vague number

1 imprecise, indefinite, uncertain, loose.

2 blurred.

3 clumsy, uncoordinated, unco-ordinated.

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► adjetivo

1 imprecise, vague

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ADJ imprecise, vague

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- sa adjetivo vague, imprecise

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= fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], nebulous, non-crisp, vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], imprecise, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.].

Ex. This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.

Ex. The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.

Ex. The database model presented in this article is suitable for applications in which queries may require noncrisp references to certain attributes.

Ex. Some of the terms are vague.

Ex. The colon is the most widely used of the synthetic devices, but is an imprecise weapon which may have several different meanings.

Ex. Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.

Ex. On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.

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* conjunto impreciso = imprecise set.

* de un modo impreciso = fuzzily.

* término impreciso = fuzzy term.

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- sa adjetivo vague, imprecise

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vague, imprecise

un número impreciso de personas an indeterminate number of people

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◊ -sa adjetivo

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impreciso, -a adj

imprecise, vague

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adj imprecise

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impreciso, -sa adj

1) : imprecise, vague

2) : inaccurate

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impreciso adj imprecise / inaccurate

1. Gefühl, Vorstellung etc.: vague

2. (ungewiss) uncertain; Zeitraum, LING., ARTIKEL etc.: indefinite; auf unbestimmte Zeit indefinitely; etw. unbestimmt lassen leave s.th. open; unbestimmte Gleichung MATH. indeterminate equation; unbestimmtes Ergebnis / Integral MATH. indeterminate result / indefinite integral; unbestimmter Rechtsbegriff JUR. indeterminate (legal) concept that allows a degree of discretion to the authority pronouncing judgement

II Adv. gehalten, formuliert etc.: vaguely

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vague; uncertain; intangible; indecisive; undesignated; unassigned; unsettled; undetermined; undefined; indeterminate; indefinite

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1) (= ungewiss) uncertain; (= unentschieden) undecided

2) (= unklar, undeutlich) Gefühl, Erinnerung etc vague

3) (GRAM) indefinite

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1) (vague; uncertain: His plans are indefinite at the moment.) indefinite

2) (not clear, distinct or definite: Through the fog we saw the vague outline of a ship; She has only a vague idea of how this machine works.) vague

3) ((of a matter) not settled: The date of the meeting is still undecided.) undecided

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1. (unklar) vague

2. (noch nicht festgelegt) indefinite; (Alter) uncertain; (Anzahl, Menge) indeterminate; (Grund, Zeitspanne) unspecified, indefinite

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1) indefinite; indeterminate <age, number>; (ungewiss) uncertain

2) (ungenau) vague

3) (Sprachw.) indefinite <article, pronoun>

adverbial (ungenau) vaguely

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A. adj

1. Gefühl, Vorstellung etc: vague

2. (ungewiss) uncertain; Zeitraum, LING, Artikel etc: indefinite;

auf unbestimmte Zeit indefinitely;

etwas unbestimmt leave sth open;

unbestimmte Gleichung MATH indeterminate equation;

unbestimmtes Ergebnis/Integral MATH indeterminate result/indefinite integral;

unbestimmter Rechtsbegriff JUR indeterminate (legal) concept that allows a degree of discretion to the authority pronouncing judgement

B. adv gehalten, formuliert etc: vaguely

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1) indefinite; indeterminate <age, number>; (ungewiss) uncertain

2) (ungenau) vague

3) (Sprachw.) indefinite <article, pronoun>

adverbial (ungenau) vaguely

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indecisive adj.

indefinite adj.

indeterminate adj.

nondescript adj.

unassertive adj.

undefined adj.

undetermined adj. adv.

indecisively adv.

indeterminately adv.

nouveau, nouvelle (masculine plural nouveaux) [nuvo, nuvεl]

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► nouvel, instead of nouveau, is used before a masculine noun beginning with a vowel or silent h.

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1. adjective

   a. new

• pommes de terre nouvelles new potatoes

• tout nouveau brand-new

• les nouveaux pauvres the new poor

   b. ( = autre, supplémentaire) another

• il y a eu un nouveau tremblement de terre there has been another earthquake

• c'est là une nouvelle preuve que it's fresh proof that

2. masculine noun

   a. ( = homme) new man ; ( = élève) new boy

   b. ( = nouveauté) y a-t-il du nouveau à ce sujet ? is there anything new on this?

• il y a du nouveau dans cette affaire there has been a new development in this business

• à nouveau again

• de nouveau again

• faire qch de nouveau to do sth again

3. feminine noun

nouvelle

   a. ( = femme) new woman ; ( = élève) new girl

   b. ( = événement) news uncount

• une nouvelle a piece of news

• une bonne nouvelle some good news

• une mauvaise nouvelle some bad news

• ce n'est pas une nouvelle ! that's nothing new!

• vous connaissez la nouvelle ? have you heard the news?

• première nouvelle ! that's the first I've heard about it!

   c. ( = court récit) short story

4. plural feminine noun

nouvelles news uncount

• les nouvelles (dans les médias) the news uncount

• les nouvelles sont bonnes the news is good

• voici les nouvelles here is the news

• les dernières nouvelles the latest news

• quelles nouvelles ? what's new?

• aller aux nouvelles to go and find out what is happening

• aux dernières nouvelles, il était à Paris the last I (or we etc) heard he was in Paris

• avez-vous de ses nouvelles ? have you heard from him? ; (par un tiers) have you had any news of him?

