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1 appear
appear [əˈpɪər]a. ( = become visible) apparaître• where did you appear from? d'où est-ce que tu sors ?c. [actor] to appear in "Hamlet" jouer dans « Hamlet »d. ( = be published) paraîtree. ( = look) avoir l'air• he came then? -- so it appears il est donc venu ? -- apparemment* * *[ə'pɪə(r)]1) ( become visible) apparaître2) ( turn up) arriverto appear on the scene — lit arriver sur les lieux; fig faire son apparition
where did she appear from? — (colloq) d'où est-ce qu'elle sort? (colloq & hum)
3) ( seem)to appear to be/to do — [person] avoir l'air d'être/de faire
there appears to be —
so it appears —
so it would appear — ( according to rumour) à ce qu'il paraît; ( this is visibly the case) on dirait bien
4) [book, work, article] paraître5) ( perform)7) ( be written) [name, score] paraître (on sur; in dans) -
2 bill
A n1 Comm ( for payment) ( in restaurant) addition f ; (for maintenance, electricity etc) facture f ; (from hotel, doctor, dentist etc) note f ; electricity/gas/telephone bill facture f or note f d'électricité/de gaz/de téléphone ; he gave me a bill for £10 il m'a donné une note or facture de 10 livres ; he gave me a bill for repairing the car il m'a donné une note or facture pour la réparation de la voiture ; he gave me a bill for the work/the damage il m'a facturé le travail/les dégâts ; to pay/settle a bill payer/régler une note or facture or addition ; to make out a bill établir une note or facture ; put it on the bill, please mettez-le sur ma note s'il vous plaît ;2 Jur, Pol ( law) ( also Bill) projet m de loi ; Education/Employment Bill projet m de loi pour l'éducation/l'emploi ; to pass/defeat a bill adopter/rejeter un projet de loi ;3 ( poster) affiche f ; to be on the bill être à l'affiche ; to be top of the bill, to top the bill être en tête d'affiche ; ‘stick no bills’ ‘défense d'afficher’ ;4 US ( banknote) billet m (de banque) ; dollar/ten dollar bill billet m d'un dollar/de dix dollars ;B vtr1 ( send demand for payment) faire une facture à [person, company] ; to bill sb for sth facturer qch à qn ; to bill sb for doing faire une facture à qn pour avoir fait ; he billed me for repairing the car il m'a fait une facture pour la réparation de la voiture ;2 Theat, gen ( advertise) to be billed as… [event, entertainment, meeting] être annoncé comme étant… ; the show was billed as a musical comedy le spectacle était affiché comme étant une comédie musicale ; he is billed to appear at the Odeon/in ‘Hamlet’/as Hamlet il est à l'affiche à l'Odéon/de ‘Hamlet’/dans le rôle de Hamlet.to fit ou fill the bill faire l'affaire ; to give sb/sth a clean bill of health lit trouver qn/qch en parfait état de santé ; fig blanchir qn/qch. ⇒ coo. -
3 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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4 bill
bill [bɪl]1. nound. ( = poster) affiche fe. [of bird] bec ma. ( = invoice) to bill sb for sth facturer qch à qn3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Ensemble des dix premiers amendements ajoutés à la Constitution américaine en 1791 et qui définissent les droits individuels des citoyens et les pouvoirs respectifs du gouvernement fédéral et des États. Ainsi le premier amendement garantit la liberté de culte et de réunion et la liberté de la presse, le second le droit au port d'armes, le sixième le droit à un procès équitable. → FIFTH AMENDMENT* * *[bɪl] 1.1) Commerce ( in restaurant) addition f; (for maintenance, electricity etc) facture f; (from hotel, doctor, dentist) note fgas/telephone bill — facture f de gaz/de téléphone
a bill for £10 — une note or facture de 10 livres
3) ( poster) affiche fto top the bill — Theatre être en tête d'affiche
‘stick no bills’ — ‘défense d'afficher’
4) US ( banknote) billet m (de banque)2.transitive verb1) gen, Commerce faire une facture à [person, company]to be billed as... — [event, meeting] être annoncé comme étant...
••to fit ou fill the bill — faire l'affaire
to give somebody/something a clean bill of health — lit trouver quelqu'un/quelque chose en parfait état de santé; fig blanchir quelqu'un/quelque chose
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5 present
I ['preznt] adjective1) (being here, or at the place, occasion etc mentioned: My father was present on that occasion; Who else was present at the wedding?; Now that the whole class is present, we can begin the lesson.) présent2) (existing now: the present moment; the present prime minister.) actuel3) ((of the tense of a verb) indicating action now: In the sentence `She wants a chocolate', the verb is in the present tense.) présent•- the present - at present - for the present II [pri'zent] verb1) (to give, especially formally or ceremonially: The child presented a bunch of flowers to the Queen; He was presented with a gold watch when he retired.) offrir (à)2) (to introduce: May I present my wife (to you)?) présenter (à)3) (to arrange the production of (a play, film etc): The Elizabethan Theatre Company presents `Hamlet', by William Shakespeare.) présenter4) (to offer (ideas etc) for consideration, or (a problem etc) for solving: She presents (=expresses) her ideas very clearly; The situation presents a problem.) présenter5) (to bring (oneself); to appear: He presented himself at the dinner table half an hour late.) se présenter•- presentable - presentation - present arms III ['preznt] noun(a gift: a wedding present; birthday presents.) cadeau
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