Dictionary : a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. - Ambrose Bierce. (1842-1914). > Those electronic dictionaries are real rip-offs for most of our students. They're distracting - playing with the batteries, etc. keeps them too busy to concentrate on the lesson. Or to prove Murphy's Law they malfunction when most needed. And that's before I get to English part. Verbs show when they need nouns, or the opposite. Phrasal verbs are a nightmare. The small reflecting screen prohibits showing enough choice and examples of usage. For the umpteenth time I recommend a variety of dictionaries for all levels. Less money, more fun and useful, ok, heavy to carry, but worth it. -Batya. > Installez Word Reference. Cela prend quelques secondes. Une fois installé, un double clic sur le mot que l'on veut traduire et on obtient quasi instantanément la traduction + des expressions associées à ce mot. - TA. > Quand je veux quelque chose de plus consistant je vais chez Dictionary Cambridge - complet, des tas d'exemples. -AK. > ONELOOK.COM - the place for looking up word definitions on the Internet - a search for any word automatically involves a large number of online dictionaries, as well as encyclopedias. DARE -'I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.' ÷ Steven Wright, comedian. Mind you ! le réemploi ! Although looking up a word in a dictionary may provide a very important initial encounter, it might not do much to help retention. For that, exercises recycling words are needed. - ES. Mithyc Mystakes For five years, Webster's New International Dictionary mistakenly included an entry for dord, a word which did not exist. The definition given was "density". More REFLECT, RATHER THAN DICTATE : A dictionary is not a Bible. Some people regard it as a final authority as though the meanings of all words in a language were predetermined in Heaven and delivered to Noah Webster on stone tablets. In reality, a well-written dictionary, or glossary, is a living document, something that reflects rather than dictates current language practice. source NEW Dictionnaire des onomatopées > Pierre Enckell et Pierre Rézeau, PUF, 588 pp., 32 ¤. Pierre Rézeau précise «on ne pouvait pas le publier ailleurs, pensez : PUF !», puf qui figure page 362 comme variante de pouf... WHEN IN UK > a place to go for dictionaries in London is Grant and Culter in Gt. Marlborough Street. They have a worldwide mail order service, and a catalogue. > for translation related books, the place is Dillons (the one in Gower Street). Look in the Linguistics department, under Translation Theory, for the translation books shelf... Transcript of a Dec. 2000 online chat with John Simpson, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, for writers and translators to enjoy! -Alternative French "French, as any other language, has numerous periphrastic and euphemistic expressions to indicate female (sic) menstruation, a phenomenon that our male-dominated societies, until recently, did not consider dignified enough to even mention in society. Bloody sample 'les Anglais (noun, masculine, plural) : the Redcoats (the Red Flag, etc...)'. The image of blood leads automatically to 'les Anglais ont débarqué' (the Redcoats have landed), which proves how much the French loved the English.... French slang - a good place to find the english equivalent of many a french slang phrase.' Millenium or millennium ? "The word derives from the Latin words for thousand and years. Pretty much every other word that uses the same root for years - perennial, annual, and millennial, for example - is spelled with two N's..." more -No more 'spastic old biddies' Manchester, one of England's largest police force is setting a standard in polite language, especially when it comes to minorities. General advice applicable to all races, such as using terms such as 'elderly' instead of 'old biddy,' or 'disabled person' instead of 'spastic.' Other sections are a testament to the racial complexity of English society today, such as whether one should use the term 'Afro-Caribbean', when the person was born in... England. Common Errors in English. Cool Dictionary Page by our ETNI colleagues. Frank Dietz, Ph.D. 