scandalous

Du latin médiéval scandalosus, via le français scandaleuse.

more scandalous (comparative)
most scandalous (superlative)

The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.

La chose fit grand bruit dans la ville, aussi, et bon nombre sortirent au dépourvu et dirent que c’était scandaleux de séparer la mère et les enfants de cette façon.

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.

I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous, and seldom true.

J’ai toujours ignoré les potins – ils sont généralement scandaleux, et rarement vrais.


Pindaresque

All that he borrows of Horace become Pindaresque in his hands.

Arsène Houssaye, Men and women of the eighteenth century, volume 2, 1852

Both suggest to the listener that the poet who had been writing sonnets broke, under the spur of music, the sonnet form, and achieved a Pindaresque triumph.


sash

De l'arabe شاش, šāš (« gaze, mousseline »).

The Honorable Mr. Justice Wheeler sat in one of the five high-backed chairs behind it. He was resplendent in a scarlet robe and sash, and a horsehair wig, called a “peruke,” Ryan had been told, that fell to his narrow shoulders and clearly looked like something from another age.


torrential

more torrential (comparative)
most torrential (superlative)

A torrential downpour.


drag out

La locution implique d'une manière monotone.

He could have made that speech in five minutes, but instead, he dragged it out for one hour.


drag on

La locution implique d’une manière monotone.

The speech dragged on and on.

The conversation was just dragging on, and so I decided to leave.

La conversation ne faisait que traîner en longueur, et je décidai donc de partir.


histrionics

I’m tired of Mary’s histrionics.

Je suis fatigué du théâtralisme de Mary.

to display histrionics


thick as thieves

(Date à préciser)Composé de thick (« proche, lié »), as (« comme ») et thieves (« voleurs »), littéralement « lié comme des voleurs ».

\ˈθɪk əz ˈθiːvz\

Copains comme cochons ; comme larrons en foire.

Wonderful. You two will be thick as thieves.

Magnifique. Vous allez être copains comme cochons tous les deux.

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


Swiss-cheesed

Enormous popping and wrenching noises are coming from inside as big pieces of Swiss-cheesed metal give way, and the superstructure is slowly collapsing down into the hull like a botched soufflé.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993)


dividual

So that a man may say his religion is now no more within himself, but is become a dividual movable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.

She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself.


hooroo

Hooroo is a colloquial Australian term for saying « goodbye ».

Morgan Schatz Blackrose, Talkabout: raps and rhymes, songs and stories promoting speech and languag, Éditeur Morgan Schatz Blackrose, 2008


see you

(Par ellipse) de I will see you later (« Je te verrai plus tard »)

See you'

See you on Tuesday.

See you in the evening.

J’espère vous voir (à un autre endroit).

See you there.

See you at the party.


anadromous

Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous.

Les aloses et la plupart des espèces de saumon sont anadromes.


onlooker

I wasn’t in the fight, I was only an onlooker.

Je n’étais pas dans la bagarre, j’étais seulement spectateur.


talk into

(Date à préciser)Composé de talk et de into.

I can talk Brian into coming back home.

Je peux convaincre Brian de rentrer à la maison.


talk the talk

\tɔːk ðə tɔːk\

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de talk

Parler comme un expert pour montrer sa connaissance du sujet.

When it comes to reducing nuclear emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he walks the walk.

En ce qui concerne la réduction des radiations nucléaires, il en parle comme un expert, mais il reste à voir si les bottines suivront les babines.

Some leaders only talk the talk and aren’t prepared to take any risks.

Certains dirigeants ne font que parler sans agir et ne sont pas prêts à prendre le moindre risque.


toggle

to toggle (infinitive)
toggles (present third-person singular)
toggled (preterite)
toggled (participle past)
toggling (participle present)

Alterner entre deux positions en utilisant un seul interrupteur ou levier, (dés)activer.

Clicking a button will alternately toggle its light on OR off.

: Appuyer sur un bouton allumera/éteindra alternativement la lumière.

toggle to lower/upper case

You can quickly toggle the case of selected text by pressing Shift+C.

: Vous pouvez rapidement changer la casse du texte sélectionné en appuyant sur Shift+C.

You can toggle between available languages using this drop-down list.

: Vous pouvez utiliser choisir l’une des langues disponibles en utilisant la liste déroulante.


breadwinner

This conflict between employment and childcare stops women from becoming economically independent, and reinforces the notion of men being the principal breadwinners.

Helene Almqvist, Is Sweden the best place to be a woman?, BBC News, 17 octobre 2010


childcare

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housework

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Swedish women - like women around the world - are often still expected to play the lead role on the family stage. Two-thirds of housework is done by women.

Les femmes suédoises — comme les autres femmes à travers le monde — sont souvent encore appelées à jouer le rôle principal sur le plan familial. Deux-tiers des tâches ménagères sont réalisés par les femmes.


labour market

Both in education and in the labour market, the genders are not equally represented.


on average

\ɑn ˈæv.ə.ɹɪdʒ\

\ɒn ˈæv.ə.ɹɪdʒ\

Swedish women still earn on average 15% less than men.

Les femmes suédoises gagnent toujours en moyenne 15 % de moins que les hommes.

Helene Almqvist,« Is Sweden the best place to be a woman? », BBC News, 17 octobre 2010


part-time

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I have a part-time job currently.

J’ai un travail à temps partiel à l’heure actuelle.


part-time

And one third of women still work part-time, some because they can’t find full-time jobs and others because they have family responsibilities which hold them back.

Et un tiers des femmes travaillent toujours à temps partiel, certaines parce qu’elles n’arrivent pas à trouver de travail à temps plein et d’autres parce qu’elles ont des responsabilités familiales qui les retiennent.


full-time

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Helene Almqvist, « Is Sweden the best place to be a woman? », BBC News, 17 octobre 2010


full-time

She is now working full-time.


parental leave

In Sweden both men and women are entitled to 480 days of parental leave but the latest Daddy Index, published by the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees (TOC), a trade union umbrella group, shows that men use only one fifth of their allowance.


knackered

more knackered (comparative)
most knackered (superlative)

Ce mot n’est pas utilisé en Amérique du Nord, où il est en général inconnu.

I can’t go out tonight — I’m knackered.

Je ne peux pas sortir ce soir — je suis crevé.

I’ve got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I’m dead knackered at the end of the day so I don’t know about going out and like studying every night.

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

RobertEdenborough, Effective Interviewing: A Handbook of Skills and Techniques, pages 97-98, 2002


knackered

De l’expression « ready for the knacker’s yard » ou « fit to be knackered » qui signifie « bétail usé, apte à être abattu ».

In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...

À la fin cependant, il a dû admettre que sa voituré était cassée.

Simon Murphy, The Murders of Mutchrose Village, page 28, 2003

We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.

JohnNewton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster?, page 82, 2009


sounding board

I need a good sounding board to work out my ideas.

Il me faut une bonne caisse de résonance pour développer mes idées.


slam the door

(suivi de on) Refuser de considérer, d’accepter, de s’engager dans.

The CEO slammed the door on proposals to expand into South American markets.

Le PDG a claqué la porte aux propositions d’expansion dans les marchés sud-américains.


common sense

(Date à préciser) D’après le latin sensus communis, issu du grec ancien κοινὴ αἴσθησις.

Composé de common (« commun ») et de sense (« sens »), littéralement « sens commun ».

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.


good sport

Be a good sport, and stop complaining about losing.

Sois beau joueur, et arrête de te plaindre d’avoir perdu.


sooner or later

They’ll show up here sooner or later.

Sundance Kid dans Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


BIOS

(Acronyme) Initiales de « Basic Input Output System ».

He was the first and certainly not the last to point out that BIOS actually stands for “Basic Input/Output System,” not “Built-In Operating System” as I have it here (and as it ought to be); but I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun, so this part of the book is unchanged.


jack shit

I have jack shit to do tonight.


naff all

Utilisé dans l’émission anglaise Porridge (1974-1977).Composé de naff et de all.

I have naff all to do tonight.


unspellable

Composé du verbe spell, du préfixe un- et du suffixe -able.

more unspellable (comparative)
most unspellable (superlative)

His masters, the Houyhnhnms of the unspellable and unsayable name, were more than performing horses or uncultured squires.

Shaun Leslie, The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation, 1928

Their children, with unpronounceable, unspellable names, came to school in tattered clothes, the boys in drab vests and the girls in more colorful ones.

Hayden Carruth, Suicides and Jazzers, 1992


whangdoodle

Créature imaginaire qui apparait dans le folklore et les histoires pour enfants.

"I’m n-n-not a tor-tor-tortoise," stuttered the curious creature, "I’m a wha-wha-whang-whang-doodle."
"A whangdoodle! What’s that?"

Charles M. Snyder, Runaway Robinson, page 53, 1901

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains lies a happy hobo land where the boxcars are all empty, where there are cigaret trees and rock-and-rye springs and the whangdoodle sings.

"Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes", Life 49 (8): 56, 22 août 1960

For a man who can listen for an hour to Mr. White, the whining, nasal, Whangdoodle preacher, and then sit down and write, without shedding melancholy from his pen as water slides from a duck’s back, is more than mortal.

Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s letters: 1853-1866, Volume 1 (published 1987), page 171, 1862

[…] and I want you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles.

John Ballou Newbrough, The fall of Fort Sumter, or, Love and war in 1860-61, page 131, 1862

"Now, Ben, you’re a lawyer. You don’t give a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."

Martin Bunn, "When You Buy a Car", Popular Science 112 (3): 138, mars 1928

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

It is sometimes agreed in advance that after a hand of certain rank, such as Four of a Kind or a Full House, is shown, a Whangdoodle or Jackpot must be played […]

Clement Wood & Gloria Goddard, The Complete Book of Games, page 296, 1940


disparagement

Composé de disparage et du suffixe -ment.

His disparagement of his opponent failed to dissuade voters.

Son dénigrement de son adversaire échoua à dissuader les électeurs.


yarmulke

(Date à préciser) Du yiddish יאַרמלקע, yarmlke.

Kippa (couvre-chef religieux des Juifs).

Our yarmulke collection has grown almost as fast as our Barbie collection, and weekly yarmulke selection has become a thing.

Notre collection de kippas s’est développée presque aussi rapidement que notre collection de Barbies, et le choix hebdomadaire de kippas est devenu quelque chose.

Meredith L.Jacobs, The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007


unaware

Inconscient (qui n'a pas pris conscience d'une chose).

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


Zoe

Saint Zoe of Rome.


gleek

Du vieux norrois *gleikr, leikr (« sport, jeu »). À comparer à l’anglo-saxon gelacan (« jouer un tour, faire une illusion »), au scots glaik (« tromperie, ruse »).

