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1 delicate task

деликатное поручение

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > delicate task
2 delicate task

деликатное поручение

Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > delicate task
3 task

tɑ:sk
1. сущ.
1) урочная работа;
задача;
задание;
урок task in hand carry out a task do a task fulfill a task perform a task cope with a task take on a task undertake a task assign smb. a task delicate task ticklish task difficult task fruitless task hopeless task Herculean task monumental task irksome task menial task onerous task pleasant task unpleasant task unwelcome task welcome task Syn: stint
2) амер. норма( рабочего) ∙ to take/call smb. to task ≈ сделать выговор, дать нагоняй кому-л. task force воен. ≈ оперативная/тактическая группа
2. гл.
1) задать работу
2) обременять, перегружать, затруднять задача, задание;
дело;
урок, урочная работа - arduous * трудная задача - * in hand начатая работа;
непосредственная задача - * and bonus plan (экономика) поощрительная система заработной платы - to set oneself a * поставить перед собой задачу - to give smb. a *, to entrust smb. with a * дать кому-л. задание;
поставить задачу перед кем-л.;
поручить кому-л. сделать что-л. - to give smb. the * of cleaning the cellar поручить кому-л. навести порядок в погребе - to undertake a * браться зха какую-л. задачу - to apply oneself to a * приняться за какое-л. дело, приступить к делу - to manage the * cправиться с делом - to do one's * выполнить задание - the * that faces us задача, которая стоит перед нами - it's an endless * c этим вовек не справиться обязанность - the * of a critic обязанность критика - this is one of her *s это входит в круг ее обязанностей (устаревшее) урок (американизм) норма (рабочего) - work by * штучная работа( устаревшее) налог;
пошлина > to take smb. to * сделать выговор кому-л., дать нагоняй кому-л.;
пробрать кого-л. ставить задачу;
давать работу или задание - to * smb. beyond his strength взваливать на кого-л. непосильную задачу загружать, обременять - to * one's memory with details перегружать память излишними подробностями испытывать, подвергать проверке - to * smb.'s patience испытывать чье-л. терпение - to * smb.'s power of endurance испытывать чью-л. выносливость - mathematics *s his brain ему трудно дается математика administrative ~ задача административного управления attached ~ вчт. присоединенная задача background ~ вчт. фоновая задача calculatory ~ расчетная задача checkpointable ~ вчт. выгружаемая задача current ~ вчт. текущая задача difficult ~ трудная задача discharge a ~ выполнять задание discharge a ~ выполнять норму entrust with a ~ поручать задание government ~ правительственное задание hibernating ~ вчт. остановленная задача image ~ вчт. задача обработки изображения ~ обременять, перегружать;
it tasks my power это мне не под силу, это слишком трудно main ~ главная задача nonstatutory ~ обязанность, не предусмотренная законом offspring ~ вчт. подзадача one-time ~ разовое задание secondary ~ второстепенная задача secretarial ~ должностные обязанности секретаря secretarial ~ круг обязанностей секретаря service ~ задание на обслуживание ~ урочная работа;
задача;
задание;
урок;
to set a task (before smb.) дать (кому-л.) задание, поставить задачу (перед кем-л.) social ~ общественное задание specific ~ вчт. специфическая задача stopped ~ вчт. остановленная задача ~ амер. норма (рабочего) ;
to take (или to call) (smb.) to task сделать выговор, дать нагоняй (кому-л.) ;
task force воен. оперативная (или тактическая) группа task давать задание ~ задание, задача ~ задание ~ задать работу ~ задача ~ вчт. задача ~ испытывать ~ амер. норма (рабочего) ;
to take (или to call) (smb.) to task сделать выговор, дать нагоняй (кому-л.) ;
task force воен. оперативная (или тактическая) группа ~ норма выработки ~ обременять, перегружать;
it tasks my power это мне не под силу, это слишком трудно ~ подвергать проверке ~ вчт. программный модуль ~ ставить задачу ~ урок ~ урочная работа;
задача;
задание;
урок;
to set a task (before smb.) дать (кому-л.) задание, поставить задачу (перед кем-л.) ~ урочная работа ~ in hand ближайшая задача ~ in hand начатая работа work ~ рабочее задание

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > task
4 delicate

adjective

1) (easily injured) empfindlich [Organ]; zart [Gesundheit, Konstitution]; (sensitive) sensibel, empfindlich [Person, Natur]; empfindlich [Waage, Instrument]

2) (requiring careful handling) empfindlich; (fig.) delikat, heikel [Frage, Angelegenheit, Problem]

3) (fine, of exquisite quality) zart; delikat; (dainty) delikat

4) (subtle) fein

5) (deft, light) geschickt; zart

6) (tactful) taktvoll; behutsam

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['delikət]
adjective

1) (requiring special treatment or careful handling: delicate china; a delicate situation/problem.) empfindlich

2) (of fine texture etc; dainty: a delicate pattern; the delicate skin of a child.) zart

3) (able to do fine, accurate work: a delicate instrument.) fein

4) (subtle: a delicate wine; a delicate shade of blue.) schmackhaft, zart

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- delicacy
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deli·cate

[ˈdelɪkət]

adj

1. (sensitive) fabric, flower, equipment, instruments, plant empfindlich; china, vase zerbrechlich

\delicate china zartes Porzellan

2. (tricky) problem, situation heikel

3. (fine, deft, subtle) work, workmanship fein

\delicate cycle (in washing machine) Feinwaschgang m

to strike a \delicate balance ein Gleichgewicht vorsichtig bewahren

4. (prone to illness) person anfällig, empfindlich; health zart

to be in a \delicate condition ( old) in anderen Umständen sein veraltend

5. beauty, flavour, hands, lace, pattern, scent, skin zart

\delicate aroma zartes Aroma

\delicate features feine Gesichtszüge

\delicate flavour feiner Geschmack

a \delicate shade of pink ein zartes Rosa

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['delIkɪt]
1. adj

1) (= fine, dainty) fein; colour zart; food delikat; flavour fein; (= fragile) person, bones, china zerbrechlich; fabric, flower, stomach empfindlich; health, person zart

in a delicate condition (dated euph) — in anderen Umständen

she's feeling a bit delicate after the party — nach der Party fühlt sie sich etwas angeschlagen

2) (= sensitive) person feinfühlig; manner feinfühlig, delikat; instrument empfindlich; task fein; playing gefühlvoll

he has a delicate touch (pianist, artist) — er hat sehr viel Gefühl

3) (= requiring skilful handling) operation, subject, situation heikel, delikat

2. pl
(= fabrics) Feinwäsche f
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delicate [ˈdelıkət] adj (adv delicately)

1. zart:

a) fein (Farben etc)

b) zierlich, grazil (Figur, Mädchen etc)

c) zerbrechlich, empfindlich:

be of ( oder in) delicate health von zarter Gesundheit sein;

be in a delicate condition in anderen Umständen sein

d) sanft, leise:

a delicate hint ein zarter Wink

2. kitzlig, delikat, heikel (Thema etc)

3. fein gesponnen, schlau (Plan etc)

4. fein, empfindlich (Instrument etc):

delicate cycle Schon(wasch)gang m

5. feinfühlig, zartfühlend, taktvoll

6. fein, vornehm (Manieren etc)

7. feinfühlig, empfindsam (Seele etc)

8. delikat, schmackhaft, lecker, köstlich, wohlschmeckend

9. verwöhnt (Geschmack)

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adjective

1) (easily injured) empfindlich [Organ]; zart [Gesundheit, Konstitution]; (sensitive) sensibel, empfindlich [Person, Natur]; empfindlich [Waage, Instrument]

2) (requiring careful handling) empfindlich; (fig.) delikat, heikel [Frage, Angelegenheit, Problem]

3) (fine, of exquisite quality) zart; delikat; (dainty) delikat

4) (subtle) fein

5) (deft, light) geschickt; zart

6) (tactful) taktvoll; behutsam

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adj.

feinfühlig adj.

heikel (Frage) adj.

lecker adj.

wählerisch adj.

zart adj.

English-german dictionary > delicate
5 delicate

'delikət
adjective

1) (requiring special treatment or careful handling: delicate china; a delicate situation/problem.) delicado, frágil

2) (of fine texture etc; dainty: a delicate pattern; the delicate skin of a child.) delicado

3) (able to do fine, accurate work: a delicate instrument.) delicado

4) (subtle: a delicate wine; a delicate shade of blue.) suave, delicado

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- delicately
- delicacy

delicate adj delicado

delicate

tr['delɪkət]

adjective

1 (fine - gen) delicado,-a; (- embroidery, handiwork) fino,-a, esmerado,-a, delicado,-a

2 (easily damaged) frágil; (easily made ill) delicado,-a

3 (requiring careful treatment) delicado,-a

4 (subtle - colour) suave, delicado,-a; (- flavour, taste) delicado,-a, fino,-a; (- perfume) delicado,-a

5 (sensitive - instrument) sensible; (- sense of smell, taste) fino,-a

delicate ['dɛlɪkət] adj

1) subtle: delicado

a delicate fragrance: una fragancia delicada

2) dainty: delicado, primoroso, fino

3) fragile: frágil

4) sensitive: delicado

a delicate matter: un asunto delicado

delicate

adj.

• afiligranado, -a adj.

• delicado, -a adj.

• enfermizo, -a adj.

• exquisito, -a adj.

• fino, -a adj.

• frágil adj.

• quebradizo, -a adj.

• suave adj.

• tenue adj.

'delɪkət
adjective

1)

a) (fine, intricate) <lace/features> delicado; < workmanship> fino, esmerado

b) (fragile, needing care) delicado

a delicate child — un niño delicado (de salud)

2)

a) ( needing skill) delicado

b) ( needing tact) delicado

c) ( tactful) delicado, discreto

3) ( subtle) <shade/taste> delicado

['delɪkɪt]
ADJ
1) (=fine, subtle) [features, fabric, workmanship, instrument] delicado; [flavour, fragrance, food] exquisito; [touch] suave

2) (=fragile) [china, balance, ecosystem] frágil; [person, health, skin, liver] delicado

I'm feeling rather delicate this morning — hum estoy un tanto delicado esta mañana hum

3) (=sensitive, awkward) [situation, problem, task, negotiations] delicado, difícil

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['delɪkət]
adjective

1)

a) (fine, intricate) <lace/features> delicado; < workmanship> fino, esmerado

b) (fragile, needing care) delicado

a delicate child — un niño delicado (de salud)

2)

a) ( needing skill) delicado

b) ( needing tact) delicado

c) ( tactful) delicado, discreto

3) ( subtle) <shade/taste> delicado

English-spanish dictionary > delicate
6 task

1. сущ.
общ. задача; задание; урок; урочное задание, урочная работа

to entrust smb. with a task; to give [set, assign\] smb. a task — поручать кому-л. задание; давать кому-л. задание, поставить задачу перед кем-л.

to set oneself a task — поставить перед собой задачу

to perform [fulfil, do, carry out\] a task — выполнить задание

to cope with a task — справиться с заданием

to take on [undertake\] a task — приниматься [браться\] за какую-л. работу [какое-л. задание\]

performance of task — выполнение задания

corporate-wide task — общефирменная задача

research task — задача исследования

creative task — творческая задача

current task — текущая задача

task in hand — начатая работа; ближайшая задача

difficult task — трудная задача

key task — основное задание

overriding task — задача первостепенной важности

pressing task — неотложная [насущная\] задача

priority task — первоочередная [приоритетная\] задача

obligatory tasks — обязательные задания

profitless task — бесполезная задача

unpleasant task — неприятное задание

irksome task — скучное задание, скучная работа

delicate [ticklish\] task — деликатное поручение

household task — домашняя работа, работа по дому

distribution of tasks between employees — распределение заданий между работниками

task component — элемент задания

task solution — решение задачи

task time — время для выполнения какого-л. задания

to take [call, bring\] smb. to task (for smth.) — сделать выговор (кому-л. за что-л.); дать нагоняй (кому-л. за что-л.)

