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 Translation for 'to probe sb' from English to French
sonder qn.to probe sb. [idiom]
Partial Matches
astron.électr.méd.
sonde {f}
probe
sonder qc. [couche de neige, mare]to probe sth.
explorer qc. avec soin [grotte]to probe sth.
astronau
sonde {f} spaciale
space probe
astronau
sonde {f} spatiale
space probe
outil.tech.
sonde {f} pyrométrique
pyrometer probe
placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.
assimiler qn. à qn.to put sb. on an equal footing with sb.
assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]
soustraire qn./qc. à la vue de qn.to hide sb./sth. from sb.'s view
confondre qn./qc. avec qn./qc. (d'autre)to mistake sb./sth. for sb./sth. (else)
privilégier qn. sur qn. d'autreto give sb. an advantage over sb. else
enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.
tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
cafter qn. auprès de qn. [fam.]to sneak on sb. to sb. [Br.] [dated]
occup.
placer qn. auprès de qn. comme garde du corps
to place sb. with sb. as a bodyguard
intervenir auprès de qn. pour qn.to intercede with sb. on sb.'s behalf
placer qn. à côté de qn. [table]to sit sb. beside sb. [at the table]
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Odin defers to Vafþrúðnir, who proceeds to probe his guest's knowledge of the stallions that pull Day and Night across the sky.
  • have long bills that allow them to probe deep into flowers with long corollae.
  • The Excession of the title is a perfect black-body sphere that appears mysteriously on the edge of Culture space, appearing to be older than the Universe itself and that resists the attempts of the Culture and technologically equivalent societies (notably the Zetetic Elench) to probe it.
  • This technique has been extended to operate at near-ambient pressures (ambient pressure XPS, AP-XPS) to probe more realistic gas-solid and liquid-solid interfaces.
  • Methods of nuclear spectroscopy use specific nuclei to probe the electric and magnetic fields around the nucleus.

  • Chang also sought to probe and examine the psychology her characters.
  • Caesium-133 can be laser cooled and used to probe fundamental and technological problems in quantum physics.
  • Macroscopic measurements of E and "k" are the result of many individual collisions with differing collision parameters. To probe reaction rates at molecular level, experiments are conducted under near-collisional conditions and this subject is often called molecular reaction dynamics.
  • Another is to probe aberrations in laser beams by using the spot's sensitivity to beam aberrations.
  • The essential concept of lidar was originated by EH Synge in 1930, who envisaged the use of powerful searchlights to probe the atmosphere.

  • As the spacecraft passed behind Mercury on the first encounter there was an opportunity to probe the atmosphere and to measure the radius of the planet.
  • X-rays have much shorter wavelengths than visible light, which makes it possible to probe structures much smaller than can be seen using a normal microscope.
  • Such multi-tonne experiments will also face a new background in the form of neutrinos, which will limit their ability to probe the WIMP parameter space beyond a certain point, known as the neutrino floor.
  • On 18 October 1967, the Soviet "Venera 4" successfully entered as the first to probe the atmosphere and deployed science experiments.
  • 1 IR 268 the supreme court held the burden of proof would shift when the knowledge is exclusive to the defendant, but also where it is "especially within the range" of the defendant's capacity to probe the facts.

  • By using antibodies specific to the protein of interest, it is possible to probe for the presence of specific proteins from a mixture of proteins.
  • Finally, lower bounds on the very long lifetime of the proton put constraints on Grand Unified Theories at energy scales much higher than collider experiments will be able to probe any time soon.
  • This feature of weak interaction interests scientists because it means neutrinos can be used to probe environments that other radiation (such as light or radio waves) cannot penetrate.
  • The short pulses can be used to probe the process of the reaction at a very high temporal resolution, allowing the detection of short-lived intermediate molecules.
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