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[U] carte de visiteEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > calling card
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calling ['kɔ:lɪŋ](a) (vocation) appel m intérieur, vocation f;∎ I felt no/a calling for a religious life je n'avais pas/j'avais la vocation►► American calling card (visiting card) carte f de visite; Telecommunications carte f téléphonique;∎ familiar humorous the dog left its calling card on the carpet/front doorstep le chien a fait sa crotte sur le tapis/devant la porte d'entrée;calling off (of appointment, meeting, match, holidays) annulation f; (of deal) rupture f; (of dog, attacker) rappel m;∎ the calling off of the strike l'annulation de l'ordre de grève;calling up (of memory) évocation f; (by telephone) appel m au téléphone; Military appel m (sous les drapeaux) -
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calling [ˈkɔ:lɪŋ]* * *['kɔːlɪŋ] -
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English-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > visiting card UK
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[ko:l] 1. verb1) (to give a name to: My name is Alexander but I'm called Sandy by my friends) appeler2) (to regard (something) as: I saw you turn that card over - I call that cheating.) appeler3) (to speak loudly (to someone) to attract attention etc: Call everyone over here; She called louder so as to get his attention.) appeler4) (to summon; to ask (someone) to come (by letter, telephone etc): They called him for an interview for the job; He called a doctor.) convoquer5) (to make a visit: I shall call at your house this evening; You were out when I called.) passer6) (to telephone: I'll call you at 6 p.m.) téléphoner à7) ((in card games) to bid.) annoncer, demander2. noun1) (an exclamation or shout: a call for help.) appel2) (the song of a bird: the call of a blackbird.) cri3) (a (usually short) visit: The teacher made a call on the boy's parents.) visite4) (the act of calling on the telephone: I've just had a call from the police.) coup de fil5) ((usually with the) attraction: the call of the sea.) appel6) (a demand: There's less call for coachmen nowadays.) demande7) (a need or reason: You've no call to say such things!) besoin, raison•- caller- calling - call-box - call for - call off - call on - call up - give someone a call - give a call - on call -
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might [maɪt]1. modal verba. ( = may)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When might expresses present, future or past possibility, it is often translated by peut-être, with the appropriate tense of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = could)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you might have told me you weren't coming! tu aurais pu me prévenir que tu ne viendrais pas !might I suggest that...? puis-je me permettre de suggérer que... ?c. ( = should) I might have known j'aurais dû m'en douter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. (emphatic) and, I might add, it was entirely his fault et j'ajouterais que c'était entièrement de sa faute• why did he give her his credit card? -- you might well ask! mais pourquoi lui a-t-il donné sa carte de crédit ? -- va savoir !• one might well ask whether... on est en droit de se demander si...• try as he might, he couldn't do it il a eu beau essayer, il n'y est pas arrivé2. noun* * *I [maɪt]1) ( indicating possibility)‘will you come?’ - ‘I might’ — ‘tu viendras?’ - ‘peut-être’
you might have guessed that... — vous aurez peut-être deviné que...
try as I might, I can't do it — j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas
he was thinking about what might have been — il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes
if they had acted quickly he might well be alive — s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie
4) sout ( when making requests)and who, might I ask, are you? —
and who might you be? — ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes?
5) ( when making suggestions)6) (when making statement, argument)one might argue ou it might be argued that — on pourrait dire or faire valoir que
as you ou one might expect — comme de bien entendu
7) (expressing reproach, irritation)I might have known ou guessed! — j'aurais dû m'en douter!
8) ( in concessives)II [maɪt]they might not be fast but they're reliable — ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux; well I 2. 2
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∎ to pot a ball empocher une bille∎ she potted a partridge elle a abattu une perdrix;∎ he's out potting rabbits il est à la chasse au lapin(a) (do pottery) faire de la poterie∎ to pot at sth tirer sur qch3 noun∎ a pot of paint/mustard un pot de peinture/de moutarde;∎ I drank a whole pot of tea/coffee j'ai bu une théière/une cafetière entière;∎ I'll make another pot of tea/coffee je vais refaire du thé/café;∎ a pot of tea for two du thé pour deux personnes;∎ very familiar he hasn't got a pot to piss in il est complètement fauché(b) (saucepan) casserole f;∎ pots and pans batterie f de cuisine;∎ (cooking) pot marmite f, fait-tout m inv;∎ British proverb it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black c'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité(c) (pottery object) poterie f, pot m;∎ to throw a pot tourner une poterie(e) (in card games) cagnotte f∎ to take a pot (shot) at sth (shoot at) tirer à l'aveuglette sur qch□ ; (attempt) faire qch à l'aveuglette□(j) Electricity potentiomètre m∎ to go to pot (deteriorate → country) aller à la dérive□ ; (→ morals) dégénérer□ ; (→ plans) tomber à l'eau; (→ person) se laisser aller□ ;∎ everything has gone to pot tout est fichu;∎ his health has gone to pot sa santé s'est délabrée□ ;∎ her marriage has gone to pot ça ne va plus du tout avec son mari□∎ to have pots of money avoir plein de fric, être plein aux as►► American pot cheese fromage m blanc (égoutté), cottage cheese m;American pot pie tourte f à la viande et aux légumes;(plant) rempoter(plant) empoter
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