| anglais > français | |
| entail | |
| 1. v. Nécessiter, réclamer, impliquer, comporter. | |
| 2. v. (Droit) Léguer une propriété en héritage sous certaines conditions. | |
| 3. n. (Droit) Entail. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| entail | |
| 1. v. To imply or require. |  |
| This activity will entail careful attention to detail. |  |
| 2. v. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. |  |
| 3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor. |  |
| 4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way. |  |
| 5. n. That which is entailed. Hence: |  |
| 6. n. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. |  |
| 7. n. The rule by which the descent is fixed. |  |
| 8. n. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. |  |