Plaisanterie ou moquerie ; ruse ou tromperie.

Where’s the Baſtards braues, and Charles his glikes: What all amort?

Shakespeare, 1 Hen VI, acte iii, scène 2, 1592

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas’ eye.


gleek

to gleek (infinitive)
gleeks (present third-person singular)
gleeked (preterite)
gleeked (participle past)
gleeking (participle present)

Se moquer de, se ficher de , se foutre de.

[…] that ſome honeſt neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleeke vpon occaſion.

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, acte iii, scène 1 (First Folio ed.), 1594

The man said he “gleeked” on the woman, but did not intentionally spit on her.


callable

Composé du verbe call et du suffixe -able.

more callable (comparative)
most callable (superlative)

Appelable, se dit d'un objet qui peut être appelé, tel qu'une fonction.

The list of server tasks is a compromise between only one task for all remotely callable subprograms and one task for each remotely callable subprogram.

La liste des tâches du serveur est un compromis entre une seule tâche pour tous les sous-programmes pouvant être appelés à distance et une tâche pour chaque sous-programme pouvant être appelé à distance.

Angel Alvarez, Ada: The Design Choice, 1989


otiose

more otiose (comparative)
most otiose (superlative)

In an early challenge to Austin, Cohen (1964) argues that the notion of illocutionary force is otiose provided we already have in place the notion of a sentence's meaning (Austin's locutionary meaning).

Dans un défi précoce à Austin, Cohen (1964) soutient que la notion de force illocutoire est oiseuse, à condition que nous disposions déjà du concept de signification d'une phrase (la signification locutoire d'Austin).

Mitchell Green, Speech Acts, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2017


leprechaun

Leprechaun, farfadet du folklore irlandais.

Do you not catch the tiny clamour,
Busy click of an elfin hammer,
Voice of the leprechaun singing shrill,
As he merrily plies his trade?

William Butler Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, 1888


tandoor

De l’hindi तन्दूर, tandūr, de l’ourdou تندور, tandūr, issu du persan تنور, tannur, lui-même issu de l’arabe تَنُّور, tannūr et au final provenant de l’akkadien 𒋾𒂟, tinūru, tous ayant la signification de four.

You can cook naan in a normal oven, but the results will inevitably disappoint; even Indians generally wait to savour them in restaurants, as very few homes are equipped with a tandoor.

Vous pouvez cuire un naan dans un four normal, mais le résultat sera inévitablement décevant ; même les Indiens attendent généralement pour les déguster dans les restaurants, étant donné que très peu de maisons sont équipées d’un tandoor.

Martin Hughes, Sheema Mookherjee, & Richard Delacy, World Food: India (Lonely Planet), page 53, 2001


underlying

The underlying cause of the war is our inability to negociate


muzzle velocity

De muzzle (« bouche du canon d’une arme à feu ») et de velocity (« vélocité »).

Muzzle velocity when firing Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds is 3,250 feet per second (990 m/s) […].

Lorsqu’on tire des munitions incendiaires perforantes, leur vitesse à la sortie du canon est de 3 250 pieds par seconde (990 m/s).

GAU-8 Avenger, Wikipédia, version de 2010-10-12T14:00:29


snigger

You don’t expect a man to never remember more than the first three lines of the first verse, and to keep on repeating these until it is time to begin the chorus. You don’t expect a man to break off in the middle of a line, and snigger, and say, it’s very funny, but he’s blest if he can think of the rest of it, and then try and make it up for himself, and, afterwards, suddenly recollect it, when he has got to an entirely different part of the song, and break off, without a word of warning, to go back and let you have it then and there.

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


rate of fire

Its rate of fire is normally 3,600 rounds per minute, with a maximum of 4,200 rounds per minute.

Il [le GAU-12 Equalizer] possède normalement une cadence de tir de 3 600 coups à la minute, avec un maximum de 4 200 coups à la minute.


medicane

(c. 1990) Mot-valise formé de Mediterranean et de hurricane (« cyclone méditerranéen »).

Cyclone tropical méditerranéen, médicane.

Tropical-like storms in the Mediterranean Sea or Medicanes, as called in previous publications are not frequent meteorological features.

Des tempêtes de type tropical dans la mer Méditerranée ou médicanes, appelés ainsi dans des publications antérieurs, ne sont pas des phénomènes météorologiques fréquents.

AngelLuque et al., Tropical-like Mediterranean storms: an analysis from satellite, 2005

The medicanes cause very strong winds, high swells, heavy rainfall, and often, flooding, severe damages in economic and social infrastructures and sometimes some casualties, particularly in coastal areas.

Les médicanes provoquent des vents très forts, de fortes houles, de fortes précipitations, et souvent des inondations, des dégâts importants dans les infrastructures économiques et sociales et parfois des victimes, en particulier dans les zones côtières.

Taoufik El Melki, The “medicanes”: Atmospheric disturbances determining heavy rainfall in the Mediterranean, Méditerranées, number 128, 2017 p. 19-27


mug shot

Photographie d’identité judiciaire tirée lorsqu’une personne comparait devant la justice, comportant des indications administratives et physiques.

Former President Donald Trump’s booking photo was released Thursday night by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office after he surrendered to authorities on charges related to alleged efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, an instantly historic image that marks the first time a mug shot has been taken of a former president.

La photo d’arrestation de l’ancien président Donald Trump a été publiée jeudi soir par le bureau du shérif du comté de Fulton après qu’il se soit rendu aux autorités pour des accusations liées à des tentatives présumées de renverser le résultat de l’élection présidentielle de 2020 en Géorgie, une image instantanément historique qui marque la première fois qu’une photo d’identité judiciaire a été prise d’un ancien président.

Melissa Quinn, Trump’s mug shot in Fulton County released, August 24, 2023, CBS News (lire en ligne)


nether

Du moyen anglais nether, nethere, nithere, issu du vieil anglais nithera, issu de niþer, de l’adverbe nithor (« vers le bas ») ; s’apparente en anglo-saxon à l’adjectif nithiri (« bas ») et à l’adverbe nithar (« en bas, vers le bas »), en vieux haut-allemand à l’adjectif nidari, nidaro (« bas ») et à l’adverbe nidar (« en bas, vers le bas »), en vieux norrois à l’adjectif neðri, neðarri (« bas ») et à l’adverbe niðr (« en bas, vers le bas ») ; tous proviennent d’un mot en proto-germanique qui est un comparatif d’un mot apparenté au sanskrit (ni, « en bas, vers le bas ») ; s’apparente à l’anglo-saxon in.

nethermore (comparative)
nethermost (superlative)

The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

La lèvre inférieure de l’enfant déçu trembla.

The nether regions.


discrepancy

Du latin discrepantia, issu de discrepans, lui-même issu de discrepō, dérivé de crepō.

Écart, contradiction entre des faits ou des sentiments.

They found a discrepancy between the first set of test results and the second, and they're still trying to figure out why.

Ils ont trouvé un des résultats discordants entre le premier ensemble de résultats et le second, et ils essaient encore de comprendre pourquoi.

Fait divergent, divergence, disparité, discordance.

There are discrepancies in the stories of the two witnesses.


yarchagumba

A picker who found ten yarchagumba a day could earn about $5 from local traders, a small fortune in a country where the majority of the population were subsistence farmers operating outside the cash economy.

Jerry Hopkins, Asian Aphrodisiacs: From Bangkok to Beijing--the Search for the Ultimate Turn-on, 2006ISBN 9780794603960


Malmo

Variante orthographique de Malmö (ville de Suède).

Shootings are not uncommon in Malmo - a lot of people here talk about how easy it is to get hold of a gun if you want one - but the police say there's been an escalation in recent weeks and that is why they decided to warn the public and ask for their help.

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


Yazdanpanah

Mr Yazdanpanah came to Sweden from Iran 38 years ago and has become something of a local hero in the past few days, judging from the number of bouquets of flowers people have sent him.


bread and butter

(Date à préciser) Composé de bread (« pain ») et de butter (« beurre »).

They certainly put on a spectacular — occasionally violent — show when they take to the streets but are they more active when it comes to bread and butter issues?

Il est certain qu'ils savent être spectaculaires - et occasionnellement violents - lorsqu'ils sont dans la rue mais sont-ils plus actifs en ce qui concerne les problèmes de fond ?

Stephen Evans,« France’s strike culture conundrum », BBC News, 28 octobre 2010


Western world

The truly militant country in the Western world is Canada - nice, reasonable Canada.

Stephen Evans, France's strike culture conundrum, BBC News, 28 octobre 2010


Talibanesque

Composé de Taliban et du suffixe -esque.

more Talibanesque (comparative)
most Talibanesque (superlative)

Talibanesque militancy


drug

The doctor prescribed this drug for you to take three times per day.

The problem of gangs and drugs is destroying the inner city.

We got a drug
We're gonna try it out on you
Won't make you die
It'll getcha just a little bit sick.

Dead Kennedys, « Government Flu », Plastic Surgery Disasters, 1982


Bonfire Night

In the UK, Halloween has to compete with Bonfire Night just a few days later. Both occasions echo elements of the Celtic festival of samhain.

Finlo Rohrer, The transatlantic Halloween divide, BBC News, 29 octobre 2010


home haunter

Personne pour laquelle la décoration de son domicile lors d'Halloween est devenu un hobby.

The home haunters are at the extreme end of the Halloween spectrum, but it's easy to gauge how seriously the US takes Halloween.


worsted

more worsted (comparative)
most worsted (superlative)

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.


worsted

Du nom de Worsted (actuellement Worstead), une ville du Norfolk en Angleterre.

"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs. Garth She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.

He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck -- Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge -- an ornament -- a charm -- a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?

Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness, 1902


UV

(Abréviation) Par abréviation de ultraviolet (même sens).

Many physical properties of local DOGs are similar to those of high-z DOGs, even though the IR luminosities of local objects are an order of magnitude lower than for the high-z objects: the presence of two classes (active galactic nuclei- and star formation-dominated) of DOGs, abnormal faintness in the UV rather than extreme brightness in the mid-infrared, and diverse optical morphology.

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


day one

I’ve been with this project since day one.

Je suis sur ce projet depuis le tout début.


throttle

(nom commun) Du moyen anglais throtel.
(verbe) Du moyen anglais throtlen.

to throttle (infinitive)
throttles (present third-person singular)
throttled (preterite)
throttled (participle past)
throttling (participle present)

Full Throttle


as a rule of thumb

En règle générale, comme l’expérience le montre généralement, sans que ce soit une règle absolue.