Syn:

job 1) а), chore, stint, assignment 2) а)

See:

administrative task, managerial task, task group, task bonus, task culture, task management, task description, task list, task schedule, taskwork, task environment, task identity, task significance, task sharing, subtask, taskmaster, task worker
2. гл.
1) общ. ставить задачу; давать [поручать\] задание [работу\]

to task smb with doing smth, to task smb to do smth — давать задание кому-л. сделать что-л.

2) общ. загружать, обременять

Англо-русский экономический словарь > task
7 task

[tɑːsk] 1. сущ.
1) урочная работа; задача; задание; урок

difficult task — трудная задача

irksome task — скучная работа

menial task — чёрная работа

onerous task — тягостный труд

Herculean / monumental task — сложнейшая задача

pleasant task — приятная работа, приятное задание

unpleasant task — неприятная работа, неприятное дело, неприятное задание

fruitless / hopeless task — безнадёжное дело / предприятие

unwelcome task — неблагодарный труд

welcome task — благодарный труд

delicate / ticklish task — деликатное поручение

to assign smb. a task, to set a task before smb. — поручать кому-л. задание, дать кому-л. задание, поставить задачу перед кем-л.

to take on / undertake a task — приниматься / браться за какую-л. работу

to carry out / do / fulfill / perform a task — выполнить задание

to cope with a task — справиться с заданием

She appoints them a task of needle-work. — Она засаживает их за шитьё.

- task in hand

Syn:

stint

2) амер. норма ( рабочего)

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task force — воен. оперативная / тактическая группа

to take / call smb. to task — сделать выговор, дать нагоняй кому-л.
2. гл.
1) задать работу

2) обременять, перегружать, затруднять

You must not task me too high. — Вам не следует требовать от меня слишком многого.

3) испытывать; подвергать проверке

4) ( task with) обвинять, осуждать

Англо-русский современный словарь > task
8 tricky

adjective (difficult: a tricky problem/job; a tricky person to deal with.) difícil, complicado, espinoso

tricky adj difícil / delicado / complicado

El comparativo de tricky se escribe trickier; el superlativo se escribe trickiest

tricky

tr['trɪkɪ]

adjective (comp trickier, superl trickiest)

1 (person) taimado,-a, astuto,-a, mañoso,-a

2 (problem, situation - difficult) difícil; (- delicate) delicado,-a

tricky ['trɪki] adj, trickier ; - est

1) sly: astuto, taimado

2) difficult: delicado, peliagudo, difícil

tricky

adj.

• astuto, -a adj.

• camastrón, -ona adj.

• delicado, -a adj.

• difícil adj.

• embaucador adj.

• embustero, -a adj.

• enredoso, -a adj.

• gitano, -a adj.

• mañoso, -a adj.

• peliagudo, -a adj.

• pícaro, -a adj.

• superchero, -a adj.

• tramposo, -a adj.

• trapacero, -a adj.

'trɪki
adjective trickier, trickiest

a) ( difficult) <task/problem> difícil, peliagudo, que tiene sus bemoles

b) (sensitive, delicate) <matter/problem> delicado

c) ( devious) <person/scheme> taimado, astuto

['trɪkɪ]
ADJ (compar trickier) (superl trickiest)
1) [situation] complicado, difícil; [problem] delicado

it's all rather tricky — es un poco complicado, es un tanto difícil

2) [person] (=sly) tramposo, ladino; (=difficult) difícil

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['trɪki]
adjective trickier, trickiest

a) ( difficult) <task/problem> difícil, peliagudo, que tiene sus bemoles

b) (sensitive, delicate) <matter/problem> delicado

c) ( devious) <person/scheme> taimado, astuto

English-spanish dictionary > tricky
9 persnickety

persnickety* (US)

adj.

• quisquilloso, -a adj.

pər'snɪkəti, pə'snɪkəti
adjective (AmE)

a) ( fussy) puntilloso, chinche (fam), mañoso (AmL fam)

b) (delicate, awkward) < task> que requiere minuciosidad

[pǝːs'nɪkɪtɪ]
ADJ (US) = pernickety
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[pər'snɪkəti, pə'snɪkəti]
adjective (AmE)

a) ( fussy) puntilloso, chinche (fam), mañoso (AmL fam)

b) (delicate, awkward) < task> que requiere minuciosidad

English-spanish dictionary > persnickety
10 delicates

['delIkɪt]
1. adj

1) (= fine, dainty) fein; colour zart; food delikat; flavour fein; (= fragile) person, bones, china zerbrechlich; fabric, flower, stomach empfindlich; health, person zart

in a delicate condition (dated euph) — in anderen Umständen

she's feeling a bit delicate after the party — nach der Party fühlt sie sich etwas angeschlagen

2) (= sensitive) person feinfühlig; manner feinfühlig, delikat; instrument empfindlich; task fein; playing gefühlvoll

he has a delicate touch (pianist, artist) — er hat sehr viel Gefühl

3) (= requiring skilful handling) operation, subject, situation heikel, delikat

2. pl
(= fabrics) Feinwäsche f

English-german dictionary > delicates
11 work

work [wɜ:k]

travail ⇒ 1 (a)-(e), 1 (g) œuvre ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (f) besogne ⇒ 1 (b) emploi ⇒ 1 (c) ouvrage ⇒ 1 (f) recherches ⇒ 1 (g) travailler ⇒ 2A (a)-(e), 3A (b), 3A (c), 3A (e), 3C (a) fonctionner ⇒ 2B (a) marcher ⇒ 2B (a), 2B (b) réussir ⇒ 2B (b) agir ⇒ 2B (c), 2B (d) faire travailler ⇒ 3A (a) faire marcher ⇒ 3B (a) façonner ⇒ 3C (a) mécanisme ⇒ 4 1 (a) travaux ⇒ 4 1 (b) usine ⇒ 4 2 (a)

1 noun

(a) (effort, activity) travail m, œuvre f;

∎ computers take some of the work out of filing les ordinateurs facilitent le classement;

∎ this report needs more work il y a encore du travail à faire sur ce rapport, ce rapport demande plus de travail;

∎ she's done a lot of work for charity elle a beaucoup travaillé pour des associations caritatives;

∎ it will take a lot of work to make a team out of them ça va être un drôle de travail de faire d'eux une équipe;

∎ keep up the good work! continuez comme ça!;

∎ nice or good work! c'est du bon travail!, bravo!;

∎ that's fine work or a fine piece of work c'est du beau travail;

∎ your work has been useful vous avez fait du travail utile;

∎ work on the tunnel is to start in March (existing tunnel) les travaux sur le tunnel doivent commencer en mars; (new tunnel) la construction du tunnel doit commencer en mars;

∎ work in progress Administration travail en cours; Accountancy travaux mpl en cours, inventaire m de production; (sign) travaux en cours;

∎ she put a lot of work into that book elle a beaucoup travaillé sur ce livre;

∎ to make work for sb compliquer la vie à qn;

∎ to start work, to set to work se mettre au travail;

∎ she set or she went to work on the contract elle a commencé à travailler sur le contrat;

∎ he set to work undermining their confidence il a entrepris de saper leur confiance;

∎ I set him to work (on) painting the kitchen je lui ai donné la cuisine à peindre;

∎ they put him to work in the kitchen ils l'ont mis au travail dans la cuisine;

∎ let's get (down) to work! (mettons-nous) au travail!;

∎ proverb all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy beaucoup de travail et peu de loisirs ne réussissent à personne

(b) (duty, task) travail m, besogne f;

∎ I've got loads of work to do j'ai énormément de travail à faire;

∎ she gave us too much work elle nous a donné trop de travail;

∎ he's trying to get some work done il essaie de travailler un peu;

∎ they do their work well ils travaillent bien, ils font du bon travail;

∎ it's hard work c'est du travail, ce n'est pas facile;

∎ it's thirsty work ça donne soif;

∎ to make short or light work of sth expédier qch;

∎ figurative to make short work of sb ne faire qu'une bouchée de qn;

∎ familiar it's nice work if you can get it! c'est une bonne planque, encore faut-il la trouver!

(c) (paid employment) travail m, emploi m;

∎ what (kind of) work do you do? qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?, quel travail faites-vous?;

∎ I do translation work je suis traducteur, je fais des traductions;

∎ to find work trouver du travail;

∎ to look for work chercher du travail ou un emploi;

∎ to be in work travailler, avoir un emploi;

∎ to be out of work être au chômage ou sans travail ou sans emploi;

∎ he had a week off work (holiday) il a pris une semaine de vacances; (illness) il n'est pas allé au travail pendant une semaine;

∎ to take time off work prendre des congés;

∎ she's off work today elle ne travaille pas aujourd'hui;

∎ to do a full day's work faire une journée entière de travail;

∎ people out of work (gen) les chômeurs mpl; Administration & Economics les inactifs mpl

(d) (place of employment) travail m; Administration lieu m de travail;

∎ I go to work by bus je vais au travail en bus;

∎ I'm late for work je suis en retard pour le travail;

∎ he's a friend from work c'est un collègue;

∎ where is your (place of) work? où travaillez-vous?, quel est votre lieu de travail?;

∎ on her way home from work en rentrant du travail

(e) (papers, material etc being worked on) travail m;

∎ to take work home prendre du travail à la maison;

∎ her work was all over the table son travail était étalé sur la table

(f) (creation, artefact etc) œuvre f; (on smaller scale) ouvrage m; Sewing ouvrage m;

∎ it's all my own work j'ai tout fait moi-même;

∎ it's an interesting piece of work (gen) c'est un travail intéressant; Art, Literature & Music c'est une œuvre intéressante;

∎ very detailed/delicate work (embroidery, carving etc) ouvrage très détaillé/délicat;

∎ these formations are the work of the wind ces formations sont l'œuvre du vent;

∎ the silversmith sells much of his work to hotels l'orfèvre vend une grande partie de ce qu'il fait ou de son travail à des hôtels;

∎ the complete works of Shakespeare les œuvres complètes ou l'œuvre de Shakespeare;

∎ a new work on Portugal un nouvel ouvrage sur le Portugal;

∎ a work of art une œuvre d'art;

∎ works of fiction des ouvrages de fiction

(g) (research) travail m, recherches fpl;

∎ there hasn't been a lot of work done on the subject peu de travail a été fait ou peu de recherches ont été faites sur le sujet

(h) (deed) œuvre f, acte m;

∎ good works bonnes œuvres fpl;

∎ each man will be judged by his works chaque homme sera jugé selon ses œuvres;

∎ charitable works actes mpl de charité, actes mpl charitables;

∎ the murder is the work of a madman le meurtre est l'œuvre d'un fou

(i) (effect) effet m;

∎ wait until the medicine has done its work attendez que le médicament ait agi ou ait produit son effet

(j) Physics travail m

2 intransitive verb

A.

(a) (exert effort on a specific task, activity etc) travailler;

∎ we worked for hours cleaning the house nous avons passé des heures à faire le ménage;

∎ they worked in the garden ils ont fait du jardinage;

∎ we work hard nous travaillons dur;

∎ she's working on a novel just now elle travaille à un roman en ce moment;

∎ a detective is working on this case un détective est sur cette affaire;

∎ he works at or on keeping himself fit il fait de l'exercice pour garder la forme;

∎ we have to work to a deadline nous devons respecter des délais dans notre travail;

∎ we have to work to a budget nous devons travailler avec un certain budget;

∎ I've worked with the handicapped before j'ai déjà travaillé avec les handicapés;

∎ I work with the Spanish on that project je travaille (en collaboration) avec les Espagnols sur ce projet

(b) (be employed) travailler;

∎ he works as a teacher il a un poste d'enseignant;

∎ I work in advertising je travaille dans la publicité;

∎ who do you work for? chez qui est-ce que vous travaillez?;

∎ she works in or for a bank elle travaille dans ou pour une banque;

∎ I work a forty-hour week je travaille quarante heures par semaine, je fais une semaine de quarante heures;

∎ to work for a living travailler pour gagner sa vie;

∎ Industry to work to rule faire la grève du zèle

(c) (strive for a specific goal or aim)

∎ to work for a good cause travailler pour une bonne cause;

∎ they're working for better international relations ils s'efforcent d'améliorer les relations internationales

(d) (study) travailler, étudier;

∎ you're going to have to work if you want to pass the exam il va falloir que tu travailles ou que tu étudies si tu veux avoir ton examen

(e) (use a specified substance) travailler;

∎ this sculptor works in or with copper ce sculpteur travaille avec le cuivre;

∎ she has always worked in or with watercolours elle a toujours travaillé avec de la peinture à l'eau

B.

