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1 February
February ['febrʊərɪ]1 nounfévrier m;∎ I don't like February je n'aime pas le mois de février;∎ this has been the wettest February on record cela a été le mois de février le plus pluvieux qu'on ait jamais vu;∎ February was a difficult month le mois de février a été difficile;∎ in February en février, au mois de février;∎ in the month of February au mois de février;∎ the first/ninth of February, February the first/ninth, American February first/ninth le premier/neuf février;∎ during (the month of) February pendant le mois de février;∎ last/next February en février dernier/prochain;∎ at the beginning/end of February au début/à la fin février;∎ in the middle of February au milieu du mois de février, à la mi-février;∎ early/late in February, in early/late February au début/à la fin du mois de février;∎ every or each February tous les ans en février(evening, weather, weekend) de février, du mois de février -
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4 February
['februəri](the second month of the year, the month following January.) février -
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6 on
on [ɒn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb2. preposition3. adjective4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When on is an element in a phrasal verb, eg get on, go on, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, such as later on, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. ( = in place) the lid is on le couvercle est mis• if you read on, you'll see that... si tu continues (de lire), tu verras que...• they lived together on and off for six years ils ont vécu ensemble six ans, par intermittence► on and on• they talked on and on for hours ils ont parlé pendant des heures► to be on about sth (inf) ( = talk)he's always on at me il est toujours après moi (inf)► to be on to sb (inf) ( = speak to) parler à qn• he's been on to me about the broken window il m'a parlé du carreau cassé► to be on to sb/sth (inf) ( = have found out about)2. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When on occurs in a set combination, eg on the right, on occasion, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what page are we on? à quelle page sommes-nous ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you can't wear that shirt, there's a stain on it tu ne peux pas porter cette chemise, elle a une tache► on + island• on an island dans or sur une île• on the island of... dans or sur l'île de...c. ( = on board) dans• he came on the train/bus il est venu en train/en bus• I went on the train/bus j'ai pris le train/le busd. ( = at the time of)► on + noun• on my arrival home à mon arrivée à la maison► on + -ing• on completing the course, she got a job in an office à la fin de son stage elle a trouvé un emploi dans un bureaug. (TV, radio) on the radio/TV à la radio/la télévision• on Radio 3/Channel 4 sur Radio 3/Channel 4h. ( = earning) he's on $19,000 a year il gagne 19 000 dollars par ani. ( = taking, using) the doctor put her on antibiotics le médecin l'a mise sous antibiotiquesj. ( = playing) with Louis Armstrong on trumpet avec Louis Armstrong à la trompettek. ( = about, concerning) surl. ( = doing) he's on a course il suit un coursm. ( = at the expense of) it's on me c'est moi qui paien. (indicating membership) to be on the team/committee faire partie de l'équipe/du comité3. adjectivea. ( = functioning) [machine, engine] en marche ; [radio, TV, light] allumé ; [handbrake] mis ; [electricity] branché ; [tap, gas at mains] ouvert• the "on" switch l'interrupteur mb. ( = taking place) there's a match on at Wimbledon il y a un match à Wimbledon• is the party still on? est-ce que la fête a toujours lieu ?• what's on? (at theatre, cinema) qu'est-ce qu'on joue ? ; (on TV) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à la télévision ?c. ( = on duty) I'm on every Saturday je travaille tous les samedis4. compounds* * *Note: When on is used as a straightforward preposition expressing position ( on the beach, on the table) it is generally translated by sur: sur la plage, sur la table; on it is translated by dessus: there's a table over there, put the key on it = il y a une table là-bas, mets la clé dessuson is often used in verb combinations in English ( depend on, rely on etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (depend, rely etc)If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with on ( on demand, on impulse, on top etc) consult the appropriate noun or other entry (demand, impulse, top etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as dates, islands, rivers etc. Many of these use the preposition on. For the index to these notesFor examples of the above and further uses of on, see the entry below[ɒn] 1.1) ( position) sur [table, coast, motorway etc]2) (indicating attachment, contact)3) ( on or about one's person)4) (about, on the subject of) surhave you heard him on electoral reform? — est-ce que tu l'as entendu parler de la réforme électorale?
5) (employed, active)to be on — faire partie de [team]; être membre de [board, committee]
6) ( in expressions of time)7) ( immediately after)on hearing the truth she... — quand elle a appris la vérité, elle...
