housewife

Very pretty souvenirs and inexpensive presents can be made, such as needle-books, housewifes, music-wrappers, bookmarks, watch cases, toilet cases; and the details may be varied according to the taste or means of the maker.

On peut fabriquer de très jolis souvenirs et cadeaux bon marché, comme des porte-aiguilles, des trousses de couture, des pochettes à partition, des marque-pages, des boîtiers de montre, des trousses de toilette; et les détails peuvent varier en fonction des goûts ou des moyens de la personne les fabriquant.

Marie Ackley Marshall, {The Home Guide: A Compendium of Useful Information Pertaining to Every Branch of Domestic and Social Economy: A Manual for Every Household, 1878


interstitial

Composé de interstitium et du suffixe -al.

more interstitial (comparative)
most interstitial (superlative)

The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph.

Jerome F. Fredrick, Murray L. Schole, Mechanisms of Dental Caries,page 761, 1965

That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead.

The interstitial fluid is located between cells and the capillaries. This fluid provides a bridge between the fluid in the intravascular compartment and the intracellular compartment. Chemicals in the blood must pass through the interstitial fluid if they are to reach cells.

Chris Mulryan, Acute Illness Management,page 27, 2011


interstitial

Page Web affichée avant ou après la page de contenu attendu, souvent pour afficher des publicités ou pour confirmer l’âge de l’utilisateur.

Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time.

Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience,p. 126, 2007

Discontinuité interstitiel dans un cristal.

The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface.

E. G. Seebauer et al., Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions using Surfaces, in P. J. Timans, E. P. Gusev, H. Iwai, D.-L. Kwong, M. C. Öztürk, F. Roozeboom (editors), Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain, and Channel Engineering for Si-Based CMOS 4: New Materials, Processes, and Equipment, ECS Transactions: Volume 13, Issue 1, page 56, 2008


lioncelle

You could pretend that Guenever was a sort of man-eating lioncelle herself, or that she was one of those selfish women who insist on ruling everywhere.


dyadic

more dyadic (comparative)
most dyadic (superlative)

Dyadique, concernant le nombre deux ; qui compte deux parties ou éléments.

Function headers determine whether a function is niladic, monadic or dyadic.

Arthur H. Seidman, Iván Flores, éditeurs, The Handbook of computers and computing, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1984

In addition, some of them can be used as pseudo-dyadic or pseudo-triadic functions by means of the "separate" function. […] They are either niladic, monadic or dyadic APL-programs.

Oliver Duncan Anderson, Time Series: proceedings of the International Conference held at Nottingham University, March 1979, Volume 1979, Institute of Statisticians, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1980


trophy wife

Composé de trophy (« trophée ») et de wife (« épouse »).

Femme trophée. Belle épouse qui symbolise le succès économique ou social de son mari.

The unstoppable rise of the public trophy wife. The new generation of sassy first ladies like Carla Sarkozy and Michelle Obama are eclipsing their men and winning votes in style.

Lesley White,The unstoppable rise of the public trophy wife, The sunday times, décembre 2009


bicameral

Du latin camera (« chambre ») et du préfixe bi- et du suffixe -al.

By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end.

John William Burgess, Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2,page 108, 1891

The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral — the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831.

Saxony, article dans Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, 1911

Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […].

Carl Hulse, “In Congress, Aides Start to Map Talks on Stimulus”, New York Times, 9 février 2009

Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.

Yves Savourel, XML Internationalization and Localization,page 80, 2001

Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s.

Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.0, page 255, 2004

For more than a thousand years, classical Greek has been habitually written in a bicameral, polytonic alphabet (one with caps and lower case and a set of diacritics marking tone and aspiration).

Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides,page 91, 2004


jettison

De l’anglo-normand geteson, de l’ancien français getaison « fait de jeter ». Doublet lexical avec jetsam.

to jettison (infinitive)
jettisons (present third-person singular)
jettisoned (preterite)
jettisoned (participle past)
jettisoning (participle present)

And acclimatizing students (...) might force professors to jettison parts of the syllabus more directly relevant to mastering course material.

Steve Kolowich, Wikipedia Aims Higher, Inside Higher Ed, juillet 2011


stinger

A stinger is a device used by the police force consisting of a portable bed of nails to puncture car tires.


tovarish

tovarishes (plural)
tovarishch
tovarisch
tovarich

Camarade, en particulier en référence à l’ex-URSS.

Instead of addressing them according to revolutionary etiquette as Tovarish (comrade), he asked them their Christian names and that of their fathers, while telling them his own

The Times, page 10 col. C, 6 décembre 1919

His Russian was derived from a fortnight’s crash course. ‘You’d better see what this, ah, tovarish thinks he wants.’


look-alike

We need to find a look-alike to replace the actor who quit.

Nous devons trouver un sosie pour remplacer l’acteur qui a arrêté.


whistle-blower

Composé de whistle (« sifflet ») et de blower (« celui qui siffle »), littéralement « celui qui appelle avec un sifflet », par allusion au policier qui siffle pour signaler une infraction.

It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home, face at least substantially reduced punishment in light of his role as a whistle-blower, and have the hope of a life advocating for greater privacy and far stronger oversight of the runaway intelligence community.

Editorial board, « Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower », The New York Times, 1 janvier 2014


whistleblower

Did any of your business-smart, streetwise, or academically gifted peers in high school declare that their dream was to become the world’s expert in smearing whistleblowers ? Or even as a lobbyist or public relations expert ? These jobs are indicative of necessary failure in other things.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the game, 2018


dammit

Merde ! Note d’usage : Expression de colère, irritation, mépris ou déception.

Dammit, the conman has fled with the money.

Merde, l’escroc s’est enfui avec l’argent.


dammit

Rien. Note d’usage : Utilisé dans des comparaisons, comme ne valant rien.

[…] and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938


damn it

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

Expression de colère, irritation, mépris ou déception.

"Damn it ! I forgot to buy bread !"


DUI

(Sigle) Sigle de driving under the influence.

CEI (conduite en état d’ivresse) ; CFA (conduite avec facultés affaiblies).

He got busted for DUI.

Il s’est fait pincer pour conduite en état d’ivresse.


never-say-die

De la phrase never say die! (« Ne vous laissez pas abattre ! »).

And no wonder this never-say-die attitude has made such an appealing plot line for dime novels and Hollywood.

Et il n’est pas étonnant que cette attitude irréductible ait constitué une histoire intéressante pour des dime novels et pour Hollywood.

Who Says Quitters Never Win?, Newsweek, 2007-09-20

The constant hustle, the never-say-die approach that characterizes American athletes doesn’t play well on the pitch in Europe.

L’agitation constante, l’approche inflexible qui caractérise les athlètes américains ne passe pas bien sur le terrain en Europe.

Bill Saporito,Why America’s Never-Say-Die Attitude Has Electrified the World Cup, Time, 2011-07-13


Aristarch

Du latin Aristarchus, issu du grec ancien Ἀρίσταρχος, Arístarkhos, Aristarque de Samothrace, un sévère critique de la poésie d’Homère.

Aristarchs (plural)
aristarch
Aristarchus

Let no Ariſtarch of learning diſdain performances of this kind.

1=Tobias George Smollett [ed.], The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 18, article 23: “Review of William Johnſton’s A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary, &c.”,page 237, septembre 1764


homebrew

Composé de home « maison » et de brew « brasser ».

to homebrew (infinitive)
homebrews (present third-person singular)
homebrewed (preterite)
homebrewed (participle past)
homebrewing (participle present)

Or you can homebrew an expanded scale analog battery voltmeter.

Sinon vous pouvez vous bricoler un voltmètre analogique à échelle étendue.

Richard Perez, Battery State of Charge vs. Voltage , 1993


sprawl

to sprawl (infinitive)
sprawls (present third-person singular)
sprawled (preterite)
sprawled (participle past)
sprawling (participle present)

To sprawl is to sit with the limbs spread out.

S’étendre consiste à s’asseoir avec les membres déployés.


sprawl

A sprawl is an ungainly sprawling posture.

Un étalement est une position où l’on s’étend maladroitement.

A sprawl is a straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

Une extension est une croissance anarchique, hasardeuse, particulièrement du logement à la périphérie d’une ville.


charlady

Composé de char (« corvée ») et de lady (« dame »).

Il peut maintenant être considéré comme inapproprié d’indiquer le sexe d’une personne à moins que ça ne soit pertinent. Cette terminologie peut maintenant être considérée comme désuète.

"Then we’ll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.

Herman Cyril McNeile, Bull-dog Drummond, chapitre 9: In Which He Has a Near Shave, 1920

MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.

Frank Swinnerton, Charladies, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New,page 163, 1949

He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.

Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 8 décembre 2005


panhandle

A panhandle is, on a map, where a part of a political entity forms a longish extension such that it resembles the handle of a pan, as with a frying pan.

The three counties that form the Oklahoma panhandle were originally part of the Cimmaron Strip.

The very wide Texas panhandle butts up, at its north, against the Oklahoma panhandle.

The Florida panhandle is the area west, along the Gulf coast, of the Florida Peninsula.

Part of Fairfield County, Connecticut consitutes a panhandle, extending into Bronx County, New York.


panhandle

to panhandle (infinitive)
panhandles (present third-person singular)
panhandled (preterite)
panhandled (participle past)
panhandling (participle present)

To panhandle is to beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, by a bum.


contumely

De l’ancien français contumelie, issu du latin contumēlia (« insulte »), peut-être constitué de tumeō (« gonfler ») avec le préfixe com-.