(a) (function, operate → machine, brain, system) fonctionner, marcher;

∎ the lift doesn't work at night l'ascenseur ne marche pas la nuit;

∎ the lift never works l'ascenseur est toujours en panne;

∎ the radio works off batteries la radio fonctionne avec des piles;

∎ a pump worked by hand une pompe actionnée à la main ou manuellement;

∎ they soon got or had it working ils sont vite parvenus à le faire fonctionner;

∎ she sat still, her brain or her mind working furiously elle était assise immobile, le cerveau en ébullition;

∎ figurative everything worked smoothly tout s'est déroulé comme prévu;

∎ your idea just won't work ton idée ne peut pas marcher;

∎ this relationship isn't working cette relation ne marche pas;

∎ that argument works both ways ce raisonnement est à double tranchant;

∎ how does the law work exactly? comment la loi fonctionne-t-elle exactement?

(b) (produce results, succeed) marcher, réussir;

∎ it worked brilliantly ça a très bien marché;

∎ their scheme didn't work leur complot a échoué;

∎ that/flattery won't work with me ça/la flatterie ne prend pas avec moi

(c) (drug, medicine) agir, produire ou faire son effet

(d) (act) agir;

∎ the acid works as a catalyst l'acide agit comme ou sert de catalyseur;

∎ events have worked against us/in our favour les événements ont agi contre nous/en notre faveur;

∎ I'm working on the assumption that they'll sign the contract je pars du principe qu'ils signeront le contrat

C.

(a) (reach a condition or state gradually)

∎ to work loose se desserrer;

∎ to work free se libérer;

∎ the nail worked through the sole of my shoe le clou est passé à travers la semelle de ma chaussure

(b) (face, mouth) se contracter, se crisper

(c) (ferment) fermenter

3 transitive verb

A.

(a) (worker, employee, horse) faire travailler;

∎ the boss works his staff hard le patron exige beaucoup de travail de ses employés;

∎ you work yourself too hard tu te surmènes;

∎ to work oneself to death se tuer à la tâche;

∎ to work one's fingers to the bone s'user au travail

(b) (pay for with labour or service)

∎ they worked their passage to India ils ont payé leur passage en Inde en travaillant;

∎ I worked my way through college j'ai travaillé pour payer mes études à l'université

(c) (carry on activity in)

∎ he works the southern sales area il travaille pour le service commercial de la région sud;

∎ the pollster worked both sides of the street le sondeur a enquêté des deux côtés de la rue;

∎ figurative the candidate worked the crowd le candidat s'efforçait de soulever l'enthousiasme de la foule;

∎ a real-estate agent who works the phones un agent immobilier qui fait de la prospection par téléphone;

∎ she works the bars (prostitute) elle travaille dans les bars

(d) (achieve, accomplish)

∎ the new policy will work major changes la nouvelle politique opérera ou entraînera des changements importants;

∎ the story worked its magic or its charm on the public l'histoire a enchanté le public;

∎ to work a spell on sb jeter un sort à qn;

∎ to work miracles faire ou accomplir des miracles;

∎ to work wonders faire merveille;

∎ she has worked wonders with the children elle a fait des merveilles avec les enfants

(e) (make use of, exploit → land) travailler, cultiver; (→ mine, quarry) exploiter, faire valoir

B.

(a) (operate) faire marcher, faire fonctionner;

∎ this switch works the furnace ce bouton actionne ou commande la chaudière;

∎ he knows how to work the drill il sait se servir de la perceuse

(b) (manoeuvre)

∎ I worked the handle up and down j'ai remué la poignée de haut en bas;

∎ to work one's hands free parvenir à dégager ses mains;

∎ she worked the ropes loose elle a réussi à desserrer les cordes petit à petit

(c) (by slow progression)

∎ I worked my way along the ledge j'ai longé la saillie avec précaution;

∎ he worked his way down/up the cliff il a descendu/monté la falaise lentement;

∎ the beggar worked his way towards us le mendiant s'est approché de nous;

∎ they worked their way through the list ils ont traité chaque élément de la liste tour à tour;

∎ he's worked his way through the whole grant il a épuisé toute la subvention;

∎ a band of rain working its way across the country un front de pluie qui traverse le pays;

∎ they have worked themselves into a corner ils se sont mis dans une impasse

(d) familiar (contrive) s'arranger;

∎ she managed to work a few days off elle s'est arrangée ou s'est débrouillée pour avoir quelques jours de congé;

∎ I worked it or worked things so that she's never alone j'ai fait en sorte qu'elle ou je me suis arrangé pour qu'elle ne soit jamais seule

C.

(a) (shape → leather, metal, stone) travailler, façonner; (→ clay, dough) travailler, pétrir; (→ object, sculpture) façonner; Sewing (design, initials) broder;

∎ she worked the silver into earrings elle a travaillé l'argent pour en faire des boucles d'oreilles;

∎ she worked a figure out of the wood elle a sculpté une silhouette dans le bois;

∎ the flowers are worked in silk les fleurs sont brodées en soie;

∎ work the putty into the right consistency travaillez le mastic pour lui donner la consistance voulue

(b) (rub)

∎ gently work the cream into your hands massez-vous les mains pour faire pénétrer la crème;

∎ work the dye into the surface of the leather faites pénétrer la teinture dans le cuir

(c) (excite, provoke)

∎ the orator worked the audience into a frenzy l'orateur a enflammé ou a galvanisé le public;

∎ she worked herself into a rage elle s'est mise dans une colère noire

4 works

1 plural noun

(a) (mechanism) mécanisme m, rouages mpl; (of clock) mouvement m;

∎ familiar to foul up or to gum up the works tout foutre en l'air

(b) Building industry travaux mpl; (installation) installations fpl;

∎ road works travaux mpl; (sign) travaux;

∎ Minister/Ministry of Works ministre m/ministère m des Travaux publics

2 noun

(a) Industry (factory) usine f;

∎ a printing works une imprimerie;

∎ a gas works une usine à gaz;

∎ price ex works prix m sortie usine

(b) familiar (everything)

∎ the (whole) works tout le bataclan ou le tralala;

∎ they had eggs, bacon, toast, the works ils mangeaient des œufs, du bacon, du pain grillé, tout, quoi!;

∎ American to shoot the works jouer le grand jeu;

∎ American we shot the works on the project nous avons mis le paquet sur le projet;

∎ to give sb the works (special treatment) dérouler le tapis rouge pour qn; (beating) passer qn à tabac

5 at work

1 adjective

(a) (person)

∎ to be at work on sth/(on) doing sth travailler (à) qch/à faire qch;

∎ he's at work on a new book il travaille à un nouveau livre;

∎ they're hard at work painting the house ils sont en plein travail, ils repeignent la maison

(b) (having an effect)

∎ there are several factors at work here il y a plusieurs facteurs qui entrent en jeu ou qui jouent ici;

∎ there are evil forces at work des forces mauvaises sont en action

2 adverb

(at place of work)

∎ she's at work (gen) elle est au travail; (office) elle est au bureau; (factory) elle est à l'usine;

∎ I'll phone you at work je t'appellerai au travail;

∎ we met at work on s'est connus au travail

►► work area (in school, home) coin m de travail; Computing zone f de travail;

works band fanfare m (d'une entreprise);

work camp (prison) camp m de travail; (voluntary) chantier m de travail;

American work coat blouse f;

works committee, works council comité m d'entreprise;

work ethic = exaltation des valeurs liées au travail;

work experience stage m (en entreprise);

∎ the course includes two months' work experience le programme comprend un stage en entreprise de deux mois;

American work farm = camp de travail forcé où les détenus travaillent la terre;

Computing work file fichier m de travail;

work flow déroulement m des opérations;

work group groupe m de travail;

works manager directeur(trice) m,f d'usine;

work party (of soldiers) escouade f; (of prisoners) groupe m de travail;

work permit permis m de travail;

Computing work sheet feuille f de travail;

work space (at home) coin-travail m; (in office) & Computing espace m de travail;

∎ I need more work space j'ai besoin de plus d'espace pour travailler;

work surface surface f de travail;

American work week semaine f de travail

➲ work away intransitive verb

travailler;

∎ while he worked away at fixing the furnace tandis qu'il travaillait à réparer la chaudière;

∎ we worked away all evening nous avons passé la soirée à travailler

➲ work down intransitive verb

glisser;

∎ her socks had worked down around her ankles ses chaussettes étaient tombées sur ses chevilles

➲ work in separable transitive verb

(a) (incorporate) incorporer;

∎ work the ointment in thoroughly faites bien pénétrer la pommade;

∎ Cookery work the butter into the flour incorporez le beurre à la farine

(b) (insert) faire entrer ou introduire petit à petit;

∎ he worked in a few sly remarks about the boss il a réussi à glisser quelques réflexions sournoises sur le patron;

∎ I'll try and work the translation in some time this week (into schedule) j'essayerai de (trouver le temps de) faire la traduction dans le courant de la semaine

➲ work off separable transitive verb

(a) (dispose of → fat, weight) se débarrasser de, éliminer; (→ anxiety, frustration) passer, assouvir;

∎ I worked off my excess energy chopping wood j'ai dépensé mon trop-plein d'énergie en cassant du bois;

∎ he worked off his tensions by running il s'est défoulé en faisant du jogging;

∎ to work off one's anger on sb passer sa colère sur qn

(b) (debt, obligation)

∎ it took him three months to work off his debt il a dû travailler trois mois pour rembourser son emprunt

➲ work on

1 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (person) essayer de convaincre;

∎ we've been working on him but he still won't go nous avons essayé de le persuader mais il ne veut toujours pas y aller;

∎ I'll work on her je vais m'occuper d'elle

(b) (task, problem)

∎ the police are working on who stole the jewels la police s'efforce de retrouver celui qui a volé les bijoux;

∎ he's been working on his breaststroke/emotional problems il a travaillé sa brasse/essayé de résoudre ses problèmes sentimentaux;

∎ have you got any ideas? - I'm working on it as-tu des idées? - je cherche

(c) (use as basis)

∎ have you any data to work on? avez-vous des données sur lesquelles vous fonder?