's Glossary Page Hundreds of glossaries and dictionaries he's found during his web wanderings. Frank... frequently updates his monolingual English resources and translation related links. Visit this niche ! ENRICH your vocabulary, on a daily basis : Have Merriam-Webster's (free) Word of the Day e-mailed to you, free ex. quotidian \kwoh-TID-ee-un\ (adjective) 1 : occurring every day * 2 a : belonging to each day : everyday b : commonplace, ordinary: In his photographs, Channing captures his subjects in the midst of quotidian routines, such as buying a newspaper or hailing a taxicab. In Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It', Rosalind observes that Orlando, who has been running about in the woods carving her name on trees and hanging love poems on branches, "seems to have the quotidian of love upon him." Shakespeare's use doesn't make it clear that "quotidian" derives from a Latin word that means "every day." Odd as it may seem, Shakespeare's use of "quotidian" is just a short semantic step away from the "daily" adjective sense. Some fevers occur intermittently -- sometimes daily. The phrase "quotidian fever" and the noun "quotidian" have long been used for such recurring maladies.. - Subscribe to AWAD - A(free).Word.A.Day ex. oscitant (OS-i-tant) noun 1. Yawning, gaping from drowsiness. 2. Inattentive, dull, negligent... -

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PASSAGERE, LA PLUIE... > Inspirée par le temps, j'ai fait un petit lexique de circonstance sans prétention. - Claire H. RAIN (n)      water falling from the clouds : pluie drizzling rain : pluie fine, bruine driving / heavy / lashing / pelting rain = pluie battante light rain : pluie légère a spit of rain : quelques gouttes de pluie (loc) in the rain : à / sous la pluie it looks like rain, we're in for some rain = on dirait qu'il va pleuvoir, le temps est à la pluie to be setting in for rain : se mettre à la pluie the rain's on (Scott) : ça pleut (come) rain or shine : par tous les temps, qu'il pleuve ou qu'il vente, quoiqu'il arrive RAIN BELT : zone des pluies RAINBOW : arc-en-ciel : rainbow-coloured : irisé RAIN-CHART : carte pluviométrique RAIN-CLOUD : nimbus, nuage chargé de pluie RAINCOAT / RAINWEAR imperméable, manteau de pluie RAIN DANCE : danse de la pluie RAINDROP : single drop of rain : goutte de pluie RAINFALL : total amount of rain falling in a given time précipitations, chute de pluie, précipitations, (côte de) pluviosité, pluviométrie annual rainfall : quantité de pluie annuelle RAININESS : pluviosité, temps pluvieux RAIN-GAUGE : pluviomètre RAINLESS : sec, sans pluie RAINMAKER : faiseur de pluie RAINMAKING : destiné à faire venir la pluie RAINPROOF / WATERPROOF / SHOWERPROOF(adj) : imperméable RAIN-SHOWER : averse RAINSTORM : pluie torrentielle, trombes d'eau RAINSWEPT : balayé par la pluie RAINY : pluvieux (climate, weather), des pluies (season) rainy weather : temps de pluie it is rainy : le temps est à la pluie rainy / wet season : la saison des pluies (fig) rainy day : période difficile (fig) to be provided for against a rainy day : avoir gardé une poire pour la soif RAIN-WATER eau de pluie RAIN-WORM ver de terre RAIN (v. impers) pleuvoir to rain buckets, torrents : pleuvoir à seaux, torrents, tomber des cordes it is raining cats and dogs : il pleut des cordes, des hallebardes (ie arme d'hast, à fer pointu d'un côté et tranchant de l'autre, XIV- XVII°s) it never rains but it pours : un malheur n'arrive jamais seul BUCKET DOWN (v.impers) pleuvoir à seaux, pleuvoir des cordes (cf a bucket = un seau) CLOUDBURST violent storm of rain : averse DELUGE flood : pluie diluvienne, déluge DOWNPOUR great, heavy fall of rain : grosse averse DRIZZLE (n) rain in very fine drops crachin, bruine a steady drizzle : une petite pluie fine DRIZZLE (v) : bruiner, pleuvoter DRIZZLY : de bruine, bruineux HAIL (n) rain which falls as hard, frozen drops HAILSTONE : grêlon HAIL (v) : grêler MIZZLE crachin, bruine PELT (v.impers) : tomber des cordes, pleuvoir à seaux, à torrents (cf to pelt : bombarder avec un projectile) POUR (with rain) (v.impers) : pleuvoir à verse (v.t. : verser, v.i. : couler à flots) PRECIPITATION the amount of rain which has fallen onto the ground SHOWER (n) brief fall of rain : averse, ondée (grosse pluie subite et passagère), giboulée (pluie soudaine et de peu de durée, souvent