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1 admit
∎ I admit I was wrong je reconnais que j'ai eu tort;∎ I must admit it's more difficult than I thought je dois admettre que c'est plus difficile que je ne pensais;∎ he admitted (that) he had failed il a reconnu qu'il avait échoué;∎ she refused to admit defeat elle a refusé de reconnaître sa défaite;∎ no one would admit doing it personne ne voulait admettre l'avoir fait;∎ we had to admit the validity of his reasoning nous avons dû admettre la validité de son raisonnement;∎ it is generally admitted that women live longer than men il est généralement admis que les femmes vivent plus longtemps que les hommes∎ he admitted taking bribes il a reconnu avoir accepté des pots-de-vin;∎ I had to admit to myself that… j'ai dû m'avouer à moi-même que…(c) (allow to enter → person) laisser entrer, faire entrer; (→ air, light) laisser passer, laisser entrer;∎ admit two (on ticket) valable pour deux personnes;∎ children are not admitted les enfants ne sont pas admis;∎ he was admitted to hospital il a été hospitalisé;∎ to be admitted to university être admis à l'université(d) (accommodate) (pouvoir) contenir ou recevoir∎ the facts admit no other explanation d'après les faits, il n'y a pas d'autre explication possible∎ her behaviour admits of no excuse son attitude est inexcusable;∎ the text admits of only one interpretation le texte n'admet ou ne permet qu'une seule interprétation(acknowledge) admettre, reconnaître; (confess) avouer;∎ he admits to having opened the letter il a avoué avoir ouvert la lettre;∎ she did admit to a feeling of loss elle a effectivement avoué ressentir un sentiment de perte -
2 admit
A vtr1 ( accept) reconnaître, admettre [mistake, fact] ; to admit that reconnaître que ; to admit to reconnaître [error, mistake, fact] ; he admits to making a mistake il reconnaît s'être trompé ; she admits to feeling angry elle reconnaît qu'elle était en colère ; it is annoying, I (must ou have to) admit c'est embêtant, je dois le reconnaître ; he would never admit that… il ne voudrait jamais admettre que… ; it is generally admitted that on s'accorde à reconnaître que ; to admit defeat s'avouer vaincu ;2 ( confess) avouer [crime, wrongdoing] reconnaître [guilt] ; to admit that one has done avouer avoir fait ; to admit to sth/doing avouer qch/avoir fait ;3 ( allow to enter) [person, authority] laisser entrer [person] (into dans) ; this ticket admits two (people) ce billet est valable pour deux personnes ; ‘this ticket admits you to the house and gardens’ ‘ce billet vous donne accès au bâtiment et aux jardins’ ; ‘dogs not admitted’ ‘entrée interdite aux chiens’ ; to be admitted to hospital être hospitalisé ;4 ( allow to become a member) admettre [person] (to à) ;5 Jur to admit sth in evidence admettre qch comme moyen de preuve. -
3 admit
admit [ədˈmɪt]a. ( = let in) laisser entrerb. ( = acknowledge) admettre• I must admit that... je dois admettre que...c. [criminal, wrongdoer] avouer* * *[əd'mɪt]transitive verb (p prés etc - tt-)1) ( accept) reconnaître, admettre [mistake, fact]to admit to — reconnaître [error, mistake, fact]
it is annoying, I (must ou have to) admit — c'est embêtant, je dois l'avouer
2) ( confess) avouer [crime]; reconnaître [guilt]3) laisser entrer [person] ( into dans)‘dogs not admitted’ — ‘entrée interdite aux chiens’
4) [club] admettre [person] (to à) -
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(allow to enter) laisser entrer -
5 admit (to)
reconnaître (MIX223) -
6 admit
[əd'mit]past tense, past participle - admitted; verb1) (to allow to enter: This ticket admits one person.) laisser entrer2) (to say that one accepts as true: He admitted (that) he was wrong.) reconnaître•- admission - admittance - admittedly -
7 admit, in, evidence, to
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8 admit, to, bail, to
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9 admit, to, probate, to
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10 to admit
1) admettre; reconnaître; avouer2) tolérer; permettreEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to admit
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11 to admit as evidence
Jur. retenir (ou admettre) en tant qu'élément de preuveEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to admit as evidence
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12 to admit liability
Jur. reconnaître sa responsabilitéEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to admit liability
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13 to admit the existence of an infringement
