

« Female foeticide, India's ‘ticking bomb’ », Al Jazeera.com, 6 juillet 2015


outgoing

more outgoing (comparative)
most outgoing (superlative)

She has a very outgoing personality.


dental floss

I might be movin’ to Montana soon/Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss

Je vais peut-être m’installer dans le Montana/Pour y faire pousser du fil dentaire

Montana, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, album Over-Nite Sensation, DiscReet (1973)


phial

De l’ancien français fiole, réécrit pour conformer au latin phiala.

The blue phial, he said — in the aumry — the blue phial.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped et Catriona, page 19. Édition intégrée de 1962.


she-

Femelle. Souvent utilisé pour les animaux.

A she-wolf, a she-bear.


overdo

to overdo (infinitive)
overdoes (present third-person singular)
overdid (preterite)
overdone (participle past)
overdoing (participle present)

Be careful. Don’t overdo it.

Turn down the heat, you’re going to overdo the eggs.

Baisse la température, tu vas trop cuire les œufs.


unpaid

Wikipedia operates on a model of unpaid and independent volunteers who create, update and maintain the content. Casual editors may make minor stylistic edits to a page, while others devote substantial time to creating full-fledged articles.

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


teem

to teem (infinitive)
teems (present third-person singular)
teemed (preterite)
teemed (participle past)
teeming (participle present)

Paris is teeming with people at this time of year.


manoeuvrable

more manoeuvrable (comparative)
most manoeuvrable (superlative)

The vessels, which are low-noise and highly manoeuvrable, are believed to have visited European coastlines to test how easily they can be detected.

MarkHodge, “Fears Russia’s terrifying ‘super quiet’ subs are secretly operating in British waters”, The Sun, 05/08/2019


binary

Frozen binary executables … are packages that combine your program's byte code and the Python interpreter into a single executable program.

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


guideline

When in doubt, the employees are expected to refer to the guildelines in the employee manual.


cocksucker

composé de cock (« bite ») et de sucker (« suceur, -euse »).

He has famously mocked the fond notion of the sailor receiving a BJ from a fag being in control and that the cocksucker on his knees as subservient.

Il est connu qu’il a tourné en dérision la notion chérie que le marin à qui un pédé fait une pipe aurait le contrôle et que le suceur de bite à genoux serait soumis.

Enfoiré, enculé, salaud, trou du cul, personne méprisable.

Somebody fuckin’ ratted me out, some fuckin’ cocksucker, and I’ll fuckin’ kill that cocksucker, whoever it was, only I won’t kill that cocksucker cuz, […]

Quelqu’un m’a balancé bordel de merde, un putain d’enculé, et je vais tuer cet enculé bordel, qui que ce fût, seulement je ne vais pas tuer cet enculé parce que, […]

William Landay, Mission flats, 2003, page 339


current events

The show talks about the current events for the previous week.

L’émission parle des actualités de la semaine passée.


pretax

A pretax profit of $150 000.


wooden

more wooden (comparative)
most wooden (superlative)

wooden expression

mine, air de ne pas montrer les émotions intérieures

wooden acting


BASIC

Sigle venant de Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

BASIC: Acronym for "Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". BASIC is a higher-level language, similar in structure to FORTRAN but somewhat easier to learn. It was invented by Kemney and Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963 and has proved to be the most popular language for personal computers.

BASIC: Acronyme de "Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". BASIC est un langage de plus haut niveau, similaire par sa structure au FORTRAN mais quelque peu plus facile à apprendre. Il fut inventé inventé par Kemney et Kurtz au Dartmouth College en 1963 et a prouvé être le plus fameux langage pour les ordinateurs personnels.

Apple II Reference Manual, Cupertino, Apple Computer Inc., 1979, page 178


sweeten

A little sugar will sweeten the taste of the bitter medicine.


air out

After the long winter, we decided to open all the windows to air out the room.


snarl

Towel dry your dog's coat and brush it thoroughly, being sure to remove all snarls and mats.