2 intransitive verb

(continue to work) continuer à travailler

➲ work out

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (discharge fully) acquitter en travaillant;

∎ to work out one's notice faire son préavis

(b) (calculate → cost, distance, sum) calculer; (→ answer, total) trouver;

∎ I work it out at £22 d'après mes calculs, ça fait 22 livres

(c) (solve → calculation, problem) résoudre; (→ puzzle) faire, résoudre; (→ code) déchiffrer;

∎ have they worked out their differences? est-ce qu'ils ont réglé ou résolu leurs différends?;

∎ I'm sure we can work this thing out (your problem) je suis sûr que nous pouvons arranger ça; (our argument) je suis sûr que nous finirons par nous mettre d'accord;

∎ things will work themselves out les choses s'arrangeront toutes seules ou d'elles-mêmes

(d) (formulate → idea, plan) élaborer, combiner; (→ agreement, details) mettre au point;

∎ to work out a solution trouver une solution;

∎ have you worked out yet when it's due to start? est-ce que tu sais quand ça doit commencer?;

∎ she had it all worked out elle avait tout planifié;

∎ we worked out an easier route nous avons trouvé un itinéraire plus facile

(e) (figure out) arriver à comprendre;

∎ I finally worked out why he was acting so strangely j'ai enfin découvert ou compris pourquoi il se comportait si bizarrement;

∎ the dog had worked out how to open the door le chien avait compris comment ouvrir la porte;

∎ I can't work her out je n'arrive pas à la comprendre;

∎ I can't work their relationship out leurs rapports me dépassent

(f) (mine, well) épuiser

2 intransitive verb

(a) (happen) se passer;

∎ it depends on how things work out ça dépend de la façon dont les choses se passent;

∎ the trip worked out as planned le voyage s'est déroulé comme prévu;

∎ I wonder how it will all work out je me demande comment tout cela va s'arranger;

∎ it all worked out for the best tout a fini par s'arranger pour le mieux;

∎ but it didn't work out that way mais il en a été tout autrement;

∎ it worked out badly for them les choses ont mal tourné pour eux

(b) (have a good result → job, plan) réussir; (→ problem, puzzle) se résoudre;

∎ she worked out fine as personnel director elle s'est bien débrouillée comme directeur du personnel;

∎ are things working out for you OK? est-ce que ça se passe bien pour toi?;

∎ did the new job work out? ça a marché pour le nouveau boulot?;

∎ it didn't work out between them les choses ont plutôt mal tourné entre eux;

∎ their project didn't work out leur projet est tombé à l'eau

(c) (amount to)

∎ how much does it all work out at? ça fait combien en tout?;

∎ the average price for an apartment works out to or at $5,000 per square metre le prix moyen d'un appartement s'élève ou revient à 5000 dollars le mètre carré;

∎ that works out at three hours a week ça fait trois heures par semaine;

∎ electric heating works out expensive le chauffage électrique revient cher

(d) (exercise) faire de l'exercice; (professional athlete) s'entraîner

➲ work over separable transitive verb

(a) American (revise) revoir, réviser

(b) familiar (beat up) tabasser, passer à tabac

➲ work round

1 intransitive verb

(a) (turn) tourner;

∎ the wind worked round to the north le vent a tourné au nord petit à petit

(b) figurative (in conversation)

∎ he finally worked round to the subject of housing il a fini par aborder le sujet du logement;

∎ what's she working round to? où veut-elle en venir?

2 separable transitive verb

∎ (bring round) I worked the conversation round to my salary j'ai amené la conversation sur la question de mon salaire

➲ work through

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (insert) faire passer à travers

(b) (progress through)

∎ we worked our way through the crowd nous nous sommes frayé un chemin à travers la foule;

∎ he worked his way through the book il a lu le livre du début à la fin;

∎ figurative I worked the problem through j'ai étudié le problème sous tous ses aspects

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (continue to work)

∎ she worked through lunch elle a travaillé pendant l'heure du déjeuner

(b) (resolve)

∎ he worked through his emotional problems il a réussi à assumer ses problèmes affectifs

➲ work up

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (stir up, rouse) exciter, provoquer;

∎ he worked up the crowd il a excité la foule;

∎ he worked the crowd up into a frenzy il a rendu la foule frénétique;

∎ he works himself up or he gets himself worked up over nothing il s'énerve pour rien;

∎ she had worked herself up into a dreadful rage elle s'était mise dans une rage terrible

(b) (develop) développer;

∎ I want to work these ideas up into an article je veux développer ces idées pour en faire un article;

∎ to work up an appetite se mettre en appétit;

∎ we worked up a sweat/a thirst playing tennis jouer au tennis nous a donné chaud/soif;

∎ I can't work up any enthusiasm for this work je n'arrive pas à avoir le moindre enthousiasme pour ce travail;

∎ he tried to work up an interest in the cause il a essayé de s'intéresser à la cause

(c) (idiom)

∎ to work one's way up faire son chemin;

∎ she worked her way up from secretary to managing director elle a commencé comme secrétaire et elle a fait son chemin jusqu'au poste de P-DG;

∎ I worked my way up from nothing je suis parti de rien

2 intransitive verb

(a) (clothing) remonter

(b) (build up)

∎ the film was working up to a climax le film approchait de son point culminant;

∎ things were working up to a crisis une crise se préparait, on était au bord d'une crise;

∎ she's working up to what she wanted to ask elle en vient à ce qu'elle voulait demander;

∎ what are you working up to? où veux-tu en venir?

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12 Philosophy

   1) There Are Ideas That Have Their Own True and Immutable Nature

   And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)

   2) Examine What Is within Our Reach

   Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)

   3) Modern Philosophy Starts with the Cartesian Catastrophe

   As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)

   4) The Rightful Claims of Philosophy

   It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the inﬂuence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic inﬂuences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)

   5) The Philosophy of Philosophy

   Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)

   6) Philosophy Is a Field Which Has Certain Central Questions

   I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)

   7) The Central Task of Philosophy

   What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.

   This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).

   The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....

   Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)

   8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

   In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)

   9) The Enduring Value of Philosophy

   Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....

   Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)

    10) The Distinction between Dionysian Man and Apollonian Man, between Art and Creativity and Reason and Self- Control

   In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Philosophy
13 heavy

adjective

1) (in weight) schwer; dick [Mantel]; fest [Schuh]

heavy traffic — (dense) hohes Verkehrsaufkommen

2) (severe) schwer [Schaden, Verlust, Strafe, Kampf]; hoch [Steuern, Schulden, Anforderungen]; massiv [Druck, Unterstützung]

3) (excessive) unmäßig [Trinken, Essen, Rauchen]

a heavy smoker/drinker — ein starker Raucher/Trinker

4) (violent) schwer [Schlag, Sturm, Regen, Sturz, Seegang]

make heavy weather of something — (fig.) die Dinge unnötig komplizieren

5) (clinging) schwer [Boden]; see also academic.ru/31621/going">going 1. 1)

6) (tedious) schwerfällig; (serious) seriös [Zeitung]; ernst [Musik, Theaterrolle]

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['hevi]
adjective

1) (having great weight; difficult to lift or carry: a heavy parcel.) schwer

2) (having a particular weight: I wonder how heavy our little baby is.) schwer

3) (of very great amount, force etc: heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.) schwer,stark

4) (doing something to a great extent: He's a heavy smoker/drinker.) stark

5) (dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy: a heavy sky/atmosphere.) trübe

6) (difficult to read, do, understand etc: Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.) schwer

7) ((of food) hard to digest: rather heavy pastry.) schwer

8) (noisy and clumsy: heavy footsteps.) schwer

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- heavily
- heaviness
- heavy-duty
- heavy industry
- heavyweight
- heavy going
- a heavy heart
- make heavy weather of
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heavy

[ˈhevi]

I. adj

1. (weighty) schwer a. fig

her eyes were \heavy with tiredness vor Müdigkeit fielen ihr fast die Augen zu

to be \heavy with child ( liter) schwanger sein, ein Kind unter dem Herzen tragen liter

\heavy fall schwerer Sturz

\heavy food schweres [o schwer verdauliches] Essen

to do \heavy lifting/carrying schwere Sachen heben/tragen

\heavy machinery schwere Maschinen

\heavy step schwerer Schritt

to lie \heavy on sb's stomach jdm schwer im Magen liegen

\heavy work Schwerarbeit f

2. (intense) stark

\heavy accent starker Akzent

\heavy bleeding starke Blutung

to be under \heavy fire MIL unter schwerem Beschuss stehen

\heavy frost/gale/snow starker Frost/Sturm/Schneefall

\heavy rain heftiger [o starker] Regen

\heavy sea hohe [o stürmische] See

3. (excessive) stark, übermäßig

the engine is rather \heavy on fuel der Motor verbraucht ziemlich viel Benzin

\heavy drinker starker Trinker/starke Trinkerin

\heavy sleep tiefer Schlaf

\heavy smoker starker Raucher/starke Raucherin

4. (severe) schwer[wiegend]

the odds were \heavy but they decided to go for it anyway sie entschieden sich, trotz der vielen Widrigkeiten weiterzumachen

a \heavy blow ein schwerer Schlag a. fig

\heavy offence schweres Vergehen

\heavy jail sentence hohe Gefängnisstrafe

5. (abundant) viel, reichlich; sum hoch

the trees were \heavy with fruit die Bäume trugen viele Früchte

\heavy casualties unzählige Opfer; MIL schwere [o hohe] Verluste

\heavy crop reiche Ernte

\heavy fine hohe Geldstrafe

\heavy investment hohe Investitionen pl

6. ( fig: oppressive) drückend, lastend; weather schwül

the atmosphere was \heavy with menace es lag Gefahr in der Luft

\heavy responsibility große Verantwortung

\heavy silence lähmende Stille

7. (difficult) schwierig, schwer

\heavy breathing schwerer Atem

\heavy going Schinderei f, Plackerei f fam

the book is rather \heavy going das Buch ist schwer zu lesen

the going was \heavy wir kamen nur schwer voran

8. (dense) dicht; (thick) dick

\heavy beard dichter Bart

\heavy coat dicker Mantel

\heavy clouds schwere Wolken

\heavy schedule voller [o dicht gedrängter] Terminkalender

\heavy shoes feste Schuhe

\heavy sky bedeckter Himmel

\heavy traffic starker [o dichter] Verkehr

\heavy undergrowth dichtes Unterholz

9. (not delicate) grob

\heavy features grobe Züge

10. (clumsy) schwerfällig

11. (strict) streng

▪ to be \heavy on sb streng mit jdm sein

to play the \heavy mother die gestrenge Mutter spielen

12.

▶ to do sth with a \heavy hand etw mit eiserner Strenge machen

▶ with a \heavy heart schweren Herzens

▶ to make \heavy weather of sth etw unnötig komplizieren

II. n

1. (sl: thug) Schläger[typ] m sl

2. THEAT (character) Schurke, Schurkin m, f

to be [or play] the \heavy in sth ( fig fam) bei etw dat die Hauptrolle spielen

3. BRIT ( fam: newspapers)

▪ the heavies pl die seriösen Zeitungen

4. esp SCOT (beer) Starkbier nt

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['hevɪ]
1. adj (+er)

1) (= of great weight PHYS fig) schwer; features grob

with a heavy heart — schweren Herzens, mit schwerem Herzen

heavy with pollen — mit Pollen geschwängert (geh)

heavy with sleep (person) — schläfrig; eyes also schwer

the air was heavy with smoke/the smell of cooking — der Rauch/Essensgeruch hing schwer in der Luft

his voice was heavy with sarcasm — seine Stimme triefte von or vor Sarkasmus

2) blow, gunfire, casualties, fog, book, meal, defeat, losses schwer; rain, traffic, drinker, smoker, period stark; expenses, taxes hoch; buying groß; line dick; sleep tief; landing, fall hart

heavy buyer — Großabnehmer m

heavy type (Typ) — Fettdruck m

heavy breathing — schweres Atmen

or gas (US) — viel Benzin brauchen

to be heavy on the stomach —

to be heavy with child (liter) — schweren Leibes sein (geh)

3) (= heavy-handed) manner, style, sense of humour schwerfällig

4) (= oppressive) silence bedrückend; weather, air drückend, schwül; sky bedeckt

5) (= difficult) task, work, day schwer

the going was heavy — wir kamen nur schwer voran

she can be heavy going — sie kann ziemlich anstrengend sein

the conversation was heavy going — die Unterhaltung war mühsam

this book is very heavy going — das Buch liest sich schwer

6) (THEAT) part schwer, ernst

7) (inf: strict) streng (on mit)

to play the heavy father/husband — den gestrengen Vater/Ehemann spielen

8) (dated US sl) prima (inf), dufte (dated inf)

2. adv
schwer
his guilt weighs or lies heavy on him — seine Schuld lastet schwer auf ihm

