Mots en English pour 'overlapping; contorted; convoluted'
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noun
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a flap that lies over another part
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
verb
- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
noun
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
- a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
verb
noun
verb
- (computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
- (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
- (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
- intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations
- intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data
- provide (books) with blank leaves
prefix
- Overlapping in position.
- (biology) Relating to epigenetics.
- Upon, atop, directly on top of in terms of position.
- Front or anterior in position.
- Entirety, a system being referred to as a whole.
- Mapping onto, passing along, resolving to.
- Upwards in direction or growth.
- Outside of in position.
- Secondary: a consequence, by-product, additional, or lesser version.
- Located on the surface.
- (chemistry) Denotes an epimeric form.
- (biology) Epidemiology
- Covering: the root entity is covered.
- After in time.
- (zoology) Epibiotic: an organism that lives on another organism.
- Near in position.
- Similar, in the same form of, resembling.
- Surrounding in position: the edges of the root entity.
- Top: a part that is positioned at the uppermost of multiple levels.
- Above in location or position.
- Outward in direction or projection.
- More, above a usual quantity, additional in quantity.
- A part or segment that is located on the upper part of an object.
- A part or location that is outer, particularly an outer layer.
- Outranked, above in rank.
- Beyond, meta, transcending.
- Shallow in depth.
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adj
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- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
verb
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To perplex or puzzle.
- To stun or amaze.
- (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- mistake one thing for another
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
verb
adj
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
noun
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
verb
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- form into a spiral shape
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- twist and press out of shape
- affect as in thought or feeling
adj
- Incoherent; disjointed.
- That is no longer connected.
- (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
- Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
- not plugged in or connected to a power source
- (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- lacking orderly continuity
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
adj
verb
noun
- An incongruous mixture.
- (countable, figuratively, by extension) A jester; a fool.
- (uncountable) A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
adj
verb
adj
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
- (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
adv
noun
- (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- (geography) A line of latitude.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
verb
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- make or place parallel to something
- duplicate or match
- be parallel to
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
verb
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
verb
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
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adj
verb
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noun
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
verb
- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
noun
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
- (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- (informal) Generally incorrect.
- Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
- turned or twisted toward one side
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
noun
adj
- conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
- Producing a clash or series of clashes.
- adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
- mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
- sharply and harshly discordant
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verb
adj
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verb
noun
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a flap that lies over another part
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
verb
- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
noun
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
- a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
verb
noun
verb
- (computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
- (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
- (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
- intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations
- intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data
- provide (books) with blank leaves
noun
verb
noun
- An incongruous mixture.
- (countable, figuratively, by extension) A jester; a fool.
- (uncountable) A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
adj
verb
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
verb
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
verb
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
noun
noun
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
verb
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
verb
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To perplex or puzzle.
- To stun or amaze.
- (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- mistake one thing for another
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
verb
adj
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
noun
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
verb
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- form into a spiral shape
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- twist and press out of shape
- affect as in thought or feeling
verb
noun
adj
adj
adj
- Incoherent; disjointed.
- That is no longer connected.
- (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
- Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
- not plugged in or connected to a power source
- (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- lacking orderly continuity
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
verb
adj
verb
adj
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
- (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
adv
noun
- (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- (geography) A line of latitude.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
verb
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- make or place parallel to something
- duplicate or match
- be parallel to
adj
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
verb
- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
noun
- An incongruous mixture.
- (countable, figuratively, by extension) A jester; a fool.
- (uncountable) A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
adj
verb
adj
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
- (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- (informal) Generally incorrect.
- Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
- turned or twisted toward one side
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
noun
adj
- conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
- Producing a clash or series of clashes.
- adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
- mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
- sharply and harshly discordant