• j'irai prendre de ses nouvelles I'll go and see how he's doing

• il ne donne plus de ses nouvelles you never hear from him any more

• je suis sans nouvelles de lui depuis huit jours I haven't heard anything of him for a week

• il aura de mes nouvelles ! (inf) I'll give him a piece of my mind!

5. compounds

► Nouvel An, Nouvelle Année New Year

► nouvelle cuisine nouvelle cuisine

► nouvelle lune new moon

► nouveaux mariés newlyweds

► le Nouveau Monde the New World

► nouveaux pays industrialisés newly industrialized countries

► nouveau riche nouveau riche

► nouveau venu, nouvelle venue newcomer

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1) (qui remplace, succède) [modèle, locataire] new; ( qui s'ajoute) [attentat, tentative] fresh

2) ( d'apparition récente) [mot, virus, science, ville] new; ( de la saison) [pommes de terre, vin] new

3) ( original) [ligne, méthode] new, original

4) ( novice)

nom masculin, féminin ( à l'école) new student; ( dans une entreprise) new employee; ( à l'armée) new recruit

nom masculin

1) ( rebondissement)

2) ( nouveauté)

à nouveau, de nouveau locution adverbiale (once) again

- nouveau franc

- nouveau riche

- nouveau roman

- Nouveau Monde

- Nouvel An

- nouvelle année

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1. adj

1) (remplacé) new

2) (en plus) another

3) (élève) new

4) (récent) new

5) (= original) (idée, solution) novel

2. nm/f

1) (élève) new pupil

2) (étudiant) new student

3) (employé) new employee

3. nm

1) (faits nouveaux)

2) (autres locutions)

4. nf

1) (= information) piece of news, news sg

2) LITTÉRATURE short story

5. nouvelles nfpl

PRESSE, TV news

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nouveau ( nouvel before vowel or mute h), nouvelle, mpl nouveaux

A adj

1 (qui remplace, succède, s'ajoute) new; le nouveau modèle/système/locataire the new model/system/tenant; où se trouve la nouvelle entrée? where's the new entrance?; c'est le nouveau Nijinsky he's the new ou a second Nijinsky; se faire faire un nouveau costume ( pour remplacer) to have a new suit made; ( supplémentaire) to have another ou a new suit made; il a subi une nouvelle opération he's had another ou a new operation; il y a eu un nouvel incident there's been another ou a new ou a fresh incident; faire une nouvelle tentative to make another ou a new ou a fresh attempt; ces nouveaux attentats these new ou fresh atta!cks; procéder à de nouvelles arrestations to make further arrests; nous avons de nouvelles preuves de leur culpabilité we have further evidence of their guilt; une nouvelle fois once again;

2 ( d'apparition récente) [mot, virus, science, ville] new; ( de la saison) [pommes de terre, vin] new; tiens, tu fumes! c'est nouveau? you're smoking! is this a new habit?; c'est nouveau ce manteau? is this a new coat?; ce genre de travail est nouveau pour moi this sort of work is new to me, I'm new to this sort of work; tout nouveau brand-new; les nouveaux élus the newly-elected members; les nouveaux mariés the newlyweds; la nouvelle venue the newcomer; les nouveaux venus the newcomers; ⇒ pauvre C;

3 ( original) [ligne, conception, méthode] new, original; voir qch sous un jour nouveau to see sth in a new light; c'est une façon très nouvelle d'aborder le problème it's a very novel approach to the problem; ce n'est pas nouveau this is nothing new; il n'y a rien de nouveau there's nothing new;

4 ( novice) être nouveau dans le métier/en affaires to be new to the job/in business.

B nm,f

1 ( à l'école) new student; tu as vu la nouvelle? have you seen the new student?;

2 ( dans une entreprise) new employee; il y a trois nouveaux dans le bureau there are three new people in the office; je ne sais pas, je suis nouveau I don't know, I'm new here;

3 ( à l'armée) new recruit.

C nm

1 ( rebondissement) il y a du nouveau ( dans un processus) there's been a new development; ( dans une situation) there' s been a change; téléphone-moi s'il y a du nouveau give me a ring GB ou call if there is anything new (to report); j'ai du nouveau pour toi I've got some news for you;

2 ( nouveauté) il nous faut du nouveau we want something new.

D nouvelle nf

1 ( annonce d'un événement) news ¢; une nouvelle gén a piece of news; Presse, TV, Radio a news item; une bonne/mauvaise nouvelle some good/bad news; j'ai une grande nouvelle (à t'annoncer) I've got some exciting news (for you); j'ai appris deux bonnes nouvelles I've heard two pieces of good news; tu connais la nouvelle? have you heard the news?; première nouvelle○! that's news to me!, that's the first I've heard of it!; la nouvelle de qch the news of [décès, arrestation, mariage]; la nouvel!le de sa mort nous a beaucoup peinés we were very sa!d to hear about his/her death; ⇒ faux;

2 Littérat short story; un recueil de nouvelles a collection of short stories.

E à nouveau, de nouveau loc adv (once) again.

F nouvelles nfpl

1 ( renseignements) news (sg); recevoir des nouvelles de qn ( par la personne elle-même) to hear from sb; ( par un intermédiaire) to hear news of sb; il y a un mois que je suis sans nouvelles de lui I haven't heard from him for a month; on est sans nouvelles des prisonniers we've had no news of the prisoners; je prendrai de tes nouvelles I'll hear how you're getting on; donne-moi de tes nouvelles let me know how you're getting on; il m'a demandé de tes nouvelles he asked after you; faire prendre des nouvelles d'un malade to send for news of a patient; je viens aux nouvelles○ ( de ce qui s'est passé) I've come to see what's happened; ( de ce qui se passe) I've come to see what's happening; aux dernières nouvelles, il se porte bien○ the last I heard he was doing fine; il aura de mes nouvelles○! he'll be hearing from me!; goûte ce petit vin, tu m'en diras des nouvelles○ have a taste of this wine, it's really good!;

2 Presse, Radio, TV les nouvelles the news (sg); les nouvelles sont mauvaises the news is bad; les nouvelles du front news from the front.

nouveau franc new franc; nouveau philosophe Philos member of a French school of philosophy developed in the 70's; nouveau riche nouveau riche; nouveau roman nouveau roman; Nouveau Monde New World; Nouveau Réalisme New Realism; Nouveau Testament New Testament; Nouveaux pays industrialisés, NPI newly industrialized countries, NIC; Nouvel An New Year; fêter le Nouvel An to celebrate the New Year; pour le Nouvel An for the New Year; le Nouvel An chinois/juif the Chinese/Jewish New Year; nouvelle année = Nouvel An; nouvelle cuisine Culin nouvelle cuisine; Nouvelle Vague Cin New Wave.

tout nouveau tout beau the novelty will soon wear off; pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles! Prov no news is good news!

[nuvo] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou 'h' muet nouvel [nuvɛl]) ( féminin nouvelle [nuvɛl], pluriel masculin nouveaux [nuvo], pluriel féminin nouvelles [nuvɛl]) adjectif

1. [de fraîche date - appareil, modèle] new ; [ - pays] new, young

a. it's new, it's just come out

b. (figuré) that's a new one on me

2. [dernier en date] new, latest

nouveaux élus [députés] new ou newly-elected deputies

3. [autre] further, new

4. [original - découverte, idée] new, novel, original

5. [inhabituel] new

6. [novateur]

nouveau, nouvelle nom masculin, nom féminin

[élève] new boy ( feminine girl)

[adulte] new man ( feminine woman)

nouveau nom masculin

il y a eu du nouveau dans l'affaire Perron there are new developments in the Perron case

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à nouveau locution adverbiale

[encore] (once) again, once more

recommence à nouveau start again

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de nouveau locution adverbiale

tu as fait de nouveau la même bêtise you've made the same mistake again

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nouvelle vague nom féminin

la nouvelle vague des ordinateurs the new generation of computers

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nouvelle vague locution adjectivale invariable

les imprimantes nouvelle vague new-generation printers

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Nouvelle Vague nom féminin

This expression refers to a group of French filmmakers, including François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, who broke away from conventional style and methods in the late 1950s and produced some of the most influential films of the period using simple techniques and everyday settings.

undetermined, abstract, indefinite, uncertain.

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► adjetivo

1 (gen) indeterminate; (en tiempo, número) indefinite

2 (impreciso) vague

3 LINGÚÍSTICA (artículo) indefinite

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por tiempo indeterminado indefinitely

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1) (=impreciso) indeterminate; [resultado] inconclusive

2) (=indefinido) indefinite

3) [persona] irresolute

4) (Ling) indefinite

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- da adjetivo

a) ( indefinido) indefinite

b) ( no establecido) undetermined

c) (vago, impreciso) <contorno/forma> indeterminate

d) (Ling) indefinite

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= undefined, unknown, indeterminate.

Ex. The flexibilities possible with machine processing will, at some time in the undefined future, obviate most of the problems not addressed.

Ex. Works with unknown or uncertain personal authorship, or works emanating from a body that lacks a name are to be entered under title.

Ex. Results from use surveys indicated that stock could be divided into 3 types: live; dead; and indeterminate.

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- da adjetivo

a) ( indefinido) indefinite

b) ( no establecido) undetermined

c) (vago, impreciso) <contorno/forma> indeterminate

d) (Ling) indefinite

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1 (indefinido) indefinite

se han declarado en huelga por tiempo indeterminado they have gone on indefinite strike

2 (no establecido) undetermined

3 (vago, impreciso) ‹contorno/forma› indeterminate

4 ( Ling) indefinite

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◊ -da adjetivo

a) ( indefinido) indefinite;

◊ por tiempo indeterminado indefinitely

b) ( no establecido) undetermined

c) (vago, impreciso) ‹contorno/forma› indeterminate

d) (Ling) indefinite

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indeterminado, -a adj

1. [sin determinar] indeterminate;

por tiempo indeterminado indefinitely

2. [impreciso] vague

3. Gram

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adj indeterminate; ( indefinido) indefinite

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indeterminado, -da adj

1) indefinido: indefinite

2) : indeterminate

(v.) = resolve + issue, resolve + problem, solve + problem, work out + problem, unlock + problem, settle + problem, sort out + problem, clear up + problem, work + problem + through, address + limitation, straighten out + problem, iron out + problem, work out + kink

Ex. I think the plans to develop networking and an online authority file will do much to resolve the issue.

Ex. RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) is a system used by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), a group dedicated to resolving common problems in collection development, management, access and preservation.

Ex. The examples in figure 4.4 show some of the approaches to solving these problems.

Ex. Reading literature is a game-playing activity in which we 'try out' various possible solutions to life- problems and see how they might be worked out before having to tackle them in reality.

Ex. Each is currently a vogue word (often a vague word as well), and each is suddenly all-important to the unlocking of social problems.

Ex. The librarian should rely on policy to settle routine problems, and reserve the big problems for thorough analysis.

