French–English dictionary

tartan

(uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.

tartane

(watercraft) A type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.

Tartare

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.

tarte

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)

tarte au fromage

(countable, and, uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

tartelette

A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).

tartinable

Capable of being spread.

tartine

A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

tartiner

(transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]

tartre

A hard crust of calcium salts and food particles on the teeth, developing from plaque.

tartufe

Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]

tartuferie

The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.

tartuffe

Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]

tartufferie

The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.

Tarzan

(fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised from a baby to adulthood in the African jungle by apes.

TAS

(legal, sport) Initialism of w:Court of Arbitration for Sport.

tas de ferraille

(idiomatic, slang) A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.

taser

A weapon intended to immobilize, usually through delivery of an electric shock.

Tash

A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.

Tass

A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.

tasse

A customary unit of measure

tasse à thé

A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.

tasse de thé

(colloquial) One's preference.

tasse-braise

A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.

tasser

(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

tata

(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

tatar

Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.

tatare

Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.

tâter

(obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

Tatiana

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Татья́на (Tatʹjána).

tatie

(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

tâtonner

(transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something

tatou

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

tatouer

To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).

taudis

(pejorative) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

taulard

(slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.

taularde

A prisoner or an ex-prisoner

taule

(transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.

taupe

The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

taupinière

A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground.

Taureau

Someone with a Taurus star sign.

taurillon

(archaic) A young bull.

Taurus

A mountain range in southern Anatolia, almost 4000 metres high and running parallel to the Mediterranean coast

tautologie

(countable) An expression that features tautology.

tautologique

Of, relating to, or using tautology.

taux

The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. [from 15th c.]

taux d'emploi

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

taux de mortalité

The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

taux de participation

The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.

taverne

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

tavernier

The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.

taxation

The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.

taxe

(countable) A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

taxer

(transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).

taxi

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

taxi-auto

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

taxidermie

The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

taxidermiste

One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.

taxinomie

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

taxonomie

(life sciences, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

tchac

(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.

Tchaïkovski

A transliteration of the Russian surname Чайко́вский (Čajkóvskij), usually applying to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

tchakra

(Hinduism, Ayurveda) Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.

tchatter

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).

tchécoslovaque

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.

Tchécoslovaquie

A former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Tchéka

(historical) The first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations, created in 1917.

tchèque

Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.

Tchernobyl

A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

Tchernov

A surname from Russian.

Tchétchène

A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Tchétchénie

A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.

tchin-tchin

A common toast used when drinking in company.

TD

(education) An interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.

TDAH

(informal) as of or relating to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

té

Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.

teaser

(marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.

technical

A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.

technicien

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

technicienne

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

technicienne de surface

(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

techniciens

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

technique

(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

techno-

Relating to technology.

technoïde

Resembling or characteristic of a geek.

technologie

(uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.

technologique

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

technologiquement

In a technological manner.

technologiste

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

technologue

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

teckel

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

tectonique

(geology) The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.

teddy

A type of all-in-one women's undergarment.

Téhéran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

teindre

(ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

teint

The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.

teinté

Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

teinte sable

A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

teinter

(transitive) To give something color.

teinture

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

teinturier

A business establishment that engages in the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.

teinturière

One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

tel

(demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

tel que

(mathematics) Abbreviation of such that.

télé

(colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.

téléavertisseur

(telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

télécabine

An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.

téléchargement

A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.

télécharger

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

télécommande

Ellipsis of remote control.

télécopie

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

télécopieur

A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.

télégramme

A message transmitted by telegraph.

télégraphe

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

télégraphier

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

téléimprimeur

(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.

téléjournal

Information about current events disseminated by the media.

télémesure

(spaceflight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

télémétrie

(spaceflight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

télénovela

A television soap opera presented as a miniseries.

télépathie

(parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

télépathique

(parapsychology) Of, relating to, or using telepathy.

télépathiquement

(parapsychology) By means of telepathy.

téléphérique

A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.

téléphone

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

téléphone arabe

(games, mostly, UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbor, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.

téléphone fixe

(by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not wireless/mobile.

téléphone intelligent

(cell phone) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

téléphone rouge

A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.

téléphoner

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

téléphoneur

(telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.

téléportation

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

téléporter

(transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.

téléporteur

(science fiction) A device used for teleporting.

téléprompteur

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.

télescope

A telescope.

télescopique

Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope. [from 17th c.]

téléscripteur

(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.

télésouffleur

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.

téléspectateur

Someone who watches television.

téléspectatrice

Someone who watches television.

téléthon

A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.

télétransportation

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

télétype

(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.

téléviseur

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

télévision

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

télex

A network of teletypes.

télézard

(idiom) A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol. [from 1976]

tell

(archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

tellement

In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.