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wanting to flip bits in Python, you should think about which language you're really coding.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 160


foreboding

\fɔːˈbəʊd.ɪŋ\

Mauvais pressentiment, impression de danger, de menace.

I have a strange sense of foreboding since yesterday, and I don't know why.


weathering

\ˈwɛð.ə.ɹɪŋ\

Effects of humidity on the weathering of glass

Effet de l'humidité sur la météorisation du verre

H.V. Walters & P.B. Adams, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 19 (1975), pp 183-189


knitting

I find knitting very relaxing.

Je trouve que le tricot est très relaxant.


wording

The 4e DMG significantly recasts the role of the DM. […] The tenor of this couldn't be more different from that of Gygax in AD&D, but you can see callbacks to BECMI in the wording.

Le GdM 4e [Guide du Maître de la 4ᵉ édition, 2008] refond le rôle du MD [maître du donjon] de manière significative […] La teneur de ceci ne pourrait être plus différente de celle écrite par Gygax pour AD&D [Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1978], mais on peut voir des rappels de la BECMI [Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, Immortals, 1983] dans le libellé.

(anglais) mxyzplk, How has D&D's guidance to DMs on when to extrapolate from written rules and when to improvise changed over time? sur StackExchange/RPG, 2013-10-12. Consulté le 2025-01-27


beguiling

I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, 2009


nite

(Date à préciser) Simplification orthographique de night en utilisant « ite » pour représenter \aɪt\. Night provient du moyen anglais night, niȝt, nicht, du vieil anglais niht, næht, neaht, du proto-germanique *nahts, de l’indo-européen commun *nókʷts.

cant remember this nite must of been gd ;)

Tweet de @atomicferz publié le 12 aout 2024 à 0h37

You will remember this scar tonite
The cold bitter winds will haunt your spirit each nite.
This pain will never be forgotten from your mind.
You will relive this nite forever and more.

Journey Within, The scar dans Hidden Mask, Lady Dark Angel of Nyx, 2013


molten

molten lava


advertizing

more advertizing (comparative)
most advertizing (superlative)
advertising

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


advertizing

What do you do in terms of advertizing?


thunk

Onomatopée représentant le bruit sourd de l’impact d’un objet lourd s’arrêtant contre un autre, sans qu’il y ait de bris.

Thunk—Thunk. “Stop!” James yelled, sloshing to a rigid stance. He slowly put a finger to his lips and whispered, “Shhhhhhh.” Thunk-Thunk… Thunk-Thunk… “Do you hear that?” he said. “What is it?” Randy whimpered. Thunk-Thunk.


thunk

to thunk (infinitive)
thunks (present third-person singular)
thunked (preterite)
thunked (participle past)
thunking (participle present)

Frapper quelque chose sans le briser, en émettant un bruit sourd.

I was thunked on the head by his stick.

It’s up to you to come up with an intermediate process that converts the addresses and surmounts the stack differences. This is where "thunking" enters the picture. To thunk, you create a 32-bit DLL that mediates between the 16-bit and 32-bit stacks, ensuring that data is correctly pushed onto and taken off of the stacks.

Kelly Conatser, A seamless transition for Office applications? Thunk again., InfoWorld Magazine, Vol. 17,Nᵒ 30, 21 août 1995


thunk

En programmation fonctionnelle, une évaluation d’expression retardée jusqu’à ce que le besoin immédiat de son résultat survienne.

When the evaluation of a thunk begins, the descriptor of the thunk is immediately overwritten with a black hole descriptor.

John H. G. van Groningen, Optimising Recursive Functions Yielding Multiple Results in Tuples, in Pieter Koopman, Chris Clack, éditeurs, Implementation of Functional Languages: 11th International Workshop, IFL’99, Lochem, The Netherlands, September 1999, Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 1868, Springer, 2000

Translation (mappage, mise en correspondance) de données d’un type à un autre, souvent pour des raisons de compatibilité, comme par exemple entre adresses 32-bits et 64-bits.

If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.


impending

I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

Je n’ai pas le temps maintenant à cause de la date de soumission imminente d’un papier.


MacGyvered

(Date à préciser) Du participe passé du verbe MacGyver.

more MacGyvered (comparative)
most MacGyvered (superlative)

Qui a été réparé de manière frugale, improvisée et ingénieuse.

Ukrainians used MacGyvered tools to successfully repel the Russian navy.


overblown

more overblown (comparative)
most overblown (superlative)

They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?


puddly

Dérivé de puddle (« flaque d’eau »), avec le suffixe -y.

more puddly (comparative)
most puddly (superlative)

Gene Kelly dancing on a puddly street in Singin' in the Rain.


swathing

Straight cutting crops instead of swathing saves fuel by eliminating an entire operation.

Splendid silk and satin swathings round her person.


jamming

Reacting to the Norwegian Defense Ministry’s statement, NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said: “Finland has expressed concern over possible jamming in Lapland. In view of the civilian usage of GPS, jamming of this sort is dangerous, disruptive, and irresponsible. In general, we see cyberattacks and electronic warfare used with greater frequency and severity.”

Réagissant à la déclaration du ministère norvégien de la défense, la porte-parole de l’OTAN Oana Lungescu a déclaré : « la Finlande a aussi manifesté ses inquiétudes sur la possibilité de brouillage en Laponie. Au regard des usages civils du GPS, un brouillage de cette sorte est dangereux, disruptif et irresponsable. En général, nous voyons des cyberattaques et des attaques électroniques utilisées avec une plus grande fréquence et sévérité. »

BrooksTigner, « Electronic jamming between Russia and NATO is par for the course in the future, but it has its risky limits », Atlantic Council, 15 novembre 2018


gaudy

D’origine incertaine ; peut-être dérivé de gaud, lui-même peut-être dérivé de l’ancien français gaudir.

gaudier (comparative)
gaudiest (superlative)

The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.

Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today’s craze for bling-bling.

Thomas Hauser & Marilyn Cole Lownes, "How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring", The Observer, 9 janvier 2005


whaling

(1688) ou (1716) Du verbe whale (« chasser la baleine »).

The IWC recognises three different types of whaling. The first of these is aboriginal subsistence whaling to support the needs of indigenous communities. This is regulated by the IWC which sets catch limits every six years.

La CBI reconnait trois différents types de chasses à la baleine. Le premier est la chasse pour la survie aborigène, pour répondre aux besoins des communautés indigènes. Elle est régulée par la CBI qui définit les quotas de pêche tous les six ans.

Whaling sur International Whaling Commission. Consulté le 27 mai 2021

Its last commercial hunt was in 1986, but Japan has never really stopped whaling - it has been conducting instead what it says are research missions which catch hundreds of whales annually.

Sa dernière chasse commerciale remonte à 1986 mais le Japon n’a jamais vraiment mis fin à la chasse à la baleine ; le pays a à la place poursuivi ce qu’il appelle des missions de recherche, qui attrapent des centaines de baleines chaque année.

Japan whaling: Why commercial hunts have resumed despite outcry sur BBC. Mis en ligne le 2 juillet 2019, consulté le 27 mai 2021

Harponnage, sorte de phishing ciblant les cadres supérieurs d’une entreprise dans le but de récupérer des informations sur cette dernière.

Whaling attacks are a form of social engineering that targets "whales", or business owners and C-level employees (CEO, CFO, etc.), through the use of various phishing techniques.

Les attaques de whaling sont une forme d’ingénierie sociale qui vise les « baleines », c’est-à-dire les chef·fes d’entreprise et les dirigeant·es (p.-d.g., DAF, etc.), par l’utilisation de diverses techniques de hameçonnage.

Erica Kastner, What Is a Whaling Attack? [Definitions and Ways to Prevent] sur www.soscanhelp.com. Mis en ligne le 21 septembre 2021, consulté le 27 mai 2021


whaling

(Date à préciser) Du verbe whale (« dépenser beaucoup d’argent dans un jeu »).

Dépenser de grandes sommes d’argent dans un casino ou un jeu vidéo, beaucoup plus que la plupart des autres joueurs ou joueuses.

There are a few terms that we throw around in the gacha community, and one you’ll quickly understand is “Whaling.” This means spending a ton of money on free-to-play games to obtain various things like new characters, weapons, or whatever the game has to offer.

Il y a quelques termes qu’on utilise au sein de la communauté gacha et vous allez rapidement en comprendre un : « whaling ». Ce terme désigne le fait de dépenser de grandes quantités d’argent dans les jeux free-to-play pour obtenir diverses choses telles que de nouveaux personnages, des armes ou quoi que ce soit que le jeu offre.

Brock Jensen, How I Whaled in a Love Live Gacha Game and Survived sur Noisy Pixel. Mis en ligne le 5 aout 2020, consulté le 26 mai 2021


sightseeing

Dérivé de sightsee, avec le suffixe -ing.

Faire du tourisme, aller voir une ville/region, les visites touristiques.

I’m tired of sightseeing. Today, let’s go shopping.

Je suis lassé des visites touristiques. Aujourd’hui, allons faire les boutiques.

Do you want to do some sightseeing?

I want to go sightseeing in New York.


trudging

I spent hours trudging round one field as I'd had reports that a lapwing had moved in.

Jeremy Clarkson, Diddly Squat: a year on the farm, Penguin Books, 2021, page 160


falling out

Since the falling out with his neighbor they have kept their distance.


sputtering

Nom : participe présent de sputter (« pulvériser »).

Discours rapide et confus, aussi accompagné de postillons.

I have little memory of the rest of the meeting. At one point the waitress offered me more coffee, and when my only response was incoherent sputtering, BJ answered for me, “I think she’s buzzing enough already.”

J’ai peu de souvenirs du reste de la réunion. À un moment donné, la serveuse m’a offert plus de café, et lorsque ma seule réponse a été des mots confus et incohérents, B.J. a répondu pour moi : « Je pense qu’elle est déjà assez excitée comme ça. »

Selina Fillinger, The origins of Faceless' sur Northlight Theatre, 12 septembre 2016

Fonctionnement irrégulier, perturbé, peu efficace de quelque chose : soubresaut, pétarade, raté, etc.

The hour may be early, and the air outside may be moist, but cruisers merrily crowd the decks when the heavy machinery and narrow locks come into view. Some of these cruisers neither know nor care how the engines in their automobiles work at home, but they’ll gather in throngs to marvel at the idea that the gates of these locks are driven by the sputterings of a mere 40-horsepower motor.