For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely ….

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1594

What scorn, what contumely, would be his!

Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man, 1914

If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.

James Strachey, traduction de Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, p. 178, 1953

I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.


mash

to mash (infinitive)
mashes (present third-person singular)
mashed (preterite)
mashed (participle past)
mashing (participle present)

Mashed potatoes.


redcurrant

redcurrants (plural)
red currant
red-currant

ˈɹɛd.kə.ɹənt

Add the redcurrant jelly and the wine to the pan.

Ajouter la gelée de groseille et le vin dans la poêle.


Rhodes

(Date à préciser) Du latin Rhodos, emprunté au grec ancien Ῥόδος, Ródos.

The Knights of Rhodes were of eight different nationalities: English, French, Italian, German, Castilian, Aragonese, Auvergnat and Provençal.

Les Chevaliers de Rhodes étaient de huit nationalités différentes : anglais, français, italien, allemand, castillan, aragonais, auvergnat et provençal.


Point G

The District of Bamako consists of six communes which stretch as far south as the airport, but do not include the administrative district of Koulouba and Point G in the north.

There are also two smaller autogares in Bamako: one, serving Nara and Nioro, is behind the Grande Mosquée; the other, below Point G, is used by bush taxis to Kati and Koulikoro.

JimHudgens et Richard Trillo, The rough guide to West Africa, 2003


wuther

to wuther (infinitive)
wuthers (present third-person singular)
wuthered (preterite)
wuthered (participle past)
wuthering (participle present)

To wuther is to make a rushing sound; to whizz.

To wuther signifie produire un son de sifflement ; siffler.

'Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë.

To wuther is to shake vigorously.

To wuther signifie « secouer vigoureusement ».


pain in the arse

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

pains in the arse (plural)
pain in the ass

\ˈpeɪn ɪn ðɪ ɑːs\

Did you see that guy yesterday at the party ? He was a pain in the arse, he didn't want to leave me alone.


pain in the butt

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

This guy is a pain in the butt.


swagger

Forme alternative de « to sway », attesté pour la première fois en 1590, dans A Midsummer Night's Dream III.i.79:

to swagger (infinitive)
swaggers (present third-person singular)
swaggered (preterite)
swaggered (participle past)
swaggering (participle present)

Se pavaner, marcher en bombant le torse.

Once our ancestors got moving on two legs, they kept on walking, and that journey has continued right up to today. In a lifetime, the average person will take about 150 million steps—enough to circle Earth three times. We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger. After walking all over someone, we might be asked to walk a mile in their shoes. Heroes walk on water, and geniuses are walking encyclopedias. But rarely do we humans think about walking. It has become, you might say, pedestrian. The fossils, however, reveal something else entirely. Walking is anything but ordinary. Instead it is a complex, convoluted evolutionary experiment that began with humble apes taking their first steps in Miocene forests and eventually set hominins on a path around the world.

Jeremy DeSilva, “Walks of Life”, Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, novembre 2022, pages 72-81

What hempen home-spuns haue we swaggering here
William Shakespeare, songe d’une nuit d’été (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), 1595, page Actus Tertius
traductions :

« Quels sont ces rustiques personnages qui font ici les fanfarons »


sepsis

The Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has revealed that he had both his hands and feet amputated last year due to sepsis.

Nadeem Badshah, « Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis », The Guardian, 21 mai 2024


ancestry

John Peter was born in London on May 5, 1913, of Scottish and Walsh ancestry.


and counting

Signale que le nombre cité précédemment est en évolution, que ce soit à la hausse ou à la baisse.

We have 100,000 articles - and counting.

Nous avons 100 000 articles — et ce n’est pas fini.


oddity

"And that, in turn", our young woman explained, "will give an oddity to my own silence".


hackney

Probablement de la ville de Hackney (aujourd’hui district), Grand Londres, en Angleterre.

Mr Pecksniff was in a hackney cabriolet, for Jonas Chuzzlewit had said ‘Spare no expense.’

M. Pecksniff était dans un cabriolet de louage, car Jonas Chuzzlewit avait dit : « N’épargnez point la dépense. »


bodyguard

Owing to the recent terrorist attacks, the President was given two additional bodyguards.

Du fait des récents attentats terroristes, deux gardes du corps supplémentaires ont été attribués au président.

In Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers takes the place of the Gentlemen at Arms as the Queen's bodyguards.

En Écosse, la compagnie royale des archers prend la place des messieurs aux armes comme les gardes du corps de la reine.


bodyguard

to bodyguard (infinitive)
bodyguards (present third-person singular)
bodyguarded (preterite)
bodyguarded (participle past)
bodyguarding (participle present)

The guy with the shades is bodyguarding Madonna.

Le type avec les lunettes noires est un garde du corps de Madonna.


beck

Abréviation de bekon, issu du vieil anglais bēcnan, lui-même issu du proto-germanique *bauknan.

A beck is a significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.


pwn

De la faute d’orthographe sur own (« posséder ») dans le programme du jeu Warcraft, qui aurait affiché pwned au lieu de owned. Puis associé à perfectly own (« posséder parfaitement »).

to pwn (infinitive)
pwns (present third-person singular)
pwned (preterite)
pwned (participle past)
pwning (participle present)

He completely pwned the opponent.


pwn

His pwn was awesome.


despondency

Dérivé de despondent, avec le suffixe -cy.

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

We knew she was really better, and, therefore, decided that long confinement to a single place produced much of this despondency,

Nous savions qu’elle était réellement mieux ; en conséquence nous jugeâmes que son abattement était dû en grande partie à sa longue réclusion dans un même endroit


camphor

De l’ancien français camphore issu du latin camphora.

Camphor can be produced from alpha-pinene, which is abundant in the oils of coniferous trees and can be distilled from turpentine produced as a side product of chemical pulping.


conspecific

“Ravens… take into account the visual access of others, even when they cannot see a conspecific,” the study states.

« Les corbeaux… prennent en compte l’accès visuel des autres, même quand ils ne peuvent pas voir un congénère », déclare l’étude.

« Ravens capable of imagining being spied on – study », RT News, 2 février 2016, mis à jour le 3 février 2016


inverecund

more inverecund (comparative)
most inverecund (superlative)

Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.

if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs ….


by the by

\ˈbaɪ ðə ˈbaɪ\

The old Inspector — who, by the by, I regret to say, was overthrown and killed by a horse, some time ago; […]

Le vieil inspecteur — qui, à propos, ai-je le regret de dire, fut renversé et tué par un cheval, il y a quelque temps ; […]


universally

\ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəlɪ\

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

C’est une vérité universellement admise, qu’un célibataire en possession d’une fortune solide doit avoir besoin d’une femme.


coffle

De l’arabe قافلة, qāfila (« caravane »).

The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter.

Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1816

Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer’s lash.

George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 323, 2000

It dominated late-night dinner conversation; it traveled along with marching columns of chained slaves, the infamous coffle lines that remain the iconic face of the domestic slave trade.

Susan Eva O’Donovan, The New York Times, 18 février 2011


churchwarden

Marguillier (dans la Communion anglicane)

If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. (Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens)

S’il eût pu savoir qu’il était orphelin, abandonné à la tendre compassion des marguilliers et des inspecteurs, peut-être eût-il crié encore plus fort.

Each church usually has two churchwardens.

Chaque église en général a deux marguilliers.


peely-wally

more peely-wally (comparative)
most peely-wally (superlative)
peelie wallie

‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they’re all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’

But I felt that Tommy’s championing of the lit de soleil, as it’s known in Maryhill, was courageous and condign. It allowed otherwise peely wally Glaswegians to hold their tanned faces aloft in polite company and let their neighbours think they’d been to Santa Ponsa or Majorca.

Kevin McKenna, The Guardian, 3 juillet 2011


obesogenic

(XXᵉ siècle) Composé de obese et de -genic.

more obesogenic (comparative)
most obesogenic (superlative)

\əʊbiːsəˈdʒɛnɪk\

Some authors have characterized the so-called obesogenic family and have observed the similarity between this kind of family constellation and that of the schizophrenic patient

Jimmie Holland, Joseph Masling, Donald Copley, “Mental Illness in Lower Class Normal, Obese and Hyperobese Women”, Psychosomatic Medicine, volume 32, page 351-357,1ᵉʳ juillet 1970

Thus the changes of lifestyle, concerning diet and physical activity, ie obesogenic environment, was assumed responsible. In addition, the effect of thrifty genotype has been also considered - especially in the countries where obesity […]

Abstracts in anthropology, volume 4, 1973

Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.


choleric

more choleric (comparative)
most choleric (superlative)

Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; […]

Cela étant, M. Bumble était un homme gras, et un colérique ; […]


orthodoxly

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Composé de orthodox et du suffixe -ly.

if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.

Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, III.12, 1778

Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.

Scudder Klyce, Sins of Science, XXV.1, 1925

So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.

"Don Juan", Time (magazine), 31 mars 1930

He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.

Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe, 1980

The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.

LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 à 1500, p. 91, 1990


rebelliously

Par révolte, en révolte, avec rébellion, en rebelle.

...the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.


exploitationer

Dérivé de exploitation (« [film d’]exploitation »), avec le suffixe -er.

ekˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃənə

ekˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃənɚ

Somewhat crude occult exploitationer about a little girl who is possessed by a devil.

Un obscur film d’exploitation un peu cru à propos d’une une petite fille qui est possédé par un diable.