3. n

1) (Brit inf = thug) Schlägertyp m

2) (THEAT: villain) Schurke m

3) (Scot: beer) dunkleres, obergäriges Bier

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heavy [ˈhevı]

A adj (adv → heavily)

1. schwer ( auch CHEM, PHYS)

2. MIL schwer (Artillerie etc):

heavy guns schwere Geschütze;

bring out ( oder up) the ( oder one’s) heavy guns grobes oder schweres Geschütz auffahren umg

3. schwer:

a) heftig, stark:

heavy fall schwerer Sturz;

heavy fighting MIL schwere Kämpfe pl;

heavy losses schwere Verluste;

heavy rain starker Regen;

heavy sea schwere See;

heavy traffic starker Verkehr; → cold C 3, inroad 3

b) massig (Körper)

c) wuchtig (Schlag): → blow² 2

d) drückend, hart:

heavy fine hohe Geldstrafe;

heavy taxes drückende oder hohe Steuern

4. beträchtlich, groß:

heavy buyer Großabnehmer(in);

heavy consumer ( oder user) Großverbraucher(in);

heavy cost hohe Kosten pl;

heavy demand starke Nachfrage;

heavy favo(u)rite SPORT etc hohe(r) Favorit(in);

heavy orders große Aufträge;

be heavy on gasoline (Br petrol) viel Benzin (ver)brauchen

5. schwer, stark, übermäßig:

a heavy drinker (eater, smoker) ein starker Trinker (Esser, Raucher);

a heavy loser jemand, der schwere Verluste erleidet

6. ergiebig, reich (Ernte)

7. schwer:

a) stark (alkoholhaltig):

heavy beer Starkbier n

b) stark, betäubend (Parfum etc)

c) schwer verdaulich (Nahrung)

8. pappig, klitschig (Brot etc)

9. dröhnend, dumpf:

heavy roll of thunder dumpfes Donnergrollen;

heavy steps schwere Schritte

10. drückend, lastend (Stille etc)

11. a) schwer:

heavy clouds tief hängende Wolken

b) trüb, finster:

heavy sky bedeckter Himmel

c) drückend, schwül (Luft)

12. (with)

a) (schwer) beladen (mit)

b) fig überladen, voll (von):

heavy with meaning bedeutungsvoll, -schwer

13. schwer:

a) schwierig, mühsam, hart (Aufgabe etc):

heavy worker Schwerarbeiter(in); → going A 2

b) schwer verständlich (Buch etc)

14. plump, unbeholfen, schwerfällig (Stil etc)

15. auch heavy in ( oder on) hand stumpfsinnig, langweilig (Buch etc)

16. begriffsstutzig, dumm (Person)

17. schläfrig, benommen ( with von):

heavy with sleep schlaftrunken

18. folgenschwer:

of heavy consequence mit weitreichenden Folgen

19. ernst, betrüblich (Neuigkeiten etc)

20. THEAT etc

a) ernst, düster (Szene etc)

b) würdevoll (Ehemann etc)

21. bedrückt, niedergeschlagen:

with a heavy heart schweren oder blutenden Herzens

22. WIRTSCH flau, schleppend:

heavy market gedrückter Markt;

heavy sale schlechter Absatz

23. unwegsam, aufgeweicht, lehmig (Straße etc):

heavy going (Pferderennsport) tiefes Geläuf

24. steil, jäh:

heavy grade starkes Gefälle

25. breit, grob:

heavy scar breite Narbe;

heavy features grobe Züge

26. a) auch heavy with child schwanger

b) auch heavy with young ZOOL trächtig

27. TYPO fett (gedruckt)

B s

1. THEAT etc

a) Schurke m

b) würdiger älterer Herr

c) Schurkenrolle f

d) Rolle f eines würdigen älteren Herrn

2. MIL

a) schweres Geschütz

b) pl schwere Artillerie

3. SPORT umg Schwergewichtler m

4. schott Starkbier n

5. US umg schwerer Junge (Verbrecher)

6. pl US umg warme Unterkleidung

C adv hang heavy langsam vergehen, dahinschleichen (Zeit);

time was hanging heavy on my hands die Zeit wurde mir lang;

lie heavy on sb schwer auf jemandem lasten, jemanden schwer bedrücken

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adjective

1) (in weight) schwer; dick [Mantel]; fest [Schuh]

heavy traffic — (dense) hohes Verkehrsaufkommen

2) (severe) schwer [Schaden, Verlust, Strafe, Kampf]; hoch [Steuern, Schulden, Anforderungen]; massiv [Druck, Unterstützung]

3) (excessive) unmäßig [Trinken, Essen, Rauchen]

a heavy smoker/drinker — ein starker Raucher/Trinker

4) (violent) schwer [Schlag, Sturm, Regen, Sturz, Seegang]

make heavy weather of something — (fig.) die Dinge unnötig komplizieren

5) (clinging) schwer [Boden]; see also going 1. 1)

6) (tedious) schwerfällig; (serious) seriös [Zeitung]; ernst [Musik, Theaterrolle]

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(poor) polling n.

hohe (geringe)

Wahlbeteiligung f. (rain) adj.

stark (Regen) adj. adj.

heftig adj.

schwer adj.

stark adj.

English-german dictionary > heavy
14 operation

[ɒpə'reɪʃn] noun

1) (causing to work) (of machine) Bedienung, die; (of lever, brake) Betätigung, die; (of factory, mine, etc.) Betrieb, der; (of bus service etc.) Unterhaltung, die

2) (way something works) Arbeitsweise, die

3) (being operative)

come into operation — [Gesetz, Gebühr usw.:] in Kraft treten

be in operation — [Maschine, Gerät usw.:] in Betrieb sein; [Service:] zur Verfügung stehen; [Gesetz:] in Kraft sein

be out of operation — [Maschine, Gerät usw.:] außer Betrieb sein

4) (performance) Tätigkeit, die

repeat the operation — das Ganze [noch einmal] wiederholen

5) (Med.) Operation, die

have an operation [on one's foot] — [am Fuß] operiert werden

6) (Mil.) Einsatz, der

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noun

1) (an action or process, especially when planned: a rescue operation.) das Unternehmen

2) (the process of working: Our plan is now in operation.) der Betrieb

3) (the act of surgically cutting a part of the body in order to cure disease: an operation for appendicitis.) die Operation

4) ((often in plural) the movement, fighting etc of armies: The general was in command of operations in the north.) der Einsatz

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op·era·tion

[ˌɒp^ərˈeɪʃ^ən, AM ˌɑ:pəˈreɪ-]

n

1. no pl (way of functioning) Funktionsweise f, Arbeitsweise f; of a theory Umsetzung f

the \operation of communism requires people to give up their individual identities der Kommunismus kann nur dann funktionieren, wenn die Menschen ihre Eigenständigkeit aufgeben

the \operation of gravity keeps us standing on the ground dank der Schwerkraft bleiben wir auf dem Boden stehen

day-to-day [or everyday] \operation gewöhnlicher Betriebsablauf, Geschäftsgang m

2. no pl (functioning state) Betrieb m, Einsatz m; LAW Wirksamkeit f

▪ to be in \operation machines in Betrieb sein; plan, rule, law wirksam [o in Kraft] sein, gelten

hours of \operation Geschäftszeiten pl

by \operation of law kraft Gesetzes

daily/hourly \operation täglicher/stündlicher Betrieb

the bus service is in hourly \operation during off-peak times außerhalb der Stoßzeiten fahren die Busse stündlich

to come into \operation machines in Gang kommen [o Betrieb genommen werden]; plan, rule, law in Kraft treten, wirksam werden

to put sth into \operation machine etw in Betrieb nehmen; regulations etw anwenden; scheme, plan etw in die Tat umsetzen

3. (process) Vorgang m

repairing this old watch is a very delicate \operation das Reparieren dieser alten Uhr ist eine sehr diffizile Angelegenheit

to undertake an \operation etwas vornehmen, an eine Sache herangehen

4. (business) Geschäft nt

his \operation is based in Florida er betreibt seine Geschäfte von Florida aus

how is the \operation going these days? wie läuft denn der Betrieb jetzt so?

5. (activity) Unternehmung f, Vorhaben nt

the company's \operations in West Africa.. die Geschäfte der Firma in West Afrika...; MIL Operation f, Einsatz m

O\operation Desert Storm Operation Wüstensturm

rescue \operation Rettungsaktion f

security \operation Sicherheitsmaßnahmen pl, Einsatz m von Sicherheitskräften

undercover \operation MIL verdeckte Operation, Geheimeinsatz m

humanitarian \operation humanitärer Einsatz

to launch an \operation mit einer Aktion beginnen

to start \operations on sth die Arbeit an etw dat aufnehmen

6. (surgery) Operation f

heart/lung \operation Herz-/Lungenoperation f

to perform an \operation eine Operation durchführen

7. FIN [finanzielle] Transaktion

8. MATH Operation f

mathematical \operation mathematische Operation, Rechenvorgang m

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["ɒpə'reISən]
n

1) (= act of operating as in vi) (of machine, mechanism, system) Funktionieren nt; (of plan) Durchführung f; (of theory) Anwendung f; (= method of functioning) (of machine, organization) Arbeitsweise f; (of system, organ) Funktionsweise f; (of law) Wirkungsweise f

to be in operation (machine) — in Betrieb sein; (law) in Kraft sein; (plan) durchgeführt werden

to be out of operation — außer Betrieb sein; ( fig : person ) nicht einsatzfähig sein

to come into operation (machine) — in Gang kommen; (law) in Kraft treten; (plan) zur Anwendung gelangen

to bring or put a law into operation — ein Gesetz in Kraft setzen

2) (= act of operating as in vt) (of machine etc) Bedienung f, Handhabung f; (of small mechanism) Betätigung f; (of business) Betreiben nt, Führen nt; (of system, policy) Anwendung f; (of plan, law) Durchführung f; (of route) Bedienung f; (of bus service etc) Unterhaltung f; (of tours) Veranstaltung f

3) (MED) Operation f (on an +dat)

to have an operation — operiert werden

to have a serious/heart operation — sich einer schweren Operation/einer Herzoperation unterziehen

to have an operation for a hernia — wegen eines Bruchs operiert werden

4) (= enterprise) Unternehmen nt, Unternehmung f, Operation f; (= task, stage in undertaking) Arbeitsgang m; (MATH) Rechenvorgang m, Operation f

(business) operations — Geschäfte pl

to cease/resume operations — den Geschäftsverkehr einstellen/wieder aufnehmen

5) (ESP MIL: campaign) Operation f, Einsatz m, Unternehmen nt; (in police force etc) Einsatz m

Operation Cynthia — Operation Cynthia

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operation [ˌɒpəˈreıʃn; US ˌɑ-] s

1. Wirken n, Wirkung f ( beide:

on auf akk)

2. besonders JUR (Rechts)Wirksamkeit f, Geltung f:

by operation of law kraft Gesetzes;

come into operation wirksam werden, in Kraft treten;

be in operation in Kraft oder wirksam sein

3. TECH Betrieb m, Tätigkeit f, Lauf m (einer Maschine etc):

in operation in Betrieb;

put ( oder set) in (out of) operation in (außer) Betrieb setzen; → academic.ru/60521/ready">ready A 1

4. besonders TECH

a) Wirkungs-, Arbeitsweise f

b) Arbeits(vor)gang m, Verfahren n, (Arbeits)Prozess m:

operation of thinking fig Denkvorgang, -prozess;

chemical operation chemischer Prozess;

operations research WIRTSCH Unternehmensforschung f;

operations scheduling Arbeitsvorbereitung f, zeitliche Arbeitsplanung

5. TECH Inbetriebsetzung f, Handhabung f, Bedienung f (einer Maschine etc)

6. Arbeit f:

building operations Bauarbeiten

7. WIRTSCH

a) Betrieb m:

continuous operation durchgehender (Tag- und Nacht)Betrieb;

in operation in Betrieb

b) Unternehmen n, -nehmung f, Betrieb m:

commercial operation

c) Geschäft n

d) (Börse) Transaktion f

8. MATH Operation f, Ausführung f (einer Rechenvorschrift)

9. MED Operation f, (chirurgischer) Eingriff:

operation for appendicitis Blinddarmoperation;

operation on ( oder to) the neck Halsoperation;

have an operation operiert werden;

perform an operation (on sb) (an jemandem) einen (chirurgischen) Eingriff vornehmen;

major (minor) operation

a) größere (kleinere oder harmlose) Operation,

b) umg große Sache, schwere Geburt (Kleinigkeit f)

10. MIL Operation f, Einsatz m, Unternehmung f, (Angriffs)Unternehmen n:

air-borne (bes US airlanded) operation Luftlandeunternehmen;

theater (bes Br theatre) of operations Einsatz-, Operationsgebiet n

op. abk

1. opera

2. operation

3. operator

4. opposite

5. optical opt.

