Le mot anglais du jour

season

saison

Définitions

anglais > français
season
1. n. Saison.
baseball season, ice-skating season, hunting season, sports season, strawberry season
2. n. Stage.
winter season, sports season
stage d'hiver, stage de sport
3. v. Assaisonner, épicer.
4. v. Durcir, tremper.
anglais > anglais
season
1. n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
2. n. A part of a year when something particular happens
mating season
the rainy season
the football season
3. n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
4. n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
5. n. (North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of e
The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997.
6. n. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
7. v. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
8. v. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure
to season oneself to a climate
9. v. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices
The timber needs to be seasoned.
10. v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
11. v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance
The wood has seasoned in the sun.
12. v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
français > anglais
saison
1. n-f. season (one of the four parts of the year in temperate regions: winter, spring, summer and autumn)
2. n-f. season (a certain time of the year, when something in particular happens)
La saison de ski - The skiing season
La saison des fraises - Strawberry season
3. n-f. (sports) season (the time of the year when teams compete)