French–English dictionary

dissident

Having broken away from a larger unit.

dissidente

One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.

dissimilation

(phonology, phonetics) A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.

dissimilitude

A lack of similarity or a lack of likeness in appearance to something else.

dissimulation

An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.

dissimuler

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

dissiper

(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.

dissocier

(transitive) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.

dissolvant

A solvent used to remove nail polish, usually mostly acetone.

dissonance

(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

dissonance cognitive

(psychology) A conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs.

dissonant

(obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim. [15th–19th c.]

dissoudre

(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.

dissuader

(transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.

dissuasif

Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.

dissuasion

the act or an instance of dissuading

distal

(anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin.

distance

(military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.

distancer

(transitive) To run faster than.

distant

Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

distendre

(intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell

distillation

(chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.

distiller

To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.

distillerie

A place where distillation takes place, especially the distillation of alcoholic spirits.

distinct

Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.

distinctement

In a distinct manner.

distinctif

Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.

distinction

That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.

distinguable

Able, or easily able to be distinguished.

distinguer

(rare, transitive) To make dissimilar or unlike.

distinguible

Able, or easily able to be distinguished.

distique

(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.

distordre

(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

distraire

(transitive) To divert the attention of.

distrait

Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

distrayant

Very amusing; that entertains.

distribuer

(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

distributeur

An object used to dispense other items.

distributif

(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.

distribution

(art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

distribution de postes à des membres du parti

Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.

district

An administrative division of an area.

dit

Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

dito

That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

diurétique

(medicine, pharmacology) Increasing the amount or frequency of urination.

divagation

A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

divagations

(usually, in the plural) Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.

divaguer

(often with on, about, or both) To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.

divan

The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice.

dive

(Zoroastrianism) A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature, usually considered as a demon.

divergence

(by extension) A large difference of opinion.

divergent

(mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.

divers

Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.

diversification

The act, or the result, of diversifying.

diversifié

Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.

diversifier

(transitive) To make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.

diversion

(military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.

diversité

The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.

diversité biologique

(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.

divertimento

(music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

divertir

(transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)

divertissant

Entertaining.

divertissement

(countable, archaic) Anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game, a pastime, a sport.

divertisseur

A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc.

divin

Having the characteristics of a god.

divination

(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.

divinatoire

Pertaining to divination.

divinité

(uncountable) The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]

divisé

Divided.

diviser

(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

diviser en deux

(transitive) To divide into two halves.

division

(biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis. [from 19th c.]

divorcé

A divorced person.

divorcée

A divorced person.

divulgâchage

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

divulgâchis

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

divulgation

(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

divulguer

(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.

dix

(countable, cards) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

dix-huit

The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

dix-huitième

The ordinal form of the number eighteen.

dix-neuf

The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

dix-neuvième

The ordinal form of the number nineteen.

dix-sept

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

dix-septième

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

dixième

A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture. [from 13th c.]

dizaine

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

dizaines

(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

Djaïpour

The state capital of Rajasthan, India.

Djakarta

A province and capital city of Indonesia.

djebel

A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).

djinn

(Islam) A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.

do

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

docile

resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit

docilement

In an obedient manner.

dock

(US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.

docker

A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

docteur

The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.

docteure

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

docteuse

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

doctorat

The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

doctoresse

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

doctrinal

Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.

doctrine

Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.

document

A document containing a certified statement.

documentaire

A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

documentation

(computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

documenter

To record in documents.

dodeliner

(transitive) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.

dodo

(idiomatic, baby-talk, childish) Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed, sleeping.

dodu

A chubby, plump person.

doge

(historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

dogmatique

Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.

dogmatisme

The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

dogmatiste

A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.

dogme

An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

dogsitter

One who acts as babysitter for a dog in the owner's absence.

doigt

(historical, _, units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of 1⁄16 foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.

doigt d'honneur

(with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

doigt de pied

(automotive) An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.

doigt du milieu

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

doigt III

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

doigtage

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

doigté

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

doigter

(transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.

dojo

(martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training.

doline

(geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.

dollar

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

Dolorès

A en given name.

domage

(business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

domaine

The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.

domaine de définition

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

domaine proche

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

domaine réservé

An activity with restricted access.

dôme

(architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

domestication

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.

domestique

Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.

domestiquer

(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

domi

(BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.

domicile

(formal) A home or residence.

domina

(BDSM) A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

dominance

The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

dominat

(historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.

dominateur

(BDSM) A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

domination

The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

dominatrice

(BDSM) A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

dominer

(transitive) To beat in a contest.

dominicain

Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.

dominicaine

Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.

dominiquais

Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.