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61 QUECHHUIYACATONTLI
quechhuiyacâtôntli, terme descriptif, diminutif quechhuiyac.Qui a le cou plutôt long.Angl., of rather long neck. Est dit du lièvre cihtli. Sah11,12.Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique > QUECHHUIYACATONTLI
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62 TECUANIPIPIL
têcuânipipil:Petites bêtes venimeuses.Angl., they are rather inclined to bite one.Est dit des fourmis tlîlazcatl. Sah11,90. -
63 TEMPITZAHUAC
têmpitzâhuac:1.\TEMPITZAHUAC qui a le bec mince.Angl., the bill is slender.Décrit l'oiseau huitzitzilin. Sah11,24.l'oiseau huilôtl. Sah11,50.l'oiseau cuitlacochin. Sah11,5l.2.\TEMPITZAHUAC qui a un museau mince.Angl., slender of muzzle.Décrit l'écureuil, techalôtl. Sah11,10.le cerf, mâzatl. Sah11,15." têmmetlapiltic, achi têmpitzâhuac, têmpochectic, têmpochichitic ", large muzzled, a rather slender, blackish, soft one.Décrit le coyote. Sah11,6." têmmetlapiltic, têmpitzâhuac, têmpitzapil, têmpochichitic ", with large muzzle, (or) a thin, thinnish one, a soft one.Décrit le raton laveur, mapachihtli. Sah11,9. -
64 TEMPOCHECTIC
têmpochectic:Qui a le museau sombre." têmmetlapiltic, achi têmpitzâhuac, têmpochectic, têmpochichitic ", large-muzzled, a rather slender, blackish, soft one. Décrit le coyote. Sah11,6.Form: sur pochectic morph.incorp. tên-tli. -
65 TEMPOCHICHITIC
têmpochichitic:Qui a un museau léger." têmmetlapiltic, achi têmpitzâhuac, têmpochectic, têmpochichitic ", large-muzzled, a rather slender, blackish, soft one. Décrit le coyote. Sah11,6." têmmetlapiltic, têmpitzâhuac, têmpitzapil, têmpochichitic ", with large muzzle, (or) a thin, thinnish one, a soft one. Décrit le raton laveur, mapachihtli. Sah11,9.Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique > TEMPOCHICHITIC
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66 TENPITZATON
tênpitzatôn:Qui a un petit museau fin et long.Angl., rather thin and long of snout.Décrit la belette, cozama. Sah11,13.Snout = museau. -
67 TETETZTONTLI
tetetztôntli:Petit et blanc.Angl., rather white.Décrit la fleur olôxôchitl. Sah11,211. -
68 TETZONHUEHCAPANTON
tetzonhuehcapantôn:Qui a une base plutôt importante.Angl., it has a rather high base.Est dit de l'agave temetl. Sah11,217.Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique > TETZONHUEHCAPANTON
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69 YAYAMAZPIL
yayamazpil, diminutif sur yayamaztic.Plutôt doux au toucher." yayamazpil, yayamaztôntli ", plutôt douce au toucher, petite et douce - rather yielding, a little soft.Décrit la souris quimichin. Sah11,17. -
70 YAYAMAZTONTLI
yayamaztôntli, diminutif sur yayamaztic.Petit et doux au toucher." yayamazpil, yayamaztôntli ", plutôt douce au toucher, petite et douce - rather yielding, a little soft. Décrit la souris quimichin. Sah11,17. -
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72 as
as [æz, əz]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. conjunction2. preposition3. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► For set combinations in which as is not the first word, eg such... as, the same... as, disguised as, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. conjunctiona. ( = while) alors que• as she was falling asleep she heard a noise elle entendit un bruit alors qu'elle commençait à s'endormirb. (with comparative) things will get more difficult as the year goes on ça va devenir de plus en plus difficile au fil de l'annéec. ( = just when) (juste) au moment oùd. ( = because) comme━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• as he hasn't phoned, we don't know where he is comme il n'a pas téléphoné, nous ne savons pas où il est• this is important as it reduces the effectiveness of the drug c'est important parce que cela diminue l'efficacité du médicamente. ( = though) long as it was, I didn't find the journey boring bien que le trajet ait été long, je ne me suis pas ennuyé• France, as you know, is... la France, comme vous le savez, est...• she is very gifted, as is her brother elle est très douée, comme son frère• don't tidy up, leave it as it is ne range rien, laisse ça comme ça• the village, situated as it is near a motorway,... le village étant situé non loin d'une autoroute,...2. prepositiona. ( = in the capacity of) commeb. ( = being) en tant que• as a mother of five children, she is well aware... en tant que mère de cinq enfants, elle sait très bien...c. ( = when) as a child, she was rather shy quand elle était enfant, elle était plutôt timide• as a young woman, she was interested in politics quand elle était jeune, elle s'intéressait à la politique3. adverba. ( = in the way) comme► as + as (in comparisons of equality) aussi... que• is it as far as that? c'est vraiment aussi loin que ça ?• you ate as much as me tu as mangé autant que moi► twice/half as...• as for that quant à cela► as from (referring to past) depuis ; (referring to present, future) à partir de• he was staggering as if or as though he'd been drinking il titubait comme s'il avait bu• it's not as if or as though he was nice-looking ce n'est pas comme s'il était beau garçon• as if to confirm his prediction there was a loud explosion comme pour confirmer ses prédictions on entendit une forte explosion• don't tell her, will you? -- as if! (inf) ne lui dis rien ! -- pour qui tu me prends !• did he finally own up? -- as if! (inf) est-ce qu'il a fini par avouer ? -- tu parles ! (inf)► as it is ( = in fact) dans l'état actuel des choses ; ( = already) comme ça• as it is, it doesn't make much difference dans l'état actuel des choses, ça ne fait pas grande différence• the balance of your account as of 16 June ( = on 16 June) le solde de votre compte au 16 juin• the work as such is boring but... le travail en soi est ennuyeux mais...• they are the best players in the world and, as such, are highly paid ce sont les meilleurs joueurs du monde et, à ce titre, ils sont très bien payés• he was still a novice and they treated him as such ce n'était qu'un débutant et ils le traitaient comme tel• he had no qualifications as such il n'avait pas de qualification à proprement parler► as to quant à* * *[æz, əz] 1.1) ( in the manner that) commeknowing you as I do, it didn't surprise me — je te connais tellement bien que ça ne m'a pas étonné
he lives abroad, as does his sister — il vit à l'étranger, tout comme sa sœur
as with so many people in the 1960s, she... — comme beaucoup de personnes dans les années 60, elle...