Essuyez le pelage de votre chien avec une serviette et brossez-le soigneusement, en veillant à retirer tous les nœuds et les nattes.

Tracy Barr, Peter F. Veling, Yorkshire Terriers For Dummies, 2004, John Wiley & Sons


head of hair

\ˌhɛd əv ˈhɛɹ\

\ˌhɛd əv ˈhɛə\

That youngster has a fine thick head of hair.


calve

to calve (infinitive)
calves (present third-person singular)
calved (preterite)
calved (participle past)
calving (participle present)

The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.

Le glacier commençait à vêler alors que nous le regardions.


hefty

heftier (comparative)
heftiest (superlative)

The hefty bill represents one of the biggest early obstacles to a smooth Brexit.

Brussels hoists gross Brexit ‘bill’ to up to €100bn, Alex Barker, Financial Times, 2017-05-02


look for a needle in a haystack

Composé de look, for, a, needle, in, a et haystack.

to look for a needle in a haystack (infinitive)
looks for a needle in a haystack (present third-person singular)
looked for a needle in a haystack (preterite)
looked for a needle in a haystack (participle past)
looking for a needle in a haystack (participle present)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de look

Chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin.

It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.

C’est comme chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin.


phony

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing...

Lorsque Shane Fitzgerald, étudiant à l'université de Dublin, publia une citation poétique mais fausse, il prétendit qu'il faisait un test...


va’a

The International Va’a Federation is pleased to invite you as member to participate in the 2023 IVF Va’a World Distance Championships. The event will be held in Samoa hosted by the Samoa Outrigger Canoe Association (SOCA) from 10th to 19th August 2023.

La Fédération internationale de va’a est heureuse de vous inviter à participer en tant que membre au Championnat mondial de distance en va’a 2023. L'événement aura lieu au Samoa et organisé par la Samoa Outrigger Canoe Association (SOCA) du 10 au 19 août 2023.

(anglais) 2023 International Va'a Federation World Distance Championships sur International Va’a Federation (IVF). Consulté le 2022-12-28


algorithmic

Du français algorithme. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

\ˌæl.ɡə.ˈɹɪð.mɪk\

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

The global algorithmic trading service market which was represented a CAGR of approximately +11% in the midst of the estimate time span of 2019-2025.

RebeccaParker, Algorithmic Trading Service Market to See Huge Growth in Future by 2019-2025 Including Leading Players- Citadel, KCG, Optiver US, DRW Trading, Flow Traders, Sun Trading, Market Expert24, 24/10/2019


seep

to seep (infinitive)
seeps (present third-person singular)
seeped (preterite)
seeped (participle past)
seeping (participle present)

Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan’s tsunami disaster zone into the soil outside

Du plutonium hautement toxique suinte dans le sol à l’extérieur de la centrale nucléaire endommagée dans la zone du tsunami japonais.

Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi, BusinessWeek, mars 2011


necessitous

Du français nécessiteux, du latin necessitas.

we can by rule amass to the extent of ’two shillings’; but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity.

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, livre 2, chapitre 6, Monk Samson


alphabetically

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de alphabetical, avec le suffixe -ly. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

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

I also love the menu, which is an old encyclopedia where the drinks are listed alphabetically based on the spirit.

J'aime également le menu, qui est une vieille encyclopédie où les boissons sont classées alphabétiquement en fonction de l'alcool.

CelineBossart, Forget the King: Rezdôra’s Sidonie Rodman Is the Queen of Brunello, Vinepair, 18 novembre 2019


wildcard

Joker : métacaractère qui représente un nombre indéfini de caractères non spécifiés lors de la recherche.

In UNIX and Windows, the wildcard character is “*”.

Pour UNIX et Windows, le métacaractère est « * ».


minutia

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

They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.


consular

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

If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?


redness

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

Nancy Reagan is famous for the redness of her wardrobe.

Rousseur (des cheveux), coloration rouge.

Redness and swelling are associated with certain superficial infections.


left wing

De left (« gauche ») et de wing (« aile »).

