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41 play
play [pleɪ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun• there was some good play in the second half on a assisté à du beau jeu pendant la deuxième mi-temps• to bring or call sth into play faire intervenir qchb. ( = movement) jeu mc. ( = drama) pièce f (de théâtre)• to be in a play [actor] jouer dans une piècea. [+ game, sport] jouer à• what position does she play? à quelle place joue-t-elle ?• don't play games with me! ne vous moquez pas de moi !• to play ball with sb ( = cooperate) coopérer avec qn• to play the game ( = play fair) jouer le jeu• he gave up playing the field and married a year ago il a cessé de papillonner et s'est marié il y a un anb. [+ opponent] rencontrerc. [+ chess piece, card] jouerf. ( = direct) [+ hose, searchlight] dirigera. jouer► play + preposition• what's he playing at? (inf) à quoi il joue ?• how much time do we have to play with? (inf) combien de temps avons-nous ?4. compounds► play-off noun (after a tie) ≈ match m de barrage (départageant des concurrents à égalité) ; (US) (for championship) match m de qualification[+ tape] réécouter( = minimize importance of) [+ significance] minimiser ; [+ situation, attitude] dédramatiser[+ sb's emotions, good nature] jouer sur( = give trouble) the engine is playing up le moteur fait des siennesa. ( = give trouble to) his leg is playing him up sa jambe le tracasseb. ( = magnify importance of) exagérer (l'importance de)* * *[pleɪ] 1.2) (amusement, recreation)3) Sport, Gamesthe ball is out of play/in play — la balle est hors jeu/en jeu
4) fig (movement, interaction) jeu m2.transitive verb1) jouer à [game, match, cards]; jouer [card]to play goal — ( in football) être gardien de but
to play the ball to somebody — ( in basketball) passer la balle à quelqu'un
2) Music jouer de [instrument]; jouer [tune, symphony, chord]3) ( act out) Theatre interpréter, jouer [role]4) Audio mettre [tape, video, CD]5) Finance3.to play the stock market — boursicoter (colloq)
1) [children] jouer ( with avec)2) figwhat does he think he's playing at? — GB (colloq) qu'est-ce qu'il fabrique (colloq)?
3) Sport, Games jouer5) Cinema, Theatre [play] se jouer; [film] passer; [actor] jouershe's playing opposite him in ‘Macbeth’ — elle lui donne la réplique dans ‘Macbeth’
6) [fountain, water] couler; Music [record] jouer•Phrasal Verbs:- play off- play on- play out- play up••all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) — Prov il n'y a pas que le travail dans la vie
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42 pole
pole [pəʊl]1. nouna. ( = rod) perche f ; (fixed) poteau m ; (for flag, tent) mât m ; ( = telegraph pole) poteau m télégraphique ; (for vaulting, punting) perche fb. ( = ski stick) bâton mc. [of the earth] pôle m2. compounds* * *[pəʊl]1) ( stick) gen perche f; (for tent, flag) mât m; ( in show jumping) barre f; ( for skiing) bâton m; ( piste marker) piquet m2) Geography, Physics pôle mto be at the opposite pole from — fig être aux antipodes de
3) ( in fishing) canne f à pêche••to be poles apart — [people] être complètement différents; [theories, methods, opinions] être diamétralement opposés
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43 that
that [ðæt, ðət]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━4. conjunction5. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━(plural those)• what about that £20 I lent you? et ces 20 livres que je t'ai prêtées ?b. (stressed, or as opposed to this, these) ce...-là, cet...-là cette...-là, ces...-là• but that Saturday... mais ce samedi-là...• which video do you want? -- that one quelle vidéo veux-tu ? -- celle-là• of all his records, I like that one best de tous ses disques, c'est celui-là que je préfère• the only blankets we have are those ones there les seules couvertures que nous ayons sont celles-là• there's little to choose between this model and that one il n'y a pas grande différence entre ce modèle-ci et l'autre► that much━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what's that? qu'est-ce que c'est que ça ?• do you like that? vous aimez cela ?• that's enough! ça suffit !• that's fine! c'est parfait !• that is (to say)... c'est-à-dire...• is that you Paul? c'est toi Paul ?• this is the opposite of that which the government claims to have done c'est le contraire de ce que le gouvernement prétend avoir fait• those over there ceux-là (or celles-là) là-bas• are those our seats? est-ce que ce sont nos places ?• those are nice sandals elles sont belles, ces sandales• the true cost often differs from that which is first projected le coût réel est souvent différent de celui qui était prévu à l'origine► those which ( = the ones which) ceux qui mpl celles qui fpl• there are those who say... certains disent...► at that!• and there were six of them at that! et en plus ils étaient six !► by that• what do you mean by that? qu'est-ce que vous voulez dire par là ?