Le mot anglais du jour

smell

sentir

Définitions

anglais > français
smell
1. n. Odorat.
The five senses are: sight, sound (hearing), smell, taste, and touch. (vue ou vision, ouïe, odorat, goût, toucher)
2. n. Odeur.
The refrigerator has a funny smell coming from it.
3. n. Parfum.
I love the smell of roses.
4. v. Sentir.
5. v. Humer.
smell the perfume, smell the Spring air
6. v. (Intransitif) (Péjoratif), (populaire) Puer (to smell bad).
At a dinner party, the woman sitting next to Dr. Johnson had the rude effrontery to say, "Dr. Johnson, you smell." Dr. Johnson, always the most precise in matters of speech, thereupon replied, "No, Madam. You smell. I stink.&quo
If your feet smell and your nose runs, you're built upside down (exemple illustrant la polysémie de smell et de run.)
Jingle bells, Batman smells
Les cloches sonnent, Batman pue
anglais > anglais
smell
1. n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
2. n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. v. To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
4. v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".
The roses smell lovely.
Her feet smell of cheese.
The drunkard smelt like a brewery.
5. v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
Ew, this stuff smells.
6. v. (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
A report smells of calumny.
7. v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
8. v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
9. v. (obsolete) To give heed to.
français > anglais
sentir
1. v. to smell (to have a certain odor)
Ça sent bon. - It smells good.
2. v. to taste
3. v. to feel (physical perception)
4. v. to smell of, taste of
Ce repas sent l’ail. - This meal smells/tastes of garlic.
5. v. to smack of; to indicate, foreshadow
Ça sent la pluie. - It looks like rain.
6. v. to have the character, manner, feeling or appearance of; to give a feeling of
7. v. to feel, be aware of, be conscious of
8. v. (reflexive) to feel (in oneself)
9. v. (reflexive) to show, be felt (of effect, improvement etc.)