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61 mark
mark [mα:k]1. noun• he was found without a mark on his body quand on l'a trouvé, son corps ne portait aucune trace de blessureb. ( = sign) signe mc. ( = hallmark) marque f• to react the way he did was the mark of a true hero il s'est montré un véritable héros en réagissant comme il l'a faitd. ( = grade) note f• good/bad mark bonne/mauvaise note fe. on your marks! (get) set! go! à vos marques ! prêts ! partez !f. ( = level) barre f• the number of unemployed has reached the 2 million mark le chiffre du chômage a atteint la barre des 2 millionsg. ( = brand name) marque fi. ( = currency) mark m• to be quick off the mark ( = quick on the uptake) avoir l'esprit vif ; ( = quick in reacting) avoir des réactions rapidesa. marquer ; ( = stain) tacherb. [+ essay, exam] corriger• to mark sth right/wrong marquer qch juste/fauxc. [+ price] indiquer4. compoundsa. ( = write down) noterb. [+ goods] démarquerc. [+ pupil] baisser la note dea. ( = separate) [+ section of text] délimiterc. [+ items on list] cocherb. ( = single out) désignera. ( = put a price on) indiquer le prix deb. ( = increase) [+ price] majorer ; [+ goods] majorer le prix dec. [+ pupil] gonfler la note de* * *[mɑːk] 1.1) (stain, animal marking) tache f; ( from injury) marque fto make one's mark — lit signer d'une croix; fig faire ses preuves
2) ( lasting impression)to leave one's mark on something — [person] marquer quelque chose de son influence [company]; [recession] marquer quelque chose [country]
3) ( symbol)as a mark of — en signe de [esteem]
4) School, University note fhe gets no marks for effort — fig pour l'effort, il mérite zéro
5) ( number on scale)6) Sport ( starting line) marque fhe's very quick/a bit slow off the mark — fig il a l'esprit vif/un peu lent
you were quick off the mark! — fig tu n'as pas perdu de temps!
7) ( target) ( in archery etc) but mto find its mark — [arrow] atteindre son but; fig [remark] mettre dans le mille
to be (way) off the mark —
to be wide of the mark — fig être à côté de la plaque (colloq)
9) (also Mark) ( model in series) Mark10) (also Deutschmark) deutschmark m2.transitive verb1) ( make visible impression on) ( stain) tacher [clothes]; [bruise, scar] marquer [skin]; ( with pen) marquer [map, belongings]to mark somebody for life — ( physically) défigurer quelqu'un à vie; ( mentally) marquer quelqu'un à vie
2) (indicate, label) [person] marquer [name, price] (on sur); [arrow, sign, label] indiquer [position, road]; fig [event] marquer [end, change]to mark the occasion with — marquer l'occasion par [firework display, party]
to mark one's place — ( in book) marquer la page
3) ( characterize) caractériser4) School, University corriger5) ( pay attention to) noter (bien)he'll not live long, mark my words! — tu verras, il ne vivra pas longtemps!
6) Sport marquer3.1) School, University faire des corrections2) ( stain) se tacher3) Sport marquer4.mark you conjunctional phrase n'empêche que (+ indic)Phrasal Verbs:- mark out- mark up••to be an easy mark — être une poire (colloq)
to mark time — Military marquer le pas
I'm marking time working as a waitress until I go to France — fig je travaille comme serveuse en attendant d'aller en France
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62 police
police [pəˈli:s]1. nounpolice fa. (with policemen) [+ place] maintenir l'ordre dans• the demonstration was heavily policed d'importantes forces de police étaient présentes lors de la manifestationb. [+ frontier, territory, prices] contrôler ; [+ agreements, controls] veiller à l'application de• the border is policed by UN patrols la frontière est sous la surveillance des patrouilles de l'ONU3. compounds[work] de la police ; [vehicle] de police ; [inquiry] policier ; [harassment] de la part de la police* * *[pə'liːs] 1.1) (+ v pl) ( official body)2) [U] ( individuals) policiers mpl2.transitive verb1) ( keep order) maintenir l'ordre dans [area]2) ( patrol) surveiller [area, frontier]; organiser le service d'ordre pour [demonstration, match]3) ( monitor) contrôler l'application de [measures] -
63 step aside
1) ( physically) s'écarter ( in order to pour)2) ( in job transfer) céder sa place ( in favour of à) -
64 strict
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65 third
third [θɜ:d]1. adjective• (it's/it was) third time lucky! la troisième fois sera (or a été) la bonne !2. nounb. (University) ( = degree) ≈ licence f sans mentionc. also third gear troisième (vitesse) f3. adverba. (in race, exam, competition) en troisième placeb. ( = thirdly) troisièmement4. compounds• third party (indemnity) insurance (assurance f ) responsabilité f civile ► third party, fire and theft noun assurance f au tiers, vol et incendie[poverty] du tiers-monde* * *[θɜːd] 1.1) ( in order) troisième mf2) ( of month) trois m inv3) ( fraction) tiers m4) (also third-class degree) GB University ≈ licence avec mention passable5) Music tierce f6) (also third gear) Automobile troisième f2.adjective troisième3.•• -
66 to
