Le mot anglais du jour

horse

cheval

Définitions

anglais > français
horse
1. n. (Zoologie) Cheval (animal).
2. n. (Familier) Au jeu d'échecs : cavalier.
anglais > anglais
horse
1. n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
2. n. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
3. n. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
4. n. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
5. n. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
6. n. (slang) A large person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
7. n. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
8. n. Equipment with legs.
9. n. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
10. n. A frame with legs, used to support something.
a clothes horse; a sawhorse
11. n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
12. n. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
13. n. A breastband for a leadsman.
14. n. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
15. n. A jackstay.
16. n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches
17. n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
18. n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl
19. n. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
20. n. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery
21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
22. v. To provide with a horse.
23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
26. v. To take or carry on the back.
27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
28. n. (slang) Heroin (drug).
Alright, mate, got any horse?
français > anglais
cheval
1. n-m. horse
2. n-m. horsepower
3. n-m. (slang) tall and slim woman, beautiful woman (only in the feminine form, jument)
4. n-m. (slang) horse, H (narcotic)