Le mot anglais du jour

fruit

Définitions

anglais > français
fruit
1. n. Fruit.
His labours bore fruit. - Il a récolté le fruit de son travail.
2. n. (Figuré) Enfant issu d'un mariage.
Fruit of the union - L'enfant, fruit du mariage
3. n. (Vulgaire) (Péjoratif) Pédé, homme efféminé.
anglais > anglais
fruit
1. n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.
2. n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables
Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
3. n. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
4. n. Offspring from a sexual union.
Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
5. n. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
6. n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
7. v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
français > anglais
fruit
1. n-m. fruit