Ex. Initial responses from parish clerks indicated that problems did not exist, but interviews with all the households in one parish revealed that 59% said that they had to sort out a problem in the last few months.

Ex. The library staff involved in the day to day running of the library may be called upon quite often to fix certain minor faults or clear up problems and misunderstandings on the part of the user.

Ex. She tells a story of courage in which the crew and the mission control pull together to work the problem through.

Ex. A number of approaches have been developed in the field of medicine that seek to address these limitations.

Ex. Straighten out the problem, give him a few parental murmurs of comfort, a pat or two, then leave again.

Ex. She is quick to get hot under the collar, but once the problem is ironed out she forgets it entirely.

Ex. The new geothermal system still has a few kinks that need to be worked out.

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1 empty, hollow, unladen, void.

2 hollow, empty.

3 shallow, empty, hollow, soulless.

1 vacuum, blank, void.

2 empty space.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: vaciar.

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► adjetivo

1 (gen) empty

■ el cine está vacío the cinema is empty

■ la botella está vacía the bottle is empty

2 (no ocupado) vacant, unoccupied; (sin muebles) unfurnished

3 (hueco) hollow

4 figurado (vano) vain, conceited

5 figurado (palabras, conversación) empty

► nombre masculino vacío

1 (gen) emptiness, void

2 (hueco) gap; (espacio) space, empty space; (espacio en blanco) blank space

3 (vacante) vacancy

4 FÍSICA vacuum

5 figurado (falta) emptiness, void

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caer en el vacío figurado to fall on deaf ears

en vacío FÍSICA in a vacuum

envasar al vacío to vacuum-pack

hacer el vacío a alguien figurado to cold-shoulder somebody, send somebody to Coventry

sentir un gran vacío figurado to feel empty

tener el estómago vacío figurado to feel hungry

tener la cabeza vacía figurado to be empty-headed

volver con las manos vacías figurado to come back empty-handed

volver de vacío (vehículo) to come back empty 2 (persona) to come back empty-handed

► nombre masculino

1 (gen) emptiness, void

2 (hueco) gap; (espacio) space, empty space; (espacio en blanco) blank space

3 (vacante) vacancy

4 FÍSICA vacuum

5 figurado (falta) emptiness, void

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1) emptiness, void

2) gap

3) vacuum

(pl. -ir), f. thousand.

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f.; sérhverja þúsund, Stj. 298; á þúsund (dat.), Sks. 705; tvær, þrjár … þúsundir, 623. 53: in mod. usage it is mostly neut. (influenced by Latin?), but also fem. It is spelt þús-hund, Barl. 53; þús-hundum, Fms. vi. 409 (v. l.), Geisli 49; another form þús-hundrað (q. v.) is freq., esp. in Stj., Barl.; this double form -hund and -hundrað answers to the equally double form of ‘hundred,’ see p. 292, and is a proof that þúsund is a compound word, the latter part of which is ‘hund’ or ‘hundred;’ the etymology of the former part ‘þús’ is less certain; it is, we believe, akin to þysja, þyss, þaus-nir (a lost strong verb þúsa, þaus, þusu); þúsund would thus literally mean a swarm of hundreds: [in Goth. the gender varies, þûsundi, pl. þusundjos = χίλιοι, or þusundja, neut.; A. S. þûsend; Engl. thousand; O. H. G. dusunta; Germ. tausend, qs. dausend; Swed. tusende and tusen; Dan. tusinde; Dutch tuysend: this word is also common to the Slavon. languages: again, the Lapp, duhat and Finn. tuhat are no doubt borrowed from the Slavon. or Scandin.; the Gr., Lat., and Sansk. use other words]—a thousand.

B. There is little doubt that with the ancient heathen Scandinavians (and perhaps all Teutons), before their contact with the civilised southern people, the notion of numbers was limited, and that their thousand was not a definite number, but a vague term, denoting a swarm, crowd, host (cp. the Gr. μυρίοι): in ancient lays it occurs thrice (Hkv., Em., Fas. i. 502), but indefinitely; hvat þrym er þar sem þúsund bifisk eðr mengi til mikit, what a din is there as if a thousand were shaking, or an over-mickle multitude, Em. 2; sjau þúsundir, Hkv. 1. 49, literally = seven thousands, but in fact meaning seven hosts of men.

2. the dat. pl. þúsundum is, like huudruðum, used adverbially = by thousands, in countless numbers, Fms. vi. 409 (in a verse), Geisli 49.

3. in the ancient popular literature, uninfluenced by southern writers, ‘þúsund,’ as a definite number, occurs, we think, not half-a-dozen times. As the multiple of ten duodecimal hundreds, ere the decimal hundred was adopted, ‘þnsund’ would mean twelve decimal hundreds; and such is its use in the Sverris Saga, Fms. viii. 40, where one vellum says ‘tvær þúsundir,’ whilst the others, by a more idiomatic phrase, call it ‘twenty hundreds.’

II. in ecclesiastical writers, and in annals influenced by the Latin and the like, it is frequent enough; tíu þúsundir, fjórtán þúsundir, Fms. i. 107, 108 (annalistic records); fimm þúsundir, xi. 386, Al. 111; tíu þúsundum, Sks. 705; tíu þúsundum sinna hundrað þúsunda, Hom.; þúsund þúsunda, a thousand of thousands, i. e. a million, (mod.); hundrað þúsundir rasta ok átta tigir þúsunda, … hundrað þúsund mílna, Fb. i. 31 (in the legend of Eric the Far-traveller and Paradise, taken from some church-legend); fjórar þúsundir, Þiðr. 234: or of the years of the world, sex þúsundir vetra, Fs. 197; sjau þúsundir vetra, Landn. 34.

