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121 card
card [kα:d]* * *[kɑːd]1) (for correspondence, greetings) carte f; ( for indexing) fiche f; ( at races) programme m; ( in golf) carte f (de parcours)2) Games carte f (à jouer)one's strongest card — fig sa carte maîtresse
3) (colloq & dated) GB ( person) original/-e m/f••it is on GB ou in US the cards that — il est bien possible que (+ subj)
an election is on ou in the cards — il y a de fortes chances pour qu'il y ait une élection
to get ou be given one's cards — (colloq & dated) GB être renvoyé
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122 character
character [ˈkærɪktər]1. nouna. caractère mc. of good/bad character de bonne/mauvaise réputationd. (in film, play) personnage me. (Computing) caractère m2. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━‼|/b] [b]character is not always translated by caractère.* * *['kærəktə(r)]1) ( personality) caractère mto act in/out of character — agir de façon habituelle/surprenante
his remarks are totally in character/out of character — ces remarques ne me surprennent pas/me surprennent de sa part
2) ( reputation) réputation f3) Literature, Theatre, Television personnage m ( from de)4) ( person) individu ma real character — un sacré numéro (colloq)
5) Computing caractère m ( also in printing) -
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124 curiosity
curiosity [‚kjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ]• out of curiosity par curiosité (PROV) curiosity killed the cat(PROV) la curiosité est un vilain défaut* * *[ˌkjʊərɪ'ɒsətɪ]1) (desire to know, nosiness) curiosité f ( about sur, au sujet de)2) ( person) original/-e m/f3) ( object) curiosité f••curiosity killed the cat — Prov la curiosité est un vilain défaut
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125 former
former [ˈfɔ:mər]1. adjectivea. ( = previous) [president, employee] ancien━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► With this meaning ancien goes before the noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [strength] d'autrefois• my former wife/husband mon ex-femme/ex-mari• the buildings have now been restored to their former glory les bâtiments rénovés ont retrouvé leur splendeur d'antanb. ( = first) the former option la première option2. pronoun• the former... the latter le premier... le dernier• the former is the more expensive of the two systems ce premier système est le plus coûteux des deux3. compounds* * *['fɔːmə(r)] 1.2.the former — ( the first of two) le premier/la première m/f, celui-là/celle-là m/f
1) ( earlier) [era, life] antérieur; [size, state] initial, originalof former days ou times — d'autrefois
2) [leader, husband, champion] ancien/-ienne (before n)3) ( first of two) premier/-ière (before n)3.- former combining form GB Schoolfourth-former — ≈ élève mf de troisième
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126 freak
freak [fri:k]1. nouna. ( = abnormal person or animal) monstre mc. ( = abnormal event) his winning was really just a freak il n'a gagné que grâce à un hasard extraordinaire2. adjective[storm, weather] anormal ; [victory] inattendu► freak out (inf!)• to freak sb out ( = frighten) ficher les jetons à qn (inf !)* * *[friːk] 1.1) ( deformed person) lit, fig injur monstre m2) ( strange person) original/-e m/f3) ( unusual occurrence) aberration f4) (colloq) ( enthusiast) mordu/-e (colloq) m/f, fana (colloq) mf2.adjective [accident, storm] exceptionnel/-ellePhrasal Verbs: -
127 fresh
fresh [fre∫]1. adjective2. adverb3. compounds* * *[freʃ]1) ( not old) [foodstuff] frais/fraîcheto taste/smell fresh — avoir un goût frais/une odeur fraîche
2) Culinary [herbs, pasta, coffee] frais/fraîche3) (renewed, other) gen nouveau/-elle (before n); [linen] propre; [ammunition] supplémentaire4) ( recent) [fingerprint, blood] frais/fraîche5) ( recently returned)fresh from ou out of school — à peine sorti de l'école
6) (refreshing, original) (tout) nouveau/(toute) nouvelle (before n)7) (energetic, alert)to feel ou be fresh — être plein d'entrain
8) (cool, refreshing) frais/fraîche9) (colloq) US ( over-familiar) impertinentto be fresh with somebody — être un peu familier/-ière avec quelqu'un
10) Meteorology••to be fresh out of — (colloq) être en panne de (colloq) [supplies]
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128 innovative
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