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figment [ˈfɪgmənt]* * *['fɪgmənt]a figment of the/of your imagination — un produit de l'imagination/de ton imagination
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5 a figment of the/one's imagination
(something one has imagined and which has no reality.) inventionEnglish-French dictionary > a figment of the/one's imagination
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flight [flaɪt]1. nounb. ( = plane trip) vol m• flight number 776 from/to Madrid le vol numéro 776 en provenance/à destination de Madrid• did you have a good flight? vous avez fait bon voyage ?c. flight of stairs escalier m• we had to climb three flights to get to his room nous avons dû monter trois étages pour arriver à sa chambred. a flight of fancy ( = harebrained idea) une idée folle ; ( = figment of imagination) une pure inventione. ( = act of fleeing) fuite f2. compounds* * *[flaɪt] 1.2) ( course) (of bird, insect) vol m; (of missile, bullet) trajectoire f3) ( locomotion) vol min full flight — lit en plein vol; fig en plein élan
4) ( group)a flight of — un vol de, une volée de [birds]; une troupe de [angels]; une volée de [arrows]
6) ( set)a flight of — une série de [hurdles]; une série de [locks]; un étagement de [terraces]
7) ( display)flights of imagination — élans mpl d'imagination
2.flights of rhetoric — envolées fpl oratoires
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Figment — Fig ment, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See {Feign}.] An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. [1913 Webster] Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster] It carried rather an … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Figment — (v. lat.), Erdichtetes … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Figmént — (lat.), Abbildung; Erdichtung … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
figment — I noun canard, chimera, concoction, creation of the mind, deception, delusion, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fancy, fantasy, feigned story, fiction, fiction of the mind, flight of fancy, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagined… … Law dictionary
figment — early 15c., from L. figmentum something formed or fashioned, creation, related to figura shape (see FIGURE (Cf. figure) (n.)) … Etymology dictionary
figment — fabrication, fable, *fiction Analogous words: *fancy, fantasy, dream, daydream, nightmare: invention, creation (see corresponding verbs at INVENT) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
figment — [n] creation in one’s mind bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production; concept 529 Ant. reality … New thesaurus
figment — ► NOUN ▪ a thing believed to be real but existing only in the imagination. ORIGIN Latin figmentum, related to fingere form, contrive … English terms dictionary
figment — [fig′mənt] n. [ME < L figmentum < fingere, to form: see DOUGH] something merely imagined or made up in the mind … English World dictionary
Figment — The noun figment may also refer to:* Figment, an annual participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor * Figment, a small purple dragon (Disney character) … Wikipedia
figment — [[t]fɪ̱gmənt[/t]] figments PHRASE: Ns inflect, usu v link PHR If you say that something is a figment of someone s imagination, you mean that it does not really exist and that they are just imagining it. The attack wasn t just a figment of my… … English dictionary