L’heure a beau être matinale, et l’air extérieur humide, mais les passagers de la croisière se pressent joyeusement sur les ponts, lorsque les machines lourdes et les écluses étroites entrent en vue. Certains de ces passagers ne savent ni ne se soucient du fonctionnement des moteurs de leurs automobiles à la maison, mais se rassemblent en foule pour s’émerveiller de l’idée que les portes de ces écluses sont actionnées par les pétarades d’un simple moteur de 40 chevaux.

Christopher Reynolds, « Rite of Passage : The Panama Canal is 51 miles of ‘the greatest liberty man has ever taken with nature’--and a prized jewel in the cruise-lover’s crown. », dans Los Angeles Times, 18 septembre 1994 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-18-tr-40024-story.html texte intégral

Despite Western sanctions over Ukraine and the sputterings of a slowing Chinese economy, new names are lining up at the BRICS summit to join the club of emerging world giants whose fortunes seem tied to the whims of world commodity prices.

Malgré les sanctions occidentales découlant de la situation en Ukraine et les ratés d’une économie chinoise en voie de ralentissement, de nouveaux noms font la queue au sommet des BRICS pour rejoindre le club des géants mondiaux émergents, dont les fortunes semblent liées aux caprices des prix mondiaux des matières premières.

Andrew Hilliar, Rebecca Gnignati, Annarosa Zampaglione, Ton of BRICS? Putin defies West with global summit sur Northlight Theatre, 22 octobre 2024

Pulvérisation : éjection d’atomes d’un solide (ou liquide) par bombardement de particules énergétiques.

The total calculated exospheric density at the lunar surface of about 1×10⁷ m⁻³ as result of solar wind sputtering we find is much less than the experimental total exospheric density of about 10¹² m⁻³. We conclude that sputtering contributes only a small fraction of the total exosphere, at least close to the surface.

La densité exosphérique totale [de particules] d’environ 1×10⁷ m⁻³ due à la pulvérisation par le vent solaire, que nous obtenons par calcul à la surface lunaire, est de loin inférieure à la densité exosphérique totale expérimentale d’environ 10¹² m⁻³. Nous concluons que la pulvérisation n’apporte qu’une faible contribution à l’exosphère totale, au moins près de la surface.

P. Wurz, U. Rohner, J.A. Whitby, C. Kolb, H. Lammer, P. Dobnikar, J.A. Martín-Fernández, « The lunar exosphere: The sputtering contribution », dans Icarus, nᵒ 2, 15 novembre 2007, vol. 191, page 486–496 https://wurz.space.unibe.ch/YICAR8287.pdf texte intégral


calendaring

Utilisation d’un calendrier informatisé pour gérer les événements et les rendez-vous.

[…] the standard email and calendaring functions of Outlook […]

Rand Morimoto, Miscrosoft Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed, 2004, page 741


bickering

There is no room for bickering when it comes to coronavirus.


sobering

more sobering (comparative)
most sobering (superlative)

She gave the committee some sobering statistics.

Elle a cité au comité des statistiques qui donnent beaucoup à réfléchir.


narrowing

Restriction d'une variable à certains types spécifiques.

It looks at these special checks (called type guards) and assignments, and the process of refining types to more specific types than declared is called narrowing.

(anglais) Narrowing sur https://www.typescriptlang.org


overarching

\ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃɪŋ\

many of the points of tension between blockchain and the GDPR are due to two overarching factors.

Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation, Brussels, European Union, 2019, PE 634.445, ISBN: 978-92-846-5044-6, doi: 10.2861/535, QA-02-19-516-EN-N


backscattering

Dérivé de backscatter, avec le suffixe -ing.

It is usually a diffuse reflection due to scattering, as opposed to specular reflection as from a mirror, although specular backscattering can occur at normal incidence with a surface. Backscattering has important applications in astronomy, photography, and medical ultrasonography.

Backscatter sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


bludgeoning

Dérivé de bludgeon, avec le suffixe -ing.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley, Invictus (poème), 1888


staunchly

"Why I'm Staunchly Pro-America" is a book written by David Cameron.


sprawling

Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle.

Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle, BBC, 2018-02-02


spiraling

(Adjectif) Du participe présent. La spirale est une chose dont le diamètre augmente indéfiniment.

Vale Faces Spiraling Losses After Brazil Dam Collapse

Samantha Pearson,The Wall Street Journal, 2019-01


woofing

et verbe) Formé du verbe woof et du suffixe -ing.

The dog's woofings are welcoming us home every evening.

: Les aboiements du chien nous accueillent tous les soirs à notre retour à la maison.


woofing

(XXᵉ siècle) Dérivé de l’acronyme WWOOF, de Willing Worker On Organic Farms, «travailleur bénévole dans une ferme d'agriculture biologique», une organisation créée en 1971 ^([1]).

Woofing, participation dans une structure d’agriculture biologique à travers le monde.

If you are looking for an adventure, woofing is a way to discover New Zealand.

: Si vous cherchez l'aventure, le woofing est une façon de découvrir la Nouvelle-Zélande.

Diane Spodarek,Wild Green Yonder - Great Book on Woofing , 21 septembre 2008


hedging

She grew tired of his constant hedging.


grimpen

Apparaît comme toponyme dans Le Chien des Baskerville d'Arthur Conan Doyle en 1902 (« the great Grimpen Mire »), repris par T. S. Eliot dans le poème East Coker en 1940, le mot est introduit dans le supplément à lOxford English Dictionary paru en 1972.

In the middle, not only in the middle of the way
But all the way, in a dark wood, in a bramble,
On the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold,
And menaced by monsters, fancy lights,
Risking enchantment.


unused

Dérivé de used avec le préfixe négatif un-.

more unused (comparative)
most unused (superlative)

I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.


whitewashing

\ˈwaɪt.ˌwɔːʃ.ɪŋ\

Représentation révisionniste ou négationniste centrant et favorisant les personnes blanches.

But this kind of categorization is very debatable and has been called out for “whitewashing” history. If we mean murder perpetrated by guns, the worst “mass shooting” in American history was the “Wounded Knee Massacre” in South Dakota, when 150-300 Native Americans were gunned down by the U.S. army in South Dakota.

The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Was Not in Orlando par Paul Ratner pour Big Think le 14 juin 2016


tooting

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

These tootings can be sometimes heard at the distance of a mile.

Sewell Newhouse,John Humphrey Noyes, The Trapper’s Guide, 1867.


googling

I feel somewhat like that right now as we begin these googlings about God.

JohnCox, Googling God, Harvest House Publishers, 2008, page 33


strangury

Strangury is a frequent need to urinate, when the bladder is largely empty or with little urine.


double standard

For example, when discussing relationships, she admitted that she believed in a "reverse double standard".


gaslighting

Dérivé de gaslight, avec le suffixe -ing.

Action de tromper une personne de telle sorte qu’elle doute de sa propre mémoire, de sa perception de la réalité ou de sa santé mentale, généralement pour des raisons malveillantes.

In the Disney movie, Oz, the Great and Powerful, Oz’s gaslighting schemes showcase his extreme case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Dans le film de Disney, Le Monde fantastique d’Oz, les combines de manipulation d’Oz présentent son cas extrême de trouble de la personnalité narcissique.

Victoria Summit, Dancing in the Gaslight: Recognizing Domestic Abuse is Half the Battle, Scarlett Publishing, 2013, page 14

This is a classic bit of gaslighting by Trump. He’s trying to make you believe that the way you remember the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol isn’t, actually, how it played out.

C’est un exemple typique de manipulation par Trump. Il tente de vous faire croire que votre souvenir de l’insurrection du 6 janvier au Capitole ne correspond pas à ce qui s’est réellement passé.

(anglais) Chris Cillizza, Donald Trump is gaslighting us on the January 6 riot sur CNN, 2021-09-17


retouching

Dérivé de retouch, avec le suffixe -ing.

Retouching is where the toolmaker has carefully shaped the edges of a tool with further strikes – to either sharpen or blunt them off.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 108


haemorrhaging

On the other hand, web-based institutions’ insistence that we all hold dozens of unguessable streams of letters and numbers in our heads, or else risk haemorrhaging cash and privacy, seems a heavy yoke for us to bear for those companies’ trading convenience.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 75


nosediving

(Nom) De nose « nez », et de dive « plonger », avec le suffixe -ing.

Fait de piquer du nez, de descendre brutalement.

It was very unfortunate they could not recover the airplane from the persistence of nosediving.

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots ’could not stop nosedive’, BBC News, 2019-04-04


body-con

Du japonais ボディコン, bodikon, ellipse de ボディーコンシャス, bodī konshasu, lui-même issu de l’anglais body conscious (« conscient de son corps ») créé par Azzedine Alaïa.

Bodycon, moulant, en parlant d’une robe.

The great thing about a body-con dress is that it pulls the two most important areas in and up — your chest and backside — making your boobs and bum look fabulous.

Ce qui est bien avec une robe moulante, c’est qu’elle serre et pousse vers le haut les deux parties les plus importantes — la poitrine et le bas du dos — rendant vos seins et votre derrière fabuleux.

« Your guide to the ultimate body-con dress diet » (Votre guide pour le parfait régime pour robe moulante), The Daily Mirror, 12 octobre 2009


ironstone

Ironstone is a kind of concretionary iron ore mixed with carbonaceous matter.


metalling

Surface d'une route, particulièrement en gravier.

Some Roman roads have been discovered with multiple layers of pebble and gravel metalling, but these are likely to be the results of later repairs, rather than a construction feature from the outset.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 116


destructuring

Destructuring is the process of decomposing a compound object into its component parts, using an abbreviated, declarative syntax, rather than writing it out by hand using the primitive component-accessing functions.


f**king

more f**king (comparative)
most f**king (superlative)

‘1-0 and you f**ked it up!’ chant the Irons fans, followed by the not very witty but certainly concise ‘You’re f**king shit, you’re f**king shit!’

Pete May, Goodbye To Boleyn, 2016,ISBN 9781785901980


gasconade

to gasconade (infinitive)
gasconades (present third-person singular)
gasconaded (preterite)
gasconaded (participle past)
gasconading (participle present)
Gasconade

Cyrano de Bergerac gasconades everytimes.

Cyrano de Bergerac se vante en permanence.


umami

(1963) Emprunté au japonais うま味, umami (« saveur délicieuse »), nommé ainsi en 1908 par Kikunae Ikeda.

Glutamic acid (Glu) elicits a unique taste (umami) in human sensations, and is particularly important in food science.

L'acide glutamique (Glu) provoque un goût unique (umami) dans les sensations humaines et est particulièrement important en science alimentaire.

Yojiro Kawamura et al., Umami: a basic taste : physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, food science, 1987


bonfire

Composé de bone (« os ») et de fire (« feu »).

