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Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2009 Oxford University Press:
around /əˈraʊnd/
NOTE:
around often appears as the second element of certain verb structures (come around, look around, turn around etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry ( come , look , turn etc). go around and get around generate many idiomatic expressions. For translations see the entries go and get .
around often appears as the second element of certain verb structures (come around, look around, turn around etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry ( come , look , turn etc). go around and get around generate many idiomatic expressions. For translations see the entries go and get .
- adverb
- (approximately) environ, à peu près;
at ~ 3 pm vers 15 heures;
- (in the vicinity) to be (somewhere) ~ être dans les parages;
are they ~? est-ce qu'ils sont là?;
I just happened to be ~ je me trouvais là par hasard;
- (in circulation) CDs have been ~ for years ça fait des années que les CD existent;
I wish I'd been ~ 50 years ago j'aurais aimé être là il y a 50 ans;
she's been ~ fig elle a roulé sa bosse (familier), elle a vécu;
one of the most gifted musicians ~ un des musiciens les plus doués du moment;
- (available) to be ~ être là;
there are still some strawberries ~ on trouve encore des fraises;
- (in all directions) all ~ lit tout autour;
(in general) partout;
to go all the way ~ faire tout le tour;
the only garage for miles ~ le seul garage à des kilomètres à la ronde;
- (in circumference) three metres ~ de trois mètres de circonférence;
- (in different, opposite direction) a way ~ lit un chemin pour contourner (obstacle);
there is no way ~ the problem il n'y a pas moyen de contourner le problème;
to go the long way ~ prendre le chemin le plus long;
to turn sth the other way ~ retourner qch;
to do it the other way ~ faire le contraire;
I didn't ask her, it was the other way ~ ce n'est pas moi qui lui ai demandé, c'est l'inverse;
the wrong/right way ~ dans le mauvais/bon sens;
to put one's skirt on the wrong way ~ mettre sa jupe à l'envers;
(in specific place, home) to ask sb (to come) ~ dire à qn de passer;
she's coming ~ today elle passe aujourd'hui;
I'll be ~ in a minute j'arrive.
- (approximately) environ, à peu près;
- preposition
- (on all sides of) autour de (fire, table, head);
the villages ~ Dublin les villages des environs de Dublin;
- (throughout) clothes scattered ~ the room des vêtements éparpillés partout dans la pièce;
(all) ~ the world partout dans le monde;
from ~ the world venant du monde entier;
doctors ~ the world les médecins à travers le monde;
to go ~ the world faire le tour du monde;
to walk ~ the town se promener dans la ville;
- (in the vicinity of, near) somewhere ~ the house/~ Paris quelque part dans la maison/près de Paris;
I like having people ~ the house j'aime avoir des gens à la maison;
the people ~ here les gens d'ici;
- (at) vers;
~ midnight/1980 vers minuit/1980;
- (in order to circumvent) to go ~ éviter (town centre);
contourner (obstacle);
- (to the other side of) to go ~ the corner tourner au coin;
to go ~ a bend prendre un virage;
~ the mountain de l'autre côté de or derrière la montagne;
- (in sizes) he's 90 cm ~ the chest il fait 90 de tour de poitrine.
- (on all sides of) autour de (fire, table, head);
Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2009 Oxford University Press:
tinker / ˈtɪŋkə(r)/ intransitive verb (also to ~ about ou around) bricoler;
to ~ with bricoler (car, machine);
faire des retouches à (wording, document).
to ~ with bricoler (car, machine);
faire des retouches à (wording, document).