C. REMARKS.—The popular way of counting high numbers was not by thousands, but by tens (decades) and duodecimal hundreds as factors; thus ten … twenty hundreds, and then going on three, four, five, six … tens of hundreds (a ‘ten of hundreds’ being = 1200). The following references may illustrate this—tíu hundruð, ellefu hundruð, tólf hundruð, þrettán hundruð, fimtán hundruð …, Íb. 17, Ó. H. 119, 201, Fms. vii. 295, xi. 383, 385. From twenty and upwards—tuttugu hundrað manna, twenty hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 324, viii. 40; hálfr þriðitugr hundraða skipa, two tens and a half hundreds of ships, i. e. twenty-five hundreds, Fas. i. 378; þrjá tigu hundraða manna, three tens of hundreds of men, Fms. viii. 311; var skorat manntal, hafði hann meirr enn þrjá tigu hundraða manna, vii. 204; þrír tigir hundraða, D. N. v. 18; user fjorir tigir hundraða manna, nearly four tens of hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 275; á fimta tigi hundraða, on the fifth ten of hundreds, i. e. from four to five tens of hundreds, viii. 321; sex tigir hundraða, six tens of hundreds, 311, xi. 390; sex tigu hundraða manna, Fb. ii. 518, D. I. i. 350,—all odd amounts being neglected. The highest number recorded as actually reckoned in this way is ‘six tens of hundreds’ (fimtán tigir hundraða, fifteen tens of hundreds, Fms. viii. 321, v. l., is a scribe’s error): it is probable that no reckoning exceeded twelve tens of hundreds. All high multiples were unintelligible to the ancients; the number of the Einherjar in Walhalla is in the old lay Gm. thus expressed,—there are ‘five hundred doors in Walhalla, and five tens beside (the ‘five tens’ are, by the way, merely added for alliteration’s sake), and eight hundred Einherjar will walk out of each door when they go out to fight the Wolf’ (on the Day of final Doom). There seems to have been some dim exaggerated notion of a definite thousand in an ancient lay, only preserved in a half alliterative prose paraphrase, Fas. i. 502, where a mythical host is given thus,—there were thirty-three phalanxes, each of five ‘thousand,’ each thousand of thirteen hundreds, each hundred four times counted. The armies in the battle of Brawalla, the greatest of the mythical age, are given, not in numbers, but by the space the ranks occupied, Skjöld. S. ch. 8. This resembles the story in Ó. H. ch. 59, of the two young brothers, king’s sons: when asked what they would like to have most of, the one said: ‘Cows.’ ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as could stand packed in a row round the lake (Mjösen in Norway) and drink.’ ‘But you?’ they asked the other boy: ‘House-carles’ (soldiers), said he. ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as would in one meal eat up all my brother’s cows.’ Add also the tale of the King and the Giant, and the number of the giant’s house-carles, Maurer’s Volksagen 306. No less elementary was the rule for division and fractions, of which a remarkable instance is preserved in an ancient Icelandic deed, called Spákonu-arfr, published in D. I. i. 305. See also the words tigr, hundrað, skor, skora, and the remarks in Gramm. p. xix. The Homeric numeration, as set forth in Mr. Gladstone’s Homeric Studies, vol. iii, p. 425 sqq., is highly interesting, and bears a striking resemblance to that of the ancient Scandinavians. We may notice that in Iceland land and property are still divided into hundreds (hundreds of ells = 120), see hundrað B; in this case a thousand is never used, but units and hundreds of hundreds as factors, thus, sex tögu hundraða, in Reykh. Máld, (a deed of the 12th century), and so still in mod. usage; a wealthy man of the 15th century is said to have bequeathed to his daughters in land, ‘tólf hundruð hundraða ok ellefu-tíu og tvau hundruð betr, en í lausafé fimm hundruð hundraða,’ i. e. twelve hundreds of hundreds and ‘eleventy’ and two hundreds, and in movables five hundreds of hundreds, Feðga-æfi 16 (by the learned Bogi Benidiktsson of Staðarfell in Iceland, A. D. 1771–1849); sjau hundruð hundraða og þrjátigi hundruð betr, 21; hann eptir-lét börnum sínum fjármuni upp á níu hundruð hundraða, 22,—a proof that in very remote times, when this valuation of land first took place, ‘thousand’ was still unknown as a definite number.

1 impression, idea, feeling, vague idea.

2 impression, printing, print, mark.

3 computer printout, printout.

4 edition, number printed.

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► nombre femenino

1 (en imprenta) printing

2 (huella) impression, imprint

3 figurado (efecto) impression; (negativo) shock

■ en una entrevista es importante causar buena impresión in an interview it's important to create a good impression

■ no me ha causado buena impresión el conferenciante I wasn't very impressed with the speaker

■ el día en que lo conocí me llevé muy mala impresión my first impression of him was not very favourable

■ me da la impresión de que no va a volver I get the impression she's not coming back

■ una ducha fría de buena mañana da impresión a cold shower in the morning is a shock to the system

4 (opinión) impression

\

cambiar impresiones to compare notes

de impresión familiar amazing

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1) feeling, impression

2) printing

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1) (=sensación) impression

2) (=susto) shock

3) (=huella) imprint

4) (Tip) (=acción) printing; (=resultado) print; (=tirada) print run

5) (Inform) (=acción) printing; (=resultado) printout

6) (Fot) print

7) (Bio, Psic) imprinting

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1)

a) (idea, sensación) impression

b) ( sensación desagradable)

2)

a) (Impr) ( acción) printing; ( tirada) print run, impression (frml)

b) (Inf) ( acción) printing; ( producto) printout

c) ( huella) imprint

•

- impresión digital

- impresión en color

* * *

1)

a) (idea, sensación) impression

b) ( sensación desagradable)

2)

a) (Impr) ( acción) printing; ( tirada) print run, impression (frml)

b) (Inf) ( acción) printing; ( producto) printout

c) ( huella) imprint

•

- impresión digital

- impresión en color

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impresión¹

¹ = excitement, impression, perception, shock, illusion.