to [tu:, tə]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When to is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg apply to, set to, look up the verb. When to is part of a set combination, eg nice to, of help to, look up the adjective or noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. (direction, movement) à━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to it ( = there) y• I liked the exhibition, I went to it twice j'ai aimé l'exposition, j'y suis allé deux foisb. ( = towards) versc. (home, workplace) chez► to + feminine country/area en• to England/France en Angleterre/France• to Brittany/Provence en Bretagne/Provence• to Sicily/Crete en Sicile/Crète• to Louisiana/Virginia en Louisiane/Virginie━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to Iran/Israel en Iran/Israël► to + masculine country/area au• to Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït• to the Sahara/Kashmir au Sahara/Cachemire► to + plural country/group of islands aux• to the United States/the West Indies aux États-Unis/Antilles► to + town/island without article à• to London/Lyons à Londres/Lyon• to Cuba/Malta à Cuba/Malte• is this the road to Newcastle? est-ce que c'est la route de Newcastle ?• it is 90km to Paris ( = from here to) nous sommes à 90 km de Paris ; ( = from there to) c'est à 90 km de Paris• planes to Heathrow les vols mpl à destination de Heathrow► to + masculine state/region/county dans• to Texas/Ontario dans le Texas/l'Ontario• to Sussex/Yorkshire dans le Sussex/le Yorkshire━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► dans is also used with many départements.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to the Drôme/the Var dans la Drôme/le Vare. ( = up to) jusqu'àf. ► to + person (indirect object) à━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When a relative clause ends with to, a different word order is required in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When translating to + pronoun, look up the pronoun. The translation depends on whether it is stressed or unstressed.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━h. (in ratios) he got a big majority (twenty votes to seven) il a été élu à une large majorité (vingt voix contre sept)i. ( = concerning) that's all there is to it ( = it's easy) ce n'est pas plus difficile que ça• you're not going, and that's all there is to it ( = that's definite) tu n'iras pas, un point c'est toutj. ( = of) de━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► A preposition may be required with the French infinitive, depending on what precedes it: look up the verb or adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The French verb may take a clause, rather than the infinitive.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• well, to sum up... alors, pour résumer...• we are writing to inform you... nous vous écrivons pour vous informer que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to is not translated when it stands for the infinitive.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he'd like me to come, but I don't want to il voudrait que je vienne mais je ne veux pas• yes, I'd love to oui, volontiers2. adverb( = shut) to push the door to pousser la porte3. compounds(plural to-dos)• he made a great to-do about lending me the car il a fait toute une histoire pour me prêter la voiture ► to-ing and fro-ing noun allées et venues fpl* * *1. [tə], devant une voyelle [tʊ, tuː], emphatique [tuː]1) ( expressing purpose) pour2) ( linking consecutive acts)he looked up to see... — en levant les yeux, il a vu...
3) ( after superlatives) àthe youngest to do — le or la plus jeune à faire
‘did you go?’ - ‘no I promised not to’ — ‘tu y es allé?’ - ‘non j'avais promis de ne pas le faire’
‘are you staying? ’ - ‘I want to but...’ — ‘tu restes?’ - ‘j'aimerais bien mais...’
it is difficult to do something — il est difficile de faire quelque chose; ( expressing wish)
2.oh to be able to stay in bed! — hum ô pouvoir rester au lit!
1) ( in direction of) à [shops, school]; ( with purpose of visiting) chez [doctor's, dentist's]; ( towards) vers2) ( up to) jusqu'àto the end/this day — jusqu'à la fin/ce jour
3) ( in telling time)4) ( introducing direct or indirect object) [give, offer] àto me/my daughter it's just a minor problem — pour moi/ma fille ce n'est qu'un problème mineur
5) (in toasts, dedications) àto prosperity — à la prospérité; ( on tombstone)
6) ( in accordance with)7) (in relationships, comparisons)8) ( showing accuracy)9) ( showing reason)10) ( belonging to) depersonal assistant to the director — assistant/-e m/f du directeur
11) ( on to) [tied] à; [pinned] à [noticeboard etc]; sur [lapel, dress]12) ( showing reaction) à3. [tuː]to his surprise/dismay — à sa grande surprise/consternation
••that's all there is to it — ( it's easy) c'est aussi simple que ça; ( not for further discussion) un point c'est tout
what a to-do! — (colloq) quelle histoire! (colloq)
what's it to you? — (colloq) qu'est-ce que ça peut te faire?
