French–English dictionary

sexagénaire

Of or related to sixtysomethings.

sexe

(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier. [from 1899]

sexer

(zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).

sexisme

Discrimination or different treatment based on sex or gender, especially discrimination against women.

sexiste

Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

sextant

(nautical) A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.

sextette

(music) A composition for six voices or instruments.

sextillion

(US, British, Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.

sexting

sending sexually explicit text messages or photographs between cell phones

sexto

sending sexually explicit text messages or photographs between cell phones

sextuor

(music) A composition for six voices or instruments.

sextuplé

One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.

sexuel

Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. [from 17th c.]

sexy

(colloquial, of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.

Seychelles

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

shabbat

Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

shah

A king of Persia or Iran.

shake-hand

The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

shakespearien

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

shako

A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.

shaman

A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.

shamane

A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.

shampoing

An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

shampooing

An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

shan

The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.

Shanghaï

A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.

Shans

A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.

shaomai

A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.

sharbat

A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.

shawarma

A Middle Eastern sandwich-like wrap of shaved lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef, or a mixture of these.

Shéhérazade

A en given name.

shellac

A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.

sherbet

A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.

shérif

(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.

shiatsu

A form of massage, using the thumbs and palms, employed as therapy.

shift

A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

shifu

A master or teacher in the context of martial arts, especially kung fu and tai chi.

shilling

(historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.

shimmy

An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.

shin

The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): w:Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

shinjitai

The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947.

shinto

Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

shintoïsme

Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

shogun

The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.

shogunat

(historical, Japan) The office or dignity of a shogun.

shona

A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

shopping

The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.

short

Pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.

shotgun

(informal) Used to claim this right.

showman

One skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.

showroom

A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.

si

(music) The seventh note in the C major scale.

si ce n'est

Used to introduce a clause, phrase, verb infinitive, adverb or other non-noun complement forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.

si Dieu le veut

(Islam) Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.

si Dieu veut

(often, as disjunct) Barring unforeseen circumstances, it is hoped that (while generally also indicating acceptance of God's will).

si oui ou non

Introduces a simple indirect question (without a correlative).

si si

(emphatic, colloquial, childish) Used to contradict a negative assertion with present and simple past forms of be, do, and auxiliary verbs

Siam

(historical) Former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia.

siamois

Of or relating to Siam; Thai.

Siamoise

(historical, plural "Siamese" or "Siameses") An inhabitant of Siam.

Sibérie

The region of Russia in Asia, stretching from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

sibérien

Of or relating to Siberia.

Sibérienne

(ethnology) A person from Siberia.

sibyllin

Difficult to understand; abstruse.

sic

Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

sicaire

A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.

siccité

(uncountable) A lack of moisture.

Sichuan

A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.

Sicile

The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.

sicilien

Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

SIDA

(disease) Acronym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. [from 1982]

side-car

A motorcycle and sidecar.

sidération

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

sidéré

Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.

sidérer

(transitive, especially, law) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.

Sidonie

A en given name.

siècle

A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

siècle des Lumières

(historical period) A period of European intellectual history during which the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement emphasizing the importance of logic and reason, flourished, from part of the 17th century through much of the 18th century.

siège

A seat among a group of seats in an enclosure, as at a theater or stadium.

siège social

The center of an organization's operations or administration.

siéger

(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.

sieste

(countable) A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures.

siester

To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

sifflant

Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

sifflante

Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

sifflement

A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.

sifflements

Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.

siffler

(team sports) To make a piercing sound which signals a referee's action or the end of a game.

siffler du vin

To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

sifflet

A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.

siffleur

Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.

siffleux

(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

sifu

A master or teacher in the context of martial arts, especially kung fu and tai chi.

sigisbée

(now, chiefly, historical) A man who escorts a married woman to social functions, especially in 18th-century Italy; a married woman's lover.

sigle

(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.

sigma

The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.

signal d'alarme

A brake which can be used by passengers in a vehicle to stop in event of an emergency.

signalement

A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

signaler

(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.

signalisation

(uncountable) Signs, particularly those imparting commercial, directional, or road traffic information, taken collectively.

signataire

One who signs or has signed something.

signe

(astrology) Any of twelve signs, corresponding to constellations, that are used as the basis of astrology

signe [[avant-coureur]]

A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

signe de croix

(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

signer

(transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc.

signet

A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

significatif

Having meaning, significant.

signification

The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.

signifier

(transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.

signofile

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, automotive ) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.

SIH

(medicine, software) Initialism of w:health information system or hospital information system.

sikh

of, or relating to the Sikhs or to Sikhism.

silence

A silence, especially after some noise

silencieusement

In a silent manner; making no noise.

silencieux

For internal combustion engines, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.

silencieux d'échappement

(US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.

silène

(botany) Any of several plants of the genus Silene.

silex

A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

silhouette

A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.

silice

Silicon dioxide. [from 1801]

silicium

(chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.

silicone

(chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.

Silla

An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.

sillet

(musical instruments, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

sillon

An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

sillonner

(transitive) To move back and forth over or through.

silt

(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

silure

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

Silvain

(biblical character) A companion of Paul, also called Silas.

Silvestre

A en given name used in English since the sixteenth century.

simien

Of or pertaining to apes and monkeys.

similaire

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

similairement

(manner) In a like style or manner.

similarité

Closeness of appearance to something else.

similitude

Closeness of appearance to something else.

Simone

A en given name.

simonie

The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.

simple

Requiring little skill or effort.

simple soldat

A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.

simple texte

(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text). [from 20th c.]

simplement

Only, simply, merely.

simplet

(chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Foolish, silly, stupid.

simplexe

(algebraic, _, topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.

simplification

The act of simplifying or something that has been simplified.

simplifier

(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

simplisme

The trait of oversimplifying things by ignoring complexity and complications.

simpliste

Overly simple.

Simran

A en given name.

simulacre

A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.