The left wing has their own agenda.


right wing

De right (« droit ») et de wing (« aile »).

\ˌɹaɪt.ˈwɪŋ\

The right wing has their own agenda.


flat-footed

Dérivé de flat foot « pied plat » avec le suffixe -ed.

They caught us flat-footed.


cup of tea

I don’t think I’ll join you for the concert. It’s not really my cup of tea.


zealot

(1638) Du grec ancien ζηλωτής « admirateur fanatique ».

Only where Christian zealots blame sinning mankind, green zealots blame industrious mankind.

— La seule [différence est que] là où les fanatiques chrétiens accusent les péchés humains, les fanatiques écolos accusent les industries humaines.

Brendan O'Neill, Blaming Hurricane Sandy on the greedy and industrious is just as mad as blaming it on gays, The Telegraph, octobre 2012


giddy

giddier (comparative)
giddiest (superlative)

There will be other reasons I have missed out, but I know on the walk back down the hill we felt giddy.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 233


gunman

Composé de gun (« pistolet ») et de man (« homme »).

Un pistolero ; une personne, très souvent homme hors-la-loi, armée d’un pistolet ou de toute autre arme portable.

A gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” on Wednesday night.

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


By swapping out less efficient federal vehicles for new hybrid and fuel efficient ones, this strategy will reduce gasoline consumption by 1.3 million gallons per year and prevent 26 million pounds of CO₂ from entering the atmosphere.

Le Bureau de l’Attaché de presse de la Maison Blanche,President Obama Announces Accelerated Purchase of 17,600 New American Vehicles for Government Fleet, 2009-04-09


antimatter

Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a droplet could power New York City for a full day. There is, however, one catch… Antimatter is highly unstable. It ignites when it comes in contact with obsoletely anything… even air. A single gram of antimatter contains the energy of a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb — the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

L’antimatière est la source d’énergie la plus puissante que l’on connaisse. Elle émet de l’énergie à 100% de rendement (la fission nucléaire 1,5% seulement). L’antimatière ne pollue pas, n’émet pas de radiations, et une gouttelette pourrait alimenter New York pour une journée entière. Il y a toutefois un hic : l’antimatière est particulièmement instable : elle s’enflamme au contact de tout, même de l’air. Un seul gramme d’antimatière présente autant d’énergie qu’une bombe atomique de vingt kilotonnes — comme celle qui fut larguée sur Hiroshima.


bulwark

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Le plus grand rempart de l’autorité est l’uniformité ; la plus faible divergence de ce dernier est le plus grand crime.

Emma Goldman, The Individual, Society and the State, Free Society Forum, Chicago, Illinois 1940


nip in the bud

Littéralement « pincer dans le bourgeon ».Composé de nip, in, the et bud.

\ˈnɪp ɪn ðə ˈbʌd\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-nip in the bud.ogg

\ˈnɪp ɪn ðə ˈbʌd\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-nip in the bud.ogg

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de nip

If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained.

Si vous voyez une mauvaise habitude commencer à se développer, essayez de la tuer dans l’œuf afin qu’elle ne s’incruste pas.


porn

(Date à préciser) Apocope de pornography.

Porn est généralement indénombrable. Pour un porno, on dit a porno.

Pour tenter d’échapper aux filtres anti-pourriel, des orthographes alternatives ont été créées. Elles sont passées dans le langage habituel de l’Internet ; la plus courante semble actuellement être pr0n.

Men who pay for prostitution pay to control sexual activity with another person and often use women they pay to practise sexual scripts derived from porn before using them more widely in encounters with women.

Les hommes qui paient pour des actes de prostitution paient pour contrôler l’activité sexuelle avec autrui et utilisent souvent les femmes qu’ils paient pour mettre en pratique des scripts sexuels issus du porno avant de les utiliser plus largement dans leurs rapports avec les femmes.