'around' found in these Oxford entries:
English:
about
- all
- amble
- ask
- band
- bandy
- blow
- boss
- browse
- bum
- caper
- cart
- cast
- cavort
- centre
- chase
- circle
- clock
- clown
- clump
- cluster
- come
- conduct
- congregate
- corner
- countryside
- crowd
- cruise
- cup
- curl
- draw
- ear
- echo
- eye
- feel
- fiddle
- finger
- fish
- flail
- flash
- fling
- float
- flock
- flounce
- fly
- fold
- follow
- fool
- forage
French:
abord
- agglutiner
- air
- alentour
- ambages
- âme
- arrêter
- attrouper
- autour
- balader
- ballant
- ballotter
- bête
- bloc
- bon
- bouffon
- boulet
- bourlinguer
- brasser
- cadran
- cajoler
- carcasse
- cavaler
- ceindre
- centre
- centrer
- cercle
- chahuter
- chemin
- ci
- circuler
- coin
- con
- contourner
- coup
- courir
- déconner
- déplacement
- diriger
- disposer
- en
- enlacer
- enrouler
- enserrer
- entourer
- envelopper
- envers
- environs
- étau
- farfouiller
around: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2012
| Principal Translations/Principales traductions | |||
| around | adv | (in a ring or circle) | en cercle adv |
| The dog ran around and around trying to catch its tail. | |||
| Le chien courait en cercle en essayant d'attraper sa queue. | |||
| around | adv | (in all directions) | partout adv |
| Look around and note down everything you can see. | |||
| Regarde partout et note tout ce que tu peux voir. | |||
| around | adv | (on every side) | autour adv |
| It's a beautiful house with trees all around. | |||
| C'est une jolie maison avec des arbres tout autour. | |||
| around | adv | informal (experienced) | traduction non disponible |
| He's been around and knows what to expect. | |||
| around | prep | (encircling) | autour de prép |
| Put the belt around your waist and then fasten it. | |||
| Mettez la ceinture autour de votre taille et attachez-la. | |||
| around | prep | (from place to place) | à travers prép |
| She travels around the country for her job. | |||
| Elle voyage à travers le pays pour son travail. | |||
| around | prep | (approximately: time) | autour de, vers prép |
| I'll see you around three o'clock. | |||
| On se verra autour de (or: vers) trois heures. | |||
| around | prep | (approximately) | à peu près adv |
| environ, approximativement adv | |||
| It's around three inches tall and an inch wide. | |||
| Cela fait à peu près dix centimètres de haut et trois de large. | |||
| around | prep | (scattered through) | à travers prép |
| Books were spread all around the room. | |||
| Les livres étaient dispersés à travers la pièce. | |||
| around | prep | (in or near) | dans le coin, dans les environs adv |
| Is James around the office somewhere? | |||
| Est-ce que James est quelque part dans le coin ? | |||
| Additional Translations/Traductions supplémentaires | |||
| around | adv | (circumference) | traduction non disponible |
| The vase is ten centimetres around. | |||
| around | adv | (surrounding a place) | autour d'ici adv |
| There are lots of shops around. | |||
| Il y a de nombreux magasins autour d'ici. | |||
| around | adv | (with a circular course) | autour de prép |
| The earth turns around on its axis. | |||
| La terre tourne autour de son axe. | |||
| around | adv | (through a series of stops) | traduction non disponible |
| He's new here. Will you show him around? | |||
| around | adv | (in circulation) | traduction non disponible |
| There are rumours going around. | |||
| around | adv | (recurring) | traduction non disponible |
| Christmas comes around far too quickly each year. | |||
| around | adv | (with roundabout direction) | tourner⇒ vi |
| The road goes around to the orchard. | |||
| La route tourne vers le verger. | |||
| around | adv | (in a circuit) | en rond adv |
| They were walking around, clearly lost. | |||
| Ils tournaient en rond, de toute évidence perdus. | |||
| around | adv | (regaining consciousness) | traduction non disponible |
| He came around after a couple of minutes. | |||
| around | adv | (to a certain place) | traduction non disponible |