Jur. reconnaître l'existence d'une infractionEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to admit the existence of an infringement
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15 response, to, request, to, admit
réponse f à la demande d'aveuxEnglish-French legislative terms > response, to, request, to, admit
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16 agree
agree [əˈgri:]a. ( = consent) accepterb. ( = admit) reconnaîtrec. ( = come to an agreement) convenir ( to do sth de faire qch ) ; [+ time, price] se mettre d'accord sur• the delivery was three days later than agreed la livraison a été effectuée trois jours après la date convenuea. ( = hold same opinion) être d'accordb. ( = come to terms) se mettre d'accord• to agree about or on sth se mettre d'accord sur qchc. [ideas, stories, assessments] concorder* * *[ə'griː] 1.transitive verb (prét, pp agreed)I agree it sounds unlikely — ça a l'air peu probable, j'en conviens
it's dangerous, don't you agree? — c'est dangereux, tu ne crois pas?
3) ( consent)4) (settle on, arrange) se mettre d'accord sur [date, price, candidate, solution]2.intransitive verb (prét, pp agreed)1) ( hold same opinion) être d'accord ( with avec; about, on sur; about doing pour faire)‘I agree!’ — ‘je suis bien d'accord!’
2) ( reach mutual understanding) se mettre d'accord, tomber d'accord (about, on sur)3) ( consent) accepterto agree to — consentir à [plan, suggestion, terms]
4) (hold with, approve)to agree with — approuver [belief, idea, practice]
6) ( suit)to agree with somebody — [climate, weather] être bon pour quelqu'un; [food] réussir à quelqu'un
7) Linguistics s'accorder ( with avec; in en)3.agreed past participle adjective [date, time, venue, amount, budget, rate, terms, signal] convenuto be agreed on — être d'accord sur [decision, statement, policy]
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17 must
must [mʌst]1. modal verba. (obligation)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When must expresses obligation, it is translated either by the impersonal expression il faut que, which is followed by the subjunctive, or by devoir, followed by the infinitive; il faut que is more emphatic.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I must see him! il faut absolument que je le voie !• why must you always be so pessimistic? pourquoi faut-il toujours que tu sois si pessimiste ?• it must not be forgotten that... il ne faut pas oublier que...• "the windows must not be opened" « défense d'ouvrir les fenêtres »► I must say or admit• this came as a surprise, I must say je dois avouer que cela m'a surprisb. (invitations, suggestions)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When you must is used to make invitations and suggestions more forceful, the imperative may be used in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► you mustn't ( = don't)• he must be regretting it, mustn't he? il le regrette sûrement• he must be mad! il est fou !• you must be joking! vous plaisantez !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► must have made/had/been etc━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The perfect tense of devoir + infinitive is generally used to translate must have + past participle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• was he disappointed? -- he must have been! est-ce qu'il a été déçu ? -- sûrement !2. noun• a must for all students! un must pour les étudiants !3. compounds* * *Note: When must indicates obligation or necessity, French tends to use either the verb devoir or the impersonal construction il faut que + subjunctive: I must go = je dois partir, il faut que je parte. For examples and particular usages see I 1 and I 3 below. See also have II 1 and the related usage noteWhen must expresses assumption or probability, the verb devoir is always used: it must strike you as odd that = ça doit te sembler bizarre que (+ subj). See I 7 below for further examplesFor the conjugation of devoir, see the French verb tables[mʌst, məst] 1.1) (indicating obligation, prohibition)you mustn't mention this to anyone — il ne faut en parler à personne, tu ne dois en parler à personne
withdrawals must not exceed £200 — les retraits ne doivent pas dépasser 200 livres sterling
2) (indicating requirement, condition)to gain a licence you must spend 40 hours in the air — pour obtenir son brevet il faut avoir 40 heures de vol
3) (stressing importance, necessity)you must be patient — il faut que tu sois patient, tu dois être patient
I feel I must tell you that... — je pense devoir te dire que...