Bonfire Night

la nuit du 5 au 6 novembre en Angleterre où il est de tradition d’allumer des feux de joie et de tirer des fusées pour célébrer l’échec de la conjuration des poudres.

On Bonfire Night, English people gather round bonfires to burn Guys Fawkes.

Lors de la Bonfire Night, les Anglais se rassemblent autour de feux de joie pour brûler des Guy Fawkes.


teens

She is in her teens.


reap

Du moyen anglais repen, qui vient du vieil anglais repan.

to reap (infinitive)
reaps (present third-person singular)
reaped (preterite)
reaped (participle past)
reaping (participle present)

The farm workers used to spend long hours in the fields manually reaping the wheat.

reap the harvest

reap the rewards


A-team

La lettre A désigne habituellement la plus haute qualité. Team signifie « équipe ».

It looks like the A team are on duty tonight - I've never seen the hall cleared so quickly!

La meilleure équipe d'un club de sports.

The A team are playing away this Saturday.


pickpocketing

Dérivé de pickpocket, avec le suffixe -ing.

Vol à la tire ; délit réalisé par un pickpocket.

Pickpocketing is one of the most common crimes in cities.

Le vol à la tire est un des délits les plus courants dans les villes.


hops

Fleurs séchées de houblon, utilisées pour parfumer la bière.

Beer is made from hops, barley, wheat, and water.


hands off

Cars with ‘Level 2’ driver assistance systems will be able to be operated ‘hands-off’ and allow lane changes initiated by the system when the driver has their hands on the wheel – but these features will only be allowed on motorways for now.

UN working party cautious on driving features that blur the lines between human and automated driving, ETSC, January 31, 2025


aemulating

Cette dernière est très courante, le caractère « æ » n’étant pas disponible sur clavier QWERTY qui est le plus utilisé chez les anglophones.

At last overconfident of his present actions, and aemulating others, of whose deeds he heard from abroad, marches up as farr as Mona, the Ile of Anglesey, a populous place.

traduction :Finalement, trop confiant dans ses actions présentes et imitant d'autres dont il a entendu parler les actes à l'étranger, il marche jusqu'à Mona sur l'île d'Anglesey, un endroit populeux.

Aleks Matza , Boudica, éd. Xlibris, 2010


retightening

This retightening reforms the seal and is often effective in stopping the leak.

George E. Totten, Handbook of Lubrication and Tribology : Volume I Application and Maintenance,2ᵉ édition, CRC Press, 2010, ISBN 9781420003840

There is also the case of Pomme's patients who stay in the water for hours hoping for a retightening of their organs that will eliminate their “obstructions” and “engorgements.”

Georges Vigarello, The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, Columbia University Press, 2013,ISBN 9780231535304

One of the most important results of this process was a retightening of the country's religious policy.

Christopher Marsh, Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival, and Revival, Continuum, 2011,ISBN 9781441112477, page 224


précising

To be honest, I didn’t read all of it and may be précising here.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 150


X out

La lettre X, qui a la forme d’une croix, remplace parfois le mot cross (« croix »), en composition.

to X out (infinitive)
Xes out (present third-person singular)
Xed out (preterite)
Xed out (participle past)
Xing out (participle present)

On a close to final copy the title The Way We Die Now has Now Xed out and replaced with Today. Then Today is Xed out and Now is returned to its place.


on its face

On its face, the move obviously makes sense.


shucks

Réponse exclamatoire à une déception mineure.

Woodworking has everything to do with learning to listen to your material and then doing your best to cooperate with its requirements (shucks, that’s actually pretty good marriage advice as well—if you sweeten it up a bit).

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 45


jitters

It gives me the jitters every time that I think about it.


cost-effective

Composé de cost (« coût ») et de effective (« efficace »).

more cost-effective (comparative)
most cost-effective (superlative)

Modeling, in the broadest sense, is the cost-effective use of something in place of something else for some cognitive purpose.

La modélisation, dans le sens le plus large, est l'utilisation rentable d'une chose à la place d'une autre dans un but cognitif.

Rothenberg, J. 1989. The nature of modeling. In L.E. Widman, K.A. Loparo and N.R. Nielsen (Eds.), Artificial intelligence, simulation & modeling. New York: Wiley.


exudes

Troisième personne du singulier du présent de exude.

An emboldened Iran with the Iraqi government playing to its tune, exudes external strength, even if the ruling faction has become internally divided, although not to the extent to lose its grip on power.

Amin Saikal, Zone of crisis : Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2014, pages 10 et 11


turpid

… things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856 ; traduction Eleanor Marx-Aveling

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!


cantata

A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.


Lazarus

Lazarus Aaronson.


Lazarus

Emma Lazarus.


redistricting

gerrymander

faire le découpage dans le but de favoriser un parti politique

gerrymandering

découpage électoral partisan, charcutage électoral

During redistricting, there is a lot of partisan politics.


repeat breeding

De repeat et de breeding soit « saillies répétées ».

Cas d'infertilité des femelles dans lequel de nombreuses saillies permettent d'aboutir à une fécondation.

Dans le cas de repeat breeding, plusieurs saillies ou inséminations sont nécessaires pour féconder les femelles. L'incidence économique peut être importante pour le troupeau. Les causes en sont variées…

Meyer, C., Denis, J.-P. ed. sci., Elevage de la vache laitière en zone tropicale, 314 p., page 162, 1999, Montpellier, Cirad, Collection Techniques


skylight

A skylight is a window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

Un puits de lumière est une fenêtre, un dôme, ou une ouverture dans le toit ou le plafond, pour admettre la lumière naturelle.


hallow

et Verbe 2) De l’ancien français halloer.

Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.

Robin Hood’s Chase, réimprimé dans, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications,ISBN 0486431479, page 206, 1777

I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel’s bows.

William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, page 14, 1772


hallow

Du moyen anglais halwen (« sanctifier »), issu du vieil anglais halgian (« sancitifer »), lui-même issu du proto-germanique *χailagōjanan (« rendre sacré »), dérivé de *χailagaz (« sacré »), issu du proto-germanique *χailaz (« sûr »), issu du proto-indo-européen *koil- (« sûr, sain »).

to hallow (infinitive)
hallows (present third-person singular)
hallowed (preterite)
hallowed (participle past)
hallowing (participle present)

Come hallow the goblet with something more true
Than words we forget in a minute.

Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, page 324, 1847


coppice

Du moyen anglais copies, emprunt à l’ancien français copeiz (« taillis »), dérivé de coper, colper « couper ».

Taillis ; bois coupés de temps en temps pour servir de chauffage ou pour promouvoir la croissance et assurer un apport continu de bois de construction (planches, etc.).

If sustainably maintained, a stand of hardwood trees actually benefits from careful thinning, known in England as maintaining a coppice.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 48


clientele

(Date à préciser) Du français clientèle, issu du latin clientela.

The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor”.

La clientèle des bars appelait Foucault « Herr Doktor. »

ChrisHorrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, 1997, page 34 ISBN 1840460865


concoction

They could then analyze their concoctions for signatures of bacteria and algae.

The first animals evolved during the absolute worst time on Earth, The Washington Post, 2017-08-17


yardbird

Ce mot est principalement utilisé aux États-Unis.

The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm.

John P. Conrad, "Charting a Course for Imprisonment Policy," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 478, page 126, 1985

Troufion, soldat qui effectue les corvées.

As the Marines expanded to war strength, Lou Diamond was the ideal liaison between crusty old-timers and impressionable recruits. He taught quick action by threats of yardbird detail.


liven

to liven (infinitive)
livens (present third-person singular)
livened (preterite)
livened (participle past)
livening (participle present)

Let’s liven up the mood a bit.


twenties

She is in her twenties.


forties

She is in her forties.


fifties

She is in her fifties.


sixties

She is in her sixties.


seventies

She is in her seventies.


eighties

She is in her eighties.


menses

In answering that her menses were regular and that she was not pregnant, Mrs. Payne acted in good faith, believing such answers to be true.

Supreme Court of Texas, The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, volume 101, p. 453. Gammel-Statesman publishing Company, 1909.

Generally women in all castes, at least women 50 years old and younger, bathed and then cooked during their menses, and in some cases had sexual intercourse with their husbands.

Ruth S. Freed & Stanley A. Freed, « Rites of passage in Shanti Nagar »,chapitre « Marriage », sous-chapitre « Age at Wedding and Attitudes Toward Females », p. 408 [p. 90 dans le document PDF]. American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 56, nᵒ 3, 1980.

If women did not mention it themselves, I also asked whether they could have sexual intercourse during their menses, to which all stated that no, they could not.

Denise Roth Allen, Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk : Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania,chapitre 7 (« Risk and Tradition »), p. 130. University of Michigan Press, 2002 [première éd.].


Cydonia

In legend Cydonia was founded by King Cydon, a son of Hermes and of Akakallis, the daughter of King Minos.


catalysis

Du grec ancien κατάλυσις, katalysis (« dissolution »).

Catalysis is the change in rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of a substance called a catalyst.


backscatter

(Date à préciser)Composé de back et de scatter.

In particular, X-ray backscatter is the main technology deployed and operated in the US and the UK.

Plus particulièrement, la rétrodiffusion de rayons X constitue la principale technologie mise en service et exploitée aux États-Unis ainsi qu'au Royaume-Uni.

Commission européenne, Use of Security Scanners at EU airports (Utilisation de scanners de sûreté dans les aéroports de l’UE), 15 juin, 2010

Backscatter X-ray.

In photography, backscatter (also called near-camera reflection) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to the camera's flash being reflected from unfocused motes of dust, water droplets, or other particles in the air or water.

En photographie, les orbes sont un phénomène optique représenté par des taches blanches ou blanchâtres, souvent transparentes, de taille variable et de forme circulaire qui apparaissent parfois sur les photos.


backscatter

to backscatter (infinitive)
backscatters (present third-person singular)
backscattered (preterite)
backscattered (participle past)
backscattering (participle present)

Backscatter systems illuminate the body with a low dose of X-rays and measure the backscattered radiation to create a two-dimensional image of the body.

Les systèmes à rétrodiffusion consistent à exposer le corps à une faible dose de rayons X et à mesurer le rayonnement rétrodiffusé afin de reconstituer une image du corps à deux dimensions.


zeitgeist

zeitgeists (plural)
zeitgeister (plural)

Esprit du temps, ambiance intellectuelle et spirituelle d’une époque.

We’re in touch with the zeitgeist, but are too down-to-earth to be impressed.

