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pièce
     1. n-f. room (in a house, etc)
     2. n-f. piece
     3. n-f. (money) coin
     4. n-f. play (in a theatre)
     5. n-f. (heraldry) ordinary
     6. n-f. (legal) document, paper
     7. n-f. patch
de
     1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
           Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France.
     2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
           Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works
           Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife.
           le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor
     3. prep. from (used to indicate origin)
           Elle vient de France. - She comes from France.
           Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland?
           Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain.
           C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France.
           Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux.
     4. prep. of (indicates an amount)
           5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples.
           Un verre de vin - A glass of wine
           Une portion de frites - A portion of fries
     5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
           Un jus de pomme - Apple juice
           Un verre de vin - A glass of wine
           Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub
           Un chien de garde - A guarddog
           Une voiture de sport - A sportscar
           Un stade de football - A football stadium
     6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
           De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free.
           Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon.
           un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people
     7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
           J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking.
           Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me.
           Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come.
           Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come.
     8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change)
           Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%.
     9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.
           Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children.
           Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples.
     10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.
           Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother.
           Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat.
           Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems.
     11. n-f. abbreviation of dame
bois
     1. n-m. wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
     2. n-m. wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
     3. n-m. wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
     4. n-m. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
     5. n-m. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind
     6. v. singular present indicative of boire
     7. v. second-person singular present imperative of boire
     boire
          1. v. to drink
plaque
     1. n-f. sheet, plate (of metal)
     2. n-f. slab (of marble)
     3. n-f. (medicine) plaque (bacteria on teeth)
           plaque muqueuse, dentaire
     4. n-f. plaque, slab (ornamental)
     5. n-f. (casino) chip
     6. n-f. (electrics, photography) plate
     7. n-f. (geology) plate (especially a tectonic plate)
     8. n-f. slab, bar (of e.g. chocolate)
     9. n-f. (slang) 10,000 francs
     10. n-f. burner; ring (element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking)
     11. v. first-person singular present of plaquer
     12. v. third-person singular present of plaquer
     13. v. second-person singular imperative of plaquer
     plaquer
          1. v. to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)
          2. v. (rugby) to tackle
          3. v. (martial arts) to grapple
          4. v. (colloquial) to leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone
                Elle a plaqué son copain.
                She left her boyfriend.
métallique
     1. adj. metallic
Toile
     1. Proper noun. Web; World Wide Web
     2. n-f. fabric, cloth; canvas
     3. n-f. painting (artwork)
     4. n-f. (spider's) web
     5. n-f. alternative case form of Toile
     toiler
          1. v. to cover with cloth
          2. v. (nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft
tendue
     1. Participle. feminine singular of tendu
     tendre
          1. adj. tender (soft, delicate)
          2. v. to tighten
          3. v. to stretch out
          4. v. (indtr, vers) to tend towards
                tendre vers l'infini - to tend to infinity
          5. v. (indtr, vers) to strive for
          6. v. to become taut
sur
     1. prep. on, upon
     2. prep. on top of
     3. prep. from on top of
     4. prep. above
     5. prep. out of
           sept sur dix - seven out of ten
     6. prep. in the case of
     7. prep. about, concerning
     8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place)
           sur Paris - in Paris
     9. adj. sour
un
     1. art. an, a
     2. num. number box, fr
     3. num. one
     4. pron. one, someone
     5. n-m. one (the number or figure)
cadre
     1. n-m. frame (of a door or picture)
     2. n-m. backbone (of an organization)
     3. n-m. box, square (on a printed page)
     4. n-m. (business) executive, middle manager
     5. n-m. scope, framework
     6. n-m. (military) cadre
     7. n-m. context, parameters
     8. n-m. (cycling) frame
           cadre en fibre de carbone - carbon fiber frame
     9. n-m. environment, setting
           cadre de vie - living environment
     10. v. first-person singular present of cadrer
     11. v. third-person singular present of cadrer
     12. v. second-person singular imperative of cadrer
     cadrer
          1. v. to fit (go well together)
          2. v. (photography) to frame (put into the field of vision)
etc
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary