| anglais > français | |
|
| peel | |
| 1. n. Écorce, pelure, peau (d'un fruit, d'un légume). | |
| 2. v. Éplucher, dépouiller. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
|
| peel | |
| 1. v. To remove the skin or outer covering of. |  |
| I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her. | |
| 2. v. To remove something from the outer or top layer of. | |
| I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily. | |
| We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way. | |
| I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing. | |
| The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away). | |
| The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines. | |
| 6. n. (usually) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc. | |
| 7. n. (rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation. | |
| 8. n. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A stake. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade. | |
| 11. n. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. | |
| 12. n. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven. | |
| 13. n. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. | |
| 14. n. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar. | |
| 15. n. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw. | |
| 16. n. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone. | |
| 17. v. (curling) To play a peel shot. | |
| 18. v. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own). | |
| 19. v. (misspelling of peal): to sound loudly. | |
| 20. v. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob. | |
| français > anglais | |
|
| éplucher | |
| 1. v. to peel | |
| 2. v. to scrutinise | |
| 3. v. to preen | |
©