Nous sommes en phase avec l'esprit du temps, mais nous sommes trop terre à terre pour être impressionnés.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 116


z’s

De l’onomatopée zzz utilisée pour indiquer que quelqu’un dort.

It’s just a story, I tell myself, and with the lights so dim, maybe I’ll be able to catch a few z’s.

Monique Polak, The Middle of Everywhere, 2009, ISBN 9781554695096, p. 29


fruticose

du latin fruticosus : qui ressemble à un buisson.

Some lichens adopt shrubby forms : there are fruticose lichens


sequuntur

To the north is where the shipwreck occurred. So it takes a stretch of imagination to figure those statutes (et sequuntur) authorize the governor to practice napalming shipwrecks floundering half-mired on the sand spit slightly north of Coos Bay.

"Paddy O’Connolly" (nom d’utilisateur),By What Authority Did Dr. Death Nuke Coos Bay????, sci.engr.coastal, Usenet, 23 octobre 1999


cling

Du vieil anglais clingan « être collé ensemble », d’origine germanique; cf. le moyen néerlandais klingen « adhérer », le moyen haut-allemand klingen « grimper »

to cling (infinitive)
clings (present third-person singular)
clung (preterite)
clung (participle past)
clinging (participle present)

She clung to Joe's arm.


remand

to remand (infinitive)
remands (present third-person singular)
remanded (preterite)
remanded (participle past)
remanding (participle present)

(par exemple, mais pas exclusivement, avec le complément « in custody ») Envoyer en détention provisoire.

However, each year several thousand people are remanded in custody awaiting trial for offences for which they would be unlikely to receive a custodial sentence if they were convicted, because the offence of which they are accused is not serious enough to warrant it.

Robert McPeake (sous la direction de),Criminal Litigation and Sentencing (23rd edition), page 52. Oxford University Press, 2011.

(avec le complément « on bail ») Libérer sous caution.

The court dealing with bail issues is not the court of trial but is solely concerned with whether the defendant should be retained in custody or remanded on bail.

Joint Committee on Human Rights (House of Lords & Jouse of Commons),Counter-Terrorism Policy and Hulman Rights (Eighth Report): Counter-Terrorism Bill: Ninth Report of Session 2007-08, page 26.

Renvoyer une affaire devant une juridiction de rang inférieur.

New matters also should not be considered at resentencing when the case was remanded only for reconsiderations of specific issues.

Jefri Wood,Guideline Sentencing : An Outline of Appellate Case Law On Selected Issues : September 2002, page 18. Federal Judicial Center, 2002.


qamutiik

Maniq placed a qamutiik on its side for Nuqallaq to hide behind.

Shelagh Grant , Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923,page 80, 2005


handsomer

handsome (positive)
handsomest (superlative)

Handsomer you couldn’t look to get, not you.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 163. 1883.


sartorial

more sartorial (comparative)
most sartorial (superlative)

His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials.

Jay Parini, By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 décembre 2001, B24

Suits are full of joy. They are the sartorial equivalent of a baby’s smile.

Carter Bays & Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother, CBS, Episode 2ALH14, 2007


making-of

(Date à préciser)Composé de making (« réalisation, genèse ») et de of (« de »), littéralement « réalisation, genèse du film ».

Making of ; film documentaire relatant le tournage ou la production d’un film ou d’une œuvre audiovisuelle.

The making-of film may ultimately be more important than the film itself.

Le film du tournage pourrait finalement être plus important que le film lui-même.


deliberation

Du latin deliberatio. → voir deliberate et -tion

\dɪˌlɪb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\

\dɪˌlɪb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\

dɪˌlɪb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən

\dɪˌlɪb.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən\

the deliberation of the council

After some deliberation, he came to a conclusion.


hebetude

Incuriousness was the most potent ally of our imposed order; for Eastern government rested not so much on consent or force, as on the common supinity, hebetude, lack-a-daisiness, which gave a minority undue effect.

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926


deterred

(Adjectif) (XVIIᵉ siècle) Du participe passé du verbe to deter.

Home buyers not deterred by rising mortgage rates or home prices

Empêché de faire ce qu’on veut, ou ce qu’on doit.

No judge should be deterred by fear of abuse


ragged

À propos d'une structure de données : irrégulière.

a ragged array, consisting of a number of arrays of varying size


jammed

This implies that in a jamming environment, within the jammed area, the use of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and stock trading would not be possible.

Cela signifie que dans un environnement de brouillage, au sein de la zone brouillée, l’utilisation d’un distributeur automatique de billets (DAB) et les échanges boursiers ne seraient pas possibles.

Lieutenant colonel Tim Vasen (DEU A, JAPCC), «Is NATO Ready for Galileo? How the Combination of GPS and Galileo could Increase NATO’s Resiliency in PNT », The Journal of the JAPCC, juin 2019


do it

to do it (infinitive)
does it (present third-person singular)
did it (preterite)
done it (participle past)
doing it (participle present)

I did it with your husband.

A green shirt with orange slacks really doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid.

J’ai bien peur qu’une chemise verte avec un pantalon orange ne le fassent vraiment pas pour moi.


that does it

That does it, I'm going home.

Cela suffit, je rentre chez moi.


infundibulum

The alveolar sacs of the lungs from which the air chambers (alveoli) open are called infundibula.


patented

We use a patented technology.


unhinged

more unhinged (comparative)
most unhinged (superlative)

Some speaker once said the Republican base was very unhinged.


flaneur

“Portsmouth is a flaneur’s dream come true, a place that simply begs to be explored randomly and on foot.”

Barry Estarbrook, Gourmet magazine, octobre 2009, Good Living, page 57


curtained

he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour

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


ankled

Ayant un certain type de cheville. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

He rides a white-ankled horse.

Il monte un cheval aux chevilles blanches.


turned on

My niece turned on 29 Monday.


circumstanced

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapitre XIV, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986, page 88


PCR

Désigne un matériau issu du recyclage d’objets provenant de la collecte sélective d’ordures.

In May 2021, U.K. brand owner Sauce Connections introduced Re:Water, a refillable bottled spring water product sourced from Herefordshire, U.K.’s Berrington Water, packaged in Tecnocap’s 100% PCR aluminum bottle, which the supplier says is a world first for spring water.

En mai 2021, le propriétaire britannique de la marque, Sauce Connections, a présenté Re:Water, de l’eau de source du Herefordshire, de la britannique Berrington Water, en bouteille rechargeable ; l’emballage est une bouteille de Tecnocap en aluminium 100 % recyclé après collecte, une première mondiale pour l’eau de source selon le fournisseur.

(anglais) Anne Marie Mohan, Re:Water is First in the Market with a 100% PCR Aluminum Bottle sur Packaging World, 2022-02-23. Consulté le 2022-02-28


pitfall

(Date à préciser)Composé de pit (« trou ») et de fall (« tomber »).

A pitfall is a potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.

Un écueil est un problème potentiel, risque ou danger que l’on rencontre facilement mais n’est pas immédiatement évident.

It’s usually a simple task, but you should know the pitfalls before you attempt it yourself.

C’est habituellement une tâche simple, mais vous devriez connaître les pièges avant de vous y essayer vous-même.

In software engineering, a pitfall is a pattern that may be commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in practice

En génie logiciel, un anti-patron est un patron qui peut être couramment utilisé mais est inefficace et/ou contre-productif en pratique.


vicariance

[…] the difference between vicariance and disjunction is one of degree only.

Clive A.Stace, Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics, page 161


John Lennon glasses

Du patronyme du chanteur britannique John Lennon.

Lunettes avec des lentilles rondes, interprété comme donnant un air d’intellectuel.

Everyone in New York
Had a position on Shanker,
A story about garbage,
An unconventional sex life,
John Lennon glasses, […]

Judith Viorst, "New York Visit, 1969", New York Magazine 2 (no.14): 43, 7 avril 1969

" […] Or, I could go to Harvard Square, browse the coffee shops wearing my John Lennon glasses, and look for an intellectual who’s smart enough to see the woman inside."

Barbara Delinsky, A Woman’s Place, page 335, 1998

A bookish young man with John Lennon glasses looked up, smiled, and answered in a northern accent. "The tool is calibrated. Just waiting to hit total depth."


comport

to comport (infinitive)
comports (present third-person singular)
comported (preterite)
comported (participle past)
comporting (participle present)

Être en accord (avec) (with), se conformer à (with), s’accorder avec (with). (à partir du 16ᵉ siècle)

The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.

Les nouvelles règles ne semblent pas être en accord avec l’esprit du club.

Se comporter, se conduire. (à partir du 17ᵉ siècle)

She comported herself with grace.


fabulously

Dérivé de fabulous, avec le suffixe -ly.

The show turned out fabulously.

fabulously wealthy


intempestivity

Du latin intempestivitas. Apparenté au français intempestivité.

I do not know if he wrote his own script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk was a masterpiece of intempestivity.

Michael Pertwee, Name Dropping: The Autobiography of Michael Pertwee,page 71 (Frewin; ISBN 0856320714, 9780856320712), 1974


twerp

Now you’ve broken it, you twerp!

Maintenant tu l’as cassé(e), espèce d’imbécile !

Personne inférieure, petite, insignifiante.

Get out of my way, you little twerp!

Dégage de ma route, espèce de petit minable !


undownable

If ever there was an example of sheer pluck and undownable determination it is right here […]

Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association, Official Monthly Bulletin, 1923

There is the undownable legend that […]

[…] the truth which came home with such undownable conviction […]

Frank N. Riale, Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life, 1998

The SR-71 is claimed to be undownable by virtue of its altitude and speed.

Andrew Pavacic,"Why are our ASMs smaller than theirs?", sci.military.naval, Usenet, 1998

[…] this paranoic attempt to discredit the credible, and down the undownable.

Edmond Wollmann,"A Challenge Lazzwaldo AKA anonym or whatever it is", sci.skeptic, Usenet, 1998

I did not go as far as that either. I only went as far as stating that an American warplane is almost undownable and an American warship is unsinkable.

kinara,"Taiwan is NOT able defeat any invasion", soc.culture.china, Usenet, 1999


fourth brain

De fourth (quatrième) et brain (cerveau).

Incidentally, I recently learned that the heart, with its 30,000 neurons, is now considered to be the “fourth brain” because there is neurophysiological proof of what poets, mystics, and ancient tradition have always asserted: the heart, not the brain, is the center of our being and is capable of “knowing” on an emotional and intuitive level of its own.


cilium

In eukaryotes, cilia and flagella together make up a group of organelles known as undulipodia.


sericulture

Peut-être emprunté au français sériculture, lui-même issu du français sériciculture, du latin sericum avec le français culture. Le mot sēricum est dérivé de sēricus, issu du grec ancien Σῆρες, pluriel de Σήρ qui pourrait être issu de l’ancien chinois 絲 (*slɯ, « soiz »).

