Franska | Engelska |
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aiguille nom {f} | needle [needles]◼◼◼(indicating device) needle [needles]◼◼◼(leaf of conifer) point [points]◼◼◻(railroad switch) switch [switches]◼◼◻(movable section of railroad track) pointer [pointers]◼◼◻(anything that points or is used for pointing) pointer [pointers]◼◼◻(needle of a timepiece or measuring device) indicator [indicators]◼◻◻(needle or dial on a meter) points◼◻◻(movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) |
aiguille des minutes nom {f} | minute hand◼◼◼(clock hand) |
aiguille hypodermique nom | hypodermic needle [hypodermic needles]◼◼◼(hollow needle) |
aiguille à tricoter nom {f} | knitting needle◼◼◼(thin rod used to knit yarn) |
aiguiller verbe | shunt [shunted, shunting, shunts]◼◼◼(to move a train or carriages) |
aiguillette nom {f} | needlefish [needlefishes]◼◼◼(slender fish) ballyhoo [ballyhoos](species of needlefish) |
aiguilleur du ciel nom {m} | air traffic controller◼◼◼(operator of air traffic control system) |
chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin [verb] nom | needle in a haystack◼◼◼(idiomatic) |
dans le sens contraire des aiguilles d’une montre adverbe | anticlockwise◼◼◼(in the opposite direction to the hands of an analogue clock) |
dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre adverbe | clockwise◼◼◼(in a circular fashion in the same direction as the hands of an analogue clock) |
dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre adjectif | anticlockwise◼◼◼(in the opposite direction to the hands of an analogue clock) |
de fil en aiguille phrase | one thing led to another◼◼◼phrase |
grande aiguille nom {f} | minute hand◼◼◼(clock hand) |
par le chas de l'aiguille preposition | by the skin of one's teeth(barely, closely) |
petite aiguille nom {f} | hour hand◼◼◼(hand of clock) |
pique-aiguille nom {m} | pincushion [pincushions]◼◼◼(device designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it) |
talon aiguille nom {m} | stiletto heel◼◼◼(heel of a high and narrow shoe) spike heel◼◻◻(a shoe with such a heel) spike heel◼◻◻(very tall, narrow heel of a shoe) |
talon aiguille [by ellipsis] nom {m} | stiletto [stilettos]◼◼◼(woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel) |
travaux d'aiguille nom {m pl} | needlework◼◼◼(process of working with a needle) needlecraft◼◻◻(art or process) |
à aiguilles nom | dot matrix(two-dimensional array or pattern of dots) |