Le mot anglais du jour

Définitions

anglais > français
fountain
1. n. Fontaine.
2. n. (Jonglerie) Figure de jonglerie dans laquelle les objets sont lancés verticalement en succession rapide.
3. n. (Héraldique) Nom donné à un tourteau barré ondé d'azur et d'argent.
4. v. Jaillir.
anglais > anglais
fountain
1. n. (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
2. n. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
3. n. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
4. n. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
5. n. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
6. n. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
7. n. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
8. n. (US) A soda fountain.
9. v. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
Lava fountained from the volcano.
français > anglais
fontaine
1. n-f. fountain
2. n-f. (juggling) fountain
3. n-f. cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet)
4. n-f. standpipe

Prononciation

Exemples de phrases

There's a drinking fountain by the tennis court.      Il y a une fontaine d'eau potable à côté du court de tennis. There's a big marble fountain in the courtyard of that mosque.      Il y a une grande fontaine en marbre dans le jardin intérieur de cette mosquée.

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