6. opus Op.

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[ɒpə'reɪʃn] noun

1) (causing to work) (of machine) Bedienung, die; (of lever, brake) Betätigung, die; (of factory, mine, etc.) Betrieb, der; (of bus service etc.) Unterhaltung, die

2) (way something works) Arbeitsweise, die

3) (being operative)

come into operation — [Gesetz, Gebühr usw.:] in Kraft treten

be in operation — [Maschine, Gerät usw.:] in Betrieb sein; [Service:] zur Verfügung stehen; [Gesetz:] in Kraft sein

be out of operation — [Maschine, Gerät usw.:] außer Betrieb sein

4) (performance) Tätigkeit, die

repeat the operation — das Ganze [noch einmal] wiederholen

5) (Med.) Operation, die

have an operation [on one's foot] — [am Fuß] operiert werden

6) (Mil.) Einsatz, der

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(surgery) n.

Operation (Chirurgie) f. n.

Arbeitsablauf m.

Arbeitsgang m.

Bedienung f.

Betrieb -e m.

Gang ¨-e m.

Operation f.

Tätigkeit f.

Verfahren n.

English-german dictionary > operation
15 get

get [get]

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1. transitive verb

2. intransitive verb

3. compounds

4. Phrasal Verbs

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► vb: pret, ptp got, ptp (US) gotten

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1. transitive verb

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► When get is part of a set combination, eg get the sack, get hold of, look up the other word.

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   a. ( = have, receive, obtain) avoir

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► avoir covers a wide range of meanings, and like get is unspecific.

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• I go whenever I get the chance j'y vais dès que j'en ai l'occasion

• he got a fine il a eu une amende

• I got a lot of presents j'ai eu beaucoup de cadeaux

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► Some get + noun combinations may take a more specific French verb.

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• it was impossible to get help il était impossible d'obtenir de l'aide

• he got help from the others il s'est fait aider par les autres

• first I need to get a better idea of the situation je dois d'abord me faire une meilleure idée de la situation

• I think he got the wrong impression je pense qu'il s'est fait des idées

• they get lunch at school ils déjeunent à l'école

• if I'm not working I get no pay si je ne travaille pas je ne suis pas payé

• this area doesn't get much rain il ne pleut pas beaucoup dans cette région

• we'll get a sandwich in town on prendra un sandwich en ville

• this room gets a lot of sun cette pièce est très ensoleillée

• he got two years il s'est pris (inf) deux ans de prison

► have/has got

• I've got toothache j'ai mal aux dents

• I have got three sisters j'ai trois sœurs

• how many have you got? combien en avez-vous ?

• I've got it! ( = have safely) (ça y est) je l'ai !

• you're okay, I've got you! ne t'en fais pas, je te tiens !

   b. ( = find) trouver

• he got me a job il m'a trouvé un emploi

• it's difficult to get a hotel room in August c'est difficile de trouver une chambre d'hôtel en août

• you get different kinds of... on trouve plusieurs sortes de...

• you'll get him at home if you phone this evening tu le trouveras chez lui si tu appelles ce soir

• I've been trying to get you all week ça fait une semaine que j'essaie de t'avoir

• you can get me on the mobile tu peux m'appeler sur mon portable

   c. ( = buy) acheter

• where do they get their raw materials? où est-ce qu'ils achètent leurs matières premières ?

• to get sth cheap acheter qch bon marché

   d. ( = fetch, pick up) aller chercher

• I must go and get some bread il faut que j'aille chercher du pain

• can you get my coat from the cleaners? est-ce que tu peux aller chercher mon manteau au pressing ?

• can I get you a drink? est-ce que je peux vous offrir quelque chose ?

   e. ( = take) prendre

• I'll get the bus je vais prendre le bus

• I don't get the local paper je ne prends pas le journal local

   f. ( = call in) appeler

• we had to get a plumber nous avons dû appeler un plombier

   g. ( = prepare) préparer

• she was getting breakfast elle préparait le petit déjeuner

   h. ( = catch) [+ disease, fugitive] attraper ; [+ name, details] comprendre

• I didn't get your name je n'ai pas compris votre nom

• we'll get them yet! on leur revaudra ça !

• he'll get you for that! qu'est-ce que tu vas prendre ! (inf)

   i. ( = understand) get it? (inf) t'as pigé ? (inf)

• I don't get it (inf) je ne comprends pas

• you've got it in one! (inf) tu as tout compris !

• I don't get you (inf) je ne vous suis pas

• I don't get the joke je ne vois pas ce qu'il y a de drôle

• let me get this right, you're saying that... alors, si je comprends bien, tu dis que...

• don't get me wrong comprenez-moi bien

   j. ( = answer) can you get the phone? est-ce que tu peux répondre ?

• I'll get it! j'y vais !

   k. ( = annoy) (inf) agacer

• that's what really gets me c'est ce qui m'agace le plus

   l. (set structures)

► to get + adjective

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• to get one's hands dirty se salir les mains

• to get sb drunk soûler qn

• you're getting me worried tu m'inquiètes

► to get sth done (by someone else) faire faire qch

• to get one's hair cut se faire couper les cheveux

• I need to get my car serviced je dois faire réviser ma voiture

• when do you think you'll get it finished? ( = when will you finish it) quand penses-tu avoir fini ?

• you can't get anything done round here ( = do anything) il est impossible de travailler ici► to get sb/sth to do sth

• get him to clean the car fais-lui laver la voiture

• I'll get her to ring you back je lui demanderai de te rappeler

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• we eventually got her to change her mind nous avons finalement réussi à la faire changer d'avis

• I couldn't get the washing machine to work je n'ai pas réussi à faire marcher le lave-linge

• to get sth going [+ machine] faire marcher qch

► to get sb/sth somewhere

• to get sth downstairs descendre qch

• how can we get it home? comment faire pour l'apporter à la maison ?

• threatening me will get you nowhere tu n'obtiendras rien de moi par la menace

• to get sth upstairs monter qch► to get sb/sth + preposition

• to get sb by the arm saisir qn par le bras

• to get sb by the throat prendre qn à la gorge

• he gets a lot of money for his paintings il gagne beaucoup d'argent avec ses tableaux

• he gets his red hair from his mother il a les cheveux roux de sa mère

• the bullet got him in the arm la balle l'a atteint au bras

• he managed to get the card into the envelope il a réussi à faire entrer la carte dans l'enveloppe

• to get o.s. into a difficult position se mettre dans une situation délicate

• we got him on to the subject of the war nous l'avons amené à parler de la guerre

• she gets a lot of pleasure out of gardening elle prend beaucoup de plaisir à jardiner

• I couldn't get the stain out of the tablecloth je n'ai pas réussi à enlever la tache sur la nappe

• to get sth past the customs réussir à passer qch à la douane

• I'll never get the car through here je n'arriverai jamais à faire passer la voiture par ici

• to get sth to sb faire parvenir qch à qn

• to get a child to bed mettre un enfant au lit

2. intransitive verb

   a. ( = go) aller( to à, ( from de ) ;) ( = arrive) arriver ; ( = be) être

• how do you get there? comment fait-on pour y aller ?

• can you get there from London by bus? est-ce qu'on peut y aller de Londres en bus ?

• what time do you get to Sheffield? à quelle heure arrivez-vous à Sheffield ?

► to get + adverb/preposition

• you won't get anywhere if you behave like that tu n'arriveras à rien en te conduisant comme ça

• how did that box get here? comment cette boîte est-elle arrivée ici ?

• what's got into him? qu'est-ce qui lui prend ?

• we're getting nowhere fast (inf) on fait du sur place (inf)

• now we're getting somewhere! (inf) enfin du progrès !

• how's your thesis going? -- I'm getting there où en es-tu avec ta thèse ? -- ça avance

• where did you get to? où étais-tu donc passé ?

• where can he have got to? où est-il passé ?

• where have you got to? (in book, work) où en êtes-vous ?

• don't let it get to you (inf) ne te fais pas de bile (inf) pour ça

   b. (set structures)

► to get + adjective

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• I hope you'll get better soon j'espère que tu vas vite te remettre

• things are getting complicated les choses se compliquent

• this is getting expensive ça commence à faire cher

• she's afraid of getting fat elle a peur de grossir

• it's getting late il se fait tard

• I'm getting nervous je commence à avoir le trac

• he's getting old il vieillit il se fait vieux

• this is getting ridiculous ça devient ridicule

• how stupid can you get? il faut vraiment être stupide !

• to get used to sth/to doing s'habituer à qch/à faire

► to get + past participle (passive)

he got beaten up il s'est fait tabasser (inf)

• several windows got broken plusieurs fenêtres ont été brisées

• to get paid se faire payer

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• to get dressed s'habiller

• to get married se marier

• to get washed se laver

► to get to + infinitive

• he's getting to be an old man il se fait vieux

• it's getting to be impossible ça devient impossible

• to get to know sb apprendre à connaître qn

• we got to like him in the end nous avons fini par l'apprécier

• students only get to use the library between 2pm and 8pm les étudiants ne peuvent utiliser la bibliothèque qu'entre 14 heures et 20 heures► have got to + infinitive ( = must)

you've got to come il faut que vous veniez subj

• have you got to go and see her? est-ce que vous êtes obligé d'aller la voir ?

• you've got to be joking! tu plaisantes !► to get + -ing ( = begin)

to get going partir

• I got talking to him in the train j'ai parlé avec lui dans le train

• I got to thinking that... (inf) je me suis dit que...

3. compounds

► get-rich-quick scheme (inf) noun

combine pour faire fortune rapidement

► get-together noun réunion f

► get-up-and-go (inf) noun

• he's got lots of get-up-and-go il est très dynamique ► get-well card noun carte f de vœux (pour un prompt rétablissement)

4. Phrasal Verbs

► get about intransitive verb

   a. ( = move about) se déplacer

• he gets about with a stick/on crutches il marche avec une canne/des béquilles

• she gets about quite well despite her handicap elle arrive assez bien à se déplacer malgré son handicap

   b. ( = travel) voyager

• she gets about a lot elle voyage beaucoup

   c. [news] circuler

• the story had got about that... des rumeurs circulaient selon lesquelles...

• it has got about that... le bruit court que...

• I don't want it to get about je ne veux pas que ça s'ébruite► get above inseparable transitive verb

• to get above o.s. avoir la grosse tête (inf)

• you're getting above yourself! pour qui te prends-tu ?► get across

1. intransitive verb

[person crossing] traverser ; [meaning, message] passer

• the message is getting across that people must... les gens commencent à comprendre qu'il faut...