Nota: Falso amigo.

impresión²

² = impression, printing, blowback.

Nota: Específicamente, de documento o imagen que ha sido convertido a formato electrónico.

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1 (idea, sensación) impression

da la impresión de ser demasiado ancho it looks (as if it might be) too wide

nos causó or nos hizo muy buena impresión he made a very good impression on us, we were very impressed with him

me da/tengo la impresión de que me está mintiendo I have a feeling o an idea he's lying to me, I get the impression o feeling he's lying to me

no tuvimos oportunidad de cambiar impresiones we didn't get a chance to compare notes o talk about it

(sensación desagradable): tocar el pescado me da impresión handling fish turns my stomach

ver sangre le daba impresión she couldn't stand the sight of blood

el agua está tan fría que da impresión al entrar the water's so cold, it's a bit of a shock when you first get in

1 ( Impr) (acción) printing; (tirada) print run, impression ( frml)

2 ( Inf) (acción) printing; (producto) printout

3 (de un disco) pressing

4 (huella) imprint

la impresión de un pie en la arena a footprint in the sand

fingerprint

four-color* printing

multicolor* printing

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a) (idea, sensación) impression;

◊ da la impresión de ser demasiado ancho it looks too wide;

b) ( sensación desagradable):

◊ el accidente me produjo mucha impresión the accident really shocked me

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impresión nf

1. [efecto] impression;

causar (una) buena/mala impresión to make a good/bad impression;

dar la impresión de to give the impression of;

me dio la impresión de que estaban enfadados I got the impression they were annoyed;

le dio mucha impresión ver el cadáver seeing the body was a real shock to him;

me causó mucha impresión esa película that film had a great effect on me

2. [opinión]

tener la impresión de que to have the impression that;

cambiar impresiones to compare notes, to exchange views

3. Esp Fam

me di un susto de impresión I got a hell of a fright;

tiene una casa de impresión he has an incredible o amazing house

4. [huella] imprint

impresión digital fingerprint

5. Imprenta [acción] printing;

una impresión de lujo a de-luxe edition;

impresión en color colour printing;

impresión a una/dos caras one-/two-sided printing

* * *

1 impression;

causar impresión make an impression;

causar buena impresión make a good impression

la sangre le da impresión he can’t stand the sight of blood

3 acto printing;

impresión en color color printing, Br colour printing

4 ( tirada) print run

* * *

impresión nf, pl - siones

1) : print, printing

2) : impression, feeling

* * *

impresión n

1. (efecto) impression

2. (alteración) shock

3. (sensación) feeling

tempo unspecified, indefinite

quantità indeterminate

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indeterminato agg.

1 (non precisato) indeterminate; undetermined; unspecified, indefinite: un numero indeterminato di persone, an unspecified number of people // contratto di lavoro a tempo indeterminato, open-ended contract // (dir.): pena indeterminata, indeterminate sentence; legge indeterminata, vague statute

2 (impreciso) vague, imprecise

3 (irresoluto) irresolute, undecided, uncertain

4 (mat.) indeterminate.

* * *

aggettivo indeterminate (anche mat.), undetermined

* * *

indeterminato

/indetermi'nato/

aggettivo

indeterminate (anche mat.), undetermined; a tempo indeterminato indefinitely; contratto a tempo indeterminato permanent contract.

• (Все) эти теории имеют общую идею (= концепцию), что... - These theories have in common the idea that...

• Безусловно, читатель знаком с идеей, что... - The reader is no doubt familiar with the idea that...

• В третьей главе мы увидим другое обобщение той же основной идеи. - In Chapter 3 we shall meet another generalization of the same basic idea.

• Важно уметь применять идею (= концепцию)... - It is important that we be able to apply the concept of...

• Введенные в этой главе идеи подведут нас ближе к... - The ideas introduced in this chapter will bring us closer to...

• Вернемся кратко к идее (чего-л). - Let us return briefly to the idea of...

• Высказанные ранее идеи теперь могут быть обобщены. - The preceding ideas can now be generalized.

• Дальнейшее рассуждение затем привело бы к идее... - Further argument would then lead to the idea of...

• Данная идея получила свое начало при исследовании... - The idea originated with the study of...

• Идея состоит в следующем. - The idea is as follows.

• Имеется мнжество подтверждений идеи, что... - There is a great deal of evidence for the idea that...

• Имеется много других примеров, иллюстрирующих основную идею (чего-л). - There are many other examples which illustrate the basic idea of...

• Лежащая в основе этого идея состоит в том, что... - The underlying idea is that...

• Лежащие в основе (этого) идеи настолько просты, что... - The ideas involved here are so simple that...

• Много идей было выдвинуто для объяснения... - Many ideas were put forward to explain...

• Многие идеи и результаты последней главы могут быть распространены на случай... - Many of the ideas and results of the last chapter can now be extended to the case of...