Nordic Model Now!, « Evidence of the harmful impact of online pornography on viewers and society » [en ligne], 22 septembre 2024. Consulté 2 octobre 2024


pornography

(Date à préciser) Du français pornographie.

pɔːɹˈnɒɡ.ɹə.fi

After our first “break,” I stood with her at the conference on pornography at NYU and was castigated in The New York Times on Christmas Day for what I said about pornography; I had compared it to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Après notre première « rupture », je me suis tenue à ses côtés lors de la conférence sur la pornographie à l’Université de New York et on m’a fustigée le jour de Noël dans le New York Times pour ce que j’y ai dit de la pornographie ; je l’avais comparée à Mein Kampf d’Hitler.

Phyllis Chesler, « Woke Andrea Dworkin » [en ligne], Tablet, section « Arts & Letters », New York, le 9 avril 2021. Consulté le 11 mai 2024.

Pornography erodes empathy whether it is legal or not and research shows users of pornography are also more likely to believe rape myths.

La pornographie érode l’empathie, qu’elle soit ou non légale, et la recherche montre que les utilisateurs de pornographie sont plus susceptibles d’adhérer aux mythes sur le viol.

Nordic Model Now!, « Evidence of the harmful impact of online pornography on viewers and society » [en ligne], Royaume-Uni, 22 septembre 2024. Consulté 2 octobre 2024

Contenu à sensation qui compte sur le voyeurisme du public ; pornographie.

This isn’t proper journalistic work, it’s plain pornography.

Ce n’est pas du bon travail de journaliste, c’est juste de la pornographie.


what the fuck

Composé de what (« quoi ») et the fuck, renforcement expressif et vulgaire des pronoms interrogatifs.

\ˈwʌt ðə ˈfʌk\

\ˈwɒt ðə ˈfʌk\

Putain, merde. Note d’usage : Exprime la colère, l’indignation, ou le choc. Souvent réduit à WTF dans le langage Internet.

What the fuck are you talking about?

What the fuck is he doing here?

What the fuck! Did he really do that?

What the fuck?!


browbeat

to browbeat (infinitive)
browbeats (present third-person singular)
browbeat ou browbeaten (participle past)
browbeating (participle present)
brow-beat

Brimer de manière autoritaire ; intimider ; s’en prendre aux plus faibles.

Let him be dacent, and it’s ceevil treatment he’ll get; but no man shall browbeat me on me own floor.

Anonymous, Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and Her Irish Nurse

Even so, a good therapist had to push the patient, encourage the weak, and browbeat the strong; to cajole and to shame, all in the name of health; that meant taking satisfaction from the exertion and pain of others, and O’Toole could not have done that.


seminarian

He was a seminarian for five years, before he left the seminary.


day by day

Day by day, the situation grew worse.


unary

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

Some mathematical operators are unary while others are binary.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 91


Shakespeare

Également attesté sous les formes Sakspere et Shakspere, ce patronyme semble être l’anglicisation du patronyme français Sacquespée, également attesté sous les formes Sacquépée, Saquépée.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

Percy Shakespeare (1906–1943).


gynocide

Dérivé du préfixe gyno-, avec le suffixe -cide, sur le modèle de genocide.

Gynocide, ensemble de violences systémiques diverses commises contre les femmes en tant que phénomène social dans une culture patriarcale, allant jusqu’au féminicide de masse.

Men, after all, have throughout history resorted to gynocide as a stratagem of social control, as a tactical way of attaining/maintaining power.

Les hommes, après tout, ont à travers l’histoire recouru au gynocide comme stratagème de contrôle social, comme plan tactique pour atteindre/conserver le pouvoir.— (Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating : De la misogynie, chapitre 9 « L’androgynie : l’androgynie, la baise et la communauté », traduction de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Camille Chaplain et Harmony Devillard, des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, Paris, 2023 (édition originale : 1974), page 215)

Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating, chapter 9 « Androgyny: Androgyny, Fucking, and Community », Penguin Group, coll. « Plume », New York, 1974, page 191


marmoset

Glowing marmosets raise genetic hopes and fears.


genial

‘A very, very nice little haul,’ said the Inspector, in his most genial voice, as he looked inside the bag.


fifty-fifty

Composé de fifty (« cinquante »), signifiant 50 % et 50 % dans le pourcentage.