2. separable transitive verb

[+ person crossing] faire traverser ; [+ ideas, intentions, desires] communiquer ( to sb à qn)

• to get sth across to sb faire comprendre qch à qn► get ahead intransitive verb

(in race) prendre de l'avance ; (in career) monter en grade

► get along intransitive verb

   a. ( = go) aller (to à ) ; ( = leave) s'en aller

• I must be getting along il faut que je m'en aille

   b. ( = manage) se débrouiller

• to get along without sth/sb se débrouiller sans qch/qn

   c. ( = progress) [work] avancer ; [student, invalid] faire des progrès

   d. ( = be on good terms) (bien) s'entendre

• I don't get along with him at all je ne m'entends pas du tout avec lui► get around

1. intransitive verb

→ get about

2. separable transitive verb

→ get round

3. inseparable transitive verb

→ get round► get at inseparable transitive verb

   a. [+ object, person, place] atteindre

   b. [+ facts, truth] découvrir

   c. ( = suggest) what are you getting at? où voulez-vous en venir ?

   d. (British) ( = attack) s'en prendre à

• she's always getting at her brother elle s'en prend toujours à son frère

• I feel got at je me sens visé

   e. ( = influence) (inf) suborner

• there's a danger witnesses will be got at il y a un risque de subornation de témoins► get away

1. intransitive verb

   a. ( = leave) partir

• to get away from a place quitter un endroit

• I usually get away from work at six je quitte généralement (le travail) à 6 heures

• I'll try to get away from work early j'essaierai de rentrer du travail plus tôt

• we are not going to be able to get away this year nous n'allons pas pouvoir partir en vacances cette année

• get away (with you)! (inf) à d'autres !

   b. ( = escape) s'échapper

• to get away from [+ people, situation] échapper à ; [+ idea] renoncer à

• he was trying to get away when he was shot il essayait de s'échapper quand on lui a tiré dessus

• she moved here to get away from the stress of city life elle est venue s'installer ici pour échapper au stress de la vie citadine

• he went to the Bahamas to get away from it all il est allé aux Bahamas pour laisser tous ses problèmes derrière lui

• the thief got away with the money le voleur est parti avec l'argent

2. separable transitive verb

   a. ( = take) emmener ; ( = move away) éloigner ; ( = send off) expédier

   b. ( = remove) to get sth away from sb enlever qch à qn► get away with transitive verb

( = suffer no consequences)

she got away with saying some outrageous things elle a tenu impunément des propos choquants

• he broke the law and got away with it il a violé la loi en toute impunité

• you'll never get away with that! on ne te laissera pas passer ça ! (inf)

• he gets away with murder (inf) il peut se permettre de faire n'importe quoi► get back

1. intransitive verb

   a. ( = return) revenir

• to get back rentrer chez soi

• life is starting to get back to normal la vie reprend son cours

• to get back to work reprendre le travail

• to get back to the point revenir au sujet

• let's get back to why you didn't come yesterday revenons à la question de savoir pourquoi vous n'êtes pas venu hier

• to get back to sb (inf) recontacter qn ; (on phone) rappeler qn

• can I get back to you on that? (inf) puis-je vous recontacter à ce sujet ? ; (on phone) puis-je vous rappeler à ce sujet ?

   b. ( = move backwards) reculer

• get back! reculez !

2. separable transitive verb

   a. ( = recover) [+ sth lent, sth lost, stolen] récupérer ; [+ strength] reprendre ; [+ one's husband, partner] faire revenir

• he's trying desperately to get her back il essaie désespérément de la faire revenir

• I won't get my car back until Thursday je ne récupérerai pas ma voiture avant jeudi

• I was afraid I wouldn't get my passport back j'avais peur de ne pas récupérer mon passeport

• to get one's money back se faire rembourser

   b. ( = return) rendre

• I'll get it back to you as soon as I can je vous le rendrai dès que possible► get back at (inf) inseparable transitive verb

( = retaliate against) prendre sa revanche sur

► get by intransitive verb

   a. ( = pass) passer

   b. ( = manage) arriver à s'en sortir (inf)

• she gets by on very little money elle arrive à s'en sortir (inf) avec très peu d'argent

• he'll get by! il s'en sortira ! (inf)► get down

1. intransitive verb

descendre (from, off de)

• may I get down? (at table) est-ce que je peux sortir de table ?

• to get down on one's knees se mettre à genoux

• get down! ( = climb down) descends ! ; ( = lie down) couche-toi !

2. separable transitive verb

   a. (from upstairs, attic) descendre ; (from shelf) prendre

   b. ( = swallow) [+ food, pill] (inf) avaler

   c. ( = make note of) noter

   d. ( = depress) déprimer

• don't let it get you down! ne te laisse pas abattre !► get down to inseparable transitive verb

• to get down to doing sth se mettre à faire qch

• to get down to work se mettre au travail

• you'll have to get down to it il faut vous y mettre

• when you get down to it there's not much difference between them en y regardant de plus près il n'y a pas grande différence entre eux

• to get down to business passer aux choses sérieuses

• let's get down to the details regardons ça de plus près► get in

1. intransitive verb

   a. [person] ( = enter) entrer ; ( = be admitted to university, school) être admis

• do you think we'll get in? tu crois qu'on réussira à entrer ?

   b. ( = arrive) [train, bus, plane] arriver

   c. ( = be elected) [member] être élu ; [party] accéder au pouvoir

2. separable transitive verb

   a. [+ harvest] rentrer

• did you get your essay in on time? as-tu rendu ta dissertation à temps ?

   b. ( = buy) acheter

• to get in supplies s'approvisionner

   c. ( = fit in) glisser

• he got in a reference to his new book il a glissé une allusion à son dernier livre

• it was hard to get a word in c'était difficile de placer un mot

• he managed to get in a game of golf il a réussi à trouver le temps de faire une partie de golf► get into inseparable transitive verb

   a. ( = enter) [+ house, park] entrer dans ; [+ car, train] monter dans

• he got into a good university il a été admis dans une bonne université

• to get into politics entrer en politique

• to get into the way of doing sth ( = make a habit of) prendre l'habitude de faire qch

• I don't know what has got into him je ne sais pas ce qui lui a pris

   b. [+ clothes] mettre

• I can't get into these jeans any more je ne peux plus rentrer dans ce jean► get in with inseparable transitive verb

   a. ( = gain favour of) (réussir à) se faire bien voir de

• he tried to get in with the headmaster il a essayé de se faire bien voir du directeur

   b. ( = become friendly with) se mettre à fréquenter

• he got in with local drug dealers il s'est mis à fréquenter les trafiquants de drogue du quartier► get off

1. intransitive verb

   a. (from vehicle) descendre

• to tell sb where to get off (inf) envoyer promener qn (inf)

   b. ( = depart) [person] partir ; [car] démarrer ; [plane] décoller

• to get off to a good start [project, discussion] bien partir

• to get off to sleep s'endormir

   c. ( = escape) s'en tirer

• to get off with a reprimand en être quitte pour une réprimande

   d. ( = leave work) finir ; ( = take time off) se libérer

• we get off at 5 o'clock nous finissons à 5 heures

• I can't get off early today je ne peux pas m'en aller de bonne heure aujourd'hui

2. separable transitive verb

   a. [+ bus, train] descendre de

   b. [+ clothes, shoes] enlever

   c. ( = dispatch) I'll phone you once I've got the children off to school je t'appellerai une fois que les enfants seront partis à l'école

• to get a child off to sleep faire dormir un enfant

   d. ( = save from punishment) faire acquitter

• a good lawyer will get him off un bon avocat le fera acquitter

3. inseparable transitive verb

   a. to get off a bus/a bike descendre d'un bus/de vélo

• they got off the boat ils sont descendus à terre

• he got off his horse il est descendu de cheval

• get off the floor! levez-vous !

• I wish he would get off my back! (inf) si seulement il pouvait me ficher la paix (inf) !

• we've rather got off the subject nous nous sommes plutôt éloignés du sujet

   b. ( = be excused) (inf) to get off gym se faire dispenser des cours de gym► get off with (inf) inseparable transitive verb

(British) lever (inf !)

► get on

1. intransitive verb

   a. (on to bus, bike) monter ; (on to ship) monter à bord

   b. ( = advance, make progress) avancer

• how are you getting on? comment ça marche ? (inf)

• how did you get on? comment ça s'est passé ?

• to be getting on (inf) ( = getting old) se faire vieux

• he's getting on for 40 il approche de la quarantaine

• it's getting on for 3 o'clock il n'est pas loin de 3 heures

• I must be getting on now il faut que j'y aille

• this will do to be getting on with ça ira pour le moment

• there were getting on for 100 people il y avait pas loin de 100 personnes

   c. ( = succeed) réussir

• if you want to get on, you must... si tu veux réussir, tu dois...

   d. ( = agree) s'entendre

• we don't get on nous ne nous entendons pas

• I get on well with her je m'entends bien avec elle

2. separable transitive verb

( = put on) [+ clothes, shoes] mettre

3. inseparable transitive verb

• to get on a horse monter sur un cheval

• to get on a bicycle monter sur sa bicyclette

• to get on a train monter dans un train

• to get back on one's feet se remettre debout► get on to inseparable transitive verb

   a. ( = get in touch with) se mettre en rapport avec ; ( = speak to) parler à ; ( = ring up) téléphoner à

   b. ( = start talking about) aborder

• we got on to (the subject of) money nous avons abordé la question de l'argent► get on with inseparable transitive verb

   a. ( = continue) continuer

• while they talked she got on with her work pendant qu'ils parlaient, elle a continué à travailler

• get on with it! (working) allez, au travail ! ; (telling sth) accouche ! (inf)

   b. ( = start on) se mettre à

• I'd better get on with the job! il faut que je m'y mette !► get out

1. intransitive verb

   a. sortir (of de ) ; (from vehicle) descendre (of de)

• get out! sortez !

• let's get out of here! sortons d'ici !

   b. ( = escape) s'échapper (of de)

• to get out of [+ task, obligation] échapper à ; [+ difficulty] surmonter

• you'll have to do it, you can't get out of it il faut que tu le fasses, tu ne peux pas y échapper

• some people will do anything to get out of paying taxes certaines personnes feraient n'importe quoi pour éviter de payer des impôts

• he's trying to get out of going to the funeral il essaie de trouver une excuse pour ne pas aller à l'enterrement

   c. [news] se répandre ; [secret] être éventé

• wait till the news gets out! attends que la nouvelle soit ébruitée !

2. separable transitive verb

   a. ( = bring out) [+ object] sortir

• he got his diary out of his pocket il a sorti son agenda de sa poche

   b. ( = remove) [+ nail, tooth] arracher ; [+ stain] enlever

• I can't get it out of my mind je n'arrive pas à chasser cela de mon esprit

   c. ( = free) [+ person] faire sortir

• it gets me out of the house ça me fait sortir► get over

1. intransitive verb

( = cross) traverser ; [message, meaning] passer (inf) ; [speaker] se faire entendre

2. inseparable transitive verb

   a. [+ road] traverser ; [+ obstacle, difficulty] surmonter ; [+ problem] résoudre

   b. ( = recover from) to get over an illness se remettre d'une maladie

• to get over sb's death se remettre de la mort de qn

• I can't get over it je n'en reviens pas

• I can't get over the fact that... je n'en reviens pas que... + subj

• I can't get over how much he's changed je n'en reviens pas de voir combien il a changé

• she never really got over him (inf) elle ne l'a jamais vraiment oublié

3. separable transitive verb

   a. [+ person, animal, vehicle] faire passer

   b. ( = communicate) faire comprendre ; [+ ideas] communiquer► get over with separable transitive verb

( = have done with) en finir

• let's get it over with finissons-en

• I was glad to get the injections over with j'étais content d'en avoir fini avec ces piqûres► get round

1. intransitive verb

= get about

2. separable transitive verb

• to get sb round to one's way of thinking rallier qn à son point de vue

3. inseparable transitive verb

   a. [+ obstacle, difficulty, law] contourner

   b. [+ person] amadouer► get round to (inf) inseparable transitive verb

• to get round to doing sth trouver le temps de faire qch

• I don't think I'll get round to it before next week je ne pense pas trouver le temps de m'en occuper avant la semaine prochaine► get through

1. intransitive verb

   a. [news] parvenir (to à ) ; [signal] être reçu

• I think the message is getting through to him je pense qu'il commence à comprendre

   b. ( = be accepted, pass) [candidate] être reçu ; [motion, bill] passer

• to get through to the third round [team] se qualifier pour le troisième tour

   c. (on phone) obtenir la communication

• I phoned you several times but couldn't get through je t'ai appelé plusieurs fois mais je n'ai pas pu t'avoir

   d. ( = communicate with) to get through to sb communiquer avec qn

• he can't get through to his son at all il n'arrive pas du tout à communiquer avec son fils

2. inseparable transitive verb

   a. [+ hole, window] passer par ; [+ hedge] passer à travers ; [+ crowd] se frayer un chemin à travers

   b. ( = do) [+ work] faire ; [+ book] lire (en entier)

• we've got a lot of work to get through nous avons beaucoup à faire

• he got through a lot of work il a abattu beaucoup de travail

   c. ( = use) [+ supplies] utiliser ; [+ money] dépenser ; [+ food] manger ; [+ drink] boire

• we get through £150 per week nous dépensons 150 livres par semaine

   d. ( = survive) how are they going to get through the winter? comment vont-ils passer l'hiver ?

