Le mot anglais du jour

shoulder

épaule

Définitions

anglais > français
shoulder
1. n. Épaule.
The undergrowth on either side of him ripped with a noise like torn canvas, and the saplings that he heaved away right and left with his shoulders sprang back again and banged him on the flank, and great trails of creepers, all matted together
Les broussailles éventrées craquaient des deux côtés avec un bruit de toile déchirée ; les jeunes pousses qu'il écartait des épaules rebondissaient en arrière et lui cinglaient les flancs ; de grandes traînées de lianes emmêlées et compactes p
2. n. Accotement.
Pull over onto the shoulder, as far to the right as possible.
Rangez-vous sur l'accotement le plus à droite possible.
3. n. (Mécanique) Épaulement
4. v. Porter sur les épaules.
5. v. (Figuré) Endosser (sens 2).
anglais > anglais
shoulder
1. n. The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
2. n. The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder.
3. n. (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
4. n. A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
5. n. The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
6. n. Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
7. n. (topography) A shelf between two levels.
8. n. A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.
He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire.
9. n. The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
10. n. A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
11. n. The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
12. n. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timbe
13. n. (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
14. n. (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
15. n. (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
16. n. The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
17. n. (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
18. n. (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
19. n. The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
20. v. To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
21. v. To put (something) on one's shoulders.
22. v. To place (something) against one's shoulders.
23. v. (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
shoulder the blame
25. v. To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
26. v. (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
27. v. To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
28. v. (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
français > anglais
épaule
1. n-f. (anatomy) shoulder