Le mot anglais du jour

swallow

hirondelle

Définitions

anglais > français
swallow
1. v. Avaler.
2. v. (Figuré) Absorber rapidement.
3. v. (Figuré) Accepter sans modification.
4. n. Gorgée.
5. n. (Zoologie) Hirondelle.
anglais > anglais
swallow
1. v. To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
2. v. To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
3. v. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
4. v. To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
5. v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
6. v. To retract; to recant.
to swallow one's opinions
7. v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
to swallow an affront or insult
8. n. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
9. n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
10. n. (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
11. n. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
12. n. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
français > anglais
hirondelle
1. n-f. swallow (bird)
2. n-f. (printing) alignment mark printed in the margin
3. n-f. (colloquial dated) policeman on bicycle or motorcycle