tongue

langue

Organe souple dans la bouche qui sert à goûter, parler et avaler.

En anglais simple : The soft part inside your mouth that helps you taste, speak, and swallow.

• My tongue feels sore.
• She burned her tongue on the hot soup.
• The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue.

Expressions courantes : stick your tongue, bite your tongue, tip of tongue

langue

Une langue, notamment celle qu’une personne a apprise dans son enfance.

En anglais simple : A language, especially the one someone learned as a child.

• English is her mother tongue.
• They spoke to each other in their native tongue.
• He could read several ancient tongues.

Synonymes : language

Expressions courantes : native tongue, mother tongue, foreign tongue

langue

Langue d’un animal, surtout du bœuf, préparée pour être mangée.

En anglais simple : The mouth part of an animal, especially a cow, prepared and eaten as meat.

• We had tongue for lunch.
• She served cold tongue with mustard.
• The butcher sells beef tongue on Fridays.

Expressions courantes : beef tongue, cold tongue, sliced tongue

languette

Pièce située sous les lacets d’une chaussure et couvrant le dessus du pied.

En anglais simple : The piece of material under the laces of a shoe, covering the top of your foot.

• The shoe’s tongue slipped sideways.
• