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stand up together against a common enemy

  • 1 stand up together against a common enemy

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > stand up together against a common enemy

  • 2 stand up

    [ʹstændʹʌp] phr v
    1. (to) выдерживать; устоять

    to stand up well to rough treatment - быть носким, выдерживать любые условия

    proof that will stand up in court - улика, которую никто не сможет опровергнуть в суде

    how will his party's morale stand up to several years of bad news? - как отразятся на моральном состоянии его партии неудачи ряда лет?

    2. (for) отстаивать, защищать (что-л.)

    he always stood up for the rights of man - он всегда боролся за права человека

    3. (to) смело встречать (что-л.), противостоять (чему-л.)

    to stand up together against a common enemy - объединиться против общего врага

    he had enough nerve to stand up to the boss - у него хватило смелости не спасовать перед хозяином

    4. (to) амер. выполнять (обещание и т. п.)
    5. разг. не прийти на свидание, в гости и т. п.; обмануть ожидания, разочаровать ( пригласившего)
    6. (with) амер. быть у кого-л. на свадьбе шафером или дружкой жениха или подружкой невесты

    НБАРС > stand up

  • 3 stand up


    1) вставать Stand up when the judge enters the court. ≈ Когда судьи заходят в зал, принято вставать.
    2) оказываться прочным и т. п. How long do you think the engine will stand up? ≈ Как ты думаешь, этот прибор долго проработает?
    3) сл. to stand smb. up ≈ подвести кого-л.
    4) казаться правдоподобным Will his story stand up in court? ≈ Поверят ли его рассказу в суде? (to) выдерживать;
    устоять - to * well to rough treatment быть носким, выдерживать любые условия - proof that will * in court улика, которую никто не сможет опровергнуть в суде - how will his party's morale * to several years of bad news? как отразятся на моральном состоянии его партии неудачи ряда лет? (for) отстаивать, защищать( что-л.) - he always stood up for the rights of man он всегда боролся за права человека (to) смело встречать( что-л.), противостоять( чему-л.) - to * to threats противостоять угрозам - to * together against a common enemy объединиться против общего врага - he had enough nerve to * to the boss у него хватило смелости не спасовать перед хозяином (to) (американизм) выполнять (обещание и т. п.) (разговорное) не прийти на свидание, в гости и т. п.;
    обмануть ожидания, разочаровать( пригласившего) (with) (американизм) быть у кого-л. на свадьбе шафером или дружкой жениха или подружкой невесты

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > stand up

  • 4 объединиться против общего врага

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > объединиться против общего врага

  • 5 unite

    [juː'naɪt]
    v
    1) объединять, соединять

    The war united the nation. — Война сплотила весь народ.

    - unite all one's forces
    - unite two pieces of wood with glue
    2) соединяться, объединяться

    These two firms (clubs) united. — Эти две фирмы (два клуба) объединились/слились.

    United we stand, divided we fall. — ◊ Вместе победим, а поврозь погибнем.

    - be united against a common enemy
    - be closely united by the ties of friendship
    - be united in foreign policies
    - unite in doing smth
    - oil and water will not unite
    - public and private interests are closely united
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    WAYS OF DOING THINGS:
    Значение глагола to unite - объединять, объединяться конкретизируется в нижеследующих глаголах, которые дополняют это значение описанием характера и цели объединения. To rally - сплачиваться, объединяться в борьбе против кого-либо или за что-либо: People reallied around their leaders to fight their enemy. Народ сплотился вокруг своих лидеров в борьбе с врагом. The main effect of the new tax was to rally opposition to the government. Новый налог только сплотил силы оппозиции против правительства. To bring together - сплачивать, объединять: What was it that first brought you together? Что с самого начала вас заставило объединиться? The war brought people closer together. Война сплотила народ. To close ranks - сплотить ряды: The leaders called upon people to close ranks against the enemy. Лидеры призвали народ сплотить ряды в борьбе с врагом. To stand together, to pull together, to stick together - объединять, проявлять единение: We must all stand together in this case. В этом случае мы все должны быть едины. Somehow they stood together and kept the business going despite all that was going on. Каким-то образом они сплотидись и, несмотря на все происходящее, продолжили дело. Parents, teachers and students should all pull together to solve the school drugs problem. Чтобы решить проблему использования наркотиков в школах должны объединиться усилия родителей, учителей и учеников. If we stick together we should be all right. Все будет в порядку, если мы будем едины

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > unite

  • 6 объединяться

    гл.
    Русский возвратный непереходный глагол объединяться обозначает любой вид объединения людей, не конкретизируя ни цели, ни способа объединения. Его английские эквиваленты наоборот содержат в своей семантике указания на то, кто объединяется, с какой целью, каков характер самого объединения.
    1. to combine — объединяться, соединяться, сочетаться: The opposition parties combined to drive the President out of office. — Оппозиционные партии объединились, чтобы добиться отставки президента. Members of the police and the army combined to keep the true details of the case from becoming public. — Полиция и армия действовали воедино, чтобы детали этого дела никогда не стали достоянием гласпости./Полиция и армия объединились, чтобы детали этого дела никогда не стали известными. Oil and water do not combine. — Масло и вода не смешиваются.
    2. to unite — объединяться (с другими людьми, организациями, странами для достижения поставленной цели): Не called on Western countries to unite to save the people of that country from starvation. — Он призвал западные страны объединиться, чтобы спасти народ той страны от голода./Он призвал западные страны к объединению для спасения народа той страны от голода. The forces of all panics should unite to support the extension of the social welfare program instead of fighting each other all the time. — Все партии должны объединить свои силы для расширения программы общественного благосостояния, а не вести борьбу между собой. They were able to unite against the common enemy. — Им удалось объединиться в борьбе против общего врага. Unless we unite we will never be able to defend our rights against the employers. — Мы никогда не сумеем постоять за себя в борьбе с работодателями, если мы не объединимся./Мы никогда не сумеем защитить спои права в борьбе с работодателями, пока не объединимся. In his speech the prime minister stressed the need for parties to unite. — В своей речи премьер-министр подчеркнул, что партиям необходимо обьединиться.
    3. to rally — объединяться, сплачиваться ( в защиту или поддержку кого-либо или чего-либо): Supporters have been quick to rally behind the team. — Болельщики быстро объединились в поддержку своей команды. Parents rallied to the defence of the school. — Родители объединились и nui гупили в защиту школы. Animal rights groups have rallied to the cause of this endangered species. — Разные группы борцов за права животных сплотились для защиты ною вида, находящегося на грани уничтожения. The people rallied in the face of real danger. — Народ сплотился перед липом реальной угрозы.
    4. to merge — объединяться, сливаться (как правило, об органазациях или компаниях, подчеркивается, что в результате появляется новое качество или новый объект): The two banks have announced plans to merge next year. — Оба банка объявили о своем намерении объединиться в будущем году. The Liberal Democratic Party has merged with the Social Democrats. Либеральнодемократическая партия слилась с социал-демократами./ Либеральнодемократическая и социал-демократическая партии слились в одну. II was the place where the two rivers used to merge. — Это было то место, где некогда сливались эти две реки. The hills merged into the dark sky behind them. — Горы сливались с темным небом за ними. For me life and work merge into one another. — Для меня работа и жизнь одно и то же. The new place was embarrassingly alien and she tried to merge into the background. — На этом новом месте она чувствовала себя чужой и в смущении пыталась не выделяться/слиться с окружающими.
    5. to stand together — объединяться, держаться вместе (стоять друг за друга для того, чтобы справиться с трудностями или опасностями): We must all stand together. I don't want anybody saying that they don't want to be involved. — Мы должны держаться вместе, и я не хочу слышать, чтобы кто-либо говорил, что он не хочет быть в этом замешан. Somehow they stood together and got the business going in spite of all that was going on. — Все же они держались вместе и сохранили фирму, несмотря на то, что происходило вокруг. So long as we all stand together we'll win. — Пока мы вместе, мы победим.
    6. to come together — объединяться, объединять усилия ( в работе) (особенно той, которую трудно или невозможно сделать в одиночку): The conference called on everyone to come together to resist the government's plans to reform the education system. — Конференция призвала всех объединить усилия и противостоять планам правительства реформировать существующую систему образования. Some Russian and Japanese firms came together to organize transnational electronics projects. — Несколько русских и японских фирм объединили усилия в создании транснациональных электронных проектов.
    7. to align oneself with — объединяться ( с кем-либо), поддерживать открыто ( кого-либо), поддерживать публично ( кого-либо), примкнуть (к кому-либо, какой-либо партии или стороне), вставать под знамена (партии, страны): Most of the major companies have publicly aligned themselves with the ruling party. — Большая часть ведущих компаний открыто поддержала правящую партию. Church leaders have aligned themselves with the opposition. — Религиозные лидеры примкнули к оппозиции./Религиозные лидеры публично поддержали оппозицию. Many women do not want toalign themselves with the movement. — Многие женщины не хотят поддерживать это движение./Многие женщины остались в стороне от этого движения./Многие женщины не присоединились к этому движению.
    8. to pull together — объединяться, объединять усилия, объединяться в момент опасности, объединяться невзирая на индивидуальные различия и разногласия: They all pulled together and managed to get an excellent result. — Они все сплотились и смогли добиться великолепного результата. Parents, teachers and students should all pull together to tackle the school's drug problem. — Для того чтобы справиться с проблемой наркотиков в школе, родители, учителя и ученики должны объединить свои усилия, невзирая на возможные разногласия.
    9. to stick together — объединяться, держаться вместе, держаться друг за друга, выступать едино: If we stick together we should be all right. — Все будет в порядке, если мы будем держаться вместе/Все будет хорошо, если мы объединимся. If only they'd stuck together maybe they could have sorted out their problems. — Если бы они держались вместе, может быть, они и смогли бы выбраться из своих затруднений./Если бы они выступали едино, они смогли бы уладить свои проблемы./Если бы они выступали заодно, может быть, они смогли бы решить свои проблемы.
    10. to group together — объединяться, образовывать группу (объединять несколько отдельных объектов дли того, чтобы создать что-либо сообща): College and public libraries grouped together to form an inter-library loan scheme. — Публичные библиотеки и библиотеки колледжей объединились и разработали план межбиблиотечного обмена.