I’ll do the hard work, you organise the team, and we’ll split profits fifty-fifty.


light-year

This castle, eleven light-years from my Earth, this room in a tower in Rodarred, in A-Io, on the planet Urras of the sun Tau Ceti, is Terran soil.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974, éd. 2003, ISBN 0-06-051275-X


bursty

Qui est transmis par paquets relativement courts et de tailles inégales.

We were motivated to investigate the performance of a Web server under bursty conditions.

Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server


seabed

The areas to be governed by the Convention include the mining of deep seabed mineral resources.

Wolfgang Hauser, The legal regime for deep seabed mining under the Law of the Sea Convention, 1983


Pamela

(XVIᵉ siècle) Mot forgé par Philip Sidney ; il est repris au XVIIIᵉ siècle par Samuel Richardson dans son roman à succès Paméla ou la Vertu récompensée qui popularise le prénom.

Traditionnellement analysé comme issu du grec ancien etcomposé de πᾶν, pân et de μέλι, méli, littéralement « tout de miel », mais rien n’indique que cela ait été la volonté de son créateur.

Pamela Harriman.


unsung

De sung, le participe passé de to sing et avec le préfixe un-. Littéralement : « non chanté ».

more unsung (comparative)
most unsung (superlative)

The third hymn remained unsung.


cater

De l’ancien français cater (« acheter »).

to cater (infinitive)
caters (present third-person singular)
catered (preterite)
catered (participle past)
catering (participle present)

She's always catering to his slightest whim.

Ravitailler, s’occuper de la nourriture.

Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?

As-tu engagé quelqu’un pour le ravitaillement de notre fête la semaine prochaine ?


veneer

A veneer of respectability


stand up

to stand up (infinitive)
stands up (present third-person singular)
stood up (preterite)
stood up (participle past)
standing up (participle present)
stand-up

Poser un lapin à quelqu'un, faire faux bond à quelqu'un.

We agreed to meet at the restaurant last night, and you stood me up.

Don't we as citizens deserve the truth? We need to stand up and demand answers.


gallivant

to gallivant (infinitive)
gallivants (present third-person singular)
gallivanted (preterite)
gallivanted (participle past)
gallivanting (participle present)
galavant

ˌɡæl.ə.ˈvænt

Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to gallivant -- to gallivant all day long.

Eleanor H. Porter, Miss Billy--Married, 1914, chapitre 18


6–10 years.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

Prononcé comme to ; en typographie française, on utilise le tiret court (trait d’union) « - »

Bose–Einstein statistics.

Pas prononcé ; en typographie française, on utilise le tiret court (trait d’union) « - »


let the cat out of the bag

\lɛt ðə kæt aʊt ɒv ðə bæɡ\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-let the cat out of the bag.ogg

It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.

La fête était censée être une surprise jusqu’à ce que quelqu’un ne vende la mèche.


awesome

more awesome (comparative)
most awesome (superlative)

The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.

The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.

That was awesome!

Awesome, dude!


out of reach

The adult magazines were out of reach of toddlers.

Les magazines pour adultes étaient hors de portée des enfants en bas âge.


indefatigable

Du latin indefatigabilis (« infatigable »).

more indefatigable (comparative)
most indefatigable (superlative)

\ɪndɨˈfæɾɨɡəbəl̴\

...but he was at the same time an excellent scholar, and most indefatigable in teaching the two lads.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1749, livre XVIII, chapitre 4.

All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1897, livre 1, chapitre 8

In fact, a man less indefatigable than Ron might have considered himself a jinx.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 31


indefatigably

Dérivé de indefatigable (« inlassable ») avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

\ɪndɨˈfæɾɨɡəbli\

‘Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor—Brave.


c’mon

C’mon, now, I’ll walk you back to school. C’mon, now. You’ll be late.

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 214, ISBN 0140012486, 1951


cupidity

The conqueror’s cupidity created economic problems in the kingdom.