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67 contact
['kontækt] 1. noun1) (physical touch or nearness: Her hands came into contact with acid; Has she been in contact with measles?) contact2) (communication: I've lost contact with all my old friends; We have succeeded in making (radio) contact with the ship; How can I get in contact with him?) contact3) (a person with influence, knowledge etc which might be useful: I made several good contacts in London.) relation(s)4) ((a place where) a wire etc carrying electric current (may be attached): the contacts on the battery.) contact5) (a person who has been near someone with an infectious disease: We must trace all known contacts of the cholera victim.) contaminateur/-trice possible6) (a person or thing that provides a means of communicating with someone: His radio is his only contact with the outside world.) lien2. verb(to get in touch with in order to give or share information etc: I'll contact you by telephone.) contacter -
68 cross
[kros] I adjective(angry: I get very cross when I lose something.) fâché- crosslyII 1. plural - crosses; noun1) (a symbol formed by two lines placed across each other, eg + or x.) croix2) (two wooden beams placed thus (+), on which Christ was nailed.) croix3) (the symbol of the Christian religion.) croix4) (a lasting cause of suffering etc: Your rheumatism is a cross you will have to bear.) croix5) (the result of breeding two varieties of animal or plant: This dog is a cross between an alsatian and a labrador.) hybride6) (a monument in the shape of a cross.) croix7) (any of several types of medal given for bravery etc: the Victoria Cross.) croix2. verb1) (to go from one side to the other: Let's cross (the street); This road crosses the swamp.) traverser2) ((negative uncross) to place (two things) across each other: He sat down and crossed his legs.) croiser3) (to go or be placed across (each other): The roads cross in the centre of town.) se croiser4) (to meet and pass: Our letters must have crossed in the post.) se croiser5) (to put a line across: Cross your `t's'.) barrer6) (to make (a cheque or postal order) payable only through a bank by drawing two parallel lines across it.) barrer7) (to breed (something) from two different varieties: I've crossed two varieties of rose.) croiser8) (to go against the wishes of: If you cross me, you'll regret it!) contrarier•- cross-- crossing - crossbow - cross-breed - cross-bred - crosscheck 3. noun(the act of crosschecking.)- cross-country skiing - cross-examine - cross-examination - cross-eyed - cross-fire - at cross-purposes - cross-refer - cross-reference - crossroads - cross-section - crossword puzzle - crossword - cross one's fingers - cross out -
69 farm
1. noun1) (an area of land, including buildings, used for growing crops, breeding and keeping cows, sheep, pigs etc: Much of England is good agricultural land and there are many farms.) ferme2) (the farmer's house and the buildings near it in such a place: We visited the farm; ( also adjective) a farm kitchen.) ferme2. verb(to cultivate (the land) in order to grow crops, breed and keep animals etc: He farms (5,000 acres) in the south.) cultiver- farmer- farming - farmhouse - farmyard -
70 form
I 1. [fo:m] noun1) ((a) shape; outward appearance: He saw a strange form in the darkness.) forme, silhouette2) (a kind, type or variety: What form of ceremony usually takes place when someone gets a promotion?) genre3) (a document containing certain questions, the answers to which must be written on it: an application form.) formulaire4) (a fixed way of doing things: forms and ceremonies.) convenances5) (a school class: He is in the sixth form.) classe2. verb1) (to make; to cause to take shape: They decided to form a drama group.) former2) (to come into existence; to take shape: An idea slowly formed in his mind.) prendre forme3) (to organize or arrange (oneself or other people) into a particular order: The women formed (themselves) into three groups.) (s')organiser4) (to be; to make up: These lectures form part of the medical course.) faire partie (de)•- be in good form - in the form of II [fo:m] noun(a long, usually wooden seat: The children were sitting on forms.) banc -
71 freeze
[fri:z] 1. past tense - froze; verb1) (to make into or become ice: It's so cold that the river has frozen over.) geler2) ((of weather) to be at or below freezing-point: If it freezes again tonight all my plants will die.) geler3) (to make or be very cold: If you had stayed out all night in the snow you might have frozen to death (= died of exposure to cold).) geler, (mourir de froid)4) (to make (food) very cold in order to preserve it: You can freeze the rest of that food and eat it later.) congeler5) (to make or become stiff, still or unable to move (with fear etc): She froze when she heard the strange noise.) figer sur place, rester figé6) (to fix prices, wages etc at a certain level: If the situation does not improve, wages will be frozen again.) geler (des crédits, des devises)2. noun(a period of very cold weather when temperatures are below freezing-point: How long do you think the freeze will last?) gel- freezer- freezing - frozen - freezing-point - freeze up -