| She came around to my house. | |||
| around | adv | (in existance) | traduction non disponible |
| Plastic chairs have been around for thirty years. | |||
| around | prep | (on the edge) | autour de prép |
| They put a fence around the swimming pool. | |||
| Ils ont mis une barrière autour de la piscine. | |||
| around | prep | (in all directions) | rayonner⇒ vi |
| There were roads leading off all around the house. | |||
| Des routes rayonnaient de la maison. | |||
| around | prep | (to various parts of) | en prép |
| We should go around town and put posters up. | |||
| Nous devrions aller en ville et coller des affiches. | |||
| around | prep | (to make a circle about) | s'asseoir en cercle vi |
| They sat around the table wondering what to do next. | |||
| Il s'assirent en cercle autour de la table en se demandant quoi faire. | |||
| around | prep | (to rotate about an axis) | tourner autour vi |
| The moon goes around the earth. | |||
| La lune tourne autour de la terre. | |||
| around | prep | (to overcome a problem) | traduction non disponible |
| They worked around the software bug by eliminating some features. | |||
| Report an error | |||
around: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2012
| Compound Forms/Formes composées | |||
| all around | adv | US (everywhere) | partout adv |
| all-around, all-round, UK | adj | US (versatile, multi-skilled) | polyvalent adj |
| aux talents multiples loc adj | |||
| around fifty | adj | (approximately fifty in number) | une cinquantaine (de) nf |
| There were around fifty different tables at the job fair. | |||
| Il y avait une cinquantaine de stands au Salon du Livre. | |||
| around fifty | adj | (approximately fifty years old) | environ cinquante ans |
| Interest in fast cars begins to decline around fifty. | |||
| Mon patron a environ cinquante ans. | |||
| vers la cinquantaine, aux abords de la cinquantaine | |||
| L'intérêt pour les voitures de course commence à décliner vers la cinquantaine. | |||
| around ten | dizaine nf | ||
| around the bush | autour du pot | ||
| around the clock | adv | (all the time, day and night) | jour et nuit, nuit et jour loc adv |
| The engineers are working around the clock to get the project finished on time. | |||
| L'équipe a travaillé jour et nuit pour tenir les délais. | |||
| 24 heures sur 24 loc adv | |||
| around the world | adv | (in many countries, all over the world) | à travers le monde, de par le monde adv |
| The Internet allows people around the world to share information. | |||
| Internet permet aux gens à travers le monde de partager des informations. | |||
| around the world | adv | (going round the world) | autour du monde adv |
| Ferdinand Magellan's ship sailed around the world in the 1500s. | |||
| Le navire de Magellan a été le premier à naviguer autour du monde. | |||
| around-the-clock | adv | (constant) | jour et nuit, nuit et jour adv |
| The journalist had to work around-the-clock to meet his deadline. | |||
| Le journaliste a dû travailler jour et nuit pour finir son article à temps. | |||
| 24 heures sur 24 loc adv | |||
| Le journaliste a dû travailler 24 heures sur 24 pour respecter le délai imparti. | |||
| be around | vi | informal (be present or nearby) | n'être pas loin v |
| I will be around this area anyway, so I could meet you later, around 6 o'clock-ish. | |||
| Call me if you need me, I'll be around until about six. | |||
| Si tu as besoin, appelle-moi : je ne serai pas loin. | |||
| fam | être dans le coin v | ||
| Si je suis dans le coin, je passerai te voir. | |||
| fam | être dans les parages v | ||
| Si tu es dans les parages, on peut se faire un ciné. | |||
| be lugged around | vi | informal (sth heavy: be carried) | être traîné v + adj |
| The heavy suitcase was lugged around the airport by my mother. | |||
| beat around | tourner autour v | ||
| beat around the bush | v | figurative (fail to speak to the point) | tourner autour du pot loc v |
| Stop beating around the bush and give me the real reason! | |||
