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1 instinct
instinct n instinct m ; the instinct for survival l'instinct de conservation ; the instinct to do l'instinct qui pousse à faire ; her instinct is to fight back lit, fig elle se défend d'instinct ; follow your instinct(s) ( when making decision) laisse-toi guider par ton intuition ; ( in sport etc) fais ce qui te semble le plus naturel ; my first instinct was to… ma première réaction fut de… ; death/life instinct Psych pulsion f de mort/de vie ; the killer instinct lit l'instinct qui pousse à tuer ; fig la combativité. -
2 instinct
instinct [ˈɪnstɪŋkt]instinct m* * *['ɪnstɪŋkt]her instinct is to fight back — lit, fig elle se défend d'instinct
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3 instinct
instinct ['ɪnstɪŋkt]instinct m;∎ by instinct d'instinct;∎ she has an instinct for business elle a le sens des affaires;∎ he has an instinct for the right word il a le don pour trouver le mot juste;∎ her first instinct was to run away sa première réaction a été de s'enfuir;∎ to follow one's instinct suivre ou obéir à son instinct -
4 instinct
['instiŋkt](a natural tendency to behave or react in a particular way, without thinking and without having been taught: As winter approaches, swallows fly south from Britain by instinct; He has an instinct for saying the right thing.) instinct- instinctively -
5 herd instinct
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6 killer instinct
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7 herd instinct
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8 killer instinct
noun lit instinct m de tuer; fig agressivité f -
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10 homing instinct
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11 self-preservation
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12 herd
herd [hɜ:d]1. nountroupeau m[+ animals] mener en troupeau• to herd into [+ people] parquer dans3. compounds* * *[hɜːd] 1.2.herd instinct — instinct m grégaire
transitive verb rassembler3.Phrasal Verbs:••to follow the herd — fig être un mouton de Panurge
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13 homing
homing [ˈhəʊmɪŋ][missile] à tête chercheuse* * *['həʊmɪŋ]adjective [missile] autoguidé; [system, device] d'autoguidagehoming instinct — faculté f d'orientation
homing pigeon — pigeon m voyageur
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14 homing
homing ['həʊmɪŋ]►► homing device mécanisme m d'autoguidage;homing guidance systems systèmes mpl d'autoguidage;homing instinct (of animals) instinct m d'orientation;∎ familiar humorous no matter how drunk I am, my homing instinct never lets me down même quand je suis complètement soûl, j'arrive toujours à rentrer chez moi;homing missile missile m à tête chercheuse;homing pigeon pigeon m voyageur -
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killer ['kɪlə(r)]1 noun(a) (murderer) tueur(euse) m,f;∎ a convicted killer une personne reconnue coupable d'homicide;∎ tuberculosis was once a major killer jadis, la tuberculose faisait de nombreuses victimes ou des ravages∎ the exam was a real killer l'examen était vraiment coton;∎ their new album's a killer (excellent) leur dernier album est vraiment génial ou mortel;∎ that walk was a killer! cette promenade était vraiment crevante!;∎ this one's a killer (joke) celle-là est à mourir de rire(disease) meurtrier►► figurative killer instinct agressivité f;∎ he's got the killer instinct c'est un battant;∎ he lacks the killer instinct il manque d'agressivité ou de combativité, il a trop de scrupules;Zoology killer shark requin m tueur;Physiology killer T-cell lymphocyte m cytotoxique;Zoology killer whale épaulard m, orque f -
16 IN
in [ɪn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. adjective4. plural noun5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When in is an element in a phrasal verb, eg ask in, fill in, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg in danger, weak in, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in it/them ( = inside it, inside them) dedans• our bags were stolen, and our passports were in them on nous a volé nos sacs et nos passeports étaient dedansb. (people, animals, plants) chez► in + feminine countries, regions, islands en━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Feminine countries usually end in -e.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + masculine country au• in Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note also the following:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + plural country/group of islands aux━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━e. (month, year, season) en• in summer/autumn/winter en été/automne/hiver━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━f. ( = wearing) eng. (language, medium, material) en• in marble/velvet en marbre/veloursj. ( = while) en• in trying to save her he fell into the water himself en essayant de la sauver, il est tombé à l'eau2. adverba. ( = inside) à l'intérieur• she opened the door and they all rushed in elle a ouvert la porte et ils se sont tous précipités à l'intérieur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. (at home, work)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you're never in! tu n'es jamais chez toi !• is Paul in? est-ce que Paul est là ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to be in may require a more specific translation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in between + noun/pronoun entre• he positioned himself in between the two weakest players il s'est placé entre les deux joueurs les plus faibles• in between adventures, he finds time for... entre deux aventures, il trouve le temps de...► to be in for sth ( = be threatened with)• you don't know what you're in for! (inf) tu ne sais pas ce qui t'attend !• he's in for it! (inf) il va en prendre pour son grade ! (inf)► to be in on sth (inf) ( = know about)the new treatment is preferable in that... le nouveau traitement est préférable car...► to be well in with sb (inf) être dans les petits papiers de qn (inf)3. adjective• it's the in thing to... c'est très à la mode de...4. plural noun5. compounds• to have in-service training faire un stage d'initiation ► in-store adjective [detective] employé par le magasin* * *US Postal services abrév écrite = Indiana -
17 in
