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1 primitive
primitive ['prɪmɪtɪv]2 noun(a) (primitive person) primitif(ive) m,f(b) (artist, picture) primitif m►► primitive art art m primitif -
2 primitive
primitive [ˈprɪmɪtɪv]primitif m* * *['prɪmɪtɪv] 1.noun Art primitif m2.adjective ( all contexts) primitif/-ive -
3 primitive
A n1 Art primitif m ; -
4 primitive
['primətiv]1) (belonging to the earliest times: primitive stone tools.) primitif2) (simple or rough: He made a primitive boat out of some pieces of wood.) primitif -
5 primitive plant aggregation
English-French dictionary of Geography > primitive plant aggregation
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6 primitive soil
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7 medieval
medieval [‚medɪˈi:vəl]a. médiévalb. ( = primitive) moyenâgeux (pej)* * *[ˌmedɪ'iːvl], US [ˌmiːd-], also [mɪ'diːvl] -
8 by
by [baɪ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When by is an element in a phrasal verb, eg go by, stand by, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg by degrees, surrounded by, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. prepositiona. ( = close to) à côté de, près de• her cousins are over there, and she's sitting by them ses cousins sont là-bas et elle est assise à côté (d'eux)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• her bag was on the table and her keys right by it son sac était sur la table et ses clés juste à côtéb. ( = past) à côté dec. ( = via) par• which route did you come by? par où êtes-vous passés ?d. ( = not later than) pour• applications must be submitted by 21 April les candidatures doivent nous parvenir au plus tard le 21 avrile. ( = in) en• by 1990 the figure had reached... en 1990, ce chiffre avait atteint...• by 2010 the figure will have reached... en 2010, cette somme aura atteint...f. ( = on) by 30 September we had paid out £500 au 30 septembre nous avions payé 500 livres• by yesterday it was clear that... dès hier on savait que...g. ( = according to) by my calculations d'après mes calculsk. ( = created, written by) de• who's it by? c'est de qui ?l. (method, means, manner) à► by + -ing en• by leaving early he missed the rush en partant de bonne heure il a évité la cohue► by + means of transport en• by bus/car/taxi en bus/voiture/taxi• by rail or train en train━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When there is no clear agent, the active is more natural in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• by and large, I still think this is true globalement, je crois toujours que c'est vrai► by the way au fait• by the way, did you know it was Ann's birthday? au fait, tu savais que c'était l'anniversaire d'Ann ?2. adverb( = along, past) he'll be by any minute il sera là dans un instant3. compounds* * *[baɪ] 1.1) (showing agent, result) par2) ( through the means of)to travel by bus/train — voyager en bus/train
by bicycle — à bicyclette, en vélo
by candlelight — [dine] aux chandelles; [read] à la bougie
3) (according to, from evidence of) àby my watch it is three o'clock — à ma montre, il est trois heures
I could tell by the look on her face that she was angry — rien qu'à la regarder je savais qu'elle était fâchée
4) (via, passing through) par5) (near, beside) à côté de, près deby the bed/the window — à côté du lit/de la fenêtre
6) ( past)to go ou pass by somebody — passer devant quelqu'un
7) ( showing authorship) de8) (before, not later than) avantby four o'clock/next Thursday — avant quatre heures/jeudi prochain
by the time she had got downstairs he was gone — le temps qu'elle descende, il était parti
by now it was clear that they were going to win — à ce moment-là il était clair qu'ils allaient gagner
9) ( during)10) ( according to)it seems primitive by western standards — cela a l'air primitif selon or d'après les critères occidentaux
11) ( to the extent or degree of) deprices have risen by 20% — les prix ont augmenté de 20%
he's taller than me by two centimetres — il fait deux centimètres de plus que moi, il est plus grand que moi de deux centimètres
12) ( in measurements) sur13) (in multiplication, division) par14) (showing rate, quantity) à15) (in successive degrees, units)one by one — un par un, un à un
16) ( with regard to) dehe is an architect by profession ou trade — il est architecte de son métier
17) ( as a result of) parby accident/mistake — par accident/erreur
18) ( used with reflexive pronouns)19) Nautical ( in compass directions) quart2.1) ( past)the people walking by — les gens mpl qui passent/passaient, les passants mpl
2) ( near) près3) (aside, in reserve)4) ( to one's house)••by and by — bientôt, en peu de temps
by the by —
but that's by the by — mais ça c'est un détail, mais ça c'est autre chose
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9 flint
flint [flɪnt]* * *[flɪnt]1) ( rock) silex m2) ( primitive tool) éclat m de silex3) (dated) ( for kindling) pierre f à feu4) ( in lighter) pierre f à briquet -
10 hut
hut [hʌt]* * *[hʌt]noun ( in garden) cabane f; ( in shanty town) bicoque (colloq) f; ( on building site) baraque f (de chantier); (for climbers, shepherds) refuge m; ( native type) hutte f, case f; ( grass) paillote f; ( on beach) cabine f (de plage) -
11 savagery
savagery [ˈsævɪdʒrɪ]* * *['sævɪdʒrɪ] -
12 aggregation
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13 plant
etablissement industriel; usine* -
14 soil
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15 civilise
(to change the ways of (a primitive people) to those found in a more advanced type of society: The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.) civiliser- civilisation -
16 civilize
(to change the ways of (a primitive people) to those found in a more advanced type of society: The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.) civiliser- civilisation -
17 crude
[kru:d]1) (unrefined: crude oil.) brut2) (rough or primitive: a crude shelter.) rudimentaire•- crudity -
18 peasant
['peznt](a person who lives and works on the land, especially in a poor, primitive or underdeveloped area: Many peasants died during the drought; ( also adjective) a peasant farmer.) paysan, anne -
19 representation
1) (the act of representing or the state of being represented.) représentation2) (a person or thing that represents: These primitive statues are intended as representations of gods and goddesses.) représentation3) ((often in plural) a strong appeal, demand or protest.) représentation -
20 rudimentary
[-'men-]adjective (primitive or undeveloped: rudimentary tools.) rudimentaire
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