• Многие идеи, рассматриваемые в данной главе, (являются)... - Many of the ideas appearing in this chapter are...

• Мы будем предполагать, что читатель обладает очевидной интуитивной идеей... - We shall assume that the reader has a clear intuitive idea of...

• Мы могли бы обобщить эти идеи. - We may extend these ideas.

• Мы можем обобщить эту идею, вводя... - We can generalize this idea by introducing...

• Мы можем также использовать (= приложить) здесь идею... - We may also apply the concept of...

• На самом деле, подобные неопределенные идеи ничего нам не говорят. - Such vague ideas really tell us nothing.

• Проще всего понять эту идею можно, рассматривая... - The idea is most easily understood by examining...

• Один из ответов на данный вопрос находится в идее... - One answer to this question lies in the concept of...

• Однако в общем случае эта идея имеет небольшую область приложений. - However, this idea has little application in general.

• Основная идея состоит в том, что... - The basic idea is that...

• Основной идеей этого параграфа является то, что... - The main idea of this section is that...

• Основные идеи, намеченные в данном параграфе, могут быть проиллюстрированы (чем-л). - The points made in this section can be illustrated by...

• Полная идея становится точной (путем, если и т. п.)... - The whole idea is made precise by...

• Последняя идея потеряла большую часть своей значимости, потому что... - The latter idea lost much of its significance because...

• Похоже, что большинство физиков одобряет идею, что... - Most physicists seem to accept the notion that...

• Предыдущее обсуждение приводит к идее, что... - The preceding discussion leads to the idea that...; The foregoing discussion gives an idea of...

• Приведем теперь идею доказательства теорем 2 и 3. - Let us now give an idea on how to prove Theorems 2 and 3.

• Проблема, которую мы обязаны позднее рассмотреть для применения данной идеи, состоит в том, что... - A problem that we must eventually face in making use of this concept is...

• Простейшее доказательство базируется на идее, что... - The simplest proof rests on the concept of...

• С самого начала физики приняли идею, что... - Prom the beginning, physicists have accepted the notion that...; From the outset, physicists have accepted the notion that...

• Сделаем эти идеи более понятными, рассматривая... - Let us make these ideas clearer by considering...

• Сейчас мы кратко изложим основную идею (чего-л). - Let us present in a nutshell the main idea behind...

• Следовательно, мы могли бы принять за аксиому идею, что... - Therefore we may take as axiomatic the idea that...

• Следовательно, следующим естественным шагом является идея, что... - It is thus a natural step to think of...

• Следующим шагом было применение идеи... - The next step was to apply the idea of...

• Смит [1] убедительно аргументирует против идеи, что... - Smith [1] argues effectively against the notion that...

• Центральная идея, лежащая в основе этих утверждений, состоит в том, что... - The essential idea underlying these statements is that of...

• Центральной идеей здесь является то, что... - The essential idea here is that...

• Так лее просто эти идеи могут быть сформулированы (и) для... - These ideas can be formulated just as easily for...

• Только что изложенная идея была использована, чтобы... - The idea just outlined has been used to...

• Центральной идеей, на которой основывался подход Смита [1], была... - The essential idea behind Smith's approach was that...

• Чрезвычайно близкие идеи используются для (= в)... - Precisely similar ideas are applicable to...

• Чтобы конкретизировать эту идею, давайте... - То make this idea more concrete, let...

• Чтобы упорядочить все эти идеи подходящим образом, мы... - In order to place these ideas in their proper framework, we...

• Эйнштейн использовал (- применил) точно те же самые идеи в (= при рассмотрении)... - Einstein applied precisely the same ideas to...

• Эта идея (= мысль) выражается более точно в... - This idea is expressed more precisely in...

• Эта идея будет объясняться ниже. - This idea will be clarified below.

• Эта идея одновременно самодостаточна и привлекательна, однако... - This idea is both self-contained and attractive, but...

• Эта идея удивительно близка к... - This idea is remarkably close to...

• Эта идея уже была использована Смитом [1], который предлагает, что(бы)... - This idea has been exploited by Smith [1], who suggests that...

• Эта простая, но все же глубокая идея... - This simple yet profound idea...

• Эти идеи были развиты целым рядом авторов. - The material has been developed by a number of contributors.

• Эти идеи получают немедленно приложение к/в... - These ideas have immediate application in...

• Этим путем мы приходим к мысли (= идее) о... - In this way we arrive at the idea of...

• Это весьма настойчиво подталкивает нас к идее, что... - This suggests quite strongly that...

• Это заключение базируется на тех же идеях, которые приводят к... - This conclusion is based on the same ideas that lead to...

• Это очевидным образом связано с известной и интуитивной идеей, что... - This is obviously related to the familiar and intuitive idea that...

• Это приводит нас к идее постулировать существование... - This leads us to postulate the existence of...

• Это фундаментальная идея, лежащая в основании (решения, процесса и т. п.)... - This is the fundamental idea behind...

• Эту идею легко понять, однако... - The idea is easily understood, but...

¹ = period, phase, stage, term, chapter, interregnum, span, spell, stint, stretch.

Ex. Library use declines during the June-October period when examinations have finished and the students are on vacation.

Ex. This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile for the thesaurus.

Ex. The first stage in the choice of access points must be the definition of an author.

Ex. The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.

Ex. The late 18th century heyday of aristocratic libraries was a brief but important chapter in Hungarian library history.

Ex. In American higher education the interregnum between world wars was a time of drift and disappointment.

Ex. The disc held an 18-month span of data from CAB ABSTRACTS.