8) (taking, using)9) ( powered by)10) ( indicating support) sur11) ( indicating a medium)12) (income, amount of money)to be on £20,000 a year — gagner 20000 livres sterling par an
13) (paid for by, at the expense of)14) ( in scoring)2.1) (taking place, happening)2) ( being performed)what's on? — ( on TV) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à la télé?; (at the cinema, at the theatre) qu'est-ce qu'on joue?
3) (functional, live)to be on — [TV, oven, light] être allumé; [handbrake] être serré; [dishwasher, radio] marcher; [tap] être ouvert
in the ‘on’ position — en position ‘allumé’
4) GB ( permissible)it's just ou simply not on — ( out of the question) c'est hors de question; ( not the done thing) ça ne se fait pas; ( unacceptable) c'est inadmissible
5) (attached, in place)3.to be on — [lid] être mis
1) ( on or about one's person)on with your coats! — allez, mettez vos manteaux!
2) ( ahead in time)20 years on he was still the same — 20 ans plus tard, il n'avait pas changé
3) ( further)4) ( on stage)4.on and off adverbial phrase (also off and on)5.she's been working at the novel on and off for years — ça fait des années que son roman est en chantier
on and on adverbial phraseto go on and on — [speaker] parler pendant des heures; [speech] durer des heures
••what's he on about? — GB qu'est-ce qu'il raconte?
he's been on to me about the lost files — GB il m'a contacté à propos des dossiers perdus
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8 blip
(temporary problem) contretemps m;∎ the company suffered a blip in February when it lost that contract l'entreprise a subi un contretemps en février lorsqu'elle a perdu ce contrat -
9 bullish
STOCK EXCHANGE (market, trend) à la hausse, haussier(ère);bullish tendency tendance f à la hausseSteady demand for coconut oil has also boosted prices as the more bullish market outlook for soybean and palm oil spilled over to other vegetable oils. Coconut oil exports in February trebled its volume from 49,246 tons to 142,200 tons, according to the United Coconut Associations of the Philippines.
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10 inclusive
(price, sum) net (nette);∎ from 4 to 12 February inclusive du 4 au 12 février inclus;∎ inclusive of all taxes toutes taxes comprises;∎ inclusive of VAT TVA comprise -
11 stocktaking
inventaire m (des stocks);∎ to do the stocktaking faire l'inventaire;∎ stocktaking is in February on fait l'inventaire en févrierstocktaking sale solde m après inventaire -
12 visiting fireman
familiar visiteur m de marqueAlthough Kenyan head of state Daniel Arap Moi kept his cool while on camera, he was reported to be furious on February 7 when he said goodbye to International Monetary Fund visiting fireman Jose Fajgenbaum, leaving after a two-week mission in Nairobi.
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13 Feb
( written abbreviation) (February.) février -
14 leap year
(every fourth year, which consists of 366 days, February having 29, ie 1996, 2000, 2004 etc.) année bissextile -
15 March
(the third month of the year, the month following February.) mars -
16 month
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17 paradox
['pærədoks](a statement etc that seems to contradict itself but which is nevertheless true: If your birthday is on February 29 you could state the paradox that you are thirteen years old although you have only had three birthdays.) paradoxe- paradoxically -
18 second
I 1. ['sekənd] adjective1) (next after, or following, the first in time, place etc: February is the second month of the year; She finished the race in second place.) deuxième, second2) (additional or extra: a second house in the country.) deuxième3) (lesser in importance, quality etc: She's a member of the school's second swimming team.) deuxième2. adverb(next after the first: He came second in the race.) deuxième3. noun1) (a second person, thing etc: You're the second to arrive.) deuxième2) (a person who supports and helps a person who is fighting in a boxing match etc.) soigneur/-euse4. verb(to agree with (something said by a previous speaker), especially to do so formally: He proposed the motion and I seconded it.) appuyer5. noun(a secondary school.) (école) secondaire- seconder- secondly - secondary colours - secondary school - second-best - second-class - second-hand - second lieutenant - second-rate - second sight - second thoughts - at second hand - come off second best - every second week - month - second to none II ['sekənd] noun1) (the sixtieth part of a minute: He ran the race in three minutes and forty-two seconds.) seconde2) (a short time: I'll be there in a second.) seconde -
19 valentine
(a sweetheart chosen, or a card, love letter etc sent, on St. Valentine's Day, February 14: Will you be my valentine?; He sent her a valentine.) personne aimée; de la Saint-Valentin -
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