Humanity had always been fascinated by the mystery of the falling dice, the turn of a card, the spin of the pointer. At its lowest level, this interest was based on mere cupidity—and that was an emotion that could have no place in a world where everyone possessed all that they could reasonably need.

Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, 1956, p. 37.


Leslie

(Village écossais) Du nom du clan Leslie.

(Nom commun) (XXᵉ siècle) D’après Donald Leslie, inventeur du produit.

Bartolf Leslie.

Fondateur du clan, premier de la lignée.

Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven.

Eliza Leslie, is the author of "Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839


Leslie

Haut-parleur monté sur un bâti en rotation constante, destiné à imiter le trémolo d’un orgue.

The Leslie speaker is a combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument and modifies the sound by rotating a baffle chamber ("drum") in front of the loudspeakers.


Leslie

Leslie Nielsen.


Leslie

Leslie Bibb.


Britannia

Britannia, personnification féminine et allégorie du Royaume-Uni, de Britannia, nom donné par les romains.

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


tantamount

(1641) De la phrase verbale tant amount, elle-même de l’anglo-normand tant amunter, de l’ancien français tant et amonter.

Denying (T13) would be tantamount to rejecting what is definitive of the very concept of part, as Bennett correctly notes (2011: 14).

Rejeter (T13) serait équivalent à rejecet ce qui définit le concept même de partie, ce que Bennett note également (2011: 14).

A. R. J. Fisher, Bennett on Parts Twice Over, 2013


horseshoe

Composé de horse (« cheval ») et de shoe (« chaussure »).

And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;

David A. Wells, The Economic Disturbances since 1873, 1887, III, Popular Science 31 (no. 37): 595


next day

On l'emploie comme adverbe par ellipse. On peut dire aussi: We'll meet on the next day.

If you're busy then, we'll meet the next day.


next day

The next day is better for me.


day after

On l'emploie comme adverbe par ellipse. On peut dire aussi: We'll meet on the day after.

If you're busy then, we'll meet the day after.


day after

The day after is better for me.


Teresa

Teresa Brayton.


Gentile

Du latin gentiles (« les gens, le peuple »).

La capitalisation du terme est variable.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Other Gentiles, who had been in bondage (Puritans, Pilgrims, etc.), also sailed across the ocean to the promised land inhabited by my brothers’ people.


volumize

to volumize (infinitive)
volumizes (present third-person singular)
volumized (preterite)
volumized (participle past)
volumizing (participle present)
volumise

Tired of her flat hairstyle, Vicki volumized her hair.


bygone

It may be, however […], that the great-grandchildren of the present race may sometimes think kindly of the scribbler of bygone days, […]

Il se peut, toutefois, que les arrière-petits-enfants de la race présente auront parfois une pensée affectueuse envers les gribouilleurs d’antan


stolid

Du latin stolidus (« insensé, obtus, lent »).

They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.

Aucun d’eux (les Éloïs) ne réussit à comprendre mes gestes ; certains étaient juste impassibles, certains pensaient que c’était une plaisanterie et se moquèrent de moi.

With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.

Avec son casque symbolique numéroté 451 sur sa tête impassible, et les yeux tout orange enflammés par la pensée de ce qui viendrait ensuite, il donna un petit coup au briquet (briquet à préciser ou à vérifier) et la maison sursauta dans un brasier glouton qui brûlait le ciel vespéral en rouge et en jaune et en noir.


intrinsically

Dérivé d’intrinsic avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

If it is not already clear from the foregoing, it should be noted that a physical object that is a token of a type is not one intrinsically—merely by being a certain sequence of shaped ink marks, say.

Si ce qui précède n'est pas déjà clair, il convient de noter qu’un objet physique qui est un token d’un type ne l’est pas intrinsèquement — par exemple en étant une certaine séquence de formes d’encre.

Linda Wetzel, Types and Tokens, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006


substrate

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

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


Armageddon

De l’hébreu הַר מְגִדֹּו, har M'giddo (« mont Megiddo »).

