French–English dictionary

gravitationnel

Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.

gravité

Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.

graviter

(intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.

graviton

(particle) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

gravure

The act or craft of producing a carved object.

gray

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass.

grec

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

Grèce

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Hellenic Republic. Capital and largest city: Athens.

grecque

Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.

grecques

(countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.

gredin

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.

gredine

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.

gréement

Dress; tackle; especially (nautical) , the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.

gréements

(nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.

gréer

(transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.

greffage

(horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.

greffe

(medicine, surgery, dated) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.

greffer

(transitive, medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.

greffier

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

greffière

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

greffon

(horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

grégaire

(zoology) Of animals that travel in herds or packs.

grège

A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.

Grégoire

A en given name.

grégorien

Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.

Grégory

A en given name.

grêler

(impersonal) To have hailstones fall from the sky.

grelin

(nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.

Grenade

A city in Andalusia, Spain.

grenader

To use grenade(s) upon.

grenadier

(military) A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.

grener

(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.

grenier

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

grenier à blé

The region that produces the food for a particular population.

Grenoble

A commune in the French Alps in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

grenouillage

Deceitful tricks; trickery; games. [from mid 19th c.]

grenouille

Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.

grenouille-taureau

Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.

grenouillette

Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.

grès

A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

grésil

(chiefly, United States) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

grésillement

(countable) The sound of water boiling on a hot surface.

grésiller

(intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.

Gretzky

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

grève

(historical) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.

grève patronale

(labor) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.

gréviste

A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.

gribouillage

Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.

gribouiller

(ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.

gribouillis

A small mindless sketch, etc.

griffe

A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.

griffer

To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.

griffon

A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.

griffonnage

(informal, idiom) Cramped or illegible handwriting.

griffonner

(ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.

grignette

A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

grignotage

An item of food eaten between meals.

grignoter

(intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.

grigou

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

Grigrigredinmenufretin

A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.

gril

(US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.

grillades

A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

grille

(sports) Any event in gymnastics using the bars.

grille de contrôle

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).

grille de départ

(sports, games) The arrangement of positions in a tournament.

grille de mots croisés

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

griller

(transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

grillon

An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.

grillot

(countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]

grimace

A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.

grimacer

(intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

grimoire

(occult) A book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic, especially one containing spells for summoning demons.

grimpante

Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.

grimper

(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.

grimper en flèche

(intransitive) To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.

grinçant

Tending to creak.

grincement

(jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.

grincer

(transitive) To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.

grincer des dents

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

grincheux

Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.

gringalet

A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

griotte

The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.

grippe

(disease) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.

grippe-sou

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

gris

(informal) Drunk.

grisaille

Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.

grisant

Refreshingly thrilling.

grisâtre

Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

grisbi

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang) Money.

griser

(demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

griserie

The property of being tipsy.

grisou

(mining, archaic, or, historical) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

grive

Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

griveton

(US, military slang) An infantry soldier.

grivois

Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [from 15th Century]

Groenland

A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.

grog

An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

groggy

Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

grognement

A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy.

grogner

To make a groan.

grognon

(informal) An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.

groin

Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.

grommeler

(intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

grommellement

Something that is muttered.

grondement

A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy.

gronder

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

groove

(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

gros

Of great size, large.

gros bonnet

(idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

gros cul

(US, slang, vulgar) Large, rounded buttocks.

gros intestin

(chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

gros lard

(coarse, slang, pejorative) A rotund, overweight, or obese person.

gros lot

A large cash prize or money.

gros mot

A word that is considered vulgar, not necessarily sexual in nature.

gros-canon

(printing, dated, uncountable) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

gros-texte

(uncountable, US, _, printing, dated) A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.

groseille

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.

groseille à maquereau

A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

groseillier

A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.

grosse

(of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.

grosse légume

(idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

grosse tête

(slang, sometimes, derogatory) A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.

grossesse

The period of time this condition prevails.

grosseur

Size, specifically, volume.

grossier

Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.

grossière

Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

grossièrement

in a coarse manner

grossièreté

(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

grossir

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

grossiste

A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.

grossoyer

(transitive, now, _, legal) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

grotesque

Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

grotte

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

grouillement

A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

grouiller

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

grouiller de

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

groupe

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

groupe de niveau

(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

groupe ethnique

A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of ancestral, national, linguistic, cultural, historical or religious grounds.

groupe parlementaire

A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

groupe témoin

(in an experiment) The group of test subjects left untreated or unexposed to some procedure and then compared with treated subjects in order to validate the results of the test.

groupement

An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.

grouper

(transitive) To gather into a bunch.

groupie

(by extension, informal) Any dedicated fan of something.

gruau

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

gruau de maïs

(Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

gruik

Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.

grume

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

grumeau

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

grumeleux

Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.