Dwight Garner, « Inside the List », dans le New York Times, 12 août 2007


zippo

“The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates […] .

G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, New York Times, 14 janvier 2007


batrachian

Du grec ancien βάτραχος, bátrakhos (« grenouille ») avec le suffixe -ian.

"Isinana" is a batrachian, nearly globular, with very short legs, and exuding a milky fluid when touched.


overrule

to overrule (infinitive)
overrules (present third-person singular)
overruled (preterite)
overruled (participle past)
overruling (participle present)

The line judge signalled the ball was in, but this was overruled by the umpire.

Le juge de ligne a signalé que la balle était dedans, mais cela a été annulé par l’arbitre.


hebdomadal

more hebdomadal (comparative)
most hebdomadal (superlative)

The wits and humorists, the distinguished worthies of the town or village, the apothecary, the attorney, even the curate himself, did not disdain to partake of this hebdomadal festivity.


show up

to show up (infinitive)
shows up (present third-person singular)
showed up (preterite)
showed up (participle past)
showing up (participle present)

Please come on time; don’t just show up whenever you feel like it.

Veuillez venir à l’heure ; ne vous contentez pas de vous montrer juste quand vous en avez envie.

No matter how many I throw away, more copies always show up.

Quel que soit le nombre que j’en jette, toujours plus de copies apparaissent.


doldrums

Ever since I lost my position, I've been in the doldrums.


cog

[…] I'll say that growing up as a contributing cog in the clockwork of St. Mary's had many excellent benefits for me.

Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, 2013, page 19[…] je dois dire que le fait de grandir en tant que rouage dans l'horloge de Sainte-Marie a eu de nombreux avantages pour moi.


impetrate

to impetrate (infinitive)
impetrates (present third-person singular)
impetrated (preterite)
impetrated (participle past)
impetrating (participle present)

Obtenir (quelque chose) en le demandant, se procurer sur requête.

But he that would illustrate this, should distinguish between this salvation, already impetrated or obtained, and salvation about to be impetrated; or between salvation, and the promise of salvation ….

Herman Witsius, The Oeconomy of the Covenants, vol. III, 1798

‘A slight testimonial, sir, which I thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman’ (here he raised his hand to his head, as if to touch his hat), ‘MacCallum More.’

On the cross He redeemed us with His Blood; on the altar He intercedes or impetrates that we may individually have part in that redemption.

Andrew Kim, The Catholic Missionary, vol. III, 1853

It is striking that the majority of these documents were issued when Dominic was present in the curia, and it is reasonable to suppose that he took a personal interest in impetrating them.

Patrick Zutshi, ‘Letters of Pope Honorius III’, dans Pope, Church and City, 2004


pug

(XVIᵉ siècle) Probable variante de puck (« petit démon »). Le sens de « petit chien » date des années 1750.

A pug is a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.

“I hope she will not tease my poor pug,” said Lady Bertram; “I have but just got Julia to leave it alone.”

« J’espère, dit lady Bertram, qu’elle ne tracassera pas mon pauvre petit carlin. Il n’y a que peu de temps que j’ai obtenu de Julie qu’elle le laissât tranquille. »


you pays your money and you takes your choice

Composé de you, pays (« payer », avec une faute de conjugaison), your, money (« argent »), and, you, takes (« prendre », avec la même faute de conjugaison), your et choice (« choix »), littéralement : « tu payes avec ton argent, tu décides ».

You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Tu peux y aller en bus en train ou en taxi. C’est toi qui vois.


foremost

[…] and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness.

[…] madame Norris alla au-devant d’elle à Northampton, pour avoir l’agrément de la présenter aux autres et de la recommander à leur bonté.


apposite

Du latin appositus, participe passé de adponere, composé de ad- et de ponere (« mettre, placer »).

more apposite (comparative)
most apposite (superlative)

Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; […] .

Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, dans Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3, c.1833-1856

Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, livre 1, chapitre 23 : Machinery in Motion, 1857

Rough-neck is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English navvy, and it is over-whelmingly more American.

H. L. Mencken, The American Language: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States, chapitre 15 : The Expanding Vocabulary, 1919

In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.

University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 34,page 262, 1971

If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles, in Pericles: Critical Essays, 2000


apposite

Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites […] , but the child was too interested in the bishop to notice the gifts.

Charles L. Marson, Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1901


eurobond

“It has become a battle of words,” said Carlo Cottarelli, director of the Observatory on the Italian Public Accounts at the Catholic University of Milan, noting that securities issued by the ESM are in effect a sort of eurobond.

Jacopo Barigazzi, «Conte’s gamble », Politico.eu, 23 avril 2020


take for granted

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de take (« prendre »), for (« pour ») et granted (« acquis »), littéralement « prendre pour acquis ».

\teɪk fɔːɹ ˈɡɹɑːn.tɪd\

teɪk fɔː ɡɹɑːntɪd

teɪk fɔɹ ɡɹæntəd

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de take

Prendre pour acquis, prendre comme allant de soi.

Let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey.

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

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 17, 1839

He had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms.

Il avait farouchement défendu ces femmes privées d'amour qui abordent l'âge mûr, cette femme mariée que son mari sous-estime et enlace rarement.

« Posthumous Portrait », Time, 25 novembre 1946


feme covert

De l'anglo-normand feme (« femme ») et covert (« protégé »).

femes covert (plural)
femes coverts (plural)

‘you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme couverte, and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king ….’

A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also.

Thomas W Waterman, American Chancery Digest, vol. II, 1851

Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing.

Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America, 1986


Dyfed

The Kingdom of Dyfed.


you pays your money and you takes your chances

Composé de you, pays (« payer », avec une faute de conjugaison), your, money (« argent »), and, you et takes your chances (« prendre ses risques », avec la même faute de conjugaison), littéralement : « tu payes avec ton argent, tu prends tes risques ».

You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Tu peux y aller en bus, en train ou en taxi. C’est toi qui vois.


fatiloquent

Du latin fatiloquus, dérivé de fatum (« destin ») et ultimement de loqui (« parler ») (fabriqué sur le modèle de eloquent, etc).

He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.


bushy

bushier (comparative)
bushiest (superlative)

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He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined:

Et il allait s’élancer vers le fond de la vallée, quand une petite ombre à queue touffue barra l’ouverture et jappa :


and all

(Date à préciser)Composé de and (« et ») et de all (« tout »), littéralement « et tout ».

Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.

La tradition française veut que pour manger un ortolan on se mette la tête sous une serviette et qu’on avale l’oiseau en une bouchée avec le bec, les os, etc.

Tout ça. Utilisé pour rappeler ce qui a déjà été dit.

What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.

Comme tu m’avais dit qu’il était malade, tout ça, j’ai pensé que vous ne viendriez pas.


wall-to-wall

Composé de wall (« mur »), to (« à ») et wall, littéralement « mur à mur ».

more wall-to-wall (comparative)
most wall-to-wall (superlative)

The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.

La télévision a diffusé une couverture extensive de l’attentat.


LJBF

Sigle de let’s just be friends (« soyons simplement des amis »), phrase typique dite par une femme à un homme pour éviter une relation romantique ou sexuelle.

to LJBF (infinitive)
LJBFs (present third-person singular)
LJBFed (preterite)
LJBFed (participle past)
LJBFing (participle present)

Demander à rester des amis et suggérer de ne pas avoir de relation romantique ou sexuelle.

I just got LJBFed.

Elle/Il vient de me dire qu’elle/il « préfère qu’on reste amis ».


kibitz

Du yiddish, issu de l’hébreu קבץ, influencé par l’allemand kiebitzen.

to kibitz (infinitive)
kibitzes (present third-person singular)
kibitzed (preterite)
kibitzed (participle past)
kibitzing (participle present)
kibbitz

Louise and I used to head down to the coffee shop and just sit for hours and kibitz.

Louise et moi avions l’habitude de nous rendre au café et juste rester assis pendant des heures pour bavarder.

Donner des conseils non sollicités ou faire des commentaires inutiles, en particulier à quelqu’un jouant à un jeu ; faire la mouche du coche.

Quit kibitzing! You’re giving away my hand!

Arrête de faire la mouche du coche ! Tu dévoiles ma main !


ditty

The Acme mattress ditty has been stuck in my head all day.

La chansonnette du matelas Acme m’a trotté dans la tête toute la journée.


snowflake

Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.


scuttle

A scuttle is a small hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for ventilation.


scuttle

to scuttle (infinitive)
scuttles (present third-person singular)
scuttled (preterite)
scuttled (participle past)
scuttling (participle present)

“Well, we can stash the boat …but probably smarter to scuttle. Yeah, that’s what we’ll do.”

He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.

Il se précipita vers le fond de la caverne, y trouva un os de chevreuil où restait quelque viande, s’assit et en fit craquer le bout avec délices.


Javascript

[Regular expressions] can be found in the newest offimatic suite or Javascript framework to those UNIX tools dating back to the 70s.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, page 6


sedecuple

Première attestation en 1744-1749 ; du latin sēdecuplus (« par un facteur 16 »). À comparer à decuple.

Par un facteur seize.
Seize fois plus grand, plus nombreux.

If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, ſedecuple, 25ple.

1=Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] et James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of the Royal Society X (1756), page 184, 1744-49

As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio.

1=Edward Grant [tr.], “Part I of Nicole Oresme’s Algorismus proportionum” in Isis LVI, page 333, 1965

Par un facteur seize.
Composé de seize éléments séparés.

Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth from an opulent American laboratory.

