French–English dictionary

trinitrotoluène

A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH3C6H2(NO2)3), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene.

trinquer

(ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.

trio

Describing a set or group with three elements.

triolet

(music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.

triolisme

An instance of sexual activity involving three people.

triomphal

Of, relating to, or being a triumph.

trip

(colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.

tripe

(chiefly, in plural) The entrails; (by extension, humorous, or, derogatory) the belly.

triper

(intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.

tripes

The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

triplé

(sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.

triplement

By a factor of three.

tripler

(transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.

triplés

One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.

triplet

One of a group of three, particularly

Tripolitain

Someone from Tripoli.

Tripolitaine

Someone from Tripoli.

tripotage

(sex) The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.

tripoter

(idiomatic, transitive) To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.

triptyque

(arts) A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges.

trique

(coarse, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]

trisme

(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.

trismus

(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.

triste

In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

tristement

In a sad manner; sorrowfully.

tristement célèbre

Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.

tristesse

(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.

triton

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

triturer

(intransitive) To ponder or consider.

triumvirat

An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical) two such councils in Roman history.

trivial

Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

trivialité

Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

trobairitz

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

troc

An act of exchanging or trading.

trochure

The fourth tine of an antler's beam.

troène

Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.

troglodyte

Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).

trogne

(slang, often, derogatory) The face.

trognon

The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

Troie

(historical) An ancient city in what is now northwestern Turkey.

troïka

An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical) two such councils in Roman history.

trois

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

trois fois

(somewhat, dated, outside, Asia, Canada, Australia, &) Three times.

trois fois plus grand

Three times as great.

troisième

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

troisième doigt

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

troisième mi-temps

A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.

troisièmement

In the third place; third in a row.

trojan

(computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.

trollage

The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others).

troller

(figurative, originally, Internet slang) To post irrelevant or inflammatory statements in an online discussion in an attempt to start a heated argument or to derail a conversation, either for one's personal entertainment or as part of an organized political campaign. [from late 20th c.]

trolley

A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.

trombe

A heavy rain.

trombinoscope

A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.

trombone

A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.

trompe

A snout, the nose of an animal.

tromper

(transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).

tromperie

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

trompeter

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.

trompette

(brass instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

trompettiste

Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

trompeur

Deceptive, two-faced.

trompeuse

A person who lies or deceives.

tronc

A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.

troncation

(countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.

troncature

(linguistics) The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).

tronche

(slang) The human head.

tronçon

A thin, broad piece cut off.

tronçonneuse

(forestry, machinery, DIY) A power saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees.

tronqué

Truncated.

trop

(often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.

trop aigu

(music) Higher in pitch than required.

trop cuire

(transitive) To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).

trop cuit

Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

trop haut

(music) Higher in pitch than required.

trop liquide

Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

trop manger

(ambitransitive) To eat too much of.

trop peu connu

Not given enough recognition for its quality.

trope

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

trophée

A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.

tropique

(geography) Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

tropiques

(geography) The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.

tropisme

(uncountable, biology) The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this.

troquer

(transitive) To trade or barter.

trot

(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

Trotski

A surname.

Trotsky

A surname.

trotter

(intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

trottiner

(transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.

Trotzki

A surname.

Trotzky

A surname.

trou

A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

trou à rats

A particularly squalid human residence or other place.

trou d'homme

A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.

trou d’eau

(astronomy) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quiet in terms of radio astronomy.

trou de cul

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

trou de la serrure

Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.

trou de mémoire

A temporary loss of memory.

trou de nez

Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

trou de serrure

Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.

trou de tirailleur

(military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.

trou du cul

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

trou perdu

(idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.

troubadour

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

troubadouresse

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

troublant

Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

trouble

Not transparent or clear.

trouble-fête

(obsolete, idiomatic) A spoilsport, an addle-plot.

troubler

(transitive) To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.

troubles

Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.

trouée

An opening allowing passage or entrance.

trouer

(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.

troufion

(US, military slang) An infantry soldier.

trouillard

(pejorative) A cowardly person.

troupe

A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.

troupeau

A group of unicorns.

troupes

Armed forces.

troupier

(British, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).

trousse

Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.

trousse de couture

(plural "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.

trouvaille

Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.

trouvé

fictional, made up, imaginary.

trouver

(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

trouver sa place

(of a person) To be accepted in a group.

trouvère

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

trouzillion

(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).

troyen

Of, or relating to, the famed city of Troy or its inhabitants.

Troyenne

(astrophysics) An object residing at a Trojan point.

truander

(transitive) To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.

trublion

One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.

truc

(colloquial) One's preference.

truc à voir

(often, in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.

trucage

A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.

trucmuche

(informal) Something that one does not know the name of.

truculent

Cruel or savage.

truelle

A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

truffer

(transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

truisme

(countable) An expression that features tautology.

truite

Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

Trump

A surname from German.

truqué

(figurative) Prearranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance.

truquer

(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.

trust

A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

truster

(transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

tsar

(historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.

tsarévitch

A son of a tsar, a prince in Russia or Bulgaria.

tsarine

(historical) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

tsigane

The Indo-Aryan lect of the Roma people, or one of its sublects (such as Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc), closely related to Hindi and Rajasthani.

Tsoar

(biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.

Tsonnontouan

A member of a tribe of Native Americans in western New York state.