Ex. The outstanding example is Ian Sillitoe, who started writing seriously only after reading undisturbed during a lengthy spell in hospital.

Ex. Evidence for identification is rarely available, but in a few cases very full printers' records have survived in which individual stints are accounted for.

Ex. After all, who has not felt dog-tired and drained, sometimes for long stretches, at one time or another?.

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* breve período de tiempo = while.

* durante este período = in the course of events, during the course of events.

* durante largos períodos de tiempo = over long periods of time.

* durante un largo período de tiempo = over a long time scale, over a long period of time, for a long period of time, over a long period.

* durante un período de + Expresión Temporal = over a period of + Expresión Temporal.

* durante un período de prueba = on a trial basis.

* durante un período de tiempo = for a number of years.

* durante un periodo de tiempo determinado = over a period of time.

* durante un período de tiempo indefinido = over an indefinite period of time, over an indefinite span of time.

* durante un período indefinido = for an indefinite period.

* en el período penoso de = in the throes of.

* en el período previo a = in the run up to, during the run up to.

* en este período = in the course of events, during the course of events.

* en período de = in the throes of.

* en período de desarrollo = in ascendancy.

* en un corto período de tiempo = in a short period of time.

* en un período de = at a time of.

* en un período de transición = in a period of transition.

* en un período más o menos lejano = in the near future, in the near future.

* largos períodos de tiempo = long periods of time.

* madre en período de lactancia = nursing mother.

* mujer en período de lactancia = nursing woman.

* pasar por un período de = go through + a period of.

* período bajo = dry spell.

* período culminante = peak period.

* período de baja actividad = dry spell.

* período de calma = lull.

* período de cinco años = five-year period, period of five years.

* período de cobertura = date of coverage, period of coverage.

* período de cultivo = growing season.

* período de descanso = rest time.

* período de descuento por inscripción anticipada = early bird period.

* período de entreguerras, el = interwar period, the.

* período de espera = waiting period.

* período de estancamiento = plateau [plateaux, -pl.].

* período de financiación = funding period.

* periodo de gracia = grace period, time of grace.

* período de inactividad = doldrums.

* período de incubación = incubation period.

* período de la prensa manual, el = hand-press period, the.

* período de la prensa mecánica, el = machine-press period, the.

* período de lluvia = wet spell.

* periodo de mandato = period of office.

* período de mayor demanda = peak time.

* período de McCarthy, el = McCarthy period, the.

* período de observación = observation period.

* período de poca actividad = slack time, slack period, slack activity time.

* período de prácticas = work placement, training attachment.

* período de prácticas en centros = practicum.

* período de prácticas en la industria = industrial placement.

* período de prueba = probationary period, trial period, trial run, probation, period of probation, probation period.

* período de recortes presupuestarios = budget-slashing times.

* período de reflexión = cooling-off period.

* período de sequía = dry spell.

* período de servicio = tour of duty.

* período de tiempo = amount of time, time, time frame [timeframe], time lapse, time period, time span [time-span], time slot, period of time, date range.

* período de vacaciones = vacation period.

* período de validez = period of validity.

* período de vigencia = time span [time-span].

* período de votación = balloting period.

* período escolar = school days.

* período glacial = ice age.

* periodo histórico = historical period.

* período medieval = mediaeval period [medieval period, -USA], mediaeval times [medieval times, -USA].

* período positivo = bonanza.

* período previo = run-up.

* período previo a la lectura = prereading.

* período seco = dry spell.

* período transitorio = transitional period, transition period.

* período ventajoso = bonanza.

* por un período de tiempo limitado = on a short-term basis.

* préstamo de periodo fijo = fixed date loan period.

* trabajar durante un período de tiempo = serve + stint.

* un período de = a stretch of.

* un período determinado = a frozen moment in time.

* un periodo intenso de = a flurry of.

1 period, period of time, length of time, time.

2 period, epoch, age.

3 period, menses, menstruation period, menstruation.

4 period, cycle.

5 stage in a process, stadium.

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► nombre masculino

1 period

* * *

* * *

periodo masculino

1)

a) ( de tiempo) period

b) (Geol, Mat, Fís) period

2) ( menstruación) period

* * *

periodo masculino

1)

a) ( de tiempo) period

b) (Geol, Mat, Fís) period

2) ( menstruación) period

* * *

período¹

¹ = period, phase, stage, term, chapter, interregnum, span, spell, stint, stretch.

período²

² = period.

* * *

1 (de tiempo) period

un período de prueba de tres meses a three-month trial period

el período de entreguerras the period o the time o the years between the wars

2 ( Geol) period

3 ( Mat) period

4 ( Fís) period

waiting period

half-life

B (menstruación) period

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◊ periodo sustantivo masculino

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periodo, período nm

1. [espacio de tiempo] period;

el primer periodo [de partido] the first half

periodo de gestación gestation period;

periodo de incubación incubation period;

periodo de prácticas trial period;

periodo de prueba trial period;

periodo refractario refractory period;

periodo de transición transition period

2. Mat period

3. Fís period

4. Geol age

periodo interglacial interglacial period

5. [menstruación] period;

estar con el periodo, tener el periodo to be having one's period

6. Ling period

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período, periodo

m period

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período or

periodo nm

: period

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período n period

faire [fεʀ]

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1. transitive verb

2. intransitive verb

3. impersonal verb

4. auxiliary verb

5. reflexive verb

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► Lorsque faire est suivi d'un nom dans une locution comme faire une faute, se faire des idées, reportez-vous à l'autre mot.

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