Traduction appliquée glossary
Traduction appliquée glossary
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- Compliance
- Noun
- Following law, norm, rule
- Example: Compliance checks of returned products
- fr: Conformité, conformément.
- Courier
- Noun
- Delivery service. Messenger
- Example: The products are handed over to the courier.
- fr: Coursier, livreur, messager.
- Dairy
- adj
- containing or made from milk.
- Example: Dairy products contain lot of calcium.
- fr: laitier
- Dispatch
- Verb
- to send something somewhere for a particular purpose
- Example: He dispatched some clothes
- fr: Déléguer. Envoyer.
- Display
- noun
- a performance, show, or event staged for public entertainment
- Example: Firework display
- fr: Exposition/Affichage
- Free-range, cage-free
- Adj
- farm animals that are allowed to move around outside and are not kept in cages
- Example: Offering eggs from free-range hens.
- fr: à l'air libre
- Grand larceny
- Adjective/verb
- Thief with violence, threats or weapons.
- Example: She has been comitted for grand larceny
- fr: Vol qualifié
- Guzzler
- noun/adj
- a person/device who consume something greedily
- Example: This light is an incredible power-guzzler.
- fr: Glouton
- Heiress
- Noun
- Female inheritor
- Example: Shawna is heiress to a large fortune, so she doesn't need to worry about finding a good job.
- fr: Héritière
- Hide (skin)
- Noun
- Animal skin treated for human use.
- Example: The cow's hide will be sold as leather.
- fr: Peau. Cuir. Tannerie.
- Palliate
- Verb
- to reduce the bad effects of something
- Example: They tried to palliate the hardship of their lives.
- fr: Pallier, réduire
- Plaintiff
- Noun
- a person who brings a case against another in a court of law
- Example: the plaintiff commenced an action for damages
- fr: Plaignant/Demandeur
- Slaughterhouse
- Noun
- a place where animals are slaughtered for food
- Example: Those cows will end their life in the slaughterhouse.
- fr: Abattoir
- Starch
- noun
- an odourless, tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes. It is a polysaccharide which functions as a carbohydrate store and is an important constituent of the human diet
- Example: Potatoes are rich in starch.
- fr: Amidon/fécule
- Stifle
- Verb
- To be unable to breath because there is no air. Suffocating
- Example: The government's trying to stifle the democracy movement.
- fr: Etouffer