"appoint" meaning in Français

See appoint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \a.pwɛ̃\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-appoint.wav Forms: appoints [plural]
  1. Complément d’une somme en petite monnaie.
    Sense id: fr-appoint-fr-noun-NxeCPRGo Categories (other): Exemples en français
  2. Somme qui sert à solder un compte commercial.
    Sense id: fr-appoint-fr-noun-sdIWEMDx
  3. Appui complémentaire. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-appoint-fr-noun-~M0Nby-K Categories (other): Exemples en français, Métaphores en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: faire l’appoint, câbles d’appoint, carburant d’appoint, étage d’appoint, lit d’appoint, pièce d’appoint, propulseur d’appoint Translations: kusur (Croate), ostatak (Croate), razlika (Croate), apunto (Espéranto)

Inflected forms

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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "anti-pop"
    },
    {
      "word": "antipop"
    },
    {
      "word": "popinât"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en croate",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en espéranto",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "faire l’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "câbles d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "carburant d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "étage d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "lit d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "pièce d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "propulseur d’appoint"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Déverbal de appointer."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "appoints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              71,
              78
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Pour faire mille douze francs, il faut un billet de mille francs et un appoint de douze francs."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Voilà cent pièces de deux francs, je vais faire l’appoint."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Cela fait l’appoint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Complément d’une somme en petite monnaie."
      ],
      "id": "fr-appoint-fr-noun-NxeCPRGo"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Faire l’appoint, compléter une somme."
        },
        {
          "text": "(Sens figuré)'Mesdélices Lescalle, avec un tact fin assez rare, avait vite compris qu’à son âge elle ne pouvait pouvait être recherchée que pour son argent, et, ne voulant pas être l’appoint' d’un marché, elle se résolut à rester fille — (Léonie d’Aunet, Un mariage en province, Hachette, Paris, 1857, pages 41-42)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somme qui sert à solder un compte commercial."
      ],
      "id": "fr-appoint-fr-noun-sdIWEMDx"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en français",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Métaphores en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              28,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Votre concours sera un fort appoint à notre entreprise."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Servir d’appoint."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              119,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Pierre Manonni, La malchance sociale, 2000",
          "text": "Un examen critique cognitiviste du bien-fondé de la stratégie d’humiliation mise en œuvre par le sujet devrait être un appoint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Appui complémentaire."
      ],
      "id": "fr-appoint-fr-noun-~M0Nby-K",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
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    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "kusur"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "ostatak"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "razlika"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "apunto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "appoint"
}
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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "anti-pop"
    },
    {
      "word": "antipop"
    },
    {
      "word": "popinât"
    }
  ],
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    "Lemmes en français",
    "Noms communs en français",
    "Traductions en croate",
    "Traductions en espéranto",
    "français"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "faire l’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "câbles d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "carburant d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "étage d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "lit d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "pièce d’appoint"
    },
    {
      "word": "propulseur d’appoint"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Déverbal de appointer."
  ],
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    {
      "form": "appoints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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        "Exemples en français"
      ],
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            [
              71,
              78
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Pour faire mille douze francs, il faut un billet de mille francs et un appoint de douze francs."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Voilà cent pièces de deux francs, je vais faire l’appoint."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Cela fait l’appoint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Complément d’une somme en petite monnaie."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Faire l’appoint, compléter une somme."
        },
        {
          "text": "(Sens figuré)'Mesdélices Lescalle, avec un tact fin assez rare, avait vite compris qu’à son âge elle ne pouvait pouvait être recherchée que pour son argent, et, ne voulant pas être l’appoint' d’un marché, elle se résolut à rester fille — (Léonie d’Aunet, Un mariage en province, Hachette, Paris, 1857, pages 41-42)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somme qui sert à solder un compte commercial."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français",
        "Métaphores en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              28,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Votre concours sera un fort appoint à notre entreprise."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Servir d’appoint."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              119,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Pierre Manonni, La malchance sociale, 2000",
          "text": "Un examen critique cognitiviste du bien-fondé de la stratégie d’humiliation mise en œuvre par le sujet devrait être un appoint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Appui complémentaire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "\\a.pwɛ̃\\"
    },
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  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "kusur"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "ostatak"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Croate",
      "lang_code": "hr",
      "word": "razlika"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "apunto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "appoint"
}

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