French–English dictionary

tonic

A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.

tonique

A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.

tonitruant

Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

tonitruer

(intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

tonne

(chiefly, _, US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.

tonneau

(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

tonnelet

A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

tonnelier

A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

tonner

(intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.

Tonnerre

The seventh reindeer of Santa Claus.

tonte

The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.

tonton

A brother or brother-in-law of one's father. (This entry is a translation hub.)

tonus

(informal) Energy, high spirits.

toolbox

(computing) A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.

toolkit

(computing) A set of software tools or components.

top

(US, slang, dated) Very good.

top 50

(radio, television) A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order and ending with the number one song.

top model

A highly paid, famous fashion model.

top-modèle

A highly paid, famous fashion model.

topaze

Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

topique

A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis.

topless

(chiefly, of a female) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.

topographe

a person who studies or records topography

topographie

The features themselves; terrain.

topographique

Of or relating to topography.

toponymie

(semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.

torche

A torch or other burning stick with a flame at one end.

torchis

(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.

torchon

A piece of absorbent cloth for drying or wiping dishes, cups or silverware

tord-nez

(farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.

tordant

Provoking uncontrollable laughter.

tordre

(intransitive) To become curved.

tordu

(figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.

toréador

One who engages in bullfighting; a toreador or matador.

torero

One who engages in bullfighting; a toreador or matador.

toril

An enclosed area used to hold bulls.

Tornade

The first reindeer of Santa Claus.

toron

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

Toronto

The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.

torontois

Of, from, or pertaining to the city of Toronto, Canada.

torontoise

Of, from, or pertaining to the city of Toronto, Canada.

torpeur

A state of being inactive or stuporous.

torpide

lazy, lethargic or apathetic

torque

(historical) A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.

torrent

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

torrentiel

Coming or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities.

torride

(weather) Hot and humid; sweltering. [from late 16th c.]

torsade

(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.

torse

The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

torse nu

Having one's chest bare; shirtless. (chiefly of a male)

torsion

A twist; a convolution.

tort

Physical injury; hurt; damage.

tortil

(heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.

tortiller

(transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.

tortionnaire

Someone who tortures.

tortue

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly, North America) or the order Testudines (chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) , whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

tortue aquatique

(countable) Any of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world.

tortueux

Of a long and winding route.

torturer

(transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.

Toscan

A native or inhabitant of Tuscany, Italy.

Toscane

A native or inhabitant of Tuscany, Italy.

Tosh

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

tôt

At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

total

Total, entire.

totale

Total or complete.

totalement

Wholly; completely; entirely.

totaliser

(transitive) To achieve something.

totalitaire

Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.

totalitarisme

A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

totalité

The state of being total.

tote bag

A tote bag.

totem

Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.

tototte

(North America) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. [from 20th c.]

toubib

(informal) A doctor.

touchable

Capable of being touched; tangible or palpable.

touchant

Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.

touchau

A stone used to verify the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them in order to leave a visible trace.

touchdown

(American football, Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

touche

A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

touche de suppression

(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.

touche-à-tout

Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.

toucher

(transitive) To influence or alter.

touchette

(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

touffe

(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's. [from 1745]

touffu

Covered with fluff.

touiller

(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

toujours

At any time.

Toula

A city, the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia, 165 km south of Moscow.

Toulon

A city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the préfecture of the département of Var, in France.

Toulouse

The capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France.

toundra

A flat and treeless Arctic biome.

toupet

Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

tour

(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

tour de circuit

(sports) One circuit around a race track.

tour de garde

An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.

tour de guet

An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.

tour de passe-passe

A fraudulent deal.

tour de reins

(uncountable) Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.

tour de spire

(zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

tour du chapeau

(by extension, sports) Three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc., such as three consecutive wins.

touraille

An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

tourbe

Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. [from 14th c.]

tourbière

(wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)

tourbillon

A circular current; a whirlpool.

tourbillonnant

Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex. [from 17th c.]

tourbillonner

(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.

tourelle

A watchtower.

tourisme

The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

touriste

Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]

tourment

Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

tourmente

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.

tourmenter

To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.

tournage

The action of the verb to film.

tournant

(poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.

tournant décisif

(figurative) A critical point marking a change in course or development.

tourné

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on one side until most of the whites have cooked, then lightly fried on the other to finish cooking the whites, leaving the yolk unbroken and slightly soft (runny).

tournée

A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

tourner

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

tourner au ralenti

(intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

tourner autour du pot

(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

tourner en dérision

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

tourner en ridicule

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

tournesol

(uncountable) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.

tourneur

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.

tourneuse

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.

tournevis

A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.

tourniquet

(magic) A sleight of hand technique by which a magician appears to pass an object from one hand to the other while in fact keeping it in the original hand.

tournoiement

(quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

tournoyer

(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

tournure

(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

touron

A Spanish form of nougat made from almonds and honey.

Tours

A city, the largest in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France and the capital of Indre-et-Loire department.

tourte

(non-idiomatic usage, cooking) A pie containing meat.

tourteau

The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.

tourtereau

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

tourtereaux

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

tourterelle

(British spelling) Of a medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.

tous

(intensifier, sometimes, _, childish) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

tous les deux

Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.

tous les jours

quotidianly, every day

tousser

A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.

tout

(intensifier, sometimes, _, childish) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

tout à fait

To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

tout au long de

In every part of; all through.

tout autre

Other than supposed; different.

tout bien considéré

Generally speaking; in terms of the big picture.

tout compte fait

(modal, set phrase) Generally, all things considered

tout d'un coup

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

tout d’abord

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.

tout de suite

(archaic) Straight away; at once.