| Quand tu auras fini de tourner autour du pot, on pourra s'expliquer. | |||
| build sth around sth | v | (base sth on sth) | construire qch à partir de qch vtr |
| bum around | vi | slang (be idle) fam | glander⇒, glandouiller⇒ vi |
| Over the holidays I just bummed around and watched TV. | |||
| Jean glande au lieu de travailler. | |||
| fam | flemmarder⇒ vi | ||
| carry around | vtr | (take everywhere) | emporter⇒ vtr |
| Note: phrasal verb, separable (to carry sthg around) | |||
| Elle emporte toujours son sac à main avec elle. | |||
| fam | trimbaler⇒, trimballer⇒ vtr | ||
| Elle trimballe toujours son sac en crocodile. | |||
| cluster around sth | v | (gather or form a group around sth) | se rassembler autour de qch v pron |
| During story time, the students clustered around their teacher and listened intently. | |||
| se grouper autour de qqn v pron | |||
| Les badauds se groupèrent autour de la voiture accidentée. | |||
| come around, UK: come round | vi | (date, event: occur again) | revenir⇒ vi |
| Les beaux jours reviennent. | |||
| come around, UK: come round | vi | (revise one's opinion) | se raviser⇒ v pron |
| come around, UK: come round | vi | (visit) | venir (chez qqn) vi |
| If you come round later, we can do our homework together. | |||
| Viens chez moi (or: à la maison) et on regardera des films. | |||
| passer (chez qqn) vi | |||
| Passe chez moi et on regardera des films. | |||
| come around, UK: come round | vi | (recover consciousness) | reprendre connaissance vtr |
| Tant qu'il n'a pas repris connaissance, ne le quittez pas des yeux. | |||
| revenir à soi vi | |||
| Il revient à lui ! Quel soulagement ! Ce n'était qu'un malaise vagal... | |||
| d***ing around | n | slang (frivolous or time wasting activity) pop, fam | glande, glandouille nf |
| Stop dicking around and get to work! | |||
| Mon frère est le roi de la glande. | |||
| end around | tournant | circulaire nf | |
| fiddle around, fiddle about | vi | informal (waste time doing sth trivial) fam | lambiner⇒ vi |
| He began to fiddle around doing crossword puzzles, but soon noticed his English was improving. | |||
| Il passe son temps à lambiner. | |||
| traîner vi | |||
| Il a traîné tout l'après-midi à la maison en attendant que le téléphone sonne. | |||
| fam, péj | traînasser⇒ vi | ||
| flap around | être trop large | flotter v | |
| follow sb around | v | (trail sb) | suivre qqn partout vtr |
| He followed me around all day. | |||
| Mon chien me suit partout. | |||
| ne pas quitter qqn vtr | |||
| Il ne m'a pas quittée de tout l'après-midi, même quand je suis allée chez le coiffeur. | |||
| ne pas lâcher qqn d'une semelle vtr | |||
| fool around | vi | informal (behave in silly or frivolous way) | batifoler⇒ vi |
| fool around | vi | slang (have casual sex) | batifoler⇒ vi |
| fool around with | vtr | slang (have casual sex with) | coucher avec vi + prép |
| He had fooled around with every girl in town before he met Helen. | |||
| Il avait couché avec toutes les filles de la ville avant de rencontrer Hélène. | |||
| fooling around | s'amuser v | ||
| f*** around | vi | slang, vulgar, offensive (behave in a time-wasting way) argot, fam | glander⇒ vi |
| Elle ne faisait rien de ses journées, elle glandait en ville avec des copains... | |||
| gather around | rassembler autour de vtr | ||
| get around | vi | informal (travel, move about) | voyager⇒ vi |
| I certainly get around a bit on my job because, this year, I've had to go to Korea, Australia, Turkey and South Africa. | |||
| How did you get around France during your trip there? | |||
| fig, fam | rouler sa bosse vtr | ||
| fam, surtout par bateau | bourlinguer⇒ vi | ||
| fam | bouger⇒ vi | ||
| Je bouge pas mal avec mon boulot : cette année, je suis allée en Corée, en Australie, en Turquie et en Afrique du Sud. | |||
| get around | vtr | (circumvent, avoid) | contourner⇒ vtr |
| You can't get around the problem by pretending it doesn't exist. | |||
| We need to get our heads together to decide how we are going to get around this problem. | |||