72 gad
[ɡæd]past tense, past participle gadded: gad about/around verb(to go around to one place after another (usually in order to amuse oneself): She's forever gadding about now that the children are at school.) vadrouiller -
73 police
[pə'li:s] 1. noun plural(the men and women whose job is to prevent crime, keep order, see that laws are obeyed etc: Call the police!; The police are investigating the matter; ( also adjective) the police force, a police officer.) (de) police2. verb(to supply (a place) with police: We cannot police the whole area.) envoyer des agents- policeman - policewoman - police station -
74 post
I [pəust] noun(a long piece of wood, metal etc, usually fixed upright in the ground: The notice was nailed to a post; a gate-post; the winning-post.) poteau- keep somebody posted - keep posted II 1. [pəust] noun((the system of collecting, transporting and delivering) letters, parcels etc: I sent the book by post; Has the post arrived yet?; Is there any post for me?) poste, courrier2. verb(to send (a letter etc) by post: He posted the parcel yesterday.) poster- postage- postal - postage stamp - postal order - postbox - postcard - postcode - post-free - post-haste - posthaste - postman - postmark - postmaster - post office III 1. [pəust] noun1) (a job: He has a post in the government; a teaching post.) poste2) (a place of duty: The soldier remained at his post.) poste3) (a settlement, camp etc especially in a distant or unpopulated area: a trading-post.) comptoir2. verb(to send somewhere on duty: He was posted abroad.) poster, affecterIV [pəust] -
75 reach
[ri: ] 1. verb1) (to arrive at (a place, age etc): We'll never reach London before dark; Money is not important when you reach my age; The noise reached our ears; Has the total reached a thousand dollars yet?; Have they reached an agreement yet?) arriver/parvenir à2) (to (be able to) touch or get hold of (something): My keys have fallen down this hole and I can't reach them.) atteindre3) (to stretch out one's hand in order to touch or get hold of something: He reached (across the table) for another cake; She reached out and took the book; He reached across/over and slapped her.) étendre (le bras)4) (to make contact with; to communicate with: If anything happens you can always reach me by phone.) contacter5) (to stretch or extend: My property reaches from here to the river.) s'étendre2. noun1) (the distance that can be travelled easily: My house is within (easy) reach (of London).) portée; proche de2) (the distance one can stretch one's arm: I keep medicines on the top shelf, out of the children's reach; My keys are down that hole, just out of reach (of my fingers); The boxer has a very long reach.) portée3) ((usually in plural) a straight part of a river, canal etc: the lower reaches of the Thames.) partie droite d'un fleuve entre deux coudes -
76 retain
[rə'tein]1) (to continue to have, use, remember etc; to keep in one's possession, memory etc: He finds it difficult to retain information; These dishes don't retain heat very well.) retenir, conserver2) (to hold (something) back or keep (something) in its place: This wall was built to retain the water from the river in order to prevent flooding.) retenir -
77 slaughter-house
noun (a place where animals are killed in order to be sold for food; an abattoir.) abattoir -
78 stow away
1) (to hide oneself on a ship, aircraft etc before its departure, in order to travel on it without paying the fare: He stowed away on a cargo ship for New York.) voyager clandestinement2) (to put or pack in a (secret) place until required: My jewellery is safely stowed away in the bank.) ranger -
79 succeed
[sək'si:d]1) (to manage to do what one is trying to do; to achieve one's aim or purpose: He succeeded in persuading her to do it; He's happy to have succeeded in his chosen career; She tried three times to pass her driving-test, and at last succeeded; Our new teaching methods seem to be succeeding.) réussir (à)2) (to follow next in order, and take the place of someone or something else: He succeeded his father as manager of the firm / as king; The cold summer was succeeded by a stormy autumn; If the duke has no children, who will succeed to (= inherit) his property?) succéder (à); hériter•- success- successful - successfully - succession - successive - successively - successor - in succession -
80 succession
[sək'seʃən]1) (the right of succeeding to a throne as king, to a title etc: The Princess is fifth in (order of) succession (to the throne).) succession2) (a number of things following after one another: a succession of bad harvests.) suite3) (the act or process of following and taking the place of someone or something else: his succession to the throne.) succession (à)
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