4. n-f. (colloquial) a bright spark, a quick study
Ce type-là, c'est une tête - This guy is a head
Traductions de tête et leurs définitions
head
1. adj. Relatif à la tête.
2. adj. Relatif au chef, chef/directeur de.
3. adj. D'en face.
4. n. (Anatomie) Tête.
5. n. Aptitude
The company is looking for somebody with a good head for business.
La société recherche quelqu'un ayant de bonnes aptitudes pour ce poste.
6. n. (Travail) Chef.
Head of department
Chef de service
7. n. Source.
The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
L'expédition a suivi la rivière jusqu'à sa source.
8. n. Titre.
9. n. (Éducation) Principal ou principale d'un école, lycée, etc.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
10. n. (Cuisine) (Botanique) Une unité de mesure de l'entièreté d'un chou, d'un laitue, ou d'autres plantes comestibles
A head of lettuce
Une tête (entière et attachée) de laitue
A head of garlic is divided into many cloves.
Une tête d'ail se divise en un ensemble de gousses.
11. n. (Vulgaire) Fellation, cunnilingus.
12. v. Mettre le cap (sur, à).
Let's head for California. There are bound to be more opportunities there.
Allons voir en Californie. On peut s'attendre à y trouver plus d'occasions là-bas.
13. v. Diriger, commander, être le chef.
14. v. Intituler, donner un titre.
15. v. (Football) Faire une tête.
head
1. n. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
2. n. (people) To do with heads.
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
# The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
# He has no head for heights.
# It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
4. n. # Mind; one's own thoughts.
# This song keeps going through my head.
5. n. # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
6. n. # A headdress; a covering for the head.
# a laced head; a head of hair
7. n. # An individual person.
# Admission is three dollars a head.
8. n. (animals) To do with heads.
9. n. # (measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
# 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
# 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
# at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
# a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
# they shot 20 head of quail
10. n. # The population of game.
# we have a heavy head of deer this year
# planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
11. n. # The antlers of a deer.
12. n. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
13. n. The end of a table.
14. n. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
# During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
15. n. # (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
16. n. The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
17. n. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.
18. n. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
# Hit the nail on the head!
19. n. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.
# The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
20. n. # (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
21. n. # (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
# Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
22. n. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
# The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
23. n. # (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
24. n. # (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
25. n. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
26. n. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
27. n. (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
28. n. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
29. n. (music) The headstock of a guitar.
30. n. (nautical) A leading component.
31. n. # The top edge of a sail.
32. n. # The bow of a vessel.
33. n. (British) A headland.
34. n. (social) A leader or expert.
35. n. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
36. n. Leader; chief; mastermind.
I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
37. n. A headmaster or headmistress.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
38. n. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.
39. n. A significant or important part.
40. n. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
41. n. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
# The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
42. n. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
# Give me a head of lettuce.
43. n. ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
44. n. ## The leafy top part of a tree.
45. n. # (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
46. n. # (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
# I've got to go to the head.
47. n. # (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
48. n. A component.
49. n. # (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
50. n. # (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a memb
51. n. Headway; progress.
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
52. n. Topic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
53. n. Denouement; crisis.
These isses are going to come to a head today.
54. n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
55. n. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
56. n. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
57. n. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
58. n. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
59. n. (slang) The glans penis.
60. n. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
61. n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
62. adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
63. adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
the head cook
64. adj. Placed at the top or the front.
65. adj. Coming from in front.
head sea
header
1. n. En-tête
2. n. Chapeau (dans un article de journal)
3. n. Boutisse
4. n. Linteau
5. n. Coup de tête (sport)
header
1. n. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
2. n. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
3. n. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
That column should have the header "payment status".
4. n. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
5. n. (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
6. n. (programming) (clipping of header file)
7. n. (networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors
The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
8. n. A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher.
This wall has four header courses.
9. n. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
10. n. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
They fed the bale into the header.
11. n. (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
12. n. (soccer) Someone who heads the ball
13. n. A headlong fall or jump.
