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1 opposed
opposed [ə'pəʊzd]opposé, hostile;∎ to be opposed to sth être opposé ou hostile à qch;∎ she is very much opposed to the idea c'est une idée à laquelle elle est totalement opposée;∎ his views are diametrically opposed to mine il a des idées radicalement opposées aux miennespar opposition à, plutôt que;∎ we will propose more science as opposed to arts courses nous proposons de renforcer l'enseignement des sciences plutôt que celui des matières littéraires -
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A vtr gen, Pol s'opposer à [plan, bill] ; faire opposition à [bail] ; to be opposed to sth être contre qch ; to be opposed to doing être contre l'idée de faire ; to be opposed to sb doing sth ne pas être d'accord pour que qn fasse qch ; I am not opposed to his coming je ne m'oppose pas à ce qu'il vienne.C opposing pres p adj [force, group, party, team] adverse ; [army] ennemi ; [view, style] opposé ; the opposing voices les voix contre. -
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oppose [ə'pəʊz]∎ the family opposed their marriage la famille s'opposa à leur mariage;∎ the construction of the power station was opposed by local people la construction de la centrale s'est heurtée à l'hostilité de la population locale;∎ 40 percent of voters are strongly opposed to the plan 40 pour cent des votants sont farouchement opposés au projet(c) (contrast) opposer;∎ the social sciences are often opposed to pure science on oppose souvent les sciences humaines aux sciences pures -
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oppose [əˈpəʊz]* * *[ə'pəʊz] 1.transitive verb gen, Politics s'opposer à [plan, bill]; faire opposition à [bail]2.to be opposed to/to doing — être contre/contre l'idée de
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8 practice
practice [ˈpræktɪs]1. nouna. ( = habits) pratique fb. ( = exercises) exercices mpl ; ( = training) entraînement m ; ( = experience) expérience f ; ( = rehearsal) répétition f(US) = practise3. compounds[flight, run] d'entraînement* * *['præktɪs] 1.1) [U] ( exercises) exercices mpl; ( experience) entraînement mto have had practice in ou at something/in ou at doing — avoir l'expérience en quelque chose/pour ce qui est de faire
to be in practice — ( for sport) être bien entraîné; ( for music) être bien exercé
to be out of practice — être rouillé (colloq)
3) ( procedure) pratique f, usage m4) [C] ( habit) habitude f5) ( custom) coutume f6) (business of doctor, lawyer) cabinet mto set up in ou go into practice — s'établir en tant que médecin or juriste
7) [U] ( as opposed to theory) pratique f2. 3.transitive verb, intransitive verb US = practise••practice makes perfect — Prov c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron Prov
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9 some
some [sʌm]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. pronoun3. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective• some tea/ice cream/water du thé/de la glace/de l'eau• would you like some more meat? voulez-vous encore un peu de viande ?b. ( = a certain number of) des━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► de is sometimes used before an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. ( = a certain) if you are worried about some aspect of this proposal... si un aspect quelconque de cette proposition vous préoccupe...• in some ways, he's right par certains côtés, il a raison• some people say that... il y a des gens qui disent que...f. ( = a considerable amount of) it took some courage to do that! il a fallu du courage pour faire ça !g. ( = a limited) this will give you some idea of... cela vous donnera une petite idée de...• that's some consolation! c'est quand même une consolation !• surely there's some hope she will recover? il y a tout de même quelque espoir qu'elle guérisse ?2. pronouna. ( = as opposed to others) certain(e)s m(f)pl• some cheered, others shouted abuse certains applaudissaient, d'autres criaient des injures━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the use of d'entre with personal pronouns.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = not all) quelques-un(e)s m(f)pl• I don't want them all, but I'd like some je ne les veux pas tous mais j'en voudrais quelques-uns━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Even if not expressed, of them must be translated in French by en.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━c. ( = a certain amount or number when object of the verb) en• have some! prenez-en !• do you need stamps? -- it's okay, I've got some est-ce que tu as besoin de timbres ? -- non, ça va, j'en aid. ( = a part) une partie► ... and then some (inf)3. adverba. ( = about) environb. ( = a bit) (inf)* * *Note: When some is used as a quantifier to mean an unspecified amount of something, it is translated by du, de l' before vowel or mute h, de la or des according to the gender and number of the noun that follows: I'd like some bread = je voudrais du pain; have some water = prenez de l'eau; we've bought some beer = nous avons acheté de la bière; they've bought some peaches = ils ont acheté des pêchesBut note that where some is followed by an adjective preceding a plural noun, de alone is used in all cases: some pretty dresses = de jolies robesWhen some is used as a pronoun it is translated by en which is placed before the verb in French: would you like some? = est-ce que vous en voulez?; I've got some = j'en ai[sʌm] 1.determiner, quantifier2) (certain: in contrast to others) certainsin some ways, I agree — d'une certaine façon, je suis d'accord
4) (a little, a slight)the candidate needs to have some knowledge of computers — le candidat doit avoir certaines or un minimum de connaissances en informatique
you must have some idea where the house is — tu dois avoir une idée de l'endroit où la maison se trouve
this money will go some way towards compensating her for her injuries — cet argent compensera un peu ses blessures
5) péj (an unspecified, unknown)a car of some sort —
6) (colloq) ( a remarkable)that's some woman ou man! — c'est quelqu'un!