very nice, I must say! — iron très gentil vraiment! iron
4) ( expressing intention)I must check the reference — je dois vérifier la référence, il faut que je vérifie la référence
5) ( indicating irritation)well, come in if you must — bon, entre si tu y tiens
he's ill, if you must know — il est malade si tu veux vraiment le savoir
6) (in invitations, suggestions)7) (expressing assumption, probability)8) (expressing strong interest, desire)2.this film is a must — ce film est à voir or à ne pas rater
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18 confess
confess [kən'fes](a) (admit → fault, crime) avouer, confesser;∎ to confess one's guilt or that one is guilty avouer sa culpabilité, s'avouer coupable;∎ I must or I have to confess I was wrong je dois reconnaître ou admettre que j'avais tort;∎ I don't understand either, I must confess je dois avouer que je ne comprends pas non plus;∎ medical experts confess themselves helpless les médecins s'avouent impuissants(a) (criminal) avouer, faire des aveux;∎ to confess to a crime avouer un crime;∎ the thief confessed le voleur est passé aux aveux;∎ she confessed to five murders elle a avoué ou confessé cinq meurtres∎ he confessed to having lied il a reconnu ou avoué avoir menti;∎ I confess to not liking her j'avoue que je ne l'aime pas;∎ I confess to a weakness for sweets j'avoue ou je reconnais que j'ai un faible pour les sucreries -
19 allow
allow [əˈlaʊ]• to allow sb in/out/past permettre à qn d'entrer/de sortir/de passer• to allow o.s. to be persuaded se laisser persuader• no children/dogs allowed interdit aux enfants/chiensb. ( = grant) accorder• to allow sb £30 a month accorder à qn 30 livres par moisc. ( = make provision) to allow space for prévoir de la place pourd. ( = concede) admettre• allowing that... en admettant que... + subja. ( = plan for) prévoir• the budget did not allow for these extra expenses ces dépenses supplémentaires n'étaient pas prévues au budgetb. ( = take into account) tenir compte de* * *[ə'laʊ] 1.transitive verb1) ( authorize) autoriser [person, organization] ( to do à faire); autoriser [action, change]; laisser [choice, freedom] ( to do de faire)2) ( let) laisser3) ( enable)to allow somebody/something to do — permettre à quelqu'un/quelque chose de faire
4) ( allocate) prévoir5) ( concede) [referee] accorder [goal]; [insurer] agréer [claim]; [supplier] accorder, consentir [discount]6) ( admit) [club] admettre [non-member]‘no dogs allowed’ — ‘interdit aux chiens’
7) ( condone) tolérer [rudeness, swearing]2.1) ( grant) s'accorder [drink, treat]2) ( allocate) prévoir3) ( let) se laisser•Phrasal Verbs: -
20 beat
beat [bi:t]1. nouna. [of heart, pulse, drums] battement m• we need to put more officers on the beat il faut augmenter le nombre de policiers affectés aux rondes2. adjectivea. ( = strike) battre• beat it! (inf!) fous le camp ! (inf !)b. [+ eggs etc] battrec. ( = defeat) battre• if you can't beat them, join them (inf) si tu ne peux pas les vaincre, mets-toi de leur côtéb. [heart, pulse, drum] battre5. compounds[+ enemy, flames] repousser( = reduce) [+ prices] faire baisser ; [+ person] faire baisser ses prix à• I beat him down to £8 je l'ai fait descendre à 8 livres[+ attacker, competition] repoussera. [+ fire] étouffer[+ person] battre* * *[biːt] 1.1) ( repeated sound) (of drum, feet) battement m5) ( in police force) ( area) secteur m de surveillance; ( route) ronde f2. 3.(colloq) adjective ( tired) claqué (colloq)4.1) ( strike) [person] battre [person, animal, metal, ground, drum]; [person] marteler [door] ( with avec); [wing] battre [air, ground]to beat somebody with a stick/whip — donner des coups de bâton/de fouet à quelqu'un
to beat somebody black and blue — (colloq) rouer quelqu'un de coups
to beat the hell (colloq) out of somebody — tabasser (colloq) quelqu'un
to beat time — Music battre la mesure
to beat its wings — [bird] battre des ailes
2) Culinary ( mix vigorously) battre [mixture, eggs]3) ( make escape)to beat one's way/a path through — se frayer un chemin/un passage à travers [crowd, obstacles]
to beat a retreat — gen, Military battre en retraite
beat it! — (colloq) fiche le camp! (colloq)
4) ( defeat) battre [opponent, team] (at à); vaincre [inflation, drug abuse]; surmonter [illness]; mettre fin à [child abuse, rape]5) ( confound)it beats me how/why — je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment/pourquoi
‘beats me!’ — (colloq)
‘it's got me beaten’ — ‘ça me dépasse!’