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

And they assembled the kings in the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

Et il les assembla au lieu qui est appelé en hébreu, Armageddon.

ARMAGEDDON, a name occurring in the Authorized Version of the English Bible in Rev. xvi. 16. The Revised Version has Harmagedon. The form is commonly regarded as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew har megiddōn, the mountain district of Megiddo. The writer is describing the place where the last decisive battle was to be fought at the Day of Judgment, and Harmagedon may have been chosen as the name because the district about Megiddo had been on several occasions the scene of great battles.

«Armageddon », dans Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911


grassoline

\ˈɡɹæs.əˌliːn\

\ˌɡɹæs.əˈliːn\

Bouse de vache séchée, utilisée comme combustible.

The later settlers called them cow chips, or sometimes Grassoline.

Bio-carburant (éthanol) fait à partir de matière cellulosique.

Grassoline can be made from dozens, if not hundreds, of sources: from wood residues such as sawdust and construction debris, to agricultural residues such as cornstalks and wheat straw, to "energy crops"—fast-growing grasses and woody materials that are grown expressly to serve as feedstocks for grassoline.


Fed

They have not moved to signal any near term shift about policy, and whether the Fed should keep providing significant support to the economy.

Michael S. Derby , The Wall Street Journal, juin 2009


TBH

It’s funny, but whenever George makes fun of me on Facebook now, I always expect Sam-Boy to get involved. I dread it, every time. TBH I don’t think Sam-Boy bothers much about George any more, thank god!

Stephen J Brookes, Why I Didn’t LMAO… And other tales of e-Catastrophe, 2012,ISBN 9781471696671


weaponized

De to weaponize, de weapon « arme » avec le suffixe -ize.

Transformé pour être utilisé en tant qu’arme.

North Korea is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least half a dozen atomic bombs.

On pense que la Corée du Nord possède suffisamment de plutonium à usage militaire pour au moins une demi-douzaine de bombes atomiques.


statuesque

(Siècle à préciser) Emprunt au français.

more statuesque (comparative)
most statuesque (superlative)

(En parlant d’une femme) À la fois grande, élégante et attrayante ; sculpturale.

She is a statuesque supermodel.


or not

Whether the analysis here given be just or not, the spirit of his comedies is evidently quite distinct from that of the authors above mentioned, as it is in its essence the same with that of Cervantes, and also very frequently of Moliere, though he was more systematic in his extravagance than Shakespeare.

William Haslit, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817


in contrast to

In contrast to the United States, Britain has an unwritten constitution.


peek

Du moyen anglais piken (« regarder furtivement, sans être vu »).

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

I’m busy now, but I have time to take a quick peek at what you’ve been doing.


peek

to peek (infinitive)
peeks (present third-person singular)
peeked (preterite)
peeked (participle past)
peeking (participle present)

To peek est plus court que to look. Un glance est plus court aussi, mais un peek est ordinairement furtif. To peek in on ou to take a peek est moins furtif.

I’m going to hide it now. Close your eyes and don’t peek!

She peeked at what I was doing, when she said she wouldn’t!


dungarees

(Date à préciser) De dungaree, venant de l’hindi.

\ˌdʌŋ.ɡəˈɹiːz\

\ˌdʌŋ.ɡəˈɹiːz\

She heard John looking for a clean pair of dungarees, heard him persuading Ben into them.

Elle entendit John chercher une salopette propre, l’entendit persuader Ben de l’enfiler.

Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child, 1988, p. 123

Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.

Helen enfila une salopette passée et choppa son sac à dos avant de filer à l’école.


fungible

Du latin fungor (« accomplir un devoir ») avec le suffixe -ible (« capable de »).

more fungible (comparative)
most fungible (superlative)

Gold is fungible. Silver is fungible; that is, these metals are both so homogeneous that, if I get a pound of pure gold, for example, it is indifferent to me whether it be this pound or that pound, one is as good as another.