1=Charles P. Poole, Electron Spin Resonance,page 544, 1967


jive

L’argot est attesté dans la culture américaine rurale et africano-américaine. Fréquemment utilisé pour déduire le mensonge ou la tromperie.

Un antécédent historique possible serait « gyve ».

Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.

Ne me dis pas d’âneries. Je sais où tu étais la nuit dernière.


jive

to jive (infinitive)
jives (present third-person singular)
jived (preterite)
jived (participle past)
jiving (participle present)

Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!

N’essaie pas de me tromper ! Je sais où tu étais la nuit dernière !

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life; ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen!


septimation

Du latin septimus (« septième ») avec le suffixe -ation, sur le modèle de decimation ; comparer à septimate.

Perte, saisie, destruction, meurtre d’un septième (de quelque chose ou d’un groupe).

To Wilberforce ‘the Sabbath was a delight’ […] O how often, even among those who most punctiliously observe it, does it seem […] an unwelcome exaction, a sort of septimation of time, as grievous as church decimations of property.

J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce” dansin The Oberlin Evangelist VI, № 5,page 40, 1844

We had gone into the enemy’s ground with seven hundred warriors — a little over one hundred of whom were missing when we left it — as, at that time, we could hardly muster six hundred. This septimation of our men was accompanied by a proportionate riddance of such encumbrances of the expedition as wore the shape of women and little ones.

William Jackman [aut.] et I. Chamberlayne [ed.], The Australian Captive, chapitre XVII,page 206, 1853


on the double

Could you do this for me on the double?

Pourriez-vous faire ceci pour moi rapidement ?


cohort

Du latin cohors, peut-être via l’ancien français cohorte.

Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.

George John Romanes, Mental Differences of Men and Women, dans Popular Science Monthly, Volume 31, juillet 1887

A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, chapitre III, 1916

A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.

Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog, chapitre VI: Lost!, 1919

The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.

Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.


caliginous

Du moyen français caligineux, issu du latin cālīginōsus.

more caliginous (comparative)
most caliginous (superlative)

The caliginous waters appeared menacing.

Les eaux caligineuses apparaissent menaçantes.


firkin

Du moyen néerlandais vierdekijn, « un quart ».

Frequin, baril servant au transport des marchandises, comme le beurre ou les harengs.

I boxchefnuts, 1 box of almonds, 12 firkins of red herrings, 12 jars of raifins, 1 box plumbs, 1 parcel 3 dozen of falmon, 1 calk of pine-apple cheefe, 12 barrels of apples, 1 barrel of hams and tongues, 3 pans of beef, 1 pan of butter …

JohnStockdale, The parliamentary register, 1802


re-fit

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

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


lightfast

more lightfast (comparative)
most lightfast (superlative)

Verdigris is lightfast in oil paint, as numerous examples of 15th century paintings show.

Some ink-and-paper combinations are more lightfast than others, and the resulting prints are more fade-resistant.

Peter K. Burian, Masteringdigital Photography and Imaging,page 75, 2004

Tara, a gallotannin, is often quoted as being the most lightfast vegetable tannin and makes very pale coloured leather.

Anthony Covington, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather,page 286, 2009

The blue, or cyan, is the most lightfast ink used in the printing process, so it lasts the longest. That blue, incidentally, is the phthalocyanine blue pigment.
You can easily test to determine whether any material is lightfast.

Sherry Stone Clifton, Anita Marie Giddings, Pastels For Dummies,page non numérotée, 2010


yore

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Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, / Yet I to them for iudgement iust do fly

“Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene.Edmund Spenser, 1590

Actuellement utilisé uniquement dans la locution figée days of yore


yore

In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London—measuring from the Standard in Cornhill; or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore — a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; […]

Il y avait en 1775, sur la lisière de la forêt d’Epping, à une distance d’environ douze milles de Londres (en mesurant du Standard dans Cornhill, ou plutôt de l’endroit sur lequel ou près duquel le Standard avait accoutumé d’être aux temps jadis), un établissement public appelé le Maypole […]


unstinted

more unstinted (comparative)
most unstinted (superlative)

Non contraint, non confiné, non restreint.

Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.

Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33, 1874

Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.

Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, ch. 1, 1892

You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.

H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 31, 1900

The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.

P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 24, 1921

Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

Robert Hughes, "Art: American Renaissance Man" Time, 21 juin 2005


Simon says

L’emploi du prénom « Simon » provient d’une allusion à Simon V de Montfort, l’un des grands barons anglais qui s’opposèrent à Henri III d’Angleterre. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

Simon says: touch your shoulders.


pull strings

Let me see if I can pull some strings to get it for you.

Laisse-moi voir si je peux te pistonner un peu pour que tu l’aies.

It’s all about pulling strings.


collarbone

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In spite of a broken collarbone, he has been cheerful all day long.

Malgré sa fracture de la clavicule, il a été d’humeur joyeuse toute la journée.


lossless

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

more lossless (comparative)
most lossless (superlative)

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

Hashcodings are not lossless.

Les hashcodes ne sont pas sans perte de données.


on the cards

(Date à préciser) → voir on, the et card

\ˈɒn ðə ˈkɑːdz\

\ˈɒn ðə ˈkɑɹdz\

Another election may be on the cards if a stable government can’t be formed

Une autre élection serait probable si un gouvernement stable ne peut être formé.


in the cards

(Date à préciser) → voir in, the et card

\ˈɪn ðə ˈkɑːdz\

\ˈɪn ðə ˈkɑɹdz\

Do you know what is in the cards for next week ?

Savez-vous ce que réserve la semaine prochaine ?

Les 500 expressions types de la langue anglaise, Axel Delmotte, 2004


anthelmintic

Composé du préfixe ant-, de helminth et du suffixe -ic.

more anthelmintic (comparative)
most anthelmintic (superlative)
antihelminthic

Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.


ligniculture

(XXᵉ siècle) Du latin lignum (« bois ») et culture.

Ligniculture is closer to agriculture and very far from silviculture for natural forests.

Run-Peng Wei, Daping Xu, Eucalyptus plantations: research, management and development, 2003


shitstorm

Composé de shit (« merde ») et de storm (« tempête »), littéralement « tempête de merde ».

Merdier ; situation chaotique et déplaisante.

In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like a shitstorm, smells like a shitstorm and tastes like a shitstorm, it goes to homicide.

David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, 2006


when life gives you lemons, make lemonade

(Date à préciser) Antanagoge.Composé de when, life (« vie »), gives, you, lemons (« citrons »), make et lemonade (« citronnade »), littéralement « quand la vie vous donne des citrons, faites de la citronnade ».

\wɛn laɪf ɡɪvz‿juː ˈlɛmənz meɪk ˌlɛmənˈeɪd\

Il faut faire ce qu’on peut avec ce qu’on a ; faute de grives on mange des merles.

The old saying goes when life gives you lemons – make lemonade. But for two Cincinnati families, the saying is more along the lines of when life gives you lemons – make lemonade, put your lemonade stand on Instagram and end up raising over $125,000 for a children’s hospital.

Le vieux dicton dit que « lorsque la vie vous donne des citrons, il faut faire de la limonade ». Mais pour deux familles de Cincinnati, le dicton est plus proche de « quand la vie vous donne des citrons, faites de la limonade, mettez une photo de votre stand de limonade sur Instagram et finissez par récolter plus de 125 000 dollars pour un hôpital pour enfants ».

ShannonMcLellan, Kids' lemonade stand raises more than $125,000 for Cincinnati children's hospital after picture goes viral, Good Morning America, 01/10/2019


give or take

Composé de give (« donner »), or (« ou ») et take (« prendre »), littéralement « donne ou prends ».

\ˌɡɪv ɔɹ ˈteɪk\

\ˌɡɪv ɔː ˈteɪk\

He was six feet tall, give or take.

Six months, give or take a few days.


heartache

Du moyen anglais hertache, du vieil anglais heortæċe, heortece.

Composé de heart (« cœur ») et de ache (« peine, douleur »), littéralement « peine de cœur ».

It’s a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it’s too late
Hits you when you’re down.


tosh

D’origine inconnu. Possiblement dérivé de tosheroon (« 5 couronnes »), donc quelque chose de valeur minime.

Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.

H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, chapitre 5, 1911


Sabrina

Voyez le latin Sabrina, dans la mythologie anglaise (XIIᵉ siècle), nom d’une princesse celte, fille de Locrinus et petite-fille de Brutus, le fondateur légendaire du peuple breton, elle fut jetée dans la Severn et donna son nom à la rivière.

Sabrina Le Beauf is an American actress.

Sabrina Le Beauf est une actrice américaine.


bristle

Anything that has the property of being a broom must have parts—namely, a handle and a brush—and those parts must be arranged in a certain way—namely, with the brush at the end of the handle, bristles pointed away from it.

Toute chose qui a la propriété d’être un balai doit avoir des parties — nommément, un manche et une brosse — et ces parties doivent être arrangées d’une certaine manière — nommément, avec la brosse au bout du manche, les poils dans le sens opposé au manche.

Jason Bowers, « Neither Mereology nor Magic, but Teleology: Neither Mereology nor Magic, but Teleology », dans The Southern Journal of Philosophy, juin 2017, page 177–195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12219 texte intégral


blowtorch

\ˈbləʊ.ˌtɔːtʃ\

I found a blowtorch in the station. Should make quick work of the coupling up there.

J’ai trouvé un chalumeau dans la station. Ça devrait ne faire qu’une bouchée du couplage là-haut.