► that's it ( = the job's finished) ça y est ; ( = that's what I mean) c'est ça ; ( = that's all) c'est tout ; ( = I've had enough) ça suffit• sorry, I wasn't listening -- that's just it, you never listen! désolé, je n'écoutais pas -- c'est bien le problème, tu n'écoutes jamais !► so that's that alors c'est ça• so that's that then, you're leaving? alors c'est ça, tu t'en vas ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• the man that she was dancing with l'homme avec lequel or avec qui elle dansait• the children that I spoke to les enfants auxquels or à qui j'ai parlé━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► dont is used when the French verb takes de.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• the girl/the book that I told you about la jeune fille/le livre dont je vous ai parlé4. conjunction• he was speaking so softly that I could hardly hear him il parlait si bas que je l'entendais à peine━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► que cannot be omitted in a second clause if it has a different subject.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he said that he was very busy and his secretary would deal with it il a dit qu'il était très occupé et que sa secrétaire s'en occuperait• it's an attractive investment in that it is tax-free c'est un investissement intéressant dans la mesure où il est exonéré d'impôts► not that non (pas) que5. adverba. ( = so) si• it's not that important/bad ce n'est pas si important/mal (que ça)• when I found it I was that relieved! lorsque je l'ai trouvé, je me suis senti tellement soulagé !* * *1. [ðæt, ðət]determiner (pl those) ce/cet/cette/ces2. [ðæt]that chair/that man over there — cette chaise/cet homme là-bas
1) ( that one) celui-/celle-/ceux-/celles-là2) ( the thing or person observed or mentioned) cela, ça, cewho's that? — gen qui est-ce?; ( on phone) qui est à l'appareil?
before that, he had always lived in London — avant cela, il avait toujours vécu à Londres
3) ( before relative pronoun)3. [ðət]those who... — ceux qui...
relative pronoun ( subject) qui; ( object) que; ( with preposition) lequel/laquelle/lesquels/lesquelles4. [ðət]1) gen que2) ( expressing wish)5. [ðæt]oh that he would come — s'il pouvait venir; ( expressing surprise)
••...and (all) that —...et tout ça
...and he's very nice at that! —...et en plus il est très gentil!
I might well go at that! — en fait, je pourrais bien y aller!
at that, he got up and left — en entendant cela, il s'est levé et est parti
that is (to say)... — c'est-à-dire...
that's it! — ( that's right) c'est ça!; ( that's enough) ça suffit!
well, that's it then! — il n'y a rien de plus à faire!
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44 which
which [wɪt∫]1. adjective• which card did he take? quelle carte a-t-il prise ? laquelle des cartes a-t-il prise ?• which one? lequel (or laquelle) ?b. in which case... auquel cas...• he spent a week here, during which time... il a passé une semaine ici au cours de laquelle...2. pronoun• which of these maps is the best? quelle est la meilleure de ces cartes ? laquelle de ces cartes est la meilleure ?• which of you (two) is taller? lequel de vous deux est le plus grand ? qui est le plus grand de vous deux ?• which of you owns the red car? lequel d'entre vous est le propriétaire de la voiture rouge ?b. ( = the one or ones that) (subject) celui m (or celle f or ceux mpl or celles fpl) qui ; (object) celui que• I don't mind which n'importe lequel, ça m'est égalc. ( = that) (subject) qui ; (object) que ; (after prep) lequel m (or laquelle f or lesquels mpl or lesquelles fpl)• opposite which en face duquel (or de laquelle)• he said he knew her, which is true il a dit qu'il la connaissait, ce qui est vrai• she called me "Bobby", which I don't like elle m'a appelé « Bobby », ce que je n'aime pas* * *[wɪtʃ], US [hwɪtʃ] 1.1) (also which one) lequel m, laquelle fwhich do you want, the red skirt or the blue one? — laquelle est-ce que tu veux, la jupe rouge ou la bleue?
which of the groups...? — ( referring to one) lequel des groupes...?; ( referring to several) lesquels des groupes...?
show her which you mean — montre-lui celui/celle etc que tu veux dire
2) ( relative to preceding noun) ( as subject) qui; ( as object) que; ( after prepositions) lequel/laquelle/lesquels/lesquellesthe contract which he's spoken about ou about which he's spoken — le contrat dont il a parlé
3) ( relative to preceding clause or concept) ( as subject) ce qui; ( as object) ce quewhich reminds me... — ce qui me fait penser que...
we'll be moving, before which we need to... — nous allons déménager mais avant il faut que nous...
2.he's resigned, from which we must assume that — il a démissionné, d'où on peut déduire que
1) ( interrogative) quel/quelle/quels/quelles (before n)which one of the children? — lequel or laquelle des enfants?
2) ( relative)he left the room, during which time... — il a quitté la pièce et pendant ce temps-là...
you may wish to join, in which case... — vous voulez peut-être vous inscrire, auquel cas...