• we couldn't get through a day without arguing pas un jour ne se passait sans que nous ne nous disputions

3. separable transitive verb

   a. [+ person, object] faire passer

• we couldn't get the sofa through the door on n'a pas pu faire passer le sofa par la porte

• to get the message through to sb that... faire comprendre à qn que...

   b. to get a bill through faire adopter un projet de loi► get together

1. intransitive verb

se réunir

• let's get together on Thursday retrouvons-nous jeudi

• this is the only place where villagers can get together c'est le seul endroit où les gens du village peuvent se réunir

2. separable transitive verb

[+ people, ideas, money] rassembler ; [+ group] former

• let me just get my things together je rassemble mes affaires et j'arrive

► get under

1. intransitive verb

( = pass underneath) passer par-dessous

2. inseparable transitive verb

• to get under a fence/a rope passer sous une barrière/une corde

► get up

1. intransitive verb

   a. ( = rise) [person] se lever ( from de ) ; [wind] se lever

• what time did you get up? à quelle heure t'es-tu levé ?

   b. (on a chair, on stage) monter

2. inseparable transitive verb

• he couldn't get up the tree il n'a pas réussi à monter à l'arbre

3. separable transitive verb

   a. we eventually got the truck up the hill on a finalement réussi à faire monter le camion jusqu'en haut de la côte

• to get up speed prendre de la vitesse

   b. (from bed) [+ person] faire lever ; ( = wake) réveiller► get up to inseparable transitive verb

   a. ( = catch up with) rattraper

   b. ( = reach) arriver à

• I've got up to page 17 j'en suis à la page 17

• where did we get up to last week? où en sommes-nous arrivés la semaine dernière ?

   c. ( = be involved in) (inf) to get up to mischief faire des bêtises

• you never know what he'll get up to next on ne sait jamais ce qu'il va inventer

• do you realize what they've been getting up to? tu sais ce qu'ils ont trouvé le moyen de faire ?

• what have you been getting up to lately? qu'est-ce que tu deviens ?

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Note: This much-used verb has no multi-purpose equivalent in French and therefore is very often translated by choosing a synonym: to get lunch = to prepare lunch = préparer le déjeuner

get is used in many idiomatic expressions ( to get something off one's chest etc) and translations will be found in the appropriate entry (chest etc). This is also true of offensive comments ( get lost etc) where the appropriate entry would be lost

Remember that when get is used to express the idea that a job is done not by you but by somebody else ( to get a room painted etc) faire is used in French followed by an infinitive ( faire repeindre une pièce etc)

When get has the meaning of become and is followed by an adjective (to get rich/drunk etc) devenir is sometimes useful but check the appropriate entry (rich, drunk etc) as a single verb often suffices ( s'enrichir, s'enivrer etc)

For examples and further uses of get see the entry below
[get] 1.
transitive verb (p prés - tt-; prét got; pp got, gotten US)

1) ( receive) recevoir [letter, grant]; recevoir, percevoir [salary, pension]; Television, Radio capter [channel]

did you get much for it? — est-ce que tu en as tiré beaucoup d'argent?

what did you get for your car? — combien as-tu revendu ta voiture?

we get a lot of rain — il pleut beaucoup ici

our garden gets a lot of sun — notre jardin est bien ensoleillé

we get a lot of tourists — nous avons beaucoup de touristes

you get what you pay for — si on veut de la qualité il faut y mettre le prix

he's getting help with his science — il se fait aider en sciences

2) ( inherit)

to get something from somebody — lit hériter quelque chose de quelqu'un [article, money]; fig tenir quelque chose de quelqu'un [trait, feature]

3) ( obtain) ( by applying) obtenir [permission, divorce, licence]; trouver [job]; ( by contacting) trouver [plumber]; appeler [taxi]; ( by buying) acheter [item] ( from chez); avoir [ticket]

to get something for nothing/at a discount — avoir quelque chose gratuitement/avec une réduction

to get somebody something —

to get something for somebody — ( by buying) acheter quelque chose à quelqu'un

I'll get something to eat at the airport — je mangerai quelque chose à l'aéroport

4) ( subscribe to) acheter [newspaper]

5) ( acquire) se faire [reputation]

6) ( achieve) obtenir [grade, mark, answer]

he got it right — ( of calculation) il a obtenu le bon résultat; ( of answer) il a répondu juste

7) ( fetch) chercher [object, person, help]

go and get a chair — va chercher une chaise

to get somebody something —

to get something for somebody — aller chercher quelque chose pour quelqu'un

can I get you your coat? — est-ce que je peux vous apporter votre manteau?

8) (manoeuvre, move)

to get somebody/something upstairs/downstairs — faire monter/descendre quelqu'un/quelque chose

I'll get them there somehow — je les ferai parvenir d'une façon ou d'une autre

can you get between the truck and the wall? — est-ce que tu peux te glisser entre le camion et le mur?

9) ( help progress)

is this discussion getting us anywhere? — est-ce que cette discussion est bien utile?

I listened to him and where has it got me? — je l'ai écouté mais à quoi ça m'a avancé?

10) ( contact)

did you get Harry on the phone? — tu as réussi à avoir Harry au téléphone?

11) ( deal with)

I'll get it — ( of phone) je réponds; ( of doorbell) j'y vais

12) ( prepare) préparer [breakfast, lunch etc]

13) ( take hold of) attraper [person] (by par)

I've got you, don't worry — je te tiens, ne t'inquiète pas

to get something from ou off — prendre quelque chose sur [shelf, table]

to get something from ou out of — prendre quelque chose dans [drawer, cupboard]

14) (colloq) ( oblige to give)

to get something from ou out of somebody — faire sortir quelque chose à quelqu'un [money]; fig obtenir quelque chose de quelqu'un [truth]

15) (colloq) ( catch) gen arrêter [escapee]

got you! — gen je t'ai eu!; ( caught in act) vu!

16) Medicine attraper [disease]

he got measles from his sister — sa sœur lui a passé la rougeole

17) ( use as transport) prendre [bus, train]

18) ( have)

to have got — avoir [object, money, friend etc]

I've got a headache — j'ai mal à la tête

19) ( start to have)

to get (hold of) the idea ou impression that — se mettre dans la tête que

20) ( suffer)

to get a surprise — être surpris

to get a shock — avoir un choc

to get a bang on the head — recevoir un coup sur la tête

21) ( be given as punishment) prendre [five years etc]; avoir [fine]

22) ( hit)

to get somebody/something with — toucher quelqu'un/quelque chose avec [stone, arrow]

got it! — ( of target) touché!

23) (understand, hear) comprendre

now let me get this right... — alors si je comprends bien...

‘where did you hear that?’ - ‘I got it from Paul’ — ‘où est-ce que tu as entendu ça?’ - ‘c'est Paul qui me l'a dit’

get this! he was arrested this morning — tiens-toi bien! il a été arrêté ce matin

24) (colloq) (annoy, affect)

what gets me is... — ce qui m'agace c'est que...

25) (learn, learn of)

to get to do — (colloq) finir par faire

to get to like somebody — finir par apprécier quelqu'un

how did you get to know ou hear of our organization? — comment avez-vous entendu parler de notre organisation?

we got to know them last year — on a fait leur connaissance l'année dernière

26) ( have opportunity)

to get to do — avoir l'occasion de faire, pouvoir faire

27) ( start)

to get (to be) — commencer à devenir

to get to doing — (colloq) commencer à faire

then I got to thinking that... — puis je me suis dit que...

we'll have to get going — il va falloir y aller

28) ( must)

to have got to do — devoir faire [homework, chore]

it's got to be done — il faut le faire

you've got to realize that... — il faut que tu te rendes compte que...

there's got to be a reason — il doit y avoir une raison

29) ( persuade)

to get somebody to do — demander à quelqu'un de faire

I got her to talk — j'ai réussi à la faire parler

did you get anything out of her? — est-ce que tu as réussi à la faire parler?

30) ( have somebody do)

to get something done — faire faire quelque chose

to get the car repaired — faire réparer la voiture

to get one's hair cut — se faire couper les cheveux

how do you ever get anything done? — comment est-ce que tu arrives à travailler?

31) ( cause)

to get the car going — faire démarrer la voiture

as hot as you can get it — aussi chaud que possible

to get one's socks wet — mouiller ses chaussettes

to get one's finger trapped — se coincer le doigt
2.
intransitive verb (p prés - tt-; prét got; pp got, gotten US)

1) ( become) devenir [suspicious, old]

how lucky/stupid can you get! — il y en a qui ont de la chance/qui sont vraiment stupides!

it's getting late — il se fait tard

how did he get like that? — comment est-ce qu'il en est arrivé là?

2) ( forming passive)

to get (oneself) killed — se faire tuer

to get hurt — être blessé

3) ( become involved in)

to get into — (colloq) ( as hobby) se mettre à; ( as job) commencer dans; fig

to get into a fight — se battre

4) ( arrive)

to get there — arriver

to get to the airport — arriver à l'aéroport

how did your coat get here? — comment est-ce que ton manteau est arrivé là?

how did you get here? — ( by what miracle) comment est-ce que tu es arrivé là?; ( by what means) comment est-ce que tu es venu?

where did you get to? — où est-ce que tu étais passé?

we've got to page 5 — nous en sommes à la page 5

5) ( progress)

it got to 7 o'clock — il était 7 heures

I'd got as far as the title — j'en étais au titre

I'm getting nowhere with this essay — je n'avance pas dans cette dissertation

now we're getting somewhere — il y a du progrès

6) (colloq) ( put on)

to get into — mettre, enfiler (colloq) [pyjamas, overalls]

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Phrasal Verbs:

- get about

- get across

- get ahead

- get along

- get around

- get at

- get away

- get away from

- get back

- get behind

- get by

- get down

- get in

- get into

- get off

- get on

- get onto

- get on with

- get out

- get out of

- get over

- get round

- get through

- get together

- get under

- get up

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get along with you! — (colloq) ne sois pas ridicule!

get away with you! — (colloq) arrête de raconter n'importe quoi! (colloq)

get him in that hat! — regarde-le avec ce chapeau!

I'll get you (colloq) for that — je vais te le faire payer (colloq)

I'm getting there — je progresse

he's got it bad — (colloq) il est vraiment mordu

I've got it — j'ai compris

to get above oneself — commencer à avoir la grosse tête (colloq)

to get it together — (colloq) se ressaisir

to tell somebody where to get off — envoyer promener quelqu'un

to get with it — (colloq) se mettre dans le coup (colloq)

what's got into her? — qu'est-ce qui lui a pris?

you've got me there! — alors là tu me poses une colle! (colloq)

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