    Русско-английский объяснительный словарь > объединяться

  • 7 front

    front [fʀɔ̃]
    1. masculine noun
    • faire front commun contre qn/qch to take a united stand against sb/sth
       c. front (de taille) face ; [de houillère] coalface
    * * *
    fʀɔ̃
    1.
    nom masculin
    1) Anatomie forehead, brow littér
    2) Armée front

    sur le front de l'emploi — fig on the job front

    3) ( façade) façade
    5) ( en politique) front

    2.
    de front locution adverbiale
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    avoir le front de faire quelque chose — to have the face ou effrontery to do something

    * * *
    fʀɔ̃ nm
    1) ANATOMIE forehead
    2) MILITAIRE front
    3) MÉTÉO front
    4) POLITIQUE front
    5) (= aplomb)

    de front (= de face) [se heurter] — head-on, (= côte à côte) [rouler, marcher] together (two or three abreast)

    Les cyclistes roulaient à quatre de front sur une route de campagne. — The cyclists were riding four abreast along a country road.

    * * *
    A nm
    1 Anat forehead, brow littér; avoir le front haut to have a high forehead; s'essuyer le front to wipe one's brow; elle a une cicatrice sur le or au front she has a scar on her forehead; relever le front fig to stand up for oneself; c'est lui le coupable, c'est écrit sur son front he's the culprit, it's written all over his face;
    2 Mil front; être envoyé au front to be sent to the front; le front ennemi the enemy front; sur le front social/de l'emploi fig on the social/job front; faire front commun contre l'ennemi to stand together against the enemy; faire front à qn/qch to stand up to sb/sth;
    3 ( façade) façade;
    4 Météo front; front chaud/froid warm/cold front;
    5 Pol front.
    B de front loc adv aborder un problème de front to tackle a problem head-on; les voitures se sont heurtées de front the cars collided head-on; ils marchaient à quatre de front they were walking four abreast; mener plusieurs tâches de front to have several tasks on the go.
    Front de libération nationale, FLN Hist National Liberation Front, FLN; front de mer seafront; Front populaire Hist Popular Front; front de taille Mines coalface.
    avoir le front de faire qch to have the face ou effrontery to do sth; ⇒ sueur.
    [frɔ̃] nom masculin
    baisser ou courber le front (figuré) to submit
    le front haut proudly, with one's head held high
    2. [d'une montagne] face
    [d'un monument] frontage, façade
    3. [audace]
    faire front to form a united front, to close ranks
    faire front commun contre quelqu'un/quelque chose to make common cause against somebody/something
    5. MILITAIRE [zone] front
    [ligne] front line
    6. MINES [généralement] face
    [dans une houillère] coalface
    front froid/chaud cold/warm front
    ————————
    de front locution adverbiale
    1. [attaquer] head-on
    2. [en vis-à-vis] head-on
    a. [véhicules] to collide head-on
    3. [côte à côte] abreast
    4. [en même temps] at the same time, at a time
    The coalition of socialists, radicals and communists who came to power in 1936 under Léon Blum. Within a remarkably short period it established the forty-hour week and holidays with pay for commerce and industry, and passed a range of laws relating to the rights of trade unions.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > front

