ne pas être dans son assiette - to feel under the weather
1. n-f. (horse racing) seat
2. n-f. (nautical) trim, attitude, pitch attitude
3. n-f. (accounting) basis
4. n-f. dish (the food)
C'est une bonne assiette. - It's a good dish.
5. n-f. plate, dish (the crockery)
On a besoin d'assiettes. - We need plates.
6. n-f. plateful
Traductions de assiette et leurs définitions
plate
1. n. Plaque.
2. n. (Cuisine) Assiette.
3. n. (Héraldique) Besant (d'argent).
4. v. Plaquer (couvrir en matériau d'une fine couche d'un autre matériau).
plate
1. n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
2. n. Such dishes collectively.
3. n. The contents of such a dish.
I ate a plate of beans.
4. n. A course at a meal.
The meat plate was particularly tasty.
5. n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
6. n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
A clutch usually has two plates.
7. n. A vehicle license plate.
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
8. n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
9. n. A material covered with such a layer.
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
10. n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
The tea was served in the plate.
11. n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
12. n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
We finished making the plates this morning.
13. n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
14. n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
15. n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
16. n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
17. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
Sit down and give your plates a rest.
18. n. (baseball) Home plate.
There was a close play at the plate.
19. n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
20. n. (historical) Plate armour.
He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
21. n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
22. n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
23. n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
24. n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
25. n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
26. n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
27. n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
28. n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
29. n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
30. n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
31. n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
32. n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
33. n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
34. n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
35. n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
36. v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
37. v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
38. v. (baseball) To score a run.
The single plated the runner from second base.
39. v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
40. n. Precious metal, especially silver.
trim
1. v. Tailler, rogner.
2. v. Décorer, en particulier un sapin de Noël.
3. v. (Aviation) Modifier l'assiette (tangage) en utilisant les gouvernes de profondeur. Piquer, tanguer.
4. v. (Navigation) Ajuster le ballast.
5. v. (Navigation) Ajuster la voile.
6. v. (Désuet) Équilibrer ; fluctuer entre deux partis pour sembler favoriser les deux.
trim
1. v. To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. The adposition of can be used in the present perfect tense to designate the removed part.
He trimmed his beard before the interview.
The hedge needs to be trimmed.
Place the screen material in the frame, secure it in place, and trim the edges.
The company trimmed jobs for the second time this year.
A ranch steak is usually trimmed of all excess fat. (present perfect example)
2. v. To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
They traditionally trim the tree on Christmas Eve.
3. v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
4. v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the wat
5. v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
6. v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
7. v. To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
8. v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
9. v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
10. n. Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
Paint the house white with blue trim.
11. n. A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.
12. n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
13. n. The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
The car comes in three different trims.
to be in good trim
14. n. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
15. n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or
16. n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
17. adj. Physically fit.
He goes jogging every day to keep in trim.
18. adj. Slender, lean.
a trim figure
19. adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
a trim lawn
20. adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
21. adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.
plateful
plateful
1. n. The quantity contained on a plate
dish
1. n. Assiette.
2. n. Plat.
3. n. Vaisselle (= dishes).
dish
1. n. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
2. n. The contents of such a vessel.
a dish of stew
3. n. (metonym) A specific type of prepared food.
a vegetable dish
this dish is filling and easily made
4. n. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
It's your turn to wash the dishes.
5. n. (telecommunication) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
satellite dish
radar dish
6. n. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
7. n. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
the dish of a wheel
8. n. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. n. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
10. n. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
11. n. (slang) Gossip
12. v. To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.
13. v. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
14. v. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
15. v. (slang) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