| Nous devons réfléchir pour savoir comment contourner ce problème. | |||
| get around | vi | informal (circulate) | courir⇒ vi |
| When word got around that she was baking cookies, all the children appeared at her door. | |||
| circuler⇒ vi | |||
| Le bruit circule depuis plusieurs semaine déjà. | |||
| get around | vtr | informal (sb: persuade by flattery) | embobiner⇒ vtr |
| You can't get round me with flattery and sweet words - you're not getting a new bike for Christmas, and that's the end to it! | |||
| N'imagine pas que tu vas m'embobiner avec tes belles paroles ! | |||
| get around to doing sth | v | (find time or motivation to do sth) | arriver à vi |
| One of these days, I will get around to making the trip to Paris. | |||
| J'espère un jour arriver à finir le tricot que j'ai commencé l'hiver dernier. | |||
| trouver le temps de loc v | |||
| getting around | éluder | contourner v | |
| getting around | tourner autour v | ||
| go around | vtr | (encircle, surround) | faire le tour de v |
| I had grown so fat that none of my belts would any longer go around my waist. | |||
| J'avais pris tellement de poids qu'aucune de mes ceintures ne faisait le tour de ma taille. | |||
| go around | vtr | (change path to avoid hitting sth) | contourner⇒ vtr |
| The radio advised of heavy traffic downtown, so we went around the city instead. | |||
| go around | vi | (be sufficient when distributed) | (suffisamment ) pour tout le monde |
| Do you think there'll be enough loaves and fishes to go around? | |||
| Pensez-vous qu'il y aura suffisamment de vin pour tout le monde ? | |||
| goof around | vi | slang (behave in a silly way) | faire l'idiot loc v |
| If you're done goofing around, maybe we could get some work done? | |||
| hang around | vi | informal (wait) | attendre v |
| hang around | vi | informal (loiter) | traîner⇒ vi |
| It's annoying when youths hang around the bus stop intimidating customers. | |||
| C'est embêtant, ces jeunes qui traînent aux arrêts de bus pour intimider les passants. | |||
| hang around with | être avec v | ||
| haul around | vtr | (carry: sth heavy or cumbersome) fam | trimballer⇒ vtr |
| We will leave our luggage at the hotel, as we don't want to have to haul it around with us all day. | |||
| On va poser nos valises à l'hôtel : je n'ai pas envie de me les trimballer toute la journée. | |||
| traîner⇒ vtr | |||
| have a close look around | maison | examiner v | |
| have been around | vi | slang (have experience of life) fig, fam | rouler sa bosse vi |
| I've had so many jobs and lived in so many places that I feel like I've really been around. | |||
| Il a exercé beaucoup de professions différentes et a beaucoup voyagé dans le monde entier : on peut dire qu'il a roulé sa bosse. | |||
| fig, fam | avoir de la bouteille v | ||
| fam | en connaître un bout vtr ind | ||
| fig, fam, expr | ne pas être né d'hier v | ||
| fig | avoir tout vu v | ||
| J'ai eu tellement d'expériences personnelles et professionnelles que j'ai l'impression d'avoir tout vu. | |||
| horse around | vi | informative (behave in a silly or frivolous way) | faire l'idiot loc v |
| While the parents made dinner the kids horsed around at their feet. | |||
| Les enfants faisaient les idiots pendant que les parents faisaient la vaisselle. | |||
| horse around | vi | US (behave in a silly, playful way) | chahuter⇒ vi |
| The two brothers were horsing around when one of them got hurt. | |||
| Les deux frères chahutaient quand l'un d'eux se fit mal. | |||
| faire le fou vtr | |||
| Les deux frères faisaient les fous et l'un d'eux s'est fait mal. | |||
| faire l'idiot vtr | |||
| Les enfants, arrêtez de faire les idiots maintenant ! | |||
| faire l'imbécile vtr | |||
| Les enfants, arrêtez de faire les imbéciles ! Papa conduit ! | |||
| horse around | UK (horse about) | chahuter vi | |
| faire le fou | |||
| Les deux frères faisaient les fous et l'un d'eux s'est fait mal. | |||
| faire l'idiot vtr | |||
| Les enfants, arrêtez de faire les idiots maintenant ! | |||