  • 8 Á

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    a negative suffix to verbs, not;
    era útmakligt, at it is not unmeet that.
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    1.
    á, prep., often used elliptically, or even adverbially, [Goth. ana; Engl. on; Germ. an. In the Scandinavian idioms the liquid n is absorbed. In English the same has been supposed to happen in adverbial phrases, e. g. ‘along, away, abroad, afoot, again, agate, ahead, aloft, alone, askew, aside, astray, awry,’ etc. It is indeed true that the Ormulum in its northern dialect freq. uses o, even in common phrases, such as ‘o boke, o land, o life, o slæpe, o strande, o write, o naht, o loft,’ etc., v. the glossary; and we may compare on foot and afoot, on sleep (Engl. Vers. of Bible) and asleep; A. S. a-butan and on-butan (about); agen and ongean (again, against); on bæc, aback; on life, alive; on middan, amid. But it is more than likely that in the expressions quoted above, as well as in numberless others, as well in old as in modern English, the English a- as well as the o- of the Ormulum and the modern Scottish and north of England o- are in reality remains of this very á pronounced au or ow, which was brought by the Scandinavian settlers into the north of England. In the struggle for supremacy between the English dialects after the Conquest, the Scandinavian form á or a won the day in many cases to the exclusion of the Anglo-Saxon on. Some of these adverbs have representatives only in the Scandinavian tongues, not in Anglo-Saxon; see below, with dat. B. II, C. VII; with acc. C. I. and VI. The prep. á denotes the surface or outside; í and ór the inside; at, til, and frá, nearness measured to or from an object: á thus answers to the Gr. επί; the Lat. in includes á and i together.]
    With dat. and acc.: in the first case with the notion of remaining on a place, answering to Lat. in with abl.; in the last with the notion of motion to the place, = Lat. in with acc.
    WITH DAT.
    A. Loc.
    I. generally on, upon; á gólfi, on the floor, Nj. 2; á hendi, on the hand (of a ring), 48, 225; á palli, 50; á steini, 108; á vegg, 115; á sjá ok á landi, on sea and land. In some instances the distinction between d and i is loose and wavering, but in most cases common sense and usage decide; thus ‘á bók’ merely denotes the letters, the penmanship, ‘í’ the contents of a book; mod. usage, however, prefers ‘í,’ lesa í bók, but stafr á bók. Old writers on the other hand; á bókum Enskum, in English books, Landn. 24, but í Aldafars bók, 23 (in the book De Mensurâ Temporum, by Bede), cp. Grág. i. 76, where á is a false reading instead of at; á bréfi, the contents of a letter: of clothing or arms, mítr á höfði, sverð á hlið, mitre on head, sword on side, Fms. i. 266, viii. 404; hafa lykil á sér, on one’s person, 655 xxvii. 22; möttull á tyglum, a mantle hanging on (i. e. fastened by) laces, Fms. vii. 201: á þingi means to be present at a meeting; í þingi, to abide within a jurisdiction; á himni, á jörðu, on (Engl. in) heaven and earth, e. g. in the Lord’s Prayer, but í helviti, in hell; á Gimli, Edda (of a heavenly abode); á báti, á skipi denote crew and cargo, ‘í’ the timber or materials of which a ship is built, Eg. 385; vera í stafni á skipi, 177: á skógi, to be abroad in a wood (of a hunter, robber, deer); but to be situated (a house), at work (to fell timber), í skógi, 573, Fs. 5, Fms. iii. 122, viii. 31, xi. 1, Glúm. 330, Landn. 173; á mörkinni, Fms. i. 8, but í mörk, of a farm; á firðinum means lying in a firth, of ships or islands (on the surface of the water), þær eyjar liggja á Breiðafirði, Ld. 36; but í firði, living in a district named Firth; á landi, Nj. 98, Fms. xi. 386.
    II. á is commonly used in connection with the pr. names or countries terminating in ‘land,’ Engl. in, á Englandi, Írlandi, Skotlandi, Bretlandi, Saxlandi, Vindlandi, Vínlandi, Grænalandi, Íslandi, Hálogalandi, Rogalandi, Jótlandi, Frakklandi, Hjaltlandi, Jamtalandi, Hvítramannalandi, Norðrlöndum, etc., vide Landn. and the index to Fms. xii. In old writers í is here very rare, in modern authors more frequent; taste and the context in many instances decide. An Icelander would now say, speaking of the queen or king, ‘á Englandi,’ ruling over, but to live ‘í Englandi,’ or ‘á Englandi;’ the rule in the last case not being quite fixed.
    2. in connection with other names of countries: á Mæri, Vörs, Ögðum, Fjölum, all districts of Norway, v. Landn.; á Mýrum (in Icel.), á Finnmörk, Landn., á Fjóni (a Danish island); but í Danmörk, Svíþjóð (á Svíþjóðu is poët., Gs. 13).
    3. before Icel. farms denoting open and elevated slopes and spaces (not too high, because then ‘at’ must be used), such as ‘staðr, völlr, ból, hjalli, bakki, heimr, eyri,’ etc.; á Veggjum, Landn. 69; á Hólmlátri, id.: those ending in ‘-staðr,’ á Geirmundarstöðum, Þórisstöðum, Jarðlangsstöðum…, Landn.: ‘-völlr,’ á Möðruvöllum: á Fitjum (the farm) í Storð (the island), í Fenhring (the island) á Aski (the farm), Landn., Eg.: ‘-nes’ sometimes takes á, sometimes í (in mod. usage always ‘í’), á Nesi, Eb. 14, or í Krossnesi, 30; in the last case the notion of island, νησος, prevails: so also, ‘fjörðr,’ as, þeir börðust á Vigrafirði (of a fight o n the ice), Landn. 101, but orusta í Hafrsfirði, 122: with ‘-bær,’ á is used in the sense of a farm or estate, hón sa á e-m bæ mikit hús ok fagrt, Edda 22; ‘í bæ’ means within doors, of the buildings: with ‘Bær’ as pr. name Landn. uses ‘í,’ 71, 160, 257, 309, 332.
    4. denoting on or just above; of the sun, when the time is fixed by regarding the sun in connection with points in the horizon, a standing phrase in Icel.; sól á gjáhamri, when the sun is on the crag of the Rift, Grág. i. 26, cp. Glúm. 387; so, brú á á, a bridge on a river, Fms. viii. 179, Hrafn. 20; taka hús á e-m, to surprise one, to take the house over his head, Fms. i. 11.
    III. á is sometimes used in old writers where we should now expect an acc., esp. in the phrase, leggja sverði (or the like) á e-m, or á e-m miðjum, to stab, Eg. 216, Gísl. 106, Band. 14; þá stakk Starkaðr sprotanum á konungi, then Starkad stabbed the king with the wand, Fas. iii. 34; bíta á kampi (vör), to bite the lips, as a token of pain or emotion, Nj. 209, 68; taka á e-u, to touch a thing, lay hold of it, v. taka; fá á e-u, id. (poët.); leggja hendr á (better at) síðum, in wrestling, Fms. x. 331; koma á úvart á e-m, to come on one unawares, ix. 407 (rare).
    B. TEMP. of a particular point or period of time, at, on, in:
    I. gener. denoting during, in the course of; á nótt, degi, nætrþeli …, Bs. i. 139; or spec. adding a pron. or an adject., á næsta sumri, the next summer; á því ári, þingi, misseri, hausti, vári, sumri …, during, in that year …, Bs. i. 679, etc.; á þrem sumrum, in the course of three summers, Grág. i. 218; á þrem várum, Fms. ii. 114; á hálfs mánaðar fresti, within half a month’s delay, Nj. 99; á tvítugs, sextugs … aldri, á barns, gamals aldri, etc., at the age of …, v. aldr: á dögum e-s, in the days of, in his reign or time, Landn. 24, Hrafn. 3, Fms. ix. 229.
    II. used of a fixed recurrent period or season; á várum, sumrum, haustum, vetrum, á kveldum, every spring, summer …, in the evenings, Eg. 711, Fms. i. 23, 25, vi. 394, Landn. 292: with the numeral adverbs, cp. Lat. ter in anno, um sinn á mánuði, ári, once a month, once a year, where the Engl. a is not the article but the preposition, Grág. i. 89.