\ˈsɛɹɪˌkʌltʃə\

Despite James I’s order that every English village should plant a mulberry tree (the silkworm larvae subsist on mulberry leaves), our climate had never allowed sericulture to thrive here.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 86


RMS

\ˌɑɹ.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\

\ˌɑː.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\

Abréviation précédant le nom de paquebots de la Grande-Bretagne.

RMS Titanic, RMS Queen Mary 2.


RMS

\ˌɑɹ.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\

\ˌɑː.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\

RMS value.

RMS current.


hone

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

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


thicket

Du vieil anglais þiccet, composé de þicce (« épais ») et du suffixe -et.

A thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees.

Un fourré est une pousse dense mais généralement petite d’arbustes, de buissons ou de petits arbres.


anon

Du vieil anglais anon (« dans un [moment] ») → voir on et one.

The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it.

The dead man answered thus:
“What good gift shall God give us?”
The boards answered him anon:
“Flesh to feed hell's worm upon.”

As it shall better appear anon.

Sometimes he trots, […] anon he rears upright.


defector

How Paris got the information is not our concern. We’ve been asked to find out where the defector is being hidden.

Comment Paris a obtenu l’information ne nous concerne pas. On nous a demandé de découvrir où se cache le transfuge.

Réplique du personnage de René D’Arcy, en réponse à André Devereaux, vers 17 minutes, dans le film Topaz (1969), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock, sur un scénario de Samuel A. Taylor et Leon Uris, basé sur le roman éponyme (1967) de ce dernier.


floccinaucinihilipilification

Jeux de mot étoniencomposé de floccus, naucum, nihil, pilus et -fication.

\ˌflɒksɪˌnɒsɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən\

Action ou habitude de tenir quelque chose pour triviale et non importante.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, 1970


fearsome

Dérivé de fear (« peur »), avec le suffixe -some (suffixe qui caractérisés selon une qualité), littéralement « caractérisé par la peur ».

more fearsome (comparative)
most fearsome (superlative)

a fearsome beast.


frantically

Dérivé de frantic (« éperdu, paniqué, frénétique »), avec le suffixe -ally.

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Éperdument, frénétiquement ; de manière éperdue, paniquée, frénétique.

He frantically grabbed for support as he began to fall.


franticly

Dérivé de frantic (« éperdu, paniqué, frénétique »), avec le suffixe -ly.


alveolar echinococcosis

Alveolar echinococcoses and sarcoptic mange, the red fox is a concern for public as well as domestic and wild animal health, especially in areas with high human density (e.g. Trewhella & Harris 1988, Hofer et al 2000).


clownboard

An expert cabinetmaker among other skills, Kenny built the most beautiful clown board the world has ever seen. Zack and I painted it — four clown faces leering in a sea of white. […] If we set the clownboard a "fair" distance from the counter, marks couldn’t get the ball in and complained that it was a rip-off. […] The clownboard just didn’t grab the marks — or maybe we didn’t. […] After a few days recuperating from the shock of the failure of the clownboard and the undeniable success of the fishpond, we had time to meet our neighbors.

Barbara Bamberger Scott, With it : a year on the carnival trail, pages 22, 25 et 29, 2004, Behler

It's the anti-Clownboard.

Were you riding a Clownboard this morning?


terrific

more terrific (comparative)
most terrific (superlative)

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I say! She’s a terrific tennis player.

Je dis qu'elle est une formidable joueuse de tennis.

The car came round the bend at a terrific speed.

La voiture pris le virage a une vitesse incroyable.

The lightning was followed by a terrific clap of thunder.

La lumière fût suivie d'un terrifiant claquement d'éclair.

I’ve got a terrific hangover this morning.


cram

to cram (infinitive)
crams (present third-person singular)
crammed (preterite)
crammed (participle past)
cramming (participle present)

He crammed himself with chips


dulse

Du gaélique irlandais duileasc et du gaélique écossais duileasg. À comparer au gallois delysg.

Goémon à vache, algue à vache, dulse, rhodyménie palmé.

Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’

‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 151, 1997

They worked together on their father’s patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; … but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

Joseph O’Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 90, 2002


blasphemy

I won't stay here and listen to blasphemy!


faerie

Fanged immortal protagonists, lycanthropic lovers, and fanciful faeries have become a welcome addition to the bodice-ripping heroines and shirtless, sword-wielding pirates that have traditionally served as the mainstay of romance novel covers.

Tonya Keyser, Passion for the Paranormal, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 34, No. 6, novembre-décembre 2010


interfamilial

Composé du préfixe inter- et de l’adjectif familial.

I did a lot of reading about early Renaissance vendettas, and the interfamilial violence is horrifying.

Roslyn Sulcas,“O Romeo, Romeo, Wilst Thou Smile at This Finale?”, New York Times, 29 juin 2008


naturalize

Dérivé de natural, avec le suffixe -ize.

to naturalize (infinitive)
naturalizes (present third-person singular)
naturalized (preterite)
naturalized (participle past)
naturalizing (participle present)
naturalise

\næt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz\

\ˈnæt͡ʃɹəˌlaɪz\

Because of the senator's parentage, he did not have to follow the lengthy naturalization process that aliens without American parents must undergo. Instead, Cruz was naturalized at birth. This provision has not always been available. For example, there were several decades in the 19th century when children of Americans born abroad were not given automatic naturalization.

Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president


interreligious

Mr. Weigel delivers the latest rendition of his case in the April issue of First Things, an interreligious neoconservative monthly.

Peter Steinfels,“A Catholic Debate Mounts on the Meaning of ‘Just War’”, New York Times, 14 avril 2007


Lower Normandy

Composé de l'adjectif lower (inférieur) et du nom propre Normandy (Normandie) ; calque du Français Basse-Normandie.

Basse-Normandie, l’une des 22 anciennes régions administratives françaises, désormais intégrée (depuis 2016) à la région de Normandie avec la Haute-Normandie.

During the Second World War, the main thrust of Operation Overlord was focused on Lower Normandy.


drinky

Do Baby wants a drinky?


straightforwardly

For others, the year has been more straightforwardly upbeat.

Pour d'autres, l'année a été plus nettement optimiste.

Noises off theatre blog, The Guardian, décembre 2010

The two parties' manifestos made straightforwardly incompatible promises.

Les programmes des deux partis font des promesses carrément incompatibles.

The Tories have let themselves go soft on crime, The Telegraph, décembre 2010


sleep on it

to sleep on it (infinitive)
sleeps on it (present third-person singular)
slept on it (preterite)
slept on it (participle past)
sleeping on it (participle present)

I’ll sleep on it.

You should sleep on it before you make your decision.


first hand

I'm sure of it. I heard it first hand.


first hand

Is the information first hand?


second hand

You can't be sure. She only heard it second hand.


second hand

This is only second hand information.

second hand book shop, librairie d'occasion.


far-fetched

more far-fetched (comparative)
most far-fetched (superlative)
farfetched
far fetched

He told me that he earned one million euro per year, but I told him that this seemed a little far-fetched.

Il m’a dit qu’il touchait un million d’euros par ans, mais je lui ai dit que cela semblait un peu exagéré.


f**k

to f**k (infinitive)
f**ks (present third-person singular)
f**ked (preterite)
f**ked (participle past)
f**king (participle present)

‘1-0 and you f**ked it up!’ chant the Irons fans, followed by the not very witty but certainly concise ‘You’re f**king shit, you’re f**king shit!’

Pete May, Goodbye To Boleyn, 2016,ISBN 9781785901980


f--k

to f--k (infinitive)
f--ks (present third-person singular)
f--ked (preterite)
f--ked (participle past)
f--king (participle present)

I mean it was a real f--ked up place to be.

Bert Useem et Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots 1971-1986, 1991,ISBN 0195360990, p. 112

When asked if she had ever “f--ked up a relationship and had to fix it,” the 44-year-old actress told Girlboss Radio’s Sophia Amoruso in comments posted Wednesday, “Oh my God. I’ve f--ked up so many relationships, so many.”

Corinne Heller,Gwyneth Paltrow: “I’ve F--ked Up So Many Relationships”, E! Online, 30 août 2017


hydrocooler

Hydrocooler (système destiné à refroidir en immergeant dans de l’eau glacée).

Hydrocoolers are advanced precooling systems and methods from TRJ.


awash

more awash (comparative)
most awash (superlative)

Lavé par la marée. Se dit généralement des rochers ou ancres de bateau.

The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.

Le pont était continuellement balayé par la mer qui rentrait à bord sur les rail et dans les gouttières.

The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.

Le paysage de la vallée était plus couvert de verdure il y a 11 000 ans.

2005, Chris Ramirez,2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug


selcouth

Du moyen anglais, issu du vieil anglais selcūþ, seldcūþ (« inhabituel, peu connu, rare, nouveau »), composé de seld- et de cūþ (« connu »).

more selcouth (comparative)
most selcouth (superlative)

ou Étrange, inhabituel, rare ; merveilleux.

‘A selcouth novelty,’ muttered the knight, ‘to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed.’

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Penguin 2000, p. 244, 1814


lewd

(XIVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais leued, issu du vieil anglais læwede d’origine incertaine, probablement du latin vulgaire *laigo-, lui-même du latin tardif laicus (« qui appartient au peuple »).

lewder (comparative)
lewdest (superlative)

Such apparently is the case, according to the Post Millennial, of thousands of dollars of public funds given by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration to fund a rock star’s photoshoot, a lewd art exhibit, and more.

C’est apparemment le cas, selon le Post Millenal, de milliers de dollars de fonds publics donnés par l’administration du Premier Ministre Justin Trudeau pour financer la séance photo d’une rockstar, une exposition érotique et plus.

Lewd Art Exhibit, Rock Star’s Photoshoot Receive Tens of Thousands of Taxpayer Dollars From Trudeau’s Federal Government sur elizabethjohnston.org. Mis en ligne le 6 septembre 2020, consulté le 26 novembre 2020

Lewd and lascivious behavior, at its most basic, is inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature where the victim is someone under 16 years old.

Le comportement lubrique et lascif est, pour faire simple, un comportement inaproprié à caractère sexuel où la victime a moins de 16 ans.

Mike G Law, Lewd and Lascivious Behavior: What It Is and When It’s a Crime. Mis en ligne le 9 janvier 2020, consulté le 26 novembre 2020


Melania

Melania Trump.