6) ( arrive earlier) éviter [rush, crowds]; devancer [person]7) ( outdo) gen, Sport battre [score]; dépasser [target]; surclasser [product]5.beat that (if you can)! — (colloq) qui dit mieux!
intransitive verb (prét beat, pp beaten) [waves, rain] battre ( against contre); [person] cogner (at, on à); [heart, drum, wings] battrePhrasal Verbs:- beat in- beat off- beat out- beat up••a rod ou stick to beat somebody with — une arme contre quelqu'un
if you can't beat 'em, join 'em — (colloq) il faut savoir hurler avec les loups
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admit — ad‧mit [ədˈmɪt] verb admitted PTandPPX admitting PRESPARTX [transitive] 1. to allow someone to enter a place or become a member of a group, organization, school etc: admit somebody/something to something • Both republics are now hoping to be… … Financial and business terms
admit — ad·mit vb ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting vt 1: to concede as true or valid: make an admission of 2: to allow to be entered or offered admitted the document into evidence admit a will to probate vi: to make acknowledgment … Law dictionary
admit — 1. Admit of is now only used in the meaning ‘to allow as possible, leave room for’ (always with an abstract object: The circumstances will not admit of delay / It seems to admit of so many interpretations), and even here the construction seems… … Modern English usage
Admit — Ad*mit , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Admitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Admitting}.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See {Missile}.] 1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
admit to — ● bail * * * admit to [phrasal verb] admit to (something) : to admit (something) : to acknowledge the truth or existence of (something) He reluctantly admitted to knowing her. [=he admitted knowing her] He admitted to his guilt. = He admitted to… … Useful english dictionary
admit — [v1] allow entry or use accept, be big on*, bless, buy, concede, enter, entertain, give access, give the nod*, give thumbs up*, grant, harbor, house, initiate, introduce, let, let in, lodge, okay, permit, receive, shelter, sign*, sign off on*,… … New thesaurus
admit — ► VERB (admitted, admitting) 1) confess to be true or to be the case. 2) allow to enter. 3) receive into a hospital for treatment. 4) accept as valid. 5) (admit of) allow the possibility of … English terms dictionary
admit — réadmit … Dictionnaire des rimes
admit — (v.) late 14c., let in, from L. admittere to allow to enter, let in, let come, give access, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + mittere let go, send (see MISSION (Cf. mission)). Sense of to concede as valid or true is first recorded early 15c.… … Etymology dictionary
admit of — Admit, permit, allow, bear, be capable of … New dictionary of synonyms
admit — 1 *receive, accept, take Analogous words: allow, permit, suffer (see LET): *harbor, entertain, shelter, lodge, house Antonyms: eject, expel Contrasted words: *exclude, debar, shut out: bar, obstruct, block, *hinder … New Dictionary of Synonyms