fluke |
1. n. Coup de chance. | |
A fluke is a lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated. | |
Un coup de chance est une occurrence chanceuse ou improbable, avec le sous-entendu que ladite occurrence ne pourrait pas se répéter. | |
The first goal was just a fluke. | |
Le premier but était juste un coup de chance. | |
2. n. Chacune des deux moitiés de la nageoire caudale d'un cétacé (baleine, dauphin). | |
A fluke is either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail. | |
The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it. | |
3. n. (Marine) Crochet (d'une ancre). | |
A fluke is any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground. | |
The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged. | |
4. n. Douve. | |
A fluke is a trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. | |
The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish. | |
anchor |
1. n. (Marine) Informatique Ancre. | |
2. n. (Télévision) Présentateur de journal télévisé | |
3. v. Ancrer. | |
blade |
1. n. Lame. | |
knife blade. | |
— Stannis Baratheon : You slaughtered many lambs? | |
2. n. Pale. | |
fan blade, blade of an oar, propeller blade, helicopter blade. | |
3. n. (Architecture des ordinateurs) Lame. | |