bones in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for bones in the English»French Dictionary

I.bone [Brit bəʊn, Am boʊn] N

1. bone:

bone (of human, animal)

os m

bone (of fish)

arête f

made of bone

en os

chicken on/off the bone

poulet à l'os/désossé

to break a bone

casser un os

to break every bone in one's body

se rompre les os

I'll break every bone in his body!

je vais lui tordre le cou!

no bones broken

rien de cassé

he hasn't got a romantic/jealous bone in his body

il n'a pas une once de romantisme/jalousie

he hasn't got a romantic/jealous bone in his body attr handle, button

en os

2. bone (in corset etc):

bone

baleine f

3. bone (trombone):

bone inf

trombone m

II.bones N npl

1. bones (animal skeleton):

bones

ossements mpl

2. bones (human remains):

bones (in archeology)

ossements mpl humains

to lay sb's bones to rest

enterrer la dépouille de qn

my old bones inf

mes vieux os inf

he'll never make old bones

il ne fera pas de vieux os

3. bones (dice):

bones

dés mpl

III.bone [Brit bəʊn, Am boʊn] VB trans

1. bone FOOD:

bone joint, chicken

désosser

bone fish

enlever les arêtes de

2. bone (reinforce):

bone corset, bodice

consolider

IV.bone [Brit bəʊn, Am boʊn]

bone of contention

sujet m de dispute

bone of contention

pomme f de discorde

close to the bone (wounding)

blessant

close to the bone (racy)

osé

to be a bag of bones

être un sac d'os inf

to cut sth to the bone

réduire qc au minimum

to feel sth in one's bones

avoir le pressentiment de qc

to have a bone to pick with sb

avoir un compte à régler avec qn

to make no bones about sth

ne pas cacher qc

sticks and stones may break my bones (but words will never harm me) prov

≈ les chiens aboient, la caravane passe prov

to work one's fingers to the bone

se crever à la tâche inf

I.bare bones [Brit ˈbɛːbəʊnz, Am ˈbɛrboʊnz] N npl

the bare bones

l'essentiel m

the bare bones of the story are

l'essentiel de l'histoire est

II.bare-bones ADJ

bare-bones account:

bare-bones

réduit à sa plus simple expression

brittle bones, brittle-bone disease N

brittle bones

décalcification f

T-bone, T-bone steak N

T-bone

steak m américain

bone-crunching ADJ inf

bone-crunching

fracassant

bone china N

bone china

porcelaine f tendre or à l'os

bone marrow N

bone marrow

moelle f osseuse

bone idle ADJ inf

bone idle

flemmard inf

bone dry ADJ

bone dry

complètement desséché

bone structure N

bone structure

structure f du visage

bones in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for bones in the English»French Dictionary

I.bone [bəʊn, Am boʊn] N

bone

os m

bone of fish

arête f

II.bone [bəʊn, Am boʊn] ADJ

bone-handled knife

couteau m à manche d'os

III.bone [bəʊn, Am boʊn] VB trans

bone meat

désosser

bone fish

retirer les arêtes de

bone idle, bone lazy ADJ pej

bone idle

flemmard(e)

bone meal N

bone meal

engrais m phosphaté

bone fracture N

bone fracture

fracture f

thigh bone N

thigh bone

fémur m

bone china N

bone china

porcelaine f à l'os

collar bone N

collar bone

clavicule f

funny bone N inf:

funny bone

fourmillement ressenti quand on se cogne le coude

skull (bone) N

skull (bone)

crâne m

Translations for bones in the French»English Dictionary

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ossements

bones

bones Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be all skin and bone(s)

n'avoir que la peau et les os

to work one's fingers to the bone

se saigner aux quatre veines

the bare bones of a story

l'essentiel de l'histoire

to set a broken bone

réduire une fracture

a bag of bones

un sac d'os

to dig for a bone

creuser pour chercher un os

to be (as) dry as a bone inf

être sec comme les blés

to be nothing but skin and bone(s)

n'avoir que la peau et les os [ou sur les os]

the bone structure of the head

l'ossature de la tête

to be nothing but skin and bone

être un paquet d'os inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Furthermore, brown tumors, especially when manifested on facial bones, can be misdiagnosed as cancerous.

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Recovered in the 1975 excavations were 97 mammal bones.

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For this example the bones 8, 2, and 5 are placed in the proper order as shown below.

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The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum (a series of vertebrae fused to the hip bones), initially believed to come from a pterosaur.

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He was recently sentenced to one year in home confinement after investigators eventually recovered the bones.

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This wave information travels across the air-filled middle ear cavity via a series of delicate bones: the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil) and stapes (stirrup).

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The bones of an infant have been postmortally ornamented with striations.

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What remains of the bones are dried in a convection oven, pressed into powder and returned to loved ones.

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It has a brass plate inscribed with skull-and-cross bones, a sickle and a pick.

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This assignment was based on characteristics observed in the bones of the skull, the teeth, and the geometry and formation of the specimen's vertebral elements.

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