The Walking Dead (jeu vidéo), saison 1 épisode 3 (Une longue route à venir / Long Road Ahead), dit par Lee Everett


undulation

Dérivé de undulate, avec le suffixe -tion.

the undulation of the waves on the sea


ruthful

Du moyen anglais reuthful, reowthful, équivalent à ruth et -ful.

more ruthful (comparative)
most ruthful (superlative)

Contrairement aux autres sens, qui décrivent l’état d’une personne ou la motivation derrière un acte, ce sens est utilisé pour décrire l’effet d’une action ou d’une circonstance. Ainsi, il est facilement confondu avec le terme complémentaire « ruthless » : « a ruthless person » (quelqu’un manquant de pitié) peut réaliser un acte ou provoquer des circonstances qui sont « ruthful » (causer ou provoquer des sentiments de pitié).

An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius, / 'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak; / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres, / Acts of black night, abominable deeds, / Complots of mischief, treason, villainies, / Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:

William Shakespeare, The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, acte 5, scène 1, c.1588-1593

‘When last this ruthful month was come, / And in Linlithgow’s holy dome / The King, as wont, was praying;

Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto Fourth, 1808

Plein de compassion ou de pitié, miséricordieux.

Then he bestowed robes of honour on the nurses wet and dry and said to them, "Be ye ruthful over them and rear them after the goodliest fashion."

Richard Francis Burton (traducteur), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 7, 1898


dimly

Dérivé de dim (« [lumière] tamisée, faible »), avec le suffixe -ly.

more dimly (comparative)
most dimly (superlative)

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Faiblement, obscurément, vaguement, confusément.

He was dimly aware that one man was fighting three or four others

Robert E. Howard, The Treasure of Tartary

I remember when I found it—in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily river where the mists always swirl.


writedown

A more realistic measure of capital strength – tangible equity – stands at an estimated €7bn before writedowns on Greek and Italian sovereign debt, or as little as €5bn after.

Une mesure plus réaliste de la force du capital — les titres tangibles — s’élève à ce que l’on estime être 7 milliards € avant dévalorisation des dettes souveraines grecque et italienne, ou seulement 5 milliards € après. (« force du capital » à préciser ou à vérifier)

S. Pignal, P. Jenkins, Dexia poses setback for EBA stress tests, Financial Times, octobre 2011


kick-off

The atmosphere at Upton Park before kick-off reflected the palpable tension surrounding the club right now

Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, BBC, 11 janvier 2011


avicide

He spread avicide in his field to try to kill some of the rooks.

Il épandît de l’avicide dans son champ pour tenter de tuer quelques corbeaux freux.


microdegree Celsius

Dérivé de degree Celsius, avec le préfixe micro-.

It is capable of maintaining water bath temperatures constant to within ±25 microdegrees Celsius for 24 hours in an environment varying as much as ±1.5 °C at any temperature from 18 °C to 28 °C.

Betty L.Burris et Rebecca J. Morehouse (éd.), Catalog of National Bureau of Standards Publications, 1966-1976, 1978, p. 945


walled city

Quebec City is the only walled city in North America.


humanely

Humainement (avec humanité ; avec bonté).

I promise that we'll treat the animals very humanely.


humanly

De human, avec le suffixe -ly des adverbes.

She did all that was humanly possible.


snowshoer

Where downhill skiers have slopes illuminated by flood lamps to boost their vertical mileage, snowshoers and cross-country skiers rely on moonshine.

Elaine Glusac, “It’s Night. Shall We Snorkel, Cycle or Hike?”, New York Times, 28 janvier 2007


greatcoat

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“London at last!” cried Nicholas, throwing back his greatcoat and rousing Smike from a long nap.

Enfin nous sommes à Londres, cria Nicolas mettant bas son paletot et réveillant Smike, qui venait de faire un bon somme,

Charles Dickens, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby


fraught

more fraught (comparative)
most fraught (superlative)

He was fraught with uncertainty.


yobibyte

Yobioctet, unité de mesure de quantité d’information numérique, valant 2⁸⁰ octets, et dont le symbole est YiB.

The yobibyte is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix yobi, symbol Yi) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage.


immure

to immure (infinitive)
immures (present third-person singular)
immured (preterite)
immured (participle past)
immuring (participle present)

sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia, and the being immured within the walls of a harem

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 97, édition de 1869

I expressed my opinion that this was going in the right direction. "It may be a sacrifice," said Mrs. Micawber, "to immure one’s-self in a Cathedral town;

J’exprimai l’opinion que c’était là ce qui s’appelait marcher dans le droit chemin. « On me dira que c’est s’immoler, dit mistress Micawber, que d’aller m’enfermer dans une ville presque ecclésiastique.


mellow

Moelleux (qui n’a rien d’aigre ni de dur).

a mellow flavor

a mellow mood

a mellow tune


cheep

Piaulement (faible cri d’un jeune petit oiseau ou autre animal utilisant une seule note).

A small bird’s cheep.


blower

Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!


chauvinist

I may be a chauvinist pig but I'm no rapist.

Propos prêté àJulian Assange par le quotidien australien Sun Herald du dimanche 16 Octobre 2011


Euler

William Daum Euler.


ne’er-do-well

Probable contraction de never (« jamais ») do (« faire ») well (« bien »)

Arthur English was famous for his portrayal of his low-life ne’er-do-well; his spiv had a cockney accent and was always outrageously dressed, normally with a huge kipper tie.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 203


battlecruiser

A battlecruiser was a type of warship equal in size or larger than a battleship, and of greater speed, but with less armour and fewer guns.


proppant

The use of resin coated proppants is an area that should increase the chance of success of fracturing for sand control by eliminating the chance for proppant to flow out of the fracture.

P. A. Fletcher, C. T. Montgomery, G. G. Ramos, R. J. Guillory, M. J. Francis, Optimizing hydraulic fracture length to prevent formation failure in oil and gas reservoirs, Jaak J. K. Daemen, Richard A. Schultz (editors), Rock Mechanics: Proceedings of the 35th U.S. Symposium,page 296, 1995


populist

Populist parties, again using the definition proposed by Mudde, are defined as those that “endorse the ideas that society is ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, a ‘pure people’ v a ‘corrupt elite’”. Populist parties also argue that politics should be “an expression of the will of the people”. Things that stands between “the will of the people” and policymaking they dislike and, in power, may try to weaken: a free press, an independent judiciary.

Jon Henley, Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far right, The Guardian, 18 juin 2024


ingratiate

Se faire bien voir (de quelqu'un, par quelqu'un).

He made a great effort to ingratiate himself with the hostess.


cittosis

Du grec ancien κίττα, kítta (« pie ») et -osis ; voir pica pour le sens.

Pica, trouble de l’appétit consistant à manger des substances non comestibles.

An unnatural desire for foods; alternative terms are cittosis, allotriophagy, and pica.


malacia

The least abnormal condition appears to be the malacia, or desire for highly spiced or acid foods that are sometimes seen in chlorotic girls and in pregnant women.


“[…] Once again best 73, 88. So long, Mary.”

1=Hal Travers,Voyage Sixty-nine, 1967, page 97


vacate

Du latin vacātus, forme de vacō (« être vide »).

The judge has ordered the tenant to vacate the apartment for non-payment of rent.

If an elderly person wishes to sit down, please vacate this seat.


turn one’s back on

She turned her back on her long-time friend.

She turned her back on her obligations.

I am turning my back on the EU, he said.


etiolate

Du français étioler, issu du normand médiéval étioler, ultimement de l’ancien français estuble (« éteule »), issu du latin stupla, issu de stipula (« paille, chaume »).

to etiolate (infinitive)
etiolates (present third-person singular)
etiolated (preterite)
etiolated (participle past)
etiolating (participle present)

She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.

Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.


caribouskin

The seams, at the shoulders and elsewhere, are ornamented with a 3 inch fringe of caribouskin.

Frank Russell, Explorations in the Far North, 1898, p.188

These lodge poles were steadied by being lashed to a couple of cross poles whose arch conformed to the inner curve of the lodge. The covering was preferably made of mooseskins sewn together although caribouskins were used if the former were not available. Sometimes the upper part of the cover was of mooseskins while caribouskins were used for the sides.

Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1959, 55, p.71


batskin

She said presently, in a normal tone, "You never saw such a nasty mess of roots and chicken eyes and dried blood and batskins and skulls of toads as Muh kept."

Belinda Hurmence, A Girl Called Boy, 1990, page 137

A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses.

Manuclo's baby was said to have smiled his first undoubted smile at her; Manuelo's mother-in- law gave her a charm against rheumatism: a pleasing confection of batskins, jaguar claws and human teeth.

Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans, 2007, page 318


elkskin

Two elkskins, sinew-sewn, form front and back of dress; separately added cape with elkskin tail on front and back;...

Vestiges of a Proud Nation: the Ogden B. Read Northern Plains Indian collection, 1986, p.105


horseskin

The dried horseskin was made of brown Canton flannel and was held in place by being thrown over a horizontal stick.

John Merrill, Martha Fleming, Play-making and plays: the dramatic impulse and its educative use in the elementary and secondary school, 1930, p.98

But we cannot wear these horseskin boots in the rain and snow. We need regular leather top-boots. Moreover, our clothing is very much the worse for wear. We must provide ourselves with new outfits.

Petr K. Ignatov, Partisans of the Kuban, 1945, p.148

They made these fancy coverings from buckskins, horseskins, and cornhusks.

