a |
1. art. Un, Une. | |
A book. | |
Un livre. | |
A girl. | |
Une fille. | |
source |
1. n. Source d'eau, fontaine. | |
To control the source-region of the Nile. | |
Yet kissing the pretie infant, shee lightened out smiles from those cheekes, that were furrowed with continual sources of teares. (R. Greene) | |
2. n. Source, origine. | |
This intellectual perversion is the source of a systematic immorality. (H. E. Manning) | |
Something or somebody had superseded him as a source of interest. (Dickens, Dombey) | |
He traced his source Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain. (Byron, Don Juan) | |
It is largely used in lamps as a source of light. (W. A. Miller) | |
3. n. Source, référence. | |
Deputy White House press secretary Gerald Warren issued the following statement : ‘The White House is not prepared to react to a story based on sources. (Atlanta Journal, 1973) | |
What is the source of your information? | |
4. n. (Archi) Support. | |
In the works of the said chapel for sources to the images under the tabernacles... The columns placed under the aforesaid sources. (J. T. Smith). | |
5. n. (Vieilli)Hausse, hausse sur l'aile, d'un faucon ou un autre oiseau ; hausse du soleil ; agression ou attaque. | |
But the Goshauke taken at the source by the Falcon, soone fell down at the Kings foot. (J. Selden). | |
Il gallantlie receavinge bothe theire Sourse et theie comme resolutelie vigueur quittinge. (J. Lane). | |
6. n. Informatique Source. | |
The original programs, which are centrally produced, are commonly called ‘source codes'; only a few local governments own and control the source codes that are used in their jurisdictions. (1988 New Yorker) | |
Do you still have the source available, or only the binary? | |
7. v. (Commerce) Procurer. | |
of |
1. prep. De. Indique une origine, une substance, une possession, etc. | |
The university of Ottawa. | |
L'université d'Ottawa. | |
The king of beasts. | |
Le roi des animaux. | |
2. prep. De. Indique une séparation avec certains verbes. | |
The accident deprived him of his health. | |
L'accident l'a privé de sa santé. | |
illumination |
1. n. Illumination, enluminure. | |
The photographer carefully arranged the illumination in the scene. | |
2. n. Enluminure. | |
the illumination of letters in medieval manuscripts | |