French–English dictionary

Volks

A car manufactured by Volkswagen.

Volkswagen

A car manufactured by Volkswagen.

volley-ball

(uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.

volontaire

Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.

volontairement

In a voluntary manner.

volontariat

The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service.

volonté

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

volontiers

In a glad manner; happily.

volt

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

voltage

(electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.

voltige

(aviation) The practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.

voltige aérienne

Having to do with acrobatic maneuvers, such as spins, twirls, and flips, performed by an airplane.

voltiger

To move about rapidly and nimbly.

voltigeur

(cricket, baseball) A player that plays in the outfield, which is the outer portion of the field.

volubile

Not constant; wavering.

volume

Size, specifically, volume.

volumen

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.

volumétrique

Pertaining to measurement by volume.

volumineux

Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).

volupté

(uncountable) Sexual enjoyment.

voluptueux

Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

volute

(architectural element) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

vomi

(colloquial, uncountable) vomit.

vomir

(slang) To vomit.

vorace

Greedy.

vos

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

votant

(politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

votante

Someone who votes.

votard

(politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

votation

The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.

vote

A nearly extinct Finno-Ugric language spoken in Ingria.

voter

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

votif

Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge.

votre

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

voué

Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.

vouer

(transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.

voui

(informal) Yes.

vouivre

(heraldiccharge, mythology, fantasy) A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.

vouloir

(intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

vouloir beaucoup

(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

voulu

Planned.

vous

The individual or group spoken or written to.

vous autres

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

vous-même

(emphatic pronoun) You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.

vous-mêmes

(emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.

voussoyer

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

voûte

A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

voûte céleste

(also, Lancashire) The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.

voûte plantaire

(anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.

vouvoyer

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

voyage

A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.

voyage de noces

A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.

voyager

To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

voyageur

One who travels, especially to distant lands.

voyageuse

One who travels, especially to distant lands.

voyant

(figuratively) Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.

voyante

One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.

voyeur

A person who watches another without the other's permission and usually without the other's knowledge, especially for the purpose of deriving sexual pleasure from the sight of the other.

voyou

A rough or violent youth.

VPN

(computing) Initialism of virtual private network.

vrac

(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.

vrai

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

vraie vie

Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.

vraiment

Completely, wholly.

vraiment ?

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.

vraisemblance

The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.

vrille

A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.

vriller

To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).

vrombir

To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.

vrombissement

The sound produced by something that buzzes.

vroum

(often, reduplicated) The sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.

vu

(idiomatic) (originally) By the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.

vu que

In consideration of the fact that.

vue

Vision or the faculty of sight.

vue d'ensemble

The totality of a situation.

vulgaire

With a rough texture; not smooth.

vulgarité

(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

vulnérabilité

(uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

vulnérable

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

vulve

(vulgar, _, slang) The vulva.

w.-c.

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Initialism of water closet: a lavatory; a toilet.

wafer

(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

wagon monorail

a train running on a single rail

wagon plat

(rail, US) A railroad freight car without sides and roof.

wagon-restaurant

(US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

Walhalla

(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.

walkman

A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.

wallaby

Any of several species of macropod; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.

wallon

Of, from or relating to Wallonia.

wallonne

Of, from or relating to Wallonia.

wannabe

(informal, derogatory, often, attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.

wantan

A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables.

wanton

A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables.

waouh

An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.

warm up

(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.

Warwick

A town and civil parish with a town council in Warwick district, and the county town of Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2865).

wasabi

A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (syn. Wasabia japonica).

Watergate

An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.

Waterloo

A regional municipality and city in Ontario, Canada.

waterproof

Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in.

watt

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

waxing

(countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.

Wayne Gretzky

(ice hockey, figuratively) Ellipsis of w:Wayne Gretzky.

WC

(US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.

Web

the World Wide Web.

webcam

(computing, photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.

webcaméra

(computing, photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.

weber

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.

webinaire

An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.

week-end

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

weekend

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

Wehrmacht

(historical, nazism) The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.

Weimar

An independent city in Thuringia, Germany.

Wellington

(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.

welter

Heavyweight. (of horsemen)

wendigo

(mythological creature) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

Wendy

A en given name.

weregild

(historical, especially in Germanic, _, legal) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

wergeld

(historical, especially in Germanic, _, legal) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

wergild

(historical, especially in Germanic, _, legal) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

Wessex

(historical) One of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, existing between the 6th and 9th centuries, and comprising most of England south of the Thames.

western

(Should we move, merge or split([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ARequests+for+moves%2C+mergers+and+splits&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:rfm-sense/preload&preloadtitle=%5B%5Bnorthern+and+western%23rfm-sense-notice-en-%7cwestern%5D%5D +]) this sense?) (cinema) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

wheeling

(informal) An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels.

whip

(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.

whisky

(Ireland, US, England) A drink of whiskey.

Whistler

A mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain.

wigwam

A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

Wii

(video games) A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.

wiki

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

Wikipédia

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wiktionnaire

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wilfrid

A en given name, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.

Wilfried

A en given name, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.

William

A en given name popular since the Norman Conquest.

winch

A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).

winnebago

A village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.

Winnipeg

The capital city of Manitoba, Canada.

wino

(physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

Wisconsin

A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

Wisconsinite

A native or resident of the state of Wisconsin in the United States of America.

wishbone

(nautical) A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.

withérite

(mineral) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3

wok

(cookware) A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.

Wolfgang

A German en given name.

wolfram

A rare metallic chemical element (symbol W, from Latin wolframium) with an atomic number of 74.

wombat

Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.

won

The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

wonton

A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables.

woofer

A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.

workaholique

In the nature or manner of a workaholic.