2) (while, when) comme, alors que; ( over more gradual period of time) au fur et à mesure queas a child, he... — (quand il était) enfant, il...
3) (because, since) comme, puisque4) ( although)comfortable as the house is, it's still very expensive — aussi confortable que soit la maison, elle reste quand même très chère
try as he might, he could not forget it — il avait beau essayer, il ne pouvait pas oublier
5)the same... as — le/la même... que
6) ( expressing purpose)2.so as to do — pour faire, afin de faire
1) ( in order to appear to be)2) (showing function, status) commespeaking as his closest friend, I... — en tant que son meilleur ami, je voudrais dire que je...
with Lauren Bacall as Vivien — Cinema, Theatre avec Lauren Bacall dans le rôle de Vivien
3)3.he was quoted as saying that... — il aurait dit que...
1) (expressing degree, extent)the population may increase by as much as 20% — l'augmentation de la population risque d'atteindre 20%
as many as 10,000 people attended the demonstration — il n'y avait pas moins de 10000 personnes à la manifestation
he has a house in Nice as well as an apartment in Paris — il a une maison à Nice ainsi qu'un appartement à Paris
2) ( expressing similarity) comme4.as against prepositional phrase contre, comparé à5.as and when conjunctional phrase6.as and when the need arises — quand il le faudra, quand le besoin s'en fera sentir
as for prepositional phrase quant à, pour ce qui est de7. 8.as if conjunctional phrase comme (si)he looked at me as if to say ‘I told you so’ — il m'a regardé avec l'air de dire ‘je te l'avais bien dit’
9.as if by accident/magic — comme par hasard/magie
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73 basic
basic [ˈbeɪsɪk]1. adjectivea. ( = fundamental) fondamental ; [rule] élémentaireb. [salary, working hours] de base2. plural noun• to get back to basics revenir au b.a.-ba3. compounds* * *['beɪsɪk] 1.basics plural noun essentiel m: (of knowledge, study) principes mpl fondamentaux; ( food) denrées fpl de première nécessité2.1) ( fundamental) [aim, arrangement, fact, need, quality] essentiel/-ielle; [belief, research, problem, principle] fondamental; [theme] principal2) ( elementary) [education, skill, rule] élémentaire3) ( rudimentary) [accommodation, meal, supplies] de basethe accommodation was rather basic — péj le logement était un peu rudimentaire
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74 before
before [bɪˈfɔ:r]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. prepositionb. (place, position) devant• to appear before a court/a judge comparaître devant un tribunal/un juge2. adverb• I said before that... j'ai déjà dit que...3. conjunction• before I come/go/return avant mon arrivée/mon départ/mon retour* * *[bɪ'fɔː(r)] 1.1) ( earlier than) avantsix weeks before then — six semaines avant or auparavant
2) (in order, sequence) avant3) (in importance, priority) avantfor him, work comes before everything else — pour lui le travail passe avant tout
4) ( this side of) avant5) US ( in time expressions)6) ( in front of) devant7) ( confronting) face à2.adjective précédent3.the week/year before — la semaine/l'année précédente
adverb ( at an earlier time) avant4.1) ( in time)before I go, I would like to say that — avant de partir, je voudrais dire que
before he goes, I must remind him that — avant qu'il parte, il faut que je lui rappelle que
it was some time before she was able to walk again — il lui a fallu un certain temps pour pouvoir marcher de nouveau
oh, before I forget... — avant que j'oublie...
2) ( rather than) plutôt que3) ( or else)4) ( as necessary condition) pour que (+ subj)you have to show your ticket before they'll let you in — il faut que tu montres ton ticket pour qu'ils te laissent entrer
••before you know where you are... — on n'a pas le temps de dire ouf que...