Allison Lassieur, The Nez Perce Tribe, 2000, p.13


copyfraud

→ voir copy et fraud (fraude sur la copie), sur le modèle de copyright.

Revendication de copyright frauduleuse, comme par exemple prétendre avoir des droits sur des œuvres du domaine public.

Copyfraud first came to my attention nearly two years ago in my scholarly research.

Charles Eicher, Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain, 2009


send-up

The clever send-up of the horror genre shows a profound understanding of the traditional Hollywood machinations.

Wing Chun, "The Reluctant Hero", televisionwithoutpity.com, 24 novembre 1998


medium dead

Composé de medium et de dead par analogie avec medium rare, medium dry, …

Inconscient et proche de la mort, demi-mort.

She paused for a much-needed breath, and the man said, grittily, “Except that I think I’ll choke you just about medium dead and get out of here, with the briefcase.”

Isaac Asimov, Seconde Fondation (1971 Panther Books Ltd publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapitre 7: ‘Arcadia’, page 79, ¶ 5, 1953


galore

Du gaélique irlandais go leor et du gaélique écossais gu leòr, du vieil irlandais roar (« suffisamment »), du proto-celtique *ro-wero-.

After the shipwreck there was whisky galore to be had for the taking.

— My name is Pussy Galore.
— I must be dreaming.


there be

Utilisation de l’explétif there issu du vieil anglais þær dans l’ordre V2 pour placer une nouvelle information après le verbe.

Ce verbe se conjugue selon le temps et selon le nombre du premier syntagme nominal introduit.
:* There are kids.
:* There is a swing and a seesaw.

La forme non conjuguée est rare.
:* Russell, in his theory of so-called singular descriptions, showed clearly how we might meaningfully use seeming names without supposing that there be the entities allegedly named. — (Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is, 1948)

There can be only one.


knowledge management

Every business, organization, and institution needs a knowledge management toolkit that can help with the delivery of good management ideas and tactics.


idea management

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


bitwise

(Date à préciser) Concaténation des mots bit et -wise, utilisé dans le sens de « à la façon de ».

Bit à bit, bit par bit. Qualifie une opération qui traite une valeur comme un tableau de bits plutôt que comme une quantité numérique.

Bitwise operators perform Boolean algebra on the corresponding bits in the two arguments to produce the result.

Les opérateurs bit à bit obtiennent leur résultat en appliquant l’opérateur booléen aux paires de bits correspondants des deux arguments.


alist

Contraction de association list utilisée dans LISP.

We use alists extensively in this work. A directed graph is an alist associating vertices with edge lists.

J. S. Moore et Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2, dans Joe Hurd et Tom F. Melham (éds), Theorem proving in higher order logics: 18th international conference, 2005, p. 375


swathe

Large swathes will be affected by the tax increase.

De nombreuses personnes seront touchées par la hausse des impôts.

United’s stature is such that one result must not bring the immediate announcement of a shift in the balance of power in Manchester - but the swathes of empty seats around Old Trafford and the wave of attacks pouring towards David de Gea’s goal in the second half emphasised that City quite simply have greater firepower and talent in their squad at present.

Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, BBC Sport, 23 octobre 2011


swathe

to swathe (infinitive)
swathes (present third-person singular)
swathed (preterite)
swathed (participle past)
swathing (participle present)

The head was swathed in linen bands that had been white, but were now stained and discoloured with damp, but of this I shall not speak more, and beneath the chin-cloth the beard had once escaped.

J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, chapitre 4, 1898


surprize

we surpriz’d the two Men before they were aware

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 314. 1719.


so much for

L'expression anglaise so much for est un idiotisme, c'est-à-dire une construction grammaticale propre à la langue anglaise, composé de so, much et for.

\ˈsəʊ mʌtʃ fɔː\

Indication signalant qu’on a fini de parler d’un sujet. Elle se traduira par assez parlé de

Well, so much for the producers. But what of the consumers?

Assez parlé des fournisseurs. Qu’en est-il des clients ?

Indication que ce qui suit n’a pas réussi, n’a pas été utile ou s’est terminé de façon décevante.

He has spent 19 million pounds, lost three cup finals and been relegated. So much for money.

Il a dépensé 19 million de livres, perdu trois finales, et été relégué. Tant pis pour l’argent.

He told me how his parents divorced, then said, So much for the storybook romance.

Il me raconta comment ses parents divorcèrent, puis il dit « Finie l’idylle de conte de fées ».

A bird hit my windshield, and I thought, so much for that bird.

Un oiseau percuta mon pare-brise, et je me dis : « c’en est fini pour cet oiseau ».

Well, I guess it’ll never work. So much for that idea.

Eh bien, je pense que ça ne marchera jamais. Tant pis pour cette idée. / Après tant d'efforts pour cette idée.


if that

Ellipse de if it is that much (« si c’est tant que ça »).

Ou même moins. Au maximum. Note d’usage : Placé après un nombre.

My car is so old that, if I were to sell it, I would get a hundred pounds, if that.


scrappy

scrappier (comparative)
scrappiest (superlative)

He's a scrappy dog and will charge at you if you taunt him.


midwinter

Winter! mid-winter! with its storms and dark clouds, leafless trees and songless mornings: Winter, mid-winter ! with its beautiful snowy mantle, its happy gatherings round hearth and home — its many remembrances and associations. Morning, noon, or night, still winter can furnish forth its beauties.

The Christian teacher and chronicle of beneficence,volume 4

The last residents of Independence billed their midwinter evacuation to nearby Aspen as a ski club race with an entry fee of one ham sandwich?

Les derniers habitants d’Independence surnommèrent leur évacuation en plein hiver vers Aspen, « la course à ski avec un sandwich au jambon comme frais d’entrée ».


eclaircissement

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Du français éclaircissement.

Éclaircissement, explication d’une chose obscure, mal connue.

But either her courage failed, or some other sentiment impeded her seeking an éclaircissement.


airscrew

variable pitch airscrew


inquiline

The other study […] involved the larvae of the caterpillar Maculinea rebeli, an inquiline of Myrmica schenki.

Gary J. Blomquist & Ralph W. Howard, "Pheromone biosynthesis in social insects" in Gary J. Blomquist, Richard G. Vogt (eds.) Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, page 331, 2003

Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species.

Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, 2003

A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.

P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th ed., page 332, 2010


-gon

(Date à préciser) Du grec ancien γωνία, gônia (« angle, coin »).

A pentagon.

A 17-gon.

Qualifie un polygone qui possède un certain nombre d’angles, indiqué par la racine ou par le numéral assez grand


buster

Initialement une variante dialectale de burster ; influencé plus tard par la constructiondérivé de bust, avec le suffixe -er.

L'utilisation du terme dans une expression combinée est apparue au début du XXᵉ siècle mais s'est surtout développée au cours de trois périodes : dans les années 1930s avec le succès du feuilleton radiophonique Gang Busters ; dans les années 1940 où il est trpris dans l'argot militaire ; et dans les années 1980 avec le succès du film Ghostbusters (SOS Fantômes).

(principalement dans la construction buster of…) Casseur, destructeur, exploseur de… dans le sens personne qui casse, détruit, explose un type d'objet donné.

Ghost buster


whatsoever

ˌwɒt.səʊˈɛ.və

Le mot est parfois divisé par tmèse : « What things soever ye desire. » (Mark xi. 24)

“In whatsoever shape he lurk”.

“Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do”.


Wanda

Wanda Coleman.


Belvedere

Earl of Belvedere.


Belvedere

Belvedere is a town in south east London, within the London Borough of Bexley.


Reading

La ville se prononce comme s'il s'appelle redding, et pas comme le me reading.

Ville et autorité unitaire d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Berkshire.

In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant in London. Parliament generally rushed off to Reading whenever there was a plague on at Westminster; and, in 1625, the Law followed suit, and all the courts were held at Reading. It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.

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


Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505.


ogle

Du moyen néerlandais oeghelen, du moyen bas allemand ogelen.

to ogle (infinitive)
ogles (present third-person singular)
ogled (preterite)
ogled (participle past)
ogling (participle present)

Reluquer, examiner quelqu’un, reluquer, mater, surtout pour des raisons de désir sexuel ou de curiosité morbide.

The halter was loose on her, and frayed at the edges. Perhaps she’d recently lost weight, or maybe she’d deliberately bought it overlarge. Whatever the reason, it showed quite a bit of her chest. Kelly caught himself shifting his eyes, and chastised himself for ogling the girl. But Pam made it hard not to.


webify

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

To Webify is to convert some information content from its original format into a format capable of being displayed on the World Wide Web.


webifyer

A webifyer is a web application designed to run on top of FirePass Webtop or Desktop Access platforms.


reflectable

In this definition, we consider as reflectable a predicate if it satisfies a certain "reflectability criterion", which is defined ... Finally, no other necessary conditions to define a predicate as reflectable, have been identified.

Let N be a reflectable kernel with respect to the map cp : X-+ Y and N the reflected kernel.

Revue roumaine de mathématiques pures et appliquées, Editions de l'Académie République populaire roumaine, 1 janv. 1997


reflectability

Réflexivité, faculté de réfléchir la lumière.

Chromium plating of temper mill work rolls has, In addition to Increasing service life by a factor of 3 to 4, led to Improved sheet surface quality with a higher reflectability after painting.

Iron and steel engineer, Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1989


semi-smile

She curled her pink lips upward in a shy semi-smile.

Susan M. Kirschbaum, Frills and Chills, The New York Observer, 2004

I saw him glance at his wife, and she gave a semi-smile of approval.