    III. of duration; á degi, during a whole day, Fms. v. 48; á sjau nóttum, Bárð. 166; á því meli, during that time, in the meantime, Grág. i. 259.
    IV. connected with the seasons (á vetri, sumri, vári, hausti), ‘á’ denotes the next preceding season, the last winter, summer, autumn, Eb. 40, 238, Ld. 206: in such instances ‘á’ denotes the past, ‘at’ the future, ‘í’ the present; thus í vetri in old writers means this winter; á vetri, last winter; at vetri, next winter, Eb. 68 (in a verse), etc.
    C. In various other relations, more or less metaphorically, on, upon, in, to, with, towards, against:
    I. denoting object, in respect of, against, almost periphrastically; dvelja á náðum e-s, under one’s protection, Fms. i. 74; hafa metnað á e-u, to be proud of, to take pride in a thing, 127.
    2. denoting a personal relation, in; bæta e-t á e-m, to make amends, i. e. to one personally; misgöra e-t á e-m, to inflict wrong on one; hafa elsku (hatr) á e-m, to bear love ( hatred) to one, Fms. ix. 242; hefna sín á e-m, to take revenge on one’s person, on anyone; rjúfa sætt á e-m, to break truce on the person of any one, to offend against his person, Nj. 103; hafa sár á sér, 101; sjá á e-m, to read on or in one’s face; sér hann á hverjum manni hvárt til þín er vel eðr illa, 106; var þat brátt auðséð á hennar högum, at …, it could soon be seen in all her doings, that …, Ld. 22.
    3. also generally to shew signs of a thing; sýna fáleika á sér, to shew marks of displeasure, Nj. 14, Fs. 14; taka vel, illa, lítt, á e-u, to take a thing well, ill, or indifferently, id.; finna á sér, to feel in oneself; fann lítt á honum, hvárt …, it could hardly be seen in his face, whether …, Eb. 42; líkindi eru á, it is likely, Ld. 172; göra kost á e-u, to give a choice, chance of it, 178; eiga vald á e-u, to have power over …, Nj. 10.
    II. denoting encumbrance, duty, liability; er fimtardómsmál á þeim, to be subject to …, Nj. 231; the phrase, hafa e-t á hendi, or vera á hendi e-m, on one’s hands, of work or duty to be done; eindagi á fé, term, pay day, Grág. i. 140; ómagi (skylda, afvinna) á fé, of a burden or encumbrance, D. I. and Grág. in several passages.
    III. with a personal pronoun, sér, mér, honum …, denoting personal appearance, temper, character, look, or the like; vera þungr, léttr … á sér, to be heavy or light, either bodily or mentally; þungr á sér, corpulent, Sturl. i. 112; kátr ok léttr á sér, of a gay and light temper, Fms. x. 152; þat bragð hafði hann á sér, he looked as if, … the expression of his face was as though …, Ld., cp. the mod. phrase, hafa á sér svip, bragð, æði, sið, of one’s manner or personal appearance, to bear oneself as, or the like; skjótr (seinn) á fæti, speedy ( slow) of foot, Nj. 258.
    IV. as a periphrasis of the possessive pronoun connected with the limbs or parts of the body. In common Icel. such phrases as my hands, eyes, head … are hardly ever used, but höfuð, eyru, hár, nef, munnr, hendr, fætr … á mér; so ‘í’ is used of the internal parts, e. g. hjarta, bein … í mér; the eyes are regarded as inside the body, augun í honum: also without the possessive pronoun, or as a periphrasis for a genitive, brjóstið á e-m, one’s breast, Nj. 95, Edda 15; súrnar í augum, it smarts in my eyes, my eyes smart, Nj. 202; kviðinn á sér, its belly, 655 xxx. 5, Fms. vi. 350; hendr á henni, her hands, Gísl. (in a verse); í vörunum á honum, on his lips, Band. 14; ristin á honum, his step, Fms. viii. 141; harðr í tungu, sharp of tongue, Hallfred (Fs. 114); kalt (heitt) á fingrum, höndum, fótum …, cold ( warm) in the fingers, hands, feet …, i. e. with cold fingers, etc.; cp. also the phrase, verða vísa (orð) á munni, of extemporising verses or speeches, freq. in the Sagas; fastr á fótum, fast by the leg, of a bondsman, Nj. 27: of the whole body, díla fundu þeir á honum, 209. The pers. pron. is used only in solemn style (poetry, hymns, the Bible), and perhaps only when influenced by foreign languages, e. g. mitt hjarta hví svo hryggist þú, as a translation of ‘warumb betrübst du dich mein Herz?’ the famous hymn by Hans Sachs; instead of the popular hjartað í mér, Sl. 43, 44: hjartað mitt is only used as a term of endearment, as by a husband to his wife, parents to their child, or the like, in a metaphorical sense; the heart proper is ‘í mér,’ not ‘mitt.’
    2. of other things, and as a periphrasis of a genitive, of a part belonging to the whole, e. g. dyrr á husi = húsdyrr, at the house-doors; turn á kirkju = kirkju turn; stafn, skutr, segl, árar … á skipi, the stem, stern, sail … of a ship, Fms. ix. 135; blöð á lauk, á tré …, leaves of a leek, of a tree …, Fas. i. 469; egg á sverði = sverðs egg; stafr á bók; kjölr á bók, and in endless other instances.
    V. denoting instrumentality, by, on, or a-, by means of; afla fjár á hólmgöngum, to make money a-duelling, by means of duels, Eg. 498; á verkum sínum, to subsist on one’s own work, Njarð. 366: as a law term, sekjast á e-ju, to be convicted upon …, Grág. i. 123; sekst maðr þar á sínu eigini ( a man is guilty in re sua), ef hann tekr af þeim manni er heimild ( possessio) hefir til, ii. 191; falla á verkum sínum, to be killed flagranti delicto, v. above; fella e-n á bragði, by a sleight in wrestling; komast undan á flótta, to escape by flight, Eg. 11; á hlaupi, by one’s feet, by speed, Hkr. ii. 168; lifa á e-u, to feed on; bergja á e-u, to taste of a thing; svala sér á e-u, to quench the thirst on.
    VI. with subst. numerals; á þriðja tigi manna, up to thirty, i. e. from about twenty to thirty, Ld. 194; á öðru hundraði skipa, from one to two hundred sail strong, Fms. x. 126; á níunda tigi, between eighty and ninety years of age, Eg. 764, v. above: used as prep., á hendi, on one’s hand, i. e. bound to do it, v. hönd.
    VII. in more or less adverbial phrases it may often be translated in Engl. by a participle and a- prefixed; á lopti, aloft; á floti, afloat; á lífi, alive; á verðgangi, a-begging; á brautu, away; á baki, a-back, behind, past; á milli, a-tween; á laun, alone, secretly; á launungu, id.; á móti, against; á enda, at an end, gone; á huldu, hidden; fara á hæli, to go a-heel, i. e. backwards, Fms. vii. 70;—but in many cases these phrases are transl. by the Engl. partic. with a, which is then perh. a mere prefix, not a prep., á flugi, a-flying in the air, Nj. 79; vera á gangi, a-going; á ferli, to be about; á leiki, a-playing, Fms. i. 78; á sundi, a-swimming, ii. 27; á verði, a-watching, x. 201; á hrakningi, a-wandering; á reiki, a-wavering; á skjálfi, a-shivering; á-hleri, a-listening; á tali, a-talking, Ísl. ii. 200; á hlaupi, a-running, Hkr. ii. 268; á verki, a-working; á veiðum, a-hunting; á fiski, a-fishing; á beit, grazing: and as a law term it even means in flagranti, N. G. L. i. 348.
    VIII. used absolutely without a case in reference to the air or the weather, where ‘á’ is almost redundant; þoka var á mikil, a thick fog came on, Nj. 267; niðamyrkr var á, pitch darkness came on, Eg. 210; allhvast á norðan, a very strong breeze from the north, Fms. ix. 20; þá var á norðrænt, a north wind came on, 42, Ld. 56; hvaðan sem á er, from whatever point the wind is; var á hríð veðrs, a snow storm came on, Nj. 282; görði á regn, rain came on, Fms. vi. 394, xi. 35, Ld. 156.
    WITH ACC.
    A. Loc.
    I. denoting simple direction towards, esp. connected with verbs of motion, going, or the like; hann gékk á bergsnös, Eg. 389; á hamar, Fas. ii. 517.