accompagnée de grêle) April shower : giboulée de mars heavy shower : ondée scattered showers : des averses intermittentes SHOWER (v.intr) pleuvoir, tomber à verse / par ondées / comme la grêle SHOWERY pluvieux SLEET rain falling as snow but partly melted : neige fondue SNOW frozen rain that falls in soft, white pieces SPIT (with rain) : tomber quelques gouttes (cf to spit = cracher) SPRINKLE : petite pluie SQUALL sudden storm or wind : rafale, bourrasque TEEM (with rain / down) pleuvoir à verse, à seaux (cf to teem = grouiller, fourmiller) WATERSPOUT : trombe d'eau, also gouttière cf "to spout" = jaillir, gicler. faire la pluie et le beau temps : to lay down the law, to boss the show (fam), to call the shots (fam) il n'est pas tombé / né de la dernière pluie : there are no flies on him, he wasn't born yesterday petite pluie abat grand vent : a small effort can go a long way après la pluie vient le beau temps : the sun is shining again CHERCHER NOISE... Words in Context by Jean Darbelnet and Geoffrey Vitale - a practical guide to the vocabulary of perception and movement in English From the section about sound : bang, bellow, blast, blare, boom, bump, buzz, chatter, chink, chirp, chirrup, clang, clank, clap, clash, clatter, click, clink, clump, crack, crash, creak, crunch, fizz, fizzle out, gibber, grind, groan, hiss, honk, hoot, hum, jabber, jangle, jingle, moan, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, pop, rattle, roar, rumble, rustle, scrape, scream, screech, slam, slap, smack, snap, sniff(le), snort, snuffle, squawk, squeak, squeal, stamp, swish, thud, thump, tick, twang, twitter, wheeze, whine, whirr, whistle, whizz, yap. Nouveau Manuel de l'Angliciste de Patrick Rafroidi, Michèle Plaisant et Douglas J. Shott (ed. Ophrys). Patrick O' Rafroidi qui fut un des pionniers des études irlandaises en France est malheureusement décédé il y a quelques années. Quelques exemples tirés de cet ouvrage : Et ce que l'on entend, ce sont les sons, les bruits les plus divers, légers, sourds, perçants, profonds... = And what we hear are sounds and noises of every kind, slight, muffled, shrill, deep... bourdonnement ou brouhaha des voix = the hum or clamour of voices bruit sec des détonations = the sharp crack (report) of rifle-fire bruissements, friselis, frous-frous = rustles chari-vari = racket claquement des baisers = smacking kisses des fouets = cracking whips des langues = clicking tongues des portes = slamming (banging doors) des sabots = clattering clogs Jean-Marc l'agrégé a relevé  l'exemple suivant chez Sally Jacquelin & René Zimmer : "the demented clatter (...) of the old Citroën qu'ils traduisent par "le bruit de ferraille démentiel..."] cliquetis des verres qui s'entrechoquent avant qu'on entende le  fracas de ces mêmes verres brisés = clinking together before a crash is heard when they get broken cliquetis des épées = the rattle of swords coups à la porte = taps, knocks on the door coup de feu = shot coup sonore (sur métal) = clang ex. "Hear the loud alarm bells "Brazen bells! "How they clang, and clash, and roar" (E Poe) que Mallarmé (notre collègue) traduisait par: "Entendez les bruyantes cloches d'alarme Cloches de bronze! Qu'elles frappent et hoquent et rugissent!" coup sourd = thud coup de tonnerre = clap, peal of thunder coup de trompette = blast of the trumpet craquements = creaking crépitements = crackling As she drew the comb through her hair, there was a small  crackling of electric sparks - Huxley = Comme elle passait le peigne dans ses cheveux, l'on entendit de petites étincelles électriques crépiter légèrement la pluie aussi crépite sur le toit = As for the rain it patters or rattles on the roof crissements = crunching échos (Il souleva son fusil, et, dans la seconde, tira. Ce fut un bruit énorme qui bouscula au loin les ténèbres, s'enfla, répercuté longuement par les échos du bois -M Genevoix = He raised his gun, and, in the same moment, fired. There was a deafening report that shattered the distant darkness, grew in volume, as it rolled echoing back through the woods) Merci à JMC d'Avallon. > ben, y'a aussi, petit pépère, gros pépère, petit patapouf, hippo hippo, loulou, pioupiou, mon p'tit bout, roudoudou... - An-Ly.

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