Mrs. Macquoid, Appletons’ Journal: Volume 12, D. Appleton & Co.,page 623, 1874

He stood looking at nothing in particular, with the blushing, awkward air and semi-smile which are common to shy boys when in company, -- very much as if they had come into the world by mistake, and found it in a degree of undress that was quite embarrassing.

Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 7, Wildside Press,page 34, 2008


in bulk

She buys the rice in bulk.


alkalify

to alkalify (infinitive)
alkalifies (present third-person singular)
alkalified (preterite)
alkalified (participle past)
alkalifying (participle present)

The process was required to alkalify the basic mixture before hardening.


red herring

\ɹɛd ˈhɛɹ.ɪŋ\

Ignore the second possibility. That’s a red herring, and we don’t want to waste a lot of time on it.

Ignorez la seconde possibilité. C’est une fausse piste, et nous ne voulons pas perdre beaucoup de temps dessus.


runtime

a basic understanding of the runtime structure of Python can help you grasp the bigger picture of program execution.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 30


bone of contention

(Date à préciser) Métaphore évoquant un même os pour lequel deux chiens se battraient. → voir bone et contention

Sujet de désaccord, point d’achoppement (dans une controverse), pomme de discorde.

The question of who owned the property continued to be a bone of contention between them for the rest of their lives.

La question de savoir à qui appartenait la propriété continua d’être une pomme de discorde entre eux pour le restant de leur vie.


ileocolic

The ileocolic artery is the lowest branch arising from the concavity of the superior mesenteric artery.


archway

In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience.

En face, sous une voûte ténébreuse menant à l’un des passages qui partaient de la rue, se tenait en observation un individu aposté en ce lieu depuis le commencement de la soirée et qui y était resté sans perdre patience, le dos appuyé contre le mur, comme un homme qui a longtemps à attendre, et qui en a l’habitude.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840


Joe Sixpack

De Joe (prénom courant) et six et pack (qui font référence à la bière).

Nom fictif symbolisant un Américain moyen. Bidochon.

Et, dernier point, mais non le moindre : décomplexer Jœ Six Pack qui a toujours eu un peu honte de son manque d’éducation et de culture.

Richard Martineau, « Trump a gagné », dans Le journal de Montréal, 4 novembre 2020


chokedamp

Gaz asphyxiant (gaz à faible teneur en oxygène et ne permettant pas la vie, rencontré dans les mines après un coup de grisou)

CHOKE-DAMP : the name given by miners to the irrespirable gas (carbonic acid) which fills the mine after an explosion of fire-damp. This gas is also found in badly ventilated parts of mines, its presence being detected by the difficulty of making candles burn, and the violent headaches it brings upon those who remain for any time where it is abundant. "When carbonic oxide is present, the gas is exceedingly dangerous to breathe for an instant; but one may sometimes stay with safety for a minute or two in an atmosphere of choke-damp in which a candle cannot be lighted.

George Ripley, The new American cyclopaedia


video-

videophone

videotape


Melbourne

(1086) En vieil anglais Mileburne,composé de mill (« moulin ») et de burn (« cours d’eau »). La ville australienne tient son nom de William Lamb, vicomte de Melbourne, premier ministre de la reine Victoria.

Colin Melbourne.


Melbourne

Melbourne Armstrong Carriker.

Melbourne MacDowell.


technolectal

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de technolect, avec le suffixe -al.

Propre au lexique d’un métier ou d’une activité, technolectal.

At the same time, the first attempts to use Romani as a language in the media were launched. These attempts nurture the efforts of expanding the language into formal domains, which is most evident on the lexical level where an enormous amount of technolectal designations are lacking in Romani.

Parallèlement, les premières tentatives d'utilisation du romani comme langue dans les médias furent amorcées. Ces tentatives nourrissent les efforts de développement de la langue dans des domaines formels, ce qui est particulièrement évident au niveau lexical, où une énorme quantité de dénominations technolectales manquent en romani.

Dieter W. Halwachs, The Changing Status of Romani in Europe dans: Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Stefan Wolff, Minority languages in Europe : frameworks, status, prospects, Palgrave Macmillan, page 200


matronly

more matronly (comparative)
most matronly (superlative)

The matronly woman cared for the sick orphan.

La matrone pris soin de l’orphelin malade.

...the matronly upper arms girls know about life and love and losing...


o’

You know the way; you’re all gentlemen o’ fortune, by your account.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 233. 1883.


quonk

to quonk (infinitive)
quonks (present third-person singular)
quonked (preterite)
quonked (participle past)
quonking (participle present)

The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated…

As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.

Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor, 1902

...no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking,"...

Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey, 1999


Maastricht

The treaty of Maastricht, the Maastricht treaty.


cowabunga

De l’exclamation amérindienne Kwa Bungu.

\ˌkaʊ.ə.ˈbʌŋ.ɡə\

\ˌkæɔ.ə.ˈbaŋ.ɡə\

\ˌkaʊ.əˈ.bʌŋ.ɡə\

Cowabunga, dude! Look at that crazy Godzilla!


impeccably

The great pianist was a prolific composer, who wrote impeccably for the piano.

David Dubal, Art of the Piano: Its performers, literature, and recordings, page 433, 1995

It is difficult to distinguish one bourgeois from another: the grande bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed at all times and don’t speak to anyone outside their own class; the bonne bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak to everyone; the petite bourgeoisie are impeccably dressed and speak only to complain […]

The Xenophobe’s Guide to the French, page 17, 1999

In fact, even when I did make some small mistakes with grammar, people still said I spoke impeccably.

Susanna Zaraysky, Language Is Music, page 19, 2009


dovecote

Colombier, bâtiment en forme de tour ronde ou carrée, où l’on loge et nourrit des pigeons..

she could see the malt-house with its dovecote

Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, p2, 2003


Commonist

(XXIᵉ siècle) De Commons avec le suffixe -ist.

There are Wikipedians and Commonists living there.

Il y a des wikipédiens et des commonistes vivant là-bas.


Merry Christmas

— Knock knock
— Who’s there?
— Mary!
— Mary who?
— Merry Christmas


rainbows and unicorns

Composé de rainbows (« arcs-en-ciel »), and et unicorns (« licornes »), littéralement « arcs-en-ciel et licornes ».

2011 was a great year for video games. But not everything was rainbows and unicorns.

2011 était une grande années pour les jeux vidéo. Mais tout n’était pas rose.


bitmap

Composé de bit et de map: « carte de bits ».

Attesté en 1991 en anglais. L'appellation bitmap suppose qu'à l'origine, les pixels étaient codés sur un seul bit, c'est-à-dire monochromes.

Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format

Série de bits représentant une série de pixels formant en général une image.

You give the size in pixels of the bitmap to be created ( and consequently , the number of cells in the bitmap editing area )

Vous donnez la taille en pixels du bitmap à créer (et conséquement, le nombre de cellules dans la zone d'édition bitmap)

X Users Guide Motif R5: Motif Edition, Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 1993, 924 pages

There are many file formats for storing bitmaps under DOS. One de facto standard is ZSoft's PC paintbrush format with the filename extension .PCX. Many bitmaps are available on CompuServe with the extension .GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). Perhaps the most sophisticated bitmap format is TIFF (tagged-image file format). Windows (and OS/2 Presentation Manager) bitmap files have an extension of .BMP.


bespectacled

Composé de spectacle, du préfixe be- et du suffixe -ed.

more bespectacled (comparative)
most bespectacled (superlative)

The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.

Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 24, 1917

The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149, 2002


quick time event

« The expansive exploration game Shenmue, meanwhile, utilizes a "Quick-Time Event" system for certain periods of gameplay. »

« L’expansif jeu d’exploration Shenmue, pendant ce temps, utilise un système de "Quick-Time Event" pour certaines séquence de jeu »


kafana

The story goes that when the first kafana opened here, the priests from the Cathedral, aghast that a drinking establishment could stand opposite a house of prayer, stole out one night and painted out the name.

L’histoire raconte que lorsque le premier kafana a ouvert ici, les prêtres de la cathédrale, consternés qu’un établissement de boissons puisse se tenir en face d’une maison de prière, l’ont volé durant une nuit et ont repeint son nom.

David Norris, Belgrade A Cultural History, 2008


koomkie

koomkies (plural)
coomkee
koomkee
khoonkie
koonkie

Éléphant femelle apprivoisé utilisé comme un leurre dans la capture des éléphants mâles sauvages.

When an elephant is in a proper state to be removed from the keddah, he is conducted either by koomkies or by tame males.

Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports, 1807

Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, dans Enos Bronson (éditeur), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3,page 123, 1810

The drivers remain concealed at a little distance, while the koomkies surround the goondah, as this sort of elephant is called.

Frederic Shoberl, Natural History of Quadrupeds, Volume 1,page 213, 1834

The hunters rode out on their koomkies, supplied with ropes, and other apparatus, for securing their captives.

Edmund Routledge, Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual,page 486, 1881

With the aid of koomkies, the captives were driven in batches of three or four into a circular stockade screened by […] .

The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112,page 505, 1957


next to last

This is the next to last train to leave today.

That's the next to last one. There's only one more.


playwright

Ferdynand Goetel (15 May 1890 – 24 November 1960) was a Polish novelist, playwright, essayist, screen writer, and political activist;


ensue

Des formes conjuguées de l’ancien français ensivre.

Résulter, découler ; ensuivre ou s'ensuivre

If you continue along this line, bad consequences may ensue.

