Toutes ces promesses, c'est du vent. - Those are empty promises.
Traductions de vent et leurs définitions
wind
1. n. Vent.
2. v. (Musique) Souffler dans un instrument à vent.
3. v. Enrouler.
wind
1. n. Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
The winds in Chicago are fierce.
There was a sudden gust of wind.
2. n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows
3. n. The ability to breathe easily.
After the second lap he was already out of wind.
The fall knocked the wind out of him.
4. n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.
5. n. (India, and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
6. n. (colloquial) Flatus.
Eww. Someone just passed wind.
7. n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
8. n. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
9. n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
10. n. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
11. n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
12. n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
13. n. A bird, the dotterel.
14. n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
15. v. To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
16. v. To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
The boxer was winded during round two.
17. v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
I can’t run another step — I’m winded.
18. v. (British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
19. v. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
20. v. To perceive or follow by scent.
The hounds winded the game.
21. v. To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
22. v. To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
to wind thread on a spool or into a ball
23. v. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.
24. v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
25. v. To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain.
26. v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
27. v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
28. v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
to wind a rope with twine
29. v. To make a winding motion.
30. n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
1. n. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2. n. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
3. n. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. n. (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts (e
5. n. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
6. n. (figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
7. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
8. n. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
9. n. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
10. n. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
11. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
Are you having a bubble?!
12. n. (computing) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
13. n. (poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining
Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
14. v. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
15. v. (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
Rage bubbled inside him.
16. v. (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
17. v. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
18. v. (intransitive, Scotland, and Northern England) To cry, weep.
hot air
hot air
1. n. (literal) Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon.
The balloon was equipped with a burner to create hot air for lift.
2. n. Empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster.
