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Dictionary translations for "à double sens"

à double sens adjective

à double sens / à double sens / à double sens / à double sens

ambiguous [æmˈbɪɡjuəs] (locution adjectivale, invariable, évaluation intellectuelle)

à double sens adverb

with a double meaning (locution adverbiale, signification)

Phrases with "à double sens" (3)

communication à double sens - two-way communication
phrase à double sens - sentence with a double meaning
rue à double sens - two-way street

Contexts with "à double sens"

Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.

Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.

Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.

C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways

Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.

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