Si vous continuez dans cette voie, de mauvaises conséquences pourraient s'ensuivre.

A tussle ensued.

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant, 2015 (chapitre V)


well-tempered

well-tempered scale


spanker

The spanker is often also the spankee.

Tom Beaudoin, Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy, 2007


far away

\ˈfɑː.ɹə.ˌweɪ\

Do you see the house far away?


far away

\ˈfɑː.ɹə.ˌweɪ\

I saw her disappear far away.


obliterate

to obliterate (infinitive)
obliterates (present third-person singular)
obliterated (preterite)
obliterated (participle past)
obliterating (participle present)

The marks on the sheet obliterated the handwriting underneath.

The bombing campaign obliterated the city.


lithograph

(1815-1825) Par dérivation régressive de lithography.

\ˈlɪθ.ə.ˌɡɹɑːf\

The collector was examining a rare lithograph.

Le collectionneur examinait une lithographie rare.


and how

Did it create a disruption? And how!

It created a disruption, and how.

However, just as Wenger was preparing to introduce Andrey Arshavin and Tomas Rosicky, Van Persie struck - and how.

David Ornstein,“Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, BBC Sport, 10 décembre 2011


brown study

Mélancolie accompagnée d’une pensée profonde ; rêverie morose.

So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.

Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion’s voice broke in upon my thoughts.

Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Resident Patient", 1893

But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study.

Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 428, 1978


Dalit

Via l’hindi दलित, dalit, du sanskrit दलित, dalit (« opprimé »).

In 1932, the British Raj recommended separate electorates to select leaders for Dalits in the Communal Award.


transparency

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

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


from the word go

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-from the word go.ogg

I watched him closely from the word go because I did not trust him.

Je l’ai observé de près dès le départ car je n’avais pas confiance en lui.


wire-side

Le sens informatique apparaît au début du XXIᵉ siècle.

Qui concerne la partie filaire d’un réseau qui en comporte une autre sans fil.

The folks that found Hole196 say exploiting the vulnerability is simple and the attack isn’t detected by traditional wire-side IDS/IPS [Intrusion Detection/Protection Systems] systems.

Ajay Kumar Gupta,WiFi Vulnerabilities: Advances and incidents in 2010, Network World, 20 décembre 2010


decentre

Dérivé de centre (« centrer »), avec le préfixe de- (« dé- »), littéralement « décentrer ».

to decentre (infinitive)
decentres (present third-person singular)
decentred (preterite)
decentred (participle past)
decentring (participle present)
decenter

The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.

John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, page 14


hematoma

The term hematoma describes an area of blood that collects outside of the larger blood vessels. Hematomas are commonly due to injuries or trauma in the area.

Le terme hématome décrit une zone de sang qui se forme en dehors des plus gros vaisseaux sanguins. Les hématomes sont en général dus à des blessures ou des traumatismes dans la zone.

JonJohnson, Hematoma: Everything you need to know, Medical News Today, 29/03/2019


bituminous

Dérivé de bitumen, avec le suffixe -ous.

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

There are three kinds of coal: bituminous coal, lignite coal, and anthracite.


climactic

the climactic moment


interventionist

Dérivé de intervention, avec le suffixe -ist.

more interventionist (comparative)
most interventionist (superlative)

This argument appeals to those who believe that what Downing Street needs is not so much a dose of administrative efficiency but an ideological shift to a low-tax, less interventionist agenda.

« Frost says he could not serve as PM's chief of staff because of his opposition to NICs increase », The Guardian, 31 janvier 2022


boy meets girl

Composé de boy (« garçon »), meets (« rencontrer ») et girl (« fille »).

\ˌbɔɪ ˌmiːts ˈɡɜːl\

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

Histoire romantique dans laquelle un jeune homme rencontre une jeune fille et il commence à l’aimer.

A boy meets girl movie.

Un film romantique dans lequel un jeune homme rencontre une jeune fille.


chicken-hearted

more chicken-hearted (comparative)
most chicken-hearted (superlative)

These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.

Ces patrons peureux semblent toujours transiger au premier signe d’une grève.


split off

They followed the highway for ten miles, and then split off onto a local country road.

The branch split off in the storm.

She split off a branch from the tree.


he or she

De he (« il »), or (« ou ») et she (« elle »).

\hiː ɔː ʃiː\

Cette expression peut être utilisée par des personnes écrivant dans le style non sexiste (ou « non genré »), plutôt que le pronom masculin he traditionnellement utilisé dans ce cas. À l’oral, le pronom they au singulier est plus commun.

Il n’est pas recommandé d’écrire he (or she) avec des parenthèses ou he—or she— avec des tirets, puisque cela ferait paraître le cas féminin comme une exception.

Pronom nominatif de la troisième personne du singulier du sexe indéfini ou inconnu.

In Skinner the Court stated: It is not disputed, however, that chemical analysis of urine, like that of blood, can reveal a host of private medical facts about an employee, including whether he or she is epileptic, pregnant, or diabetic.

Doyice Cotten et John T. Wolohan, Law for recreation and sport managers, p. 466, 2003


chiasmus

The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chaistic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]

H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Sturcture of the Book of Habakkuk", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355, 1934

John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

Ethel Grodzins Romm, "Persuasive Writing", American Bar Association Journal 70: 158, 1984

Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural.

Simon R. Slings, "Figures of Speech in Aristophanes", in Andreas Willi (editor), The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103-104, 2002

The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46, 2009


inlay

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

More importantly, the hardwood inlay will provide far greater resistance to sanding than the softer redwood slab, so I want to do as little sanding as possible one I have glued the inlay in.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 352 pages, page 235


self-destruct

Dérivé de destroy, avec le préfixe self-.

This spaceship is going to self-destruct in 60 seconds

Ce vaisseau spatial s’autodétruira dans soixante secondes.


self-destruct

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

self-destruct sequence, self-destruct button, self-destruct mechanism


pretty-print

De pretty et to print (« imprimer joliment »).

to pretty-print (infinitive)
pretty-prints (present third-person singular)
pretty-printed (preterite)
pretty-printed (participle past)
pretty-printing (participle present)

Afficher du code (code source, texte balisé, etc.) d’une façon plus lisible, par exemple en le formatant, en y ajoutant de la couleur ou des retraits.

We illustrate a simple and practical form of data post-processing which combines representation layout conversion and data extraction in order to improve analytical focus. We call it pretty-print. When doing manual data analysis, it is possible to speed up work and reduce error at the same time if the data representation can be easily scanned for relevant information.

Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær,Multimodal Usability, 2009


xenodochium

Gregory the Great orders that the accounts of xenodochia should be audited by the bishop (Epist. iv. 27).

William Bright, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, 2nd edition, page 184, 1892

There is, first, the xenodochium, to provide lodging for passing strangers, pilgrims, travellers, refugees, exiles of all kinds, like the one founded at Ostia by Pammachius and Fabiola for all who were embarking or landing.

Michel Riquet, Christian Charity in Action, page 64, 1961

His and his uncle Johannes de Curte’s principal gift to Monte Cassino was a xenodochium or "hospitale" to house the pilgrims who, in great numbers, visited the famous shrine of the Archangel Michael.

Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, page 288, 1986


Hamilton

(Nom de famille) Attesté sous la forme Hambledon,composé de hamble et de town, littéralement « ville rasée » ; le prestigieux Clan Hamilton est issu de Hamilton, village médiéval déserté dans le Leicestershire.

La ville écossaise, anciennement appelée Cadzow, est nommée en l’honneur de lord James Hamilton.

La capitale des Bermudes doit son nom au gouverneur Henry Hamilton.

La localité ontarienne doit son nom au politicien George Hamilton.

(10 dollars) Le billet figure le portrait d’Alexander Hamilton depuis 1929.

Mary Riter Hamilton.


Bailey’s metal

Autre nom du métal de Baily (Baily’s metal).

Measurements are primarily derived in Great Britain and her colonies, and in the United States, from the English Imperial or standard yard. This yard is marked upon a bar of Bailey’s metal (composed of 16 parts copper, 2½ parts tin, and 1 part zinc), an inch square and 38 inches long. One inch from each end is drilled a hole about three quarters through the whole depth of the bar, into which are fitted gold plugs, whose upper end faces are level with the axis of the bar. Across each plug is marked a fine line, and the distance between these lines was finally made the standard English yard by an Act of Parliament passed in 1855.

Joshua Rose, Modern Machine-Shop Practice, volume 1, chapitre XIV (Measuring Machines, Tools, and Devices), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1887


ramify

Du français ramifier, issu du latin médiéval *ramificare, descendant du latin rāmus (« branche ») et faciō (« faire »)

to ramify (infinitive)
ramifies (present third-person singular)
ramified (preterite)
ramified (participle past)
ramifying (participle present)

The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.

Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648, 1893

to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.

Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality, page 285, 2003


spendthrift

more spendthrift (comparative)
most spendthrift (superlative)

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

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


burel

Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.

L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, 1964, page 199


riff-raff

The riff-raff here are people who see themselves as opera buffs, but who the anti-translation opera buffs would say they aren’t proper buffs because they don’t like opera enough to sit through it when the words are gobbledygook – or aren't proper buffs because they haven’t bothered to learn Italian and German.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 48


diquark

(XXᵉ siècle) Composé de quark et du préfixe di-.

Some of this attraction is due to the scalar diquark content of the nucleon current.

E V Shuryak, The QCD Vacuum, Hadrons and Superdense Matter, 2004