    2. in phrases denoting direction; liggja á útborða, lying on the outside of the ship, Eg. 354; á annat borð skipinu, Fms. vii. 260; á bæði borð, on both sides of the ship, Nj. 124, Ld. 56; á tvær hliðar, on both sides, Fms. v. 73. Ísl. ii. 159; á hlið, sidewards; út á hlið, Nj. 262, Edda 44; á aðra hönd henni, Nj. 50, Ld. 46; höggva á tvær hendr, to hew or strike right and left, Ísl. ii. 368, Fas. i. 384, Fms. viii. 363, x. 383.
    3. upp á, upon; hann tók augu Þjaza ok kastaði upp á himin, Edda 47: with verbs denoting to look, see, horfa, sjá, líta, etc.; hann rak skygnur á land, he cast glances towards the land, Ld. 154.
    II. denoting direction with or without the idea of arriving:
    1. with verbs denoting to aim at; of a blow or thrust, stefna á fótinn, Nj. 84; spjótið stefnir á hann miðjan, 205: of the wind, gékk veðrit á vestr, the wind veered to west, Fms. ix. 28; sigla á haf, to stand out to sea, Hkr. i. 146, Fms. i. 39: with ‘út’ added, Eg. 390, Fms. x. 349.
    2. conveying the notion of arriving, or the intervening space being traversed; spjótið kom á miðjan skjöldinn, Eg. 379, Nj. 96, 97; langt upp á land, far up inland, Hkr. i. 146: to reach, taka ofan á belti, of the long locks of a woman, to reach down to the belt, Nj. 2; ofan á bringu, 48; á þa ofan, 91.
    III. without reference to the space traversed, connected with verbs denoting to go, turn, come, ride, sail, throw, or the like, motion of every kind; hann kastar honum á völlinn, he flings him down, Nj. 91; hlaupa á skip sitt, to leap on board his ship, 43; á hest, to mount quickly, Edda 75; á lend hestinum, Nj. 91; hann gengr á sáðland sitt, he walks on to his fields, 82: on, upon, komast á fætr, to get upon one’s legs, 92; ganga á land, to go a-shore, Fms. i. 40; ganga á þing, vii. 242, Grág. (often); á skóg, á merkr ok skóga, into a wood, Fb. i. 134, 257, Fms. xi. 118, Eg. 577, Nj. 130; fara á Finnmörk, to go travelling in Finmark, Fms. i. 8; koma, fara á bæ, to arrive at the farm-house; koma á veginn, Eg. 578; stíga á bát, skip, to go on board, 158; hann gékk upp á borg, he went up to the burg (castle), 717; en er þeir komu á loptriðið, 236; hrinda skipum á vatn, to float the ships down into the water, Fms. i. 58; reka austr á haf, to drift eastwards on the sea, x. 145; ríða ofan á, to ride down or over, Nj. 82.
    IV. in some cases the acc. is used where the dat. would be used, esp. with verbs denoting to see or hear, in such phrases as, þeir sá boða mikinn inn á fjörðinn, they saw great breakers away up in the bight of the firth, the acc. being due perhaps to a motion or direction of the eye or ear towards the object, Nj. 124; sá þeir fólkit á land, they saw the people in the direction of land, Fas. ii. 517: in phrases denoting to be placed, to sit, to be seated, the seat or bench is freq. in the acc. where the dat. would now be used; konungr var þar á land upp, the king was then up the country, the spectator or narrator is conceived as looking from the shore or sea-side, Nj. 46; sitja á miðjan bekk, to be seated on the middle bench, 50; skyldi konungs sæti vera á þann bekk … annat öndvegi var á hinn úæðra pall; hann setti konungs hásæti á miðjan þverpall, Fms. vi. 439, 440, cp. Fagrsk. l. c., Sturl. iii. 182; eru víða fjallbygðir upp á mörkina, in the mark or forest, Eg. 58; var þar mörk mikil á land upp, 229; mannsafnaðr er á land upp (viewed from the sea), Ld. 76; stóll var settr á mótið, Fas. i. 58; beiða fars á skip, to beg a passage, Grág. i. 90.
    V. denoting parts of the body; bíta e-n á barka, to bite one in the throat, Ísl. ii. 447; skera á háls, to cut the throat of any one, Nj. 156; brjóta e-n á háls, to break any one’s neck; brjóta e-n á bak, to break any one’s back, Fms. vii. 119; kalinn á kné, frozen to the knees with cold, Hm. 3.
    VI. denoting round; láta reipi á háls hesti, round his horse’s neck, 623. 33; leggja söðul á hest, Nj. 83; and ellipt., leggja á, to saddle; breiða feld á hofuð sér, to wrap a cloak over his head, 164; reyta á sik mosa, to gather moss to cover oneself with, 267; spenna hring á hönd, á fingr, Eg. 300.
    VII. denoting a burden; stela mat á tvá hesta, hey á fimtán hesta, i. e. a two, a fifteen horse load, Nj. 74: metaph., kjósa feigð á menn, to choose death upon them, i. e. doom them to death, Edda 22.
    B. TEMP.
    I. of a period of time, at, to; á morgun, to-morrow (í morgun now means the past morning, the morning of to-day), Ísl. ii. 333.
    II. if connected with the word day, ‘á’ is now used before a fixed or marked day, a day of the week, a feast day, or the like; á Laugardag, á Sunnudag …, on Saturday, Sunday, the Old Engl. a-Sunday, a-Monday, etc.; á Jóladaginn, Páskadaginn, on Yule and Easter-day; but in old writers more often used ellipt. Sunnudaginn, Jóladaginn …, by dropping the prep. ‘á,’ Fms. viii. 397, Grág. i. 18.
    III. connected with ‘dagr’ with the definite article suffixed, ‘á’ denotes a fixed, recurring period or season, in; á daginn, during the day-time, every day in turn, Grett. 91 A.
    IV. connected with ‘evening, morning, the seasons,’ with the article; á kveldit, every evening, Ld. 14; á sumarit, every summer, Vd. 128, where the new Ed. Fs. 51 reads sumrum; á haust, every autumn, Eg. 741 (perh. a misprint instead of á haustin or á haustum); á vetrinn, in the winter time, 710; á várit, every spring, Gþl. 347; the sing., however, is very rare in such cases, the old as well as mod. usage prefers the plur.; á nætrnar, by night, Nj. 210; á várin, Eg. 710; á sumrin, haustin, á morgnana, in the morning (á morgin, sing., means to-morrow); á kveldin, in the evening, only ‘dagr’ is used in sing., v. above (á daginn, not á dagana); but elliptically and by dropping the article, Icelanders say, kveld og morgna, nótt og dag, vetr sumar vor og haust, in the same sense as those above mentioned.
    V. denoting duration, the article is dropped in the negative phrase, aldri á sinn dag, never during one’s life; aldri á mína daga, never in my life, Bjarn. 8, where a possess. pron. is put between noun and prep., but this phrase is very rare. Such phrases as, á þann dag, that day, and á þenna dag, Stj. 12, 655 xxx. 2. 20, are unclassical.
    VI. á dag without article can only be used in a distributive sense, e. g. tvisvar á dag, twice a-day; this use is at present freq. in Icel., yet instances from old writers are not on record.
    VII. denoting a movement onward in time, such as, liðið á nótt, dag, kveld, morgun, sumar, vetr, vár, haust (or nóttina, daginn …), jól, páska, föstu, or the like, far on in the night, day …, Edda 33; er á leið vetrinn, when the winter was well on, as the winter wore on, Nj. 126; cp. áliðinn: also in the phrase, hniginn á inn efra aldr, well stricken in years, Ld. 68.
    C. Metaph. and in various relations:
    I. somewhat metaphorically, denoting an act only (not the place); fara á fund, á vit e-s, to call for one, Eg. 140; koma á ræðu við e-n, to come to a parley with, to speak, 173; ganga á tal, Nj. 103; skora á hólm, to challenge to a duel on an island; koma á grið, to enter into a service, to be domiciled, Grág. i. 151; fara á veiðar, to go a-hunting, Fms. i. 8.
