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 Translation for 'to accentuate sth' from English to French
mettre qc. en reliefto accentuate sth.
accuser qc. [contour]to accentuate sth.
relever qc. [souligner]to accentuate sth.
accentuer qc. [rendre plus évident]to accentuate sth.
Partial Matches
emboîter qc. dans qc. to nest sth. in sth. [to place one part inside another]
occup.
concilier qc. avec qc. [p. ex. famille et travail]
to balance sth. with sth. [e.g. work and family]
souhaiter désespérément que qn./qc. fasse qc.to be dying for sb./sth. to do sth. [idiom]
privilégier qc. sur qc. d'autreto give more importance to sth. than to sth. else
enduire qc. de qc. to slather sth. on / onto sth. [coll.] [apply thickly]
placer qc. dans qn./qc. [espoirs]to have sth. on sb./sth. [e.g. hopes]
bicyc.
attacher qc. à qc. [bicyclette]
to lock sth. to sth. [e.g. a bicycle]
prétexter de qc. pour faire qc.to use sth. as an excuse for doing sth.
tendre qc. de qc.to cover sth. with sth. [by stretching it over]
cuis.
enrober qc. de qc. [fruits, dragées, etc. de chocolat, etc.]
to coat sth. with sth. [e.g. with chocolate]
arguer qc. pour faire qc.to give sth. as a reason for doing sth.
s'autoriser de qc. pour faire qc.to use sth. as an excuse to do sth.
assigner qc. à qc. [valeur]to ascribe sth. to sth. [e.g. a value]
mil.
ravitailler qn./qc. en qc. [vivres]
to provide sb./sth. with fresh supplies of sth. [troops, town]
remonter qn./qc. à qc. [en haut]to take sb./sth. back up to sth.
remonter qn./qc. de qc. [d'en bas]to bring sb./sth. back up from sth.
mettre qc. sur le compte de qn./qc. [fig.]to put sth. down to sb./sth. [attribute]
complimenter qn./qc. d'avoir fait qc.to compliment sb./sth. on having done sth.
dr.
attester qc./que qn. a fait qc.
to attest that sb./sth. has done sth.
rejeter la responsabilité de qc. sur qc.to assign the blame for sth. to sth.
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Translation for 'to accentuate sth' from English to French

to accentuate sth.
mettre qc. en relief

accuser qc. [contour]

relever qc. [souligner]

accentuer qc. [rendre plus évident]

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to nest sth. in sth. [to place one part inside another]
emboîter qc. dans qc.
to balance sth. with sth. [e.g. work and family]
concilier qc. avec qc. [p. ex. famille et travail]occup.
to be dying for sb./sth. to do sth. [idiom]
souhaiter désespérément que qn./qc. fasse qc.
to give more importance to sth. than to sth. else
privilégier qc. sur qc. d'autre
to slather sth. on / onto sth. [coll.] [apply thickly]
enduire qc. de qc.
to have sth. on sb./sth. [e.g. hopes]
placer qc. dans qn./qc. [espoirs]
to lock sth. to sth. [e.g. a bicycle]
attacher qc. à qc. [bicyclette]bicyc.
to use sth. as an excuse for doing sth.
prétexter de qc. pour faire qc.
to cover sth. with sth. [by stretching it over]
tendre qc. de qc.
to coat sth. with sth. [e.g. with chocolate]
enrober qc. de qc. [fruits, dragées, etc. de chocolat, etc.]cuis.
to give sth. as a reason for doing sth.
arguer qc. pour faire qc.
to use sth. as an excuse to do sth.
s'autoriser de qc. pour faire qc.
to ascribe sth. to sth. [e.g. a value]
assigner qc. à qc. [valeur]
to provide sb./sth. with fresh supplies of sth. [troops, town]
ravitailler qn./qc. en qc. [vivres]mil.
to take sb./sth. back up to sth.
remonter qn./qc. à qc. [en haut]
to bring sb./sth. back up from sth.
remonter qn./qc. de qc. [d'en bas]
to put sth. down to sb./sth. [attribute]
mettre qc. sur le compte de qn./qc. [fig.]
to compliment sb./sth. on having done sth.
complimenter qn./qc. d'avoir fait qc.
to attest that sb./sth. has done sth.
attester qc./que qn. a fait qc.dr.
to assign the blame for sth. to sth.
rejeter la responsabilité de qc. sur qc.
Usage Examples English
  • Both hexahedrites and octahedrite only appear when the meteorite breaks along crystal planes or when prepared to accentuate the Thomson structures therefore many are mistakenly called ataxites ar first.
  • Historically, British cuisine meant "unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavour, rather than disguise it".
  • The logarithm of the distance is taken to accentuate the details.
  • Using handkerchiefs to accentuate hand movements while dancing is a feature of both West African and African-American traditional dance, in the latter case especially in wedding celebrations.
  • Featuring motifs of a polar bear, the Sirius Sledge Patrol and the Aurora Borealis, the coins aimed to accentuate scientific research in the backdrop of Greenlandic culture and geography.

  • The Memorandum was not supposed to accentuate the prejudice of mentioning 'home of the Jewish people'.
  • While this may or may not have been the case with older wooden or plain stone temples, it was definitely not the case with the more luxurious marble temples, where colour was used sparingly to accentuate architectural highlights.
  • For his portrayal, he acquired a second set of "rotten" dentures to accentuate his character's poor attitude to hygiene.
  • Sculptors use a variety of fine, abrasive materials such as sandpaper or emery paper to highlight patterns in the stone and to accentuate its natural sheen.
  • It combined extreme violence and a landscape, mostly consisting of a great tree, that pressed into the scene and seems to accentuate the drama in a way that looks forward to the Baroque.

  • This work alerted him to the frequency of the Dorian mode, the tendency for many melodies to swing between the major key and its relative minor on its flat seventh key, and the tendency to accentuate notes not consistent with dominant harmony.
  • The poet uses his work not only to speak of the victory won by his client and his family, but also to accentuate the family's history and its connections all over Greece.
  • Her blindness serves to accentuate the motif of racial blindness throughout the story.
  • Bassists almost always play pizzicato, occasionally adopting the "slap-style" to accentuate the beat.
  • By creating a logo on a grid and using the theory of symmetry, designers can organize their work, create a symmetric or asymmetrical design, determine the space between letters, determine how much negative space is required in the design, and how to accentuate parts of the logo to make it stand out.

  • An acoustic coupler (a Novation CAT 300 baud model) is prominently shown early in the 1983 film "WarGames", when character David Lightman (portrayed by actor Matthew Broderick) places a telephone handset into the cradle of a film prop acoustic modem to accentuate the act of using telephone lines for interconnection to the developing computer networks of the period—in this case, a military command computer.
  • Reform sought to accentuate and greatly augment the universalist traits in Judaism, turning it into a faith befitting the Enlightenment ideals ubiquitous at the time it emerged.
  • It became popular for some punks to accentuate societal norms.
  • For most of the 9th and 10th centuries, Iberian Christian culture in the north was stimulated by the learning of Mozarab immigrants, who helped to accentuate its Christian identity and apparently played a major role in development of Iberian Christian ideology.
  • Oversized fletchings can be used to accentuate drag and thus limit the range of the arrow significantly; these arrows are called "flu-flus".

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