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shell-shaped

  • 1 shell-shaped

    en forme de coquillage, conchoïde

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  • 2 round

    1. adjective
    1) (shaped like a circle or globe: a round hole; a round stone; This plate isn't quite round.) rond
    2) (rather fat; plump: a round face.) rond
    2. adverb
    1) (in the opposite direction: He turned round.) demi-tour
    2) (in a circle: They all stood round and listened; A wheel goes round; All (the) year round.) en rond; au complet
    3) (from one person to another: They passed the letter round; The news went round.) à la ronde
    4) (from place to place: We drove round for a while.) ici et là
    5) (in circumference: The tree measured two metres round.) de circonférence
    6) (to a particular place, usually a person's home: Are you coming round (to our house) tonight?) chez
    3. preposition
    1) (on all sides of: There was a wall round the garden; He looked round the room.) autour de
    2) (passing all sides of (and returning to the starting-place): They ran round the tree.) autour de
    3) (changing direction at: He came round the corner.) tourner
    4) (in or to all parts of: The news spread all round the town.) dans tout
    4. noun
    1) (a complete circuit: a round of drinks (= one for everyone present); a round of golf.) tournée; partie
    2) (a regular journey one takes to do one's work: a postman's round.) tournée
    3) (a burst of cheering, shooting etc: They gave him a round of applause; The soldier fired several rounds.) salve
    4) (a single bullet, shell etc: five hundred rounds of ammunition.) balle, obus
    5) (a stage in a competition etc: The winners of the first round will go through to the next.) manche
    6) (a type of song sung by several singers singing the same tune starting in succession.) canon
    5. verb
    (to go round: The car rounded the corner.) tourner
    - roundly - roundness - rounds - all-round - all-rounder - roundabout 6. adjective
    (not direct: a roundabout route.) détourné
    - round-shouldered - round trip - all round - round about - round off - round on - round up

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  • 3 stone

    [stəun] 1. noun
    1) (( also adjective) (of) the material of which rocks are composed: limestone; sandstone; a stone house; stone walls; In early times, men made tools out of stone.) (de) pierre
    2) (a piece of this, of any shape or size: He threw a stone at the dog.) pierre
    3) (a piece of this shaped for a special purpose: a tombstone; paving-stones; a grindstone.) pierre; pavé; meule (à aiguiser)
    4) (a gem or jewel: She lost the stone out of her ring; diamonds, rubies and other stones.) pierre
    5) (the hard shell containing the nut or seed in some fruits eg peaches and cherries: a cherry-stone.) noyau
    6) (a measure of weight still used in Britain, equal to 6.35 kilogrammes: She weighs 9.5 stone.) stone
    7) (a piece of hard material that forms in the kidney, bladder etc and causes pain.) calcul
    2. verb
    1) (to throw stones at, especially as a ritual punishment: Saint Stephen was stoned to death.) lapider
    2) (to remove the stones from (fruit): She washed and stoned the cherries.) dénoyauter
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    - stonily - stoniness - stone-cold - stone-dead - stone-deaf - stoneware - stonework - leave no stone unturned - a stone's throw

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  • 4 winkle

    I ['wiŋkl] verb
    (to force (something out of something) gradually and with difficulty: He winkled the shell out from the rock; He tried to winkle some information out of her.) extraire
    II ['wiŋkl] noun
    ((also periwinkle ['peri-]) a type of small shellfish, shaped like a small snail, eaten as food.) bigorneau

    English-French dictionary > winkle

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