7) (colloq) ( not much)some help you are! — iron c'est ça que tu appelles aider!
2.‘I'd like the work to be finished by Monday’ - ‘some hope!’ — ‘j'aimerais que le travail soit fini avant lundi’ - ‘tu rêves (colloq)!’
2) (certain ones: in contrast to others)3.1) ( approximately) environsome £50 — autour de 50 livres sterling
2) (colloq) US ( a lot) un peufrom here to the town center in 5 minutes, that's going some — (colloq) aller d'ici au centre ville en 5 minutes, il faut le faire
••some people! — ah vraiment, il y a des gens!
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11 long wall
I(as opposed to gable wall) long pan mII(oblong building) long pan mDictionary of Engineering, architecture and construction > long wall
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12 long wall of a building
(as opposed to gable wall) mur de long pan mDictionary of Engineering, architecture and construction > long wall of a building
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13 antagonistic
antagonistic [æn‚tægəˈnɪstɪk]* * *[ænˌtægə'nɪstɪk] -
14 change
change [t∫eɪndʒ]1. nouna. ( = alteration) changement mb. ( = money) monnaie f• can you give me change for this note/for $20? pouvez-vous me faire la monnaie de ce billet/de 20 dollars ?• to change one's shirt/skirt changer de chemise/jupe• to change the baby/his nappy changer le bébé/ses couchesb. ( = exchange) échanger• to change ends (Tennis, football) changer de côtéa. ( = become different) changer• you've changed a lot! tu as beaucoup changé !b. ( = change clothes) se changerc. (on bus, plane, train journey) changer• all change! tout le monde descend !4. compounds* * *[tʃeɪndʒ] 1.1) ( alteration) ( by replacement) changement m; ( by adjustment) modification fa change for the better/worse — un changement en mieux/pire
to make changes in — apporter des changements à [text]; faire des changements dans [room, company]
2) (substitution, replacement) changement m (of de)costume change — Theatre changement de costume
change of government — Politics changement de gouvernement
3) (fresh, different experience) changement mit makes a change from television/from staying at home — cela change un peu de la télévision/de rester chez soi
that makes a nice ou refreshing change — ça change agréablement
to need a change of air — fig avoir besoin de changer d'air
to ring the changes — fig introduire des changements
4) ( of clothes)5) ( cash) monnaie fhave you got change for £10? — pouvez-vous me changer un billet de 10 livres?
‘no change given’ — ( on machine) ‘ne rend pas la monnaie’
‘exact change please’ — ‘faites l'appoint, s'il vous plaît’
2.you won't get much change out of £20 — (colloq) tu vas payer près de 20 livres
transitive verb1) ( alter) ( completely) changer; ( in part) modifierto change one's mind — changer d'avis ( about à propos de)
2) ( exchange for something different) gen changer de [clothes, name, car]; ( in shop) échanger [item] ( for pour)if it's too big, we'll change it for you — s'il est trop grand, nous vous l'échangerons
to change something from X to Y — (of numbers, letters, words) remplacer X par Y; (of building, area etc) transformer X en Y
3) (replace something dirty, old, broken) changer4) ( exchange with somebody) échanger [clothes, seats]to change places — changer de place ( with avec); fig ( roles) intervertir les rôles
5) ( actively switch) changer de [side, job, direction, TV channel, doctor]to change hands — fig [property, object] changer de propriétaire
6) ( alter character) changerto change somebody/something into — changer quelqu'un/quelque chose en [frog, prince]
7) ( replace nappy of) changer [baby]8) ( convert) changer [cheque, currency] (into, for en)3.1) ( alter) gen changer; [wind] tourner2) ( into different clothes) se changerto change into — passer [different garment]
to change out of — ôter, enlever [garment]
3) (from bus, train) changer‘change at Tours for Paris’ — ‘correspondance à Tours pour Paris’
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country [ˈkʌntrɪ]1. nouna. pays mc. ( = region) région f2. compounds[lifestyle] campagnard* * *['kʌntrɪ] 1.1) (nation, people) pays mto go to the country — GB Politics appeler le pays aux urnes
2) ( native land) patrie f3) (also countryside) ( out of town) campagne f4) [U] région f5) (also country music) country (music) f2.adjective [road] de campagne; [scene] campagnard••it's a free country! — on est en république!, on est libre de faire ce qu'on veut!
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16 countryman
countryman [ˈkʌntrɪmæn](plural - men) also fellow countryman compatriote m ; (as opposed to town dweller) habitant m de la campagne, campagnard m* * *noun (also fellow countryman) compatriote m -
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day [deɪ]1. nouna. ( = unit of time: 24 hours) jour m• what day is it today? quel jour sommes-nous aujourd'hui ?• what day of the month is it? le combien sommes-nous ?• the day before/two days before her birthday la veille/l'avant-veille de son anniversaire• that'll be the day! j'aimerais voir ça !• let's make a day of it and... profitons de la journée pour...b. ( = daylight hours) jour m, journée fc. ( = working hours) journée f• it's all in a day's work! ça fait partie de la routine !• to take/get a day off prendre/avoir un jour de congé• those were the days! c'était le bon vieux temps !• it's early days ( = too early to say) c'est un peu tôt pour le dire ; ( = there's still time) on n'en est encore qu'au début2. compounds► day-pass noun (for museum, train) carte f d'abonnement valable pour une journée ; (at ski resort) forfait m d'une journée• to be on day release faire un stage de formation à temps partiel ► day return noun (British) (for train) aller et retour m (valable pour la journée)• on a day-to-day basis au jour le jour ► day trader noun (on stock exchange) opérateur m au jour le jour, day trader m• to go on a day trip to Calais faire une excursion (d'une journée) à Calais ► day-tripper noun excursionniste mf* * *[deɪ] 1.1) ( 24-hour period) jour mday after day —
one day —
the day when ou that — le jour où
it's days since I've seen him — ça fait des jours que je ne l'ai pas vu, je ne l'ai pas vu depuis des jours
it's 15 years to the day since... — ça fait 15 ans jour pour jour que...
it had to happen today of all days! — il fallait que cela arrive or que ça tombe (colloq) aujourd'hui
two days after/two days before the wedding — le surlendemain/l'avant-veille du mariage
2) ( until evening) journée fduring/for the day — pendant/pour la journée
3) ( as opposed to night) jour mto be on days — être or travailler de jour
4) ( specific) jour m5) ( as historical period) (gén pl) époque f2.in his/my day — ( at that time) de son/mon temps; (at height of success, vitality) dans le temps
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drama [ˈdrα:mə]1. nouna. ( = theatre) théâtre mb. ( = play) pièce f de théâtrec. ( = catastrophe) drame m2. compounds* * *['drɑːmə] 1.noun ( genre) gen théâtre m; Television, Radio ( as opposed to documentary programmes) fiction f; (acting, directing) art m dramatique; (play, dramatic event) drame m; Television, Radio dramatique f2.drama critic — critique m dramatique
drama documentary — Television reportage m fiction
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20 firmly
firmly [ˈfɜ:mlɪ]* * *['fɜːmlɪ]1) ( with authority) [say, answer, state] d'un ton fermetell him firmly but politely... — dis-lui fermement mais poliment...
to deal firmly with somebody/something — traiter quelqu'un/quelque chose avec fermeté
2) ( strongly) [believe, deny, be convinced] fermement3) ( tightly) [hold, push, press] fermement; [attach, tie] solidement
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