Samuel Dana Horton, Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption, 1876 [1877], p. 116


nightmarish

Dérivé de nightmare, avec le suffixe -ish.

more nightmarish (comparative)
most nightmarish (superlative)

So my concerns about a nightmarish dystopian future were not much allayed by the announcement of a new system whereby you’ll have to provide a password in order to obtain food.

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


juniper tree

Juniper tree varieties come in a variety of shades -- from deep to silvery greens and then shades of blue, bronze, and even gold.

«Do I have a juniper tree ? », D'Aveyron.com, 25 mars 2021


oak tree

Thankfully, you don't need to pluck all the leaves individually and count them because we know that, for a typical oak tree at least, the answer is 227,721 leaves … ish.

Heureusement, on n'a pas besoin d'arracher individuellement toutes les feuilles et de les compter parce qu'on sait, pour un chêne typique au moins, que la réponse est 227 721 feuilles … À peu près.

QI Ltd, Funny You Should Ask, Faber & Faber Ltd, 2020, page 25


Douglas fir

(Date à préciser) Du nom du botaniste écossais David Douglas, qui introduisit cette essence en Europe en 1827 en provenance de ses peuplements de Colombie-Britannique.

I have worked with old-growth yellow pine and Douglas fir that perfectly hard enough to pleasantly machine and craft into furniture, […]

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


equate

to equate (infinitive)
equates (present third-person singular)
equated (preterite)
equated (participle past)
equating (participle present)

On peut écrire equate with ou equate to, mais en français, on écrit comparer à ou assimiler à.

You shouldn't equate this one failure with the end of your career.


erode

to erode (infinitive)
erodes (present third-person singular)
eroded (preterite)
eroded (participle past)
eroding (participle present)

His continual criticism was eroding my confidence.


insight

Einstein's insight into physics made him one of the founders of modern physics.

It was her many insights along the way that allowed her team to finish first.


legislate

to legislate (infinitive)
legislates (present third-person singular)
legislated (preterite)
legislated (participle past)
legislating (participle present)

Some people argue that you can't legislate morality.


levy

to levy (infinitive)
levies (present third-person singular)
levied (preterite)
levied (participle past)
levying (participle present)

The judge levied a fine on the defendant.


practitioner

pɹækˈtɪʃ.ə.nə

practitioner of medicine


underlie

to underlie (infinitive)
underlies (present third-person singular)
underlay (preterite)
underlain (participle past)
underlying (participle present)
underly

We cannot ignore the principles that underlie our society.


Roman numeral

Create a recursive function that converts a Roman numeral to an integer.

Créez une fonction récursive qui convertit un nombre romain en entier.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 134


conundrum

(XVIᵉ siècle) référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème) Un mot d'origine inconnue avec plusieurs variantes, gagnant en popularité pour son imitation burlesque du latin scolastique, comme hocus-pocus ou panjandrum. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

Énigme ; problème difficile, voire impossible, à résoudre ; casse-tête.

Sri Lanka’s ethnic conundrum

Since it does not contribute directly to reproduction, same-sex sexual behaviour is considered an evolutionary conundrum.

Puisqu'ils ne participe pas directement à la reproduction, le comportement sexuel homosexuel est considéré comme une énigme évolutionnaire.

Gómez, J.M., Gónzalez-Megías, A. & Verdú, M. The evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals. Nat Commun 14, 5719 (2023).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41290-x


instagib

Mot-valise formé à partir de instant et gib (lui-même abréviation de giblets, « entrailles »).

Mod présent dans de nombreux jeux de tir subjectif dans lequel un seul tir de n’importe quelle arme suffit à tuer un adversaire.

Turn the minigun into an instagib machine with this mutator.

Transformez le minigun en machine à tuer en un seul coup avec ce mutateur.


striker

Gunners scout Gilles Grimandi has admitted the club are interested in Montpellier striker Giroud, but says they have a 30-strong list of targets.

Transfer :Arsenal scout confirms interest in Montpellier striker Giroud, Tribalfootball.com, 05 Février 2012