(Date à préciser) Origine incertaine. Selon l’Oxford English Dictionary, pourrait provenir de la rime avec nix. Selon The Straight Dope, le terme serait apparu aux États-Unis dans les restaurants des années 1920.

I’ve taken her home a couple of times before she has been 86ed.

1=Samuel D. G. Heath,The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 1997, 2009, page 251


hoo-ha

D'origine inconnue. Peut-être du yiddish הו־האַ, hu-ha (« tintamarre »).

hoo-has (plural)
hoohaa
hoohar
hoo-haa
hoo-har
hoo-hah

There was a big hoo-ha about it in the papers, and then the world completely forgot the matter.

Il y eut beaucoup de bruit autour de ça dans les journaux, et ensuite tout le monde a complètement oublié le sujet.


centiday

Centi-jour ; un centième de jour, ce qui correspond à 14 minutes et 24 secondes.

ABC’s This Day Tonight in Adelaide proudly broke the news on 1 April 1975 that metric time was being introduced to Australia. The new metric time system would see seconds become millidays, minutes become centidays, and hours become decidays.

Auteur inconnu, Talking television.au: There’s an April fool born every centiday, posté sur un blog le 31 mars 2008


happenable

Dérivé de (to) happen avec le suffixe -able.

Historic memory comprehends, 1. The existence of every thing that is happenable. 2. Our noticing it: and 3. Our expressing or fixing it, whether by language, or by any other memorial sign.

The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 89, Partie 2, 1819


as the crow flies

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It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.


look out on

The front window looks out on a beautiful view of the lake.


look up to

As a young child, I always looked up to my father.


pastrami

(1916) Du yiddish פּאַסטראַמע, pastrame, issu du roumain pastramă lui-même du turc pastırma, bastırma. La terminaison -mi serait due à l’influence de salami.

Chief among the year-old restaurant's specialties is smoked meat, a specific type of pastrami popular in Montreal, which is prepared fresh every day, hand carved, and served with mustard on rye bread.

Victor Ozols,The New Butcher: Brooklyn Deli Mile End’s Noah Bernamoff:, BlackBook, 11 janvier 2011


kaput

Last week, Yolele's air-conditioner went kaput, but that did not slow down two young men.


meatgrinder

Boucherie, activité provoquant de nombreux décès.

Last year’s lightning advances gave way to local stalemates and a meatgrinder battle for Kobani, where ISIL troops massing to attack the Kurds on the ground made themselves easy targets for the Americans in the air.

Sydney Freedberg, 4,817 Targets: How Six Months Of Airstrikes Have Hurt ISIL, 11 février 2015


fiduciary

Du latin fiduciarius, dérivé de fiducia (« confiance »).

more fiduciary (comparative)
most fiduciary (superlative)

A fiduciary contract. A fiduciary duty.


garb

He is dressed in soldier's garb.


kiddy fiddler

Quelqu’un qui touche ou agresse sexuellement les enfants.

According to Gus, the main enemies of hackers are not the media, the government or the police ("who are more interested in kiddy fiddlers").

Selon Gus, les principaux ennemis des hackers ne sont pas les médias, le gouvernement ou la police ("qui s’intéresse plus aux pédophiles").

John Leyden, The hacker’s worst enemy? Another hacker, The Register, août 2002


weedlike

Dérivé de weed (« mauvaise herbe »), avec le suffixe -like (« similaire à ; comparable à »), littéralement « comparable à de la mauvaise herbe ».

more weedlike (comparative)
most weedlike (superlative)

Qui ressemble à de la mauvaise herbe, qui se comporte comme une mauvaise herbe.

It is producing many tiny seeds that spread about and sprout up in disturbed habitat in a weedlike manner.


steeply

Dérivé de steep (« escarpé, abrupt »), avec le suffixe -ly, littéralement « de manière escarpée ».

more steeply (comparative)
most steeply (superlative)

sloping steeply downwards


theophoric

Elizabeth is still a common theophoric name, even though El is becoming less well known.


twenty-five/eight

Alternative à twenty-four/seven, c’est-à-dire “twenty-five hours a day, eight days a week” (« vingt-cinq heures par jour, huit jours par semaine »).

“Dang!” Tempest shook her head and rolled her eyes. “You make it sound like homie hangs downtown twenty-five/eight.”


-san

Du japonais さん, -san (« Monsieur, Madame, Mademoiselle »).

Beth Wechsler,Obama-san! President’s book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan, WalletPop, 2009


exclamation point

Composé de exclamation (« exclamation ») et de point (« point »).

The punctuation marks that you must consider include commas, periods, question marks, hyphens, apostrophes, exclamation points, colons and semicolons.

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


registry

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

Registre (8) ; organe ou recueil administratif qui recense et répertorie.

motor vehicle registry


Serjeant-at-law

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

Avocat Au XVIe siècle était une classe supérieure d'avocats.

Lord Lindley (1828 - 1921) was the last Serjeant-at-Law.


maxillofacial

Women represent up to 90 percent of patients who seek treatment, Dr. Leonard B. Kaban, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in an interview.

Jane E. Brody, “Best Treatment for TMJ May Be Nothing”, New York Times, 3 février 2009


phobosophy

Inventé par John Desmond Bernal dans The Freedom of Necessity (1949). Composé du préfixe phob- (« peur ») de -o- et de sophy (« connaissance »), par opposition à philosophy. Comparer à sophophobia.

The great advantage of anti-philosophical philosophy, or what we might call phobosophy or fear of abstract knowledge, was that it enabled you to take the world exactly as you found it and adapt yourself to it to your own best advantage.

John Desmond Bernal, The Freedom of Necessity, page 393, 1949

It is a remarkable doctrine which,[…f]ar from being “a philosophy of religion,” it is much rather a phobosophy, a fear of knowledge — neither essentially philosophic nor religious.

The Jewish Quarterly Review, volumes 45–46, page 337, 1954

Philosophy is, literally, the love of knowledge; phobosophy is the fear of it. There are obviously more “phobosophers” in the world than philosophers.

Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Second Sin, page 21, 1973

Bernal believed strongly that the whole of modern philosophy, save for Marxism, had let the spirit of the Enlightenment down, which he blamed on the rise of phobosophy or the fear of abstract thinking.

Edwin A. Roberts, The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture,page 168, 1997

‘[T]he best thoughts [of these scholars] could well be omitted’?? There must be a mistake. I couldn’t imagine such a severe case of phobosophy.

Leslie P. Steffe and Patrick W. Thompson [eds.], Radical Constructivism in Action: Building on the Pioneering Work of Ernst von Glasersfeld,page xiii, 2000


clammy

clammier (comparative)
clammiest (superlative)

He held out a clammy hand, which I shook reluctantly.

Il m’a tendu une main moite, que j’ai serré à contrecœur.


lessee

(Nom commun) Du vieil anglais lessier (« autoriser, permettre »).

A lessee is an individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.


nincompoop

Origine inconnue. Précédemment (1676) nicompoop, peut-être du latin non compos mentis (« pas sain d’esprit »), bien que l’absence du second « n » dans la forme primitive et le sens original de « fop » permettent le doute sur cette origine.

No wonder that Chauvelin’s spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies...


manumit

Du latin manumittere, issu du latin pre-classique manu emittere, qui signifie littéralement « envoyer de la main ».

to manumit (infinitive)
manumits (present third-person singular)
manumitted (preterite)
manumitted (participle past)
manumitting (participle present)

Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost.

Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing Company (1985), 1985


go the extra mile

Composé de go, extra et mile, littéralement « faire le mile supplémentaire ».

\ˈɡəʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl\

\ˈɡəʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl\

ˈɡoʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-go the extra mile.ogg

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

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de go

Of all the people to go the extra mile for, why this guy?

De tous les gens pour qui faire un effort particulier, pourquoi ce type ?


lecturer

A lecturer is a person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.

Assistant (junior lecturer), maître de conférence (senior lecturer), lecteur.

A lecturer is a member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader.

A lecturer was a member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings


quacksalver

c. 1570, du moyen néerlandais kwaksalver (« colporteur de pommade »), issu du moyen néerlandais quacken (« se vanter »).

"Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead’s powder of projection?"
"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."

Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, ch. 38, 1822

"I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, . . . to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos . . . ."
. . . [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver’s address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.

Jeffrey Farnol, The Broad Highway, ch. 34, 1910

One is reminded of a familiar figure of medieval fairs, who survived long in this country [England], and perhaps still survives in remote districts—the quacksalver who hawks his infallible remedies from a wagon.

"Town Criers," New York Times, p. E8, 2 octobre 1927


magnetron

Magnétron, dispositif de génération de micro-ondes.

The magnetron finds wide application in microwave ovens.

Le magnétron trouve une large utilisation dans les fours à micro-ondes.

Magnétron, dispositif de déposition de couches minces par pulvérisation cathodique.

Appeared in the 1970s, the magnetron allowed the wide-scale industrialisation of thin-film sputtering.

Apparu dans les années 1970, le magnétron a permis l’industrialisation à large échelle de la pulvérisation cathodique.

One recognises immediately a functioning magnetron by the characteristic ring-shaped plasma that forms on the target.

On reconnaît tout de suite un magnétron en fonctionnement à l’anneau caractéristique que forme le plasma sur la cible.


randomness

Dérivé de random, avec le suffixe -ness.

Mesure de l’absence de but, de logique, ou d’objectivité d’un événement.

There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.


guile

De l’ancien français guile (« tromperie »).

It was how he said it. No guile at all. And this was a man who had penetrated the North Vietnamese air defenses over eighty times. Eighty times.


lib

Women’s lib.


caber

Longue buche ou tronc d'arbre, qui est lancée dans les Highland Games en Écosse.

Tossing the caber.


McDonald

Composé de Mc- et de Donald, issu du gaélique écossais Mac Dhòmhnaill (« fils de Dhòmhnaill »). Donald est le nom équivalent en anglais.

Macdonald
MacDonald
MacDonnell
Macdonnell
McDonnell

Adrian Mannarino s’est lui qualifié sur abandon de l’Américain McKenzie McDonald, alors qu’il menait 6-4, 3-0.

journal Sud Ouest, édition Charente-Maritime, 19 août 2023, page 31


Ophelia

I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Acte V, scène I, 1594


order of magnitude

In this particular context, due to innate molecular activity of gas that is orders of magnitude greater than that of liquid and due to the viscosity of liquid that is orders of magnitude greater than that of gases, the diffusion (dispersion) coefficient of oxygen in the gas is many orders of magnitude greater than that in the water.

Henry V. Mott, Environmental Process Analysis: Principles and Modeling, 2013,ISBN 9781118747599