    β. generally denoting on, upon, in, to; bjóða vöxtu á féit, to offer interest on the money, Grág. i. 198; ganga á berhögg, to come to blows, v. berhögg; fá á e-n, to make an impression upon one, Nj. 79; ganga á vápn e-s, to throw oneself on an enemy’s weapon, meet him face to face, Rd. 310; ganga á lagið, to press on up the spear-shaft after it has passed through one so as to get near one’s foe, i. e. to avail oneself of the last chance; bera fé á e-n, to bribe, Nj. 62; bera öl á e-n, to make drunk, Fas. i. 13; snúinn á e-t, inclined to, Fms. x. 142; sammælast á e-t, to agree upon, Nj. 86; sættast, verða sáttr á e-t, in the same sense, to come to an agreement, settlement, or atonement, 78, Edda 15, Eb. 288, Ld. 50, Fms. i. 279; ganga á mála, to serve for pay as a soldier, Nj. 121; ganga á vald e-s, to put oneself in his power, 267; ganga á sætt, to break an agreement; vega á veittar trygðir, to break truce, Grág. ii. 169.
    II. denoting in regard to, in respect to:
    1. of colour, complexion, the hue of the hair, or the like; hvítr, jarpr, dökkr … á hár, having white, brown, or dark … hair, Ísl. ii. 190, Nj. 39; svartr á brún ok brá, dark of brow and eyebrow; dökkr á hörund, id., etc.
    2. denoting skill, dexterity; hagr á tré, a good carpenter; hagr á járn, málm, smíðar …, an expert worker in iron, metals …, Eg. 4; fimr á boga, good at the bow: also used of mastership in science or arts, meistari á hörpuslátt, a master in striking the harp, Fas. iii. 220; fræðimaðr á kvæði, knowing many poems by heart, Fms. vi. 391; fræðimaðr á landnámssögur ok forna fræði, a learned scholar in histories and antiquities (of Are Frode), Ísl. ii. 189; mikill á íþrótt, skilful in an art, Edda (pref.) 148; but dat. in the phrase, kunna (vel) á skíðum, to be a cunning skater, Fms. i. 9, vii. 120.
    3. denoting dimensions; á hæð, lengd, breidd, dýpt …, in the heighth, length, breadth, depth …, Eg. 277; á hvern veg, on each side, Edda 41 (square miles); á annan veg, on the one side, Grág. i. 89.
    β. the phrase, á sik, in regard to oneself, vel (illa) á sik kominn, of a fine ( ugly) appearance, Ld. 100, Fas. iii. 74.
    III. denoting instrumentality; bjargast á sínar hendr, to live on the work of one’s own hands, (á sínar spýtur is a mod. phrase in the same sense); (vega) á skálir, pundara, to weigh in scales, Grág. ii. 370; at hann hefði tvá pundara, ok hefði á hinn meira keypt en á hinn minna selt, of a man using two scales, a big one for buying and a little one for selling, Sturl. i. 91; á sinn kostnað, at one’s own expense; nefna e-n á nafn, by name, Grág. i. 17, etc. The Icel. also say, spinna á rokk, snældu, to spin on or with a rock or distaff; mala á kvern, to grind in a ‘querne,’ where Edda 73 uses dat.; esp. of musical instruments, syngja, leika á hljóðfæri, hörpu, gígju …; in the old usage, leika hörpu …, Stj. 458.
    IV. denoting the manner or way of doing:
    1. á þessa lund, in this wise, Grág. ii. 22; á marga vega, á alla, ymsa vega, in many, all, respects, Fms. i. 114; á sitt hóf, in its turn, respectively, Ld. 136, where the context shews that the expression answers to the Lat. mutatis mutandis; á Þýðersku, after German fashion, Sks. 288.
    2. esp. of language; mæla, rita á e-a tungu, to speak, write in a tongue; á Írsku, in Irish, Ld. 76; Norrænu, in Norse, Eb. 330, Vm. 35; a Danska tungu, in Danish, i. e. Scandinavian, Norse, or Icelandic, Grág. i. 18; á Vára tungu, i. e. in Icelandic, 181; rita á Norræna tungu, to write in Norse, Hkr. (pref.), Bs. i. 59:—at present, dat. is sometimes used.
    3. in some phrases the acc. is used instead of the dat.; hann sýndi á sik mikit gaman, Fms. x. 329; hann lét ekki á sik finna, he shewed no sign of motion, Nj. 111; skaltú önga fáleika á þik gera (Cod. Kalf.), 14.
    V. used in a distributive sense; skal mörk kaupa gæzlu á kú, eðr oxa fim vetra gamlan, a mark for every cow, Grág. i. 147; alin á hvert hross, 442; á mann, per man (now freq.): cp. also á dag above, lit. B.
    VI. connected with nouns,
    1. prepositional; á hendr (with dat.), against; á hæla, at heel, close behind; á bak, at back, i. e. past, after; á vit (with gen.), towards.
    2. adverbially; á braut, away, abroad; á víxl, in turns; á mis, amiss; á víð ok dreif, a-wide and a-drift, i. e. dispersedly.
    3. used almost redundantly before the following prep.; á eptir, after, behind; á undan, in front of; á meðal, á milli, among; á mót, against; á við, about, alike; á frá (cp. Swed. ifrån), from (rare); á fyrir = fyrir, Haustl. 1; á hjá, beside (rare); á fram, a-head, forwards; á samt, together; ávalt = of allt, always: following a prep., upp á, upon; niðr á, down upon; ofan á, eptir á, post eventum, (temp.) á eptir is loc., id., etc.
    VII. connected with many transitive verbs, answering to the Lat. ad- or in-, in composition, in many cases periphrastically for an objective case. The prep. generally follows after the verb, instead of being prefixed to it as in Lat., and answers to the Engl. on, to; heita kalla, hrópa á, to call on; heyra, hlusta, hlyða á, to hearken to, listen to; hyggja, hugsa á, to think on; minna á, to remind; sjá, líta, horfa, stara, mæna, glápa, koma auga … á, to look on; girnast á, to wish for; trúa á, to believe on; skora á, to call on any one to come out, challenge; kæra á, to accuse; heilsa á, to greet; herja, ganga, ríða, hlaupa, ráða … á, to fall on, attack, cp. ágangr, áreið, áhlaup; ljúga á, to tell lies of, to slander; telja á, to carp at; ausa, tala, hella, kasta, verpa … á, to pour, throw on; ríða, bera, dreifa á, to sprinkle on; vanta, skorta á, to fall short of; ala á, to plead, beg; leggja á, to throw a spell on, lay a saddle on; hætta á, to venture on; gizka á, to guess at; kveða á, to fix on, etc.: in a reciprocal sense, haldast á, of mutual strife; sendast á, to exchange presents; skrifast á, to correspond (mod.); kallast á, to shout mutually; standast á, to coincide, so as to be just opposite one another, etc.
    2.
    f. [Lat. aqua; Goth. ahva; Hel. aha; A. S. eâ; O. H. G. aha, owa; cp. Germ. ach and aue; Fr. eau, eaux; Engl. Ax-, Ex-, etc., in names of places; Swed.-Dan. å; the Scandinavians absorb the hu, so that only a single vowel or diphthong remains of the whole word]:—a river. The old form in nom. dat. acc. sing. is , v. the introduction to A, page 1, Bs. i. 333 sq., where ́n, ́ (acc.), and ́na; so also Greg. 677; the old fragm. of Grág. ii. 222, 223, new Ed. In the Kb. of the Edda the old form occurs twice, viz. page 75, ́na (acc.), (but two lines below, ána), í ́nni (dat.) The old form also repeatedly occurs in the Kb. and Sb. of the Grág., e. g. ii. 266, 267: gen. sing. ár; nom. pl. ár, gen. á contracted, dat. ám, obsolete form ́m; Edda 43, Eg. 80, 99, 133, 185: proverbs, at ósi skal á stemma, answering to the Lat. principiis obsta, Edda 60; hér kemr á til sæfar, here the river runs into the sea, metaph. = this is the very end, seems to have been a favourite ending of old poems; it is recorded in the Húsdrápa and the Norðsetadrápa, v. Edda 96, Skálda 198; cp. the common saying, oil vötn renna til sævar, ‘all waters run into the sea.’ Rivers with glacier water are in Icel. called Hvítá, White river, or Jökulsá: Hitá, Hot river, from a hot spring, opp. to Kaldá, v. Landn.: others take a name from the fish in them, as Laxá, Lax or Salmon river (freq.); Örriða á, etc.: a tributary river is þverá, etc.: ár in the Njála often means the great rivers Ölfusá and Þjórsá in the south of Iceland. Áin helga, a river in Sweden, Hkr. ii: á is also suffixed to the names of foreign rivers, Tempsá = Thames; Dóná, Danube (Germ. Don-au), (mod.), etc. Vide Edda (Gl.) 116, 117, containing the names of over a hundred North-English and Scottish rivers.
    COMPDS: áráll, árbakki, árbrot, ardjúp, árfarvegr, árfors, árgljúfr, árhlutr, ármegin, árminni, ármót, áróss, árreki, árstraumr, árströnd, árvað, árvegr, árvöxtr.

