"delve" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Anglais]

IPA: \dɛlv\, \dɛlv\, dɛlv Audio: En-us-delve.ogg Forms: to delve [infinitive], delves [present, third-person, singular], delved [preterite], delved [participle, past], delving [participle, present]
  1. Creuser.
    Sense id: fr-delve-en-verb-CK5sV3IP Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
  2. Fouiller (dans un livre…), approfondir, creuser (un sujet).
    Sense id: fr-delve-en-verb-9gmerrOS Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dig, investigate Derived forms: delver

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Dates manquantes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en moyen anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en vieil anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verbes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verbes intransitifs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "delver"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Du moyen anglais delven, issu du vieil anglais delfan (« creuser »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "to delve",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlv\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delving",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈdɛl.vɪŋ\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847, chapitre 29",
          "text": "I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might — it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one^([sic : someone]) above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.",
          "translation": "Je pris une bêche dans la cabane à outils, et commençai à creuser de toutes mes forces — elle érafla le cercueil ; je tombai pour travailler avec les mains ; le bois commença à se fendre autour des vis ; j’étais sur le point d’atteindre mon objet, quand il sembla que j’entendisse un soupir de quelqu’un au-dessus, proche du bord de la tombe, et se penchant. [traduction non officielle]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Creuser."
      ],
      "id": "fr-delve-en-verb-CK5sV3IP"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his briefcase.",
          "translation": "Elle était intensément désireuse de se plonger dans le mystère de M. Joplin et sa mallette."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fouiller (dans un livre…), approfondir, creuser (un sujet)."
      ],
      "id": "fr-delve-en-verb-9gmerrOS",
      "note": "Suivi de into : dans"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\dɛlv\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\dɛlv\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-delve.ogg",
      "ipa": "dɛlv",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/91/En-us-delve.ogg/En-us-delve.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-delve.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dig"
    },
    {
      "word": "investigate"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "intransitive"
  ],
  "word": "delve"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Dates manquantes en anglais",
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en moyen anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en vieil anglais",
    "Verbes en anglais",
    "Verbes intransitifs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "delver"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Du moyen anglais delven, issu du vieil anglais delfan (« creuser »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "to delve",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlv\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\dɛlvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "delving",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈdɛl.vɪŋ\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847, chapitre 29",
          "text": "I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might — it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one^([sic : someone]) above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.",
          "translation": "Je pris une bêche dans la cabane à outils, et commençai à creuser de toutes mes forces — elle érafla le cercueil ; je tombai pour travailler avec les mains ; le bois commença à se fendre autour des vis ; j’étais sur le point d’atteindre mon objet, quand il sembla que j’entendisse un soupir de quelqu’un au-dessus, proche du bord de la tombe, et se penchant. [traduction non officielle]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Creuser."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his briefcase.",
          "translation": "Elle était intensément désireuse de se plonger dans le mystère de M. Joplin et sa mallette."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fouiller (dans un livre…), approfondir, creuser (un sujet)."
      ],
      "note": "Suivi de into : dans"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\dɛlv\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\dɛlv\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-delve.ogg",
      "ipa": "dɛlv",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/91/En-us-delve.ogg/En-us-delve.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-delve.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dig"
    },
    {
      "word": "investigate"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "intransitive"
  ],
  "word": "delve"
}

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