in [ɪn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. adjective4. plural noun5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When in is an element in a phrasal verb, eg ask in, fill in, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg in danger, weak in, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in it/them ( = inside it, inside them) dedans• our bags were stolen, and our passports were in them on nous a volé nos sacs et nos passeports étaient dedansb. (people, animals, plants) chez► in + feminine countries, regions, islands en━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Feminine countries usually end in -e.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + masculine country au• in Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note also the following:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + plural country/group of islands aux━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━e. (month, year, season) en• in summer/autumn/winter en été/automne/hiver━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━f. ( = wearing) eng. (language, medium, material) en• in marble/velvet en marbre/veloursj. ( = while) en• in trying to save her he fell into the water himself en essayant de la sauver, il est tombé à l'eau2. adverba. ( = inside) à l'intérieur• she opened the door and they all rushed in elle a ouvert la porte et ils se sont tous précipités à l'intérieur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. (at home, work)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you're never in! tu n'es jamais chez toi !• is Paul in? est-ce que Paul est là ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to be in may require a more specific translation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in between + noun/pronoun entre• he positioned himself in between the two weakest players il s'est placé entre les deux joueurs les plus faibles• in between adventures, he finds time for... entre deux aventures, il trouve le temps de...► to be in for sth ( = be threatened with)• you don't know what you're in for! (inf) tu ne sais pas ce qui t'attend !• he's in for it! (inf) il va en prendre pour son grade ! (inf)► to be in on sth (inf) ( = know about)the new treatment is preferable in that... le nouveau traitement est préférable car...► to be well in with sb (inf) être dans les petits papiers de qn (inf)3. adjective• it's the in thing to... c'est très à la mode de...4. plural noun5. compounds• to have in-service training faire un stage d'initiation ► in-store adjective [detective] employé par le magasin* * *Note: in is often used after verbs in English ( join in, tuck in, result in, write in etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (join, tuck, result, write etc)If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with in ( in a huff, in business, in trouble etc) you should consult the appropriate noun entry (huff, business, trouble etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as age, countries, dates, islands, months, towns and cities etc. Many of these use the preposition in. For the index to these notesFor examples of the above and particular functions and uses of in, see the entry below[ɪn] 1.in prison/town — en prison/ville
in the film/newspaper — dans le film/journal
I'm in here! — je suis là!; bath, bed
2) (inside, within) dansthere's something in it — il y a quelque chose dedans or à l'intérieur
3) ( expressing a subject or field) dansin insurance — dans les assurances; course, expert
4) (included, involved)to be in on the secret — (colloq) être dans le secret
I wasn't in on it — (colloq) je n'étais pas dans le coup (colloq)
5) ( in expressions of time)6) ( within the space of) en7) ( expressing the future) dans8) ( for) depuisit hasn't rained in weeks — il n'a pas plu depuis des semaines, ça fait des semaines qu'il n'a pas plu
9) (during, because of) dans10) ( with reflexive pronouns)how do you feel in yourself? — est-ce que tu as le moral?; itself
11) (present in, inherent in)12) (expressing colour, composition) en13) ( dressed in) en14) ( expressing manner or medium)‘no,’ he said in a whisper — ‘non,’ a-t-il chuchoté
in pencil/in ink — au crayon/à l'encre
15) ( as regards)rich/poor in minerals — riche/pauvre en minéraux
16) (by)17) ( in superlatives) de18) ( in measurements)19) ( in ratios)a gradient of 1 in 4 — une pente de 25%
20) ( in approximate amounts)in their hundreds ou thousands — par centaines or milliers
21) ( expressing age)2.in old age — avec l'âge, en vieillissant
in and out prepositional phrase3.to weave in and out of — se faufiler entre [traffic, tables]
in that conjunctional phrase dans la mesure où4.1) ( indoors)to ask ou invite somebody in — faire entrer quelqu'un
2) (at home, at work)to be in by midnight — être rentré avant minuit; keep, stay
3) (in prison, in hospital)4) ( arrived)5) Sport6) ( gathered)7) ( in supply)8) ( submitted)5.the homework has to be in tomorrow — le devoir doit être rendu demain; get, power, vote
(colloq) adjectiveto be in —
••to have an in with somebody — US avoir ses entrées chez quelqu'un
to have it in for somebody — (colloq) avoir quelqu'un dans le collimateur (colloq)
you're in for it — (colloq) tu vas avoir des ennuis
he's in for a shock/surprise — il va avoir un choc/être surpris
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19 nose
nose [nəʊz]1. noun• to look down one's nose at sb/sth prendre qn/qch de haut2. compounds* * *[nəʊz] 1.1) Anatomy nez m2) (of plane, boat) nez m; ( of car) avant m3) ( sense of smell) gen odorat m; ( of wine or perfume expert) nez m; ( of dog) flair m4) ( smell of wine) bouquet m2.transitive verb ( manœuvre)3.to nose something in/out — faire entrer/sortir quelque chose avec précaution [boat, vehicle]
to nose into/out of something — [boat, vehicle] entrer dans/sortir de quelque chose avec prudence
Phrasal Verbs:- nose out••to hit something on the nose — US taper quelque chose dans le mille
to look down one's nose at somebody/something — prendre quelqu'un/quelque chose de haut
to poke ou stick one's nose into something — (colloq) fourrer (colloq) son nez dans quelque chose
to turn one's nose up at something — faire le dégoûté/la dégoûtée devant quelque chose
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20 self-preservation
['selfprezə'veiʃən](the natural inclination towards the protection of oneself from harm, danger etc: Self-preservation is our strongest instinct.) instinct de conservation
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