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75 begin
begin [bɪˈgɪn]commencer (to do sth, doing sth à faire qch ) ; [+ task] entreprendre ; [+ conversation] engager ; [+ policy] inaugurer• to begin life as... débuter dans la vie comme...• that doesn't begin to compare with... cela n'a rien de comparable avec...• let's begin! commençons !• well, to begin at the beginning... bon, commençons par le commencement...• he began in the sales department/as a clerk il a débuté dans le service des ventes/comme employé de bureau• we only had $100 to begin with nous n'avions que 100 dollars pour commencer• to begin with there were only three of them but later... au début ils n'étaient que trois, mais plus tard...* * *[bɪ'gɪn] 1.2.I wish I hadn't told her to begin with — pour commencer, je n'aurais jamais dû lui en parler
1) ( start) commencer [journey, list, meeting, job, game, meal] ( with par, avec); aller à [school]; provoquer [debate, dispute]; lancer [campaign, trend]; commencer [tradition]; déclencher [war]; fonder [dynasty]2) ( start to use) entamer [bottle, packet]; commencer [page]3) ( come first in) marquer le commencement de [series, collection, festival]3.to begin well/badly — bien/mal commencer
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76 beside
beside [bɪˈsaɪd]a. ( = at the side of) à côté deb. to be beside o.s. (with anger) (inf) être hors de soic. ( = compared with) à côté de* * *[bɪ'saɪd]1) ( next to) à côté de2) ( in comparison with) par rapport àmy problems seem rather minor beside yours — mes problèmes semblent assez insignifiants par rapport aux tiens or à côté des tiens
••to be beside oneself with happiness — être fou/folle de joie
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77 bit
I.bit1 [bɪt]1. noun• what a bit of luck! quelle chance !• bit by bit ( = gradually) petit à petit• that's a bit much! c'est un peu fort ! (inf)• not a bit of it! pas du tout !c. ( = time) after a bit après un momentd. (Computing) bit me. (for horse) mors mf. ( = tool) mèche f2. compounds► bit-map noun (Computing) mode point m ; also bit-map(ped) image image f en mode point adjective also bit-mapped [graphics] par pointsII.bit2 [bɪt]* * *[bɪt] 1. 2.1) (of food, substance, wood) morceau m (of de); (of paper, string, garden, land) bout m (of de)2) (colloq) ( small amount)a bit of difficulty/information — quelques difficultés/informations
quite a bit of —
a good bit of — pas mal de [time, money etc]
quite a bit ou a good bit bigger — bien plus grand
3) (colloq) ( section) passage mlisten, this bit is brilliant! — écoute, ce passage est génial! (colloq)
4) (dated) ( coin) pièce f5) ( for horse) mors m6) Computing bit m7) Technology (also drill bit) mèche f3.a bit deaf/cold — un peu sourd/froid
••bits and bobs — (colloq) affaires fpl
bits and pieces — ( fragments) morceaux mpl; ( belongings) affaires fpl
every bit as good/clever — tout aussi bon/intelligent
not a bit of it! — (colloq) pas du tout!
to do one's bit — faire sa part (de boulot (colloq))
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78 bleak
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79 come out
1) ( emerge) [person, animal, vehicle] sortir (of de); [star] apparaître; [sun, moon] se montrerhe came out of it rather well — fig il ne s'en est pas mal tiré
2) ( originate)to come out of — [person] être originaire de; [song] venir de; [news report] provenir de
3) ( result)4) ( strike) faire la grève5) ( fall out) [contact lens, tooth] tomber; [contents] sortir; [cork] s'enlever6) ( be emitted) [water, smoke] sortir ( through par)7) ( wash out) [stain] s'en aller, partir8) (be published, issued) [magazine, novel] paraître; [album, film, product] sortir9) ( become known) [feelings] se manifester; [details, facts] être révélé; [results] être connu10) Photography [photo, photocopy] être réussi11) ( end up)to come out at 200 dollars — [cost, bill] s'élever à 200 dollars
12) ( say)to come out with — sortir [excuse]; raconter [nonsense]
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80 comfortable
comfortable [ˈkʌmfətəbl]a. [chair, bed] confortable ; [temperature] agréableb. ( = physically at ease) are you comfortable there? vous êtes bien ?• to make o.s. comfortable (in armchair) s'installer confortablement ; ( = make o.s. at home) se mettre à l'aisec. ( = mentally at ease) [person] à l'aise━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word confortable is spelt with an n rather than an m.* * *['kʌmftəbl], US [-fərt-]1) [room, chair, clothes, journey] confortable; [temperature] agréable2) ( relaxed) [person] à l'aiseto make oneself comfortable — ( in chair) s'installer confortablement; ( at ease) se mettre à son aise
3) ( financially) [person] aisé; [income] conséquent4) ( reassuring) [idea, thought] sécurisant; [majority, lead] confortable5) ( happy)I don't feel comfortable doing — ça m'embête (colloq) de faire
I would feel more comfortable about leaving if... — je partirais plus volontiers si...
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