| faire l'imbécile vtr | |||
| Les enfants, arrêtez de faire les imbéciles ! Papa conduit ! | |||
| jerk sb around | v | slang, vulgar (deceive sb, waste sb's time) fam | se payer la tête de qqn v pron |
| I hope Kieran doesn't jerk Fiona around like he did with his last girlfriend. | |||
| Si ce type croit qu'il peut se payer ma tête, il se trompe ! | |||
| très fam, vulg | se foutre de la gueule de qqn v pron | ||
| Tu n'as pas encore compris que cette fille s'est foutu de ta gueule ? | |||
| fam | mener qqn en bateau vtr | ||
| Elle le mène en bateau depuis des mois en prétendant qu'elle va bientôt quitter son mari pour venir vivre avec lui. | |||
| joke around | vi | informal (speak lightheartedly) | rigoler⇒ vi |
| Ne prends pas ce qu'il dit trop au sérieux, il rigole tout le temps. | |||
| just around the corner | juste au coin de la rue | ||
| kid around | vi | informal (behave jokingly or playfully) | faire l'imbécile, faire l'idiot loc v |
| Stop kidding around! Sit down and shut up! | |||
| Arrête de faire l'idiot et viens t'asseoir. | |||
| laze around | vi | (be idle, lounge about) | traîner⇒ vi |
| On Saturdays, I like to just laze around the house instead of going out. | |||
| Le dimanche, j'aime bien traîner à la maison. | |||
| paresser⇒ vi | |||
| Je passe les samedis à paresser à la maison plutôt qu'à sortir. | |||
| fainéanter⇒ vi | |||
| fam | flemmarder⇒ vi | ||
| lie around | vi | (lounge about idly) | traîner⇒ vi |
| You said you would mow the lawn, but all you've done today is lie around the house. | |||
| The teenager chose to lie around for most of the day. | |||
| Il n'a fait que traîner à la maison tout le week-end. | |||
| fam, péj | traînasser⇒ vi | ||
| fam | flemmarder⇒ vi | ||
| lie around | vi | (remain idle or unused) | traîner⇒ vi |
| We have many old books that just lie around the attic waiting to be read. | |||
| Quel dommage, tous ces livres qui traînent au grenier et que personne ne lit ! | |||
| look around | se retourner/regarder autour de soi v | ||
| look around for | vtr | (seek in surrounding area) | chercher⇒ vtr |
| I misplaced my keys, so I'll have to look around for them. | |||
| Où ai-je mis mes clefs ? Il faut que je les cherche. | |||
| Report an error | |||
| Next 100 | |||
Forums WR : discussions dont le titre comprend le mot(s) "around".
... will be around for a long time
...around her
...has been around
...the way we do things around here...
'organise your work around your life'
'revolves around'
(...) has going around
"as much as" & "to be around"
"Best all Around Female Student"
"He does nothing but criticize everything around him."
"I haven't got around to it"
"it sends them around the bend"
"More of" & "mess around with"
"She commit the crime at around 10 at night".
"throw around"
100 miles around
7 cm around
a dowager with her skirts blown all around
A fat blonde was draped around him ...
a flag draped around her shoulders
A girl who turned my life around
a little soft around the edges
a lot of blame to go around
A quick look around, and
a turn around the block
a ward around the shrine
A Way Around the Rules
a work-around
acts to come around
All around
Suite...
...around her
...has been around
...the way we do things around here...
'organise your work around your life'
'revolves around'
(...) has going around
"as much as" & "to be around"
"Best all Around Female Student"
"He does nothing but criticize everything around him."
"I haven't got around to it"
"it sends them around the bend"
"More of" & "mess around with"
"She commit the crime at around 10 at night".
"throw around"
100 miles around
7 cm around
a dowager with her skirts blown all around
A fat blonde was draped around him ...
a flag draped around her shoulders
A girl who turned my life around
a little soft around the edges
a lot of blame to go around
A quick look around, and
a turn around the block
a ward around the shrine
A Way Around the Rules
a work-around
acts to come around
All around
Suite...
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