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  • 9 head

    head [hed]
    tête ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (e), 1 (i), 1 (j), 1 (l), 1 (n), 1 (p), 1 (v) mal de tête ⇒ 1 (f) chef ⇒ 1 (g) côté face ⇒ 1 (k) être à la tête de ⇒ 2 (a) être en tête de ⇒ 2 (b) diriger ⇒ 2 (c) intituler ⇒ 2 (d) aller ⇒ 3 principal ⇒ 4 (a) premier ⇒ 4 (b)
    (pl sense (l) inv)
    1 noun
    (a) (of human, animal) tête f;
    ∎ she has a fine head of hair elle a de très beaux cheveux ou une très belle chevelure;
    ∎ he's already a head taller than his mother il dépasse déjà sa mère d'une tête;
    ∎ Horseracing to win by a head gagner d'une tête;
    ∎ from head to toe or foot de la tête aux pieds;
    ∎ he was covered in mud from head to toe or foot il était couvert de boue de la tête aux pieds;
    ∎ she was dressed in black from head to toe or foot elle était tout en noir ou entièrement vêtue de noir;
    ∎ to fall head over heels tomber la tête la première;
    ∎ to fall head over heels in love with sb tomber éperdument amoureux de qn;
    ∎ to have one's head in the clouds avoir la tête dans les nuages;
    ∎ he wanders around with his head in the clouds il est toujours dans les nuages;
    ∎ wine always goes to my head le vin me monte toujours à la tête;
    ∎ all this praise has gone to his head toutes ces louanges lui ont tourné la tête;
    ∎ to give a horse its head lâcher la bride à un cheval;
    ∎ figurative give him his head and put him in charge lâchez-lui la bride et laissez-le prendre des responsabilités;
    ∎ to stand on one's head faire le poirier;
    ∎ familiar I could do it standing on my head c'est simple comme bonjour;
    ∎ that's the kind of thing he could do standing on his head c'est le genre de choses qu'il peut faire les yeux fermés;
    ∎ familiar she's got her head screwed on (the right way) elle a la tête sur les épaules;
    ∎ the girl's got a good head on her shoulders cette fille a la tête sur les épaules;
    ∎ he's an old head on young shoulders il est très mûr pour son âge;
    ∎ figurative she's head and shoulders above the rest les autres ne lui arrivent pas à la cheville;
    ∎ familiar to laugh one's head off rire à gorge déployée;
    ∎ familiar to shout or to scream one's head off crier à tue-tête;
    ∎ they'll have your head (on a plate) for this ils auront ta tête pour ça;
    ∎ heads will roll des têtes tomberont;
    ∎ American heads up! attention la tête!;
    ∎ American familiar to give sb a heads up tuyauter qn
    (b) (mind, thoughts) tête f;
    ∎ to do sums in one's head calculer de tête;
    ∎ to take it into one's head to do sth se mettre en tête de faire qch;
    ∎ the idea never entered my head ça ne m'est jamais venu à l'esprit;
    ∎ don't put silly ideas into his head ne lui mettez pas des idées stupides en tête;
    ∎ to get sth into one's head se mettre qch dans la tête;
    ∎ I can't get these dates into my head je n'arrive pas à retenir ces dates;
    ∎ she got it into her head that she was being persecuted elle s'est mis en tête ou dans l'idée qu'on la persécutait;
    ∎ I can't get that into his head je n'arrive pas à le lui faire comprendre;
    ∎ the answer has gone right out of my head j'ai complètement oublié la réponse;
    ∎ I think he made it up out of his own head je crois que c'est lui qui a inventé ça;
    ∎ familiar use your head! fais travailler tes méninges!;
    ∎ familiar it's doing my head in! ça me tape sur le système!, ça me prend la tête!;
    ∎ familiar I just can't get my head round the idea that she's gone je n'arrive vraiment pas à me faire à l'idée qu'elle est partie;
    ∎ familiar to get one's head straight or together se ressaisir
    ∎ to have a good head for business avoir le sens des affaires, s'entendre aux affaires;
    ∎ she has no head for business elle n'a pas le sens des affaires;
    ∎ in my job, you need a good head for figures pour faire mon métier, il faut savoir manier les chiffres;
    ∎ to have a (good) head for heights ne pas avoir le vertige;
    ∎ I've no head for heights j'ai le vertige
    (d) (clear thinking, common sense)
    ∎ keep your head! gardez votre calme!, ne perdez pas la tête!;
    ∎ to keep a cool head garder la tête froide;
    ∎ you'll need a clear head in the morning vous aurez besoin d'avoir l'esprit clair demain matin;
    ∎ to let one's head be ruled by one's heart laisser son cœur gouverner sa raison;
    ∎ British familiar he's off his head il est malade, il n'est pas net;
    ∎ familiar he's not quite right in the head, he's a bit soft in the head il est un peu timbré;
    ∎ familiar to be out of one's head (drunk) être bourré; (on drugs) être défoncé
    (e) (intelligence, ability) tête f;
    ∎ we'll have to put our heads together and find a solution nous devrons nous y mettre ensemble pour trouver une solution;
    ∎ off the top of my head, I'd say it would cost about £1,500 à vue de nez, je dirais que ça coûte dans les 1500 livres;
    ∎ I don't know off the top of my head je ne sais pas, il faudrait que je vérifie;
    ∎ she made some figures up off the top of her head elle a inventé des chiffres;
    ∎ he's talking off the top of his head il raconte n'importe quoi;
    ∎ her lecture was completely over my head sa conférence m'a complètement dépassé;
    ∎ to talk over sb's head s'exprimer de manière trop compliquée pour qn;
    ∎ proverb two heads are better than one deux avis valent mieux qu'un
    (f) familiar (headache) mal m de tête□ ;
    ∎ I've got a bit of a head this morning j'ai un peu mal à la tête ce matin
    (g) (chief, boss → of police, government, family) chef m; (→ of school, company) directeur(trice) m,f;
    ∎ the European heads of government les chefs mpl de gouvernement européens;
    ∎ the crowned heads of Europe les têtes fpl couronnées de l'Europe;
    ∎ head of department (in school) chef m de département; (in company) chef m de service
    (h) (authority, responsibility)
    ∎ she went over my head to the president elle est allée voir le président sans me consulter;
    ∎ they were promoted over my head ils ont été promus avant moi;
    ∎ on your (own) head be it! c'est toi qui en prends la responsabilité!, à tes risques et périls!;
    ∎ literary his blood will be upon your head la responsabilité de sa mort pèsera sur vos épaules
    (i) (top → of racquet, pin, hammer) tête f; (→ of staircase) haut m, tête f; (→ of bed) chevet m, tête f; (→ of arrow) pointe f; (→ of page) tête f; (→ of letter) en-tête m; (→ of cane) pommeau m; (→ of valley) tête f; (→ of river) source f; (→ of mineshaft) bouche f; (→ of column, rocket, still) chapiteau m; (→ of torpedo) cône m; (→ of cask) fond m;
    ∎ at the head of the procession/queue en tête de (la) procession/de (la) queue;
    ∎ sitting at the head of the table assis au bout de la ou en tête de table;