The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.
14. n. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
15. n. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.
16. n. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
17. v. (sports) To strike (a ball) with one's head.
brain surgeon
brain surgeon
1. n. Someone who does brain surgery.
2. n. Someone very intelligent.
bright spark
bright spark
1. n. (colloquial) A person who is intelligent, clever or quick-witted.
John's youngest is doing well at school. He's a bright spark, isn't he?
block
1. n. (Urban) Bloc, pâté de maisons.
How many more blocks do we have to walk to get there?
Combien de pâtés de maisons devons-nous encore traverser à pied pour arriver là ?
2. n. Rue.
3. n. Billot.
Why don't you set it up there on the block where everyone can see it?
Pourquoi ne le mets-tu pas là sur le billot où tout le monde peut le voir ?
4. n. Obstruction.
It's not getting through. There must be a block somewhere along the way.
Ça ne passe pas au travers. Il doit y avoir une obstruction quelque part le long du chemin.
5. n. Informatique Bloc : unité de stockage, contenant plusieurs secteurs.
6. n. (Réseaux) Bloc : séquence de bits.
7. n. (Prog) Bloc : section de code groupé.
8. n. (En particulier) (Prog) Ensemble compris entre une balise HTML ouvrante et une fermante, incluses.
9. n. (Marine) Tin.
Keel block. Bilge block.
Tin axial (sous la quille). Tin latéral.
10. v. Barrer.
11. v. Boucher, raccommoder.
12. v. Se mettre en travers.
block
1. n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
a block of ice
a block of stone
2. n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
3. n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
I'm going for a walk around the block.
4. n. A residential building consisting of flats.
a block of flats
5. n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.
6. n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
a mental block
writer's block
7. n. (slang) The human head.
I'll knock your block off!
8. n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
9. n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
10. n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
a block of 100 tickets
11. n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
12. n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
13. n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
14. n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.
15. n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
16. n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
17. n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
19. n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
21. n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
22. n. (UK) Solitary confinement.
23. n. A cellblock.
24. n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
25. n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
26. n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
27. n. (rail) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
28. n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
29. n. (cricket) A blockhole.
30. n. (cricket) The popping crease.
31. v. To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
The pipe is blocked.
32. v. To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
You're blocking the road – I can't get through.
33. v. To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
34. v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
He blocked the basketball player's shot.
The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
35. v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
36. v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
38. v. To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
39. v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
40. v. To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
41. n. misspelling of bloc
cap
1. n. Képi.
2. n. (Habillement) Toque, bonnet.
3. n. Casquette.
4. n. Couvercle.
5. n. Capsule, bouchon (de bouteille).
6. v. Mettre un képi, une casquette, ou un couvercle sur.
7. v. Limiter en haut.
8. n. Majuscule.
All in caps.
Tout en majuscule.
9. n. (Électricité) Capacité électrique.
Parasitic caps.
Capacités parasites.
cap
1. n. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
2. n. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
3. n. An academic mortarboard
4. n. A protective cover or seal
He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
5. n. A crown for covering a tooth
He had golden caps on his teeth.
6. n. The summit of a mountain etc.
There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
7. n. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
8. n. The top part of a mushroom
9. n. A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
10. n. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
11. n. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
12. n. (soccer) An international appearance
Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
13. n. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
14. n. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
15. n. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
16. n. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
17. n. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
18. n. (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
19. n. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
20. n. A large size of writing paper.
flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
21. v. To cover or seal with a cap
22. v. To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
23. v. To lie over or on top of something
24. v. To surpass or outdo
25. v. To set an upper limit on something
cap wages.
26. v. To make something even more wonderful at the end.
That really capped my day.
27. v. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
28. v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
29. v. (transitive, sports) to select to play for the national team.
Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
31. v. To deprive of a cap.
32. n. (finance) Capitalization.
33. n. (informal) An uppercase letter.
34. v. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
35. n. (electronics) capacitor
Parasitic caps.
36. n. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
37. v. To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
38. n. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