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45 weighting
ECONOMICS (of index, average) pondération f, coefficient m;The weekend starts two days early for many of the capital's pupils today, as NUT members take a day of strike action to campaign for a one-third increase in London weighting. Far from "being held hostage", as some have put it, pupils will probably feel the opposite.
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46 about
1. preposition(on the subject of: We talked about our plans; What's the book about?) sur; de2. preposition, adverb1) ((sometimes round about) near (in place, time, size etc): about five miles away; (round) about six o'clock; just about big enough.) environ2) (in different directions; here and there: The children ran about (the garden).) ici et là3) (in or on some part (of a place etc): You'll find him somewhere about (the office).) quelque part4) (around or surrounding: She wore a coat about her shoulders; He lay with his clothes scattered about.) autour3. adverb((in military commands etc) in the opposite direction: About turn!) demi-tour -
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48 anti-
[ænti]1) (against, as in anti-aircraft.) anti-2) (the opposite of, as in anticlockwise.) inverse -
49 anticlockwise
adverb, adjective(moving in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock move: The wheels turn anticlockwise; in an anticlockwise direction.) dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre -
50 antonym
['æntənim](a word opposite in meaning to another word: Big and small are antonyms.) antonyme -
51 around
1. preposition, adverb1) (on all sides of or in a circle about (a person, thing etc): Flowers grew around the tree; They danced around the fire; There were flowers all around.) autour, alentour2) (here and there (in a house, room etc): Clothes had been left lying around (the house); I wandered around.) ici et là2. preposition(near to (a time, place etc): around three o'clock.) vers, aux alentours de3. adverb1) (in the opposite direction: Turn around!) demi-tour2) (near-by: If you need me, I'll be somewhere around.) dans les parages -
52 away
[ə'wei]1) (to or at a distance from the person speaking or the person or thing spoken about: He lives three miles away (from the town); Go away!; Take it away!) (au) loin2) (in the opposite direction: She turned away so that he would not see her tears.) de l'autre côté3) ((gradually) into nothing: The noise died away.) complètement4) (continuously: They worked away until dark.) sans arrêt5) ((of a football match etc) not on the home ground: The team is playing away this weekend; ( also adjective) an away match.) à l'extérieur -
53 back
[bæk] 1. noun1) (in man, the part of the body from the neck to the bottom of the spine: She lay on her back.) dos2) (in animals, the upper part of the body: She put the saddle on the horse's back.) dos3) (that part of anything opposite to or furthest from the front: the back of the house; She sat at the back of the hall.) arrière4) (in football, hockey etc a player who plays behind the forwards.) arrière2. adjective(of or at the back: the back door.) de derrière3. adverb1) (to, or at, the place or person from which a person or thing came: I went back to the shop; He gave the car back to its owner.) de retour2) (away (from something); not near (something): Move back! Let the ambulance get to the injured man; Keep back from me or I'll hit you!) en arrière3) (towards the back (of something): Sit back in your chair.) en arrière4) (in return; in response to: When the teacher is scolding you, don't answer back.) en retour5) (to, or in, the past: Think back to your childhood.) en arrière4. verb1) (to (cause to) move backwards: He backed (his car) out of the garage.) faire marche arrière2) (to help or support: Will you back me against the others?) soutenir3) (to bet or gamble on: I backed your horse to win.) miser sur•- backer- backbite - backbiting - backbone - backbreaking - backdate - backfire - background - backhand 5. adverb(using backhand: She played the stroke backhand; She writes backhand.) en revers, penché à gauche- backlog- back-number - backpack - backpacking: go backpacking - backpacker - backside - backslash - backstroke - backup - backwash - backwater - backyard - back down - back of - back on to - back out - back up - have one's back to the wall - put someone's back up - take a back seat -
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1) ((of a motor-car etc) to make a loud bang because of unburnt gases in the exhaust system: The car backfired.) avoir un retour de flamme2) ((of a plan etc) to have unexpected results, often opposite to the intended results: His scheme backfired (on him), and he lost money.) échouer -
55 backwards
1) (towards the back: He glanced backwards.) vers l'arrière2) (with one's back facing the direction one is going in: The child walked backwards into a lamp-post.) à reculons3) (in the opposite way to that which is usual: Can you count from 1 to 10 backwards? (= starting at 10 and counting to 1).) à l'envers -
56 backwards and forwards
(in one direction and then in the opposite direction: The dog ran backwards and forwards across the grass.) de long en large -
57 contradict
[kontrə'dikt](to say the opposite of; to argue or disagree with: It's unwise to contradict your boss.) contredire- contradictory -
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59 counter
I noun 0. see count II II 1. adverb((with to) in the opposite direction or manner to: The election is running counter to the forecasts.) à l'encontre de2. verb(to meet or answer (a stroke or move etc by another): He successfully countered all criticisms.) contrer- counter-III noun(a kind of table or surface on which goods are laid: Can you get me some sweets from the confectionery counter?) comptoir -
60 counter-
(against or opposite: counter-clockwise.) contre-
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