    ∎ to be at the head of the list venir en tête de liste
    (j) Botany & Cookery (of corn) épi m; (of garlic) tête f, gousse f; (of celery) pied m; (of asparagus) pointe f; (of flower) tête f;
    ∎ a head of cauliflower un chou-fleur
    (k) (of coin) côté m face;
    ∎ heads or tails? pile ou face?;
    ∎ I can't make head nor tail of this pour moi ça n'a ni queue ni tête;
    ∎ familiar humorous heads I win, tails you lose pile je gagne, face tu perds;
    ∎ it's a case of heads I win, tails you lose de toutes les façons je suis gagnant
    (l) (of livestock) tête f;
    ∎ 50 head of cattle 50 têtes de bétail
    (m) (in prices, donations)
    ∎ tickets cost £50 a head les billets valent 50 livres par personne
    (n) Electronics (of tape recorder, VCR, disk drive) tête f
    ∎ to win the scrum against the head prendre le ballon à l'adversaire sur son introduction
    (p) (title → of chapter) tête f;
    ∎ under this head sous ce titre;
    ∎ heads of agreement (draft) protocole m d'accord
    (q) Typography en-tête m
    (r) (on beer) mousse f; (on fermenting liquid) chapeau m
    (s) Physics (of fluid, gas) charge f, pression f;
    ∎ loss of head perte f de pression;
    ∎ head of water charge f ou pression f d'eau;
    ∎ figurative to get up or to work up a head of steam s'énerver
    (t) (of drum) peau f
    (u) (of ship) proue f
    (v) Medicine (of abscess, spot) tête f;
    ∎ to come to a head (abscess, spot) mûrir; figurative (problem) arriver au point critique;
    ∎ his resignation brought things to a head sa démission a précipité les choses
    ∎ to give sb head tailler une pipe à qn
    (x) American familiar or Nautical (toilet) toilettes□ fpl;
    ∎ I'm going to the head je vais pisser
    (a) (command → group, organization) être à la tête de; (→ project, revolt) diriger, être à la tête de; (chair → discussion) mener; (→ commission) présider;
    ∎ she headed the attack on the Government's economic policy elle menait l'attaque contre la politique économique du gouvernement
    (b) (be first in, on) être ou venir en tête de;
    ∎ Madrid heads the list of Europe's most interesting cities Madrid vient ou s'inscrit en tête des villes les plus intéressantes d'Europe;
    ∎ Sport she headed the pack from the start elle était en tête du peloton dès le départ
    (c) (steer → vehicle) diriger; (→ person) guider, diriger;
    ∎ we headed the sheep down the hill nous avons fait descendre les moutons de la colline;
    ∎ they are heading the country into chaos ils conduisent le pays au chaos;
    ∎ just head me towards the nearest bar dirigez-moi vers le bar le plus proche;
    ∎ where are you headed? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ Nautical to head a ship westwards mettre le cap à l'ouest
    (d) (provide title for) intituler; (be title of) être en tête de;
    ∎ the essay is headed 'Democracy' l'essai s'intitule ou est intitulé 'Démocratie'
    (e) Football (ball) jouer de la tête;
    ∎ he headed the ball into the goal il a marqué de la tête
    (f) old-fashioned (skirt around → lake) contourner par l'amont; (→ river) contourner par sa source
    (g) (plant) écimer, étêter
    (car, crowd, person) aller, se diriger; Nautical mettre le cap sur;
    ∎ where are you heading? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ you're heading in the right direction vous allez dans la bonne direction;
    ∎ I'm going to head home je vais rentrer;
    ∎ the train headed into/out of a tunnel le train est entré dans un/sorti d'un tunnel
    (a) (main → person) principal
    ►► head barman chef m barman;
    British School head boy = élève chargé d'un certain nombre de responsabilités et qui représente son école aux cérémonies publiques;
    head cashier chef m caissier;
    head chef chef m de cuisine;
    Commerce head clerk premier commis m, chef m de bureau;
    head cold rhume m de cerveau;
    head count vérification f du nombre de personnes présentes;
    ∎ the teacher did a head count la maîtresse a compté les élèves;
    head foreman chef m d'atelier;
    Mining head frame chevalement m;
    head gardener jardinier(ère) m,f en chef;
    Cars head gasket joint m de culasse;
    Technology head gate (of lock) porte f d'amont;
    British School head girl = élève chargée d'un certain nombre de responsabilités et qui représente son école aux cérémonies publiques;
    head housekeeper (in hotel) gouvernante f générale;
    head louse pou m;
    head office siège m social, bureau m central;
    ∎ it's British head office or American the head office on the phone c'est le siège au téléphone;
    head porter (in hotel) chef-portier m; (in university college) appariteur m principal;
    (a) (in rowing) tête-de-rivière f
    (b) Technology canal m de prise ou d'amenée; (of water mill) bief m d'amont;
    head receptionist chef m de réception;
    Music head register voix f de tête;
    British Cars head restraint appuie-tête m, repose-tête m;
    Television & Cinema head shot gros plan m de tête;
    head start (lead) avance f; (advantage) avantage m;
    ∎ he had a ten-minute head start over the others il a commencé dix minutes avant les autres;
    ∎ I got a head start j'ai pris de l'avance sur les autres;
    ∎ go on, I'll give you a head start allez, vas-y, je te donne un peu d'avance;
    ∎ being bilingual gives her a head start over the others étant bilingue, elle est avantagée par rapport aux autres;
    head of state chef m d'État;
    School head teacher (man) proviseur m, directeur m, chef m d'établissement; (woman) directrice f, chef m d'établissement;
    head torch lampe f frontale;
    Music head voice voix f de tête;
    head waiter maître m d'hôtel;
    British School head of year conseiller(ère) m,f (principal(e)) d'éducation
    rentrer, retourner;
    ∎ we headed back to the office nous sommes retournés au bureau;
    ∎ when are you heading back? quand comptez-vous rentrer?
    (of car, person) se diriger vers; Nautical mettre le cap sur;
    ∎ where are you headed for? où vas-tu?;
    ∎ she headed for home elle rentra (à la maison);
    ∎ the country is heading for civil war le pays va droit à la guerre civile;
    ∎ he's heading for trouble il va s'attirer des ennuis;
    ∎ figurative to be heading for a fall courir à l'échec;
    ∎ familiar to head for the hills filer
    (a) (divert → animal, vehicle, person) détourner de son chemin; (→ enemy) forcer à reculer;
    ∎ figurative she headed off all questions about her private life elle a éludé toute question sur sa vie privée
    (b) (crisis, disaster) prévenir, éviter; (rebellion, revolt, unrest) éviter
    partir;
    ∎ the children headed off to school les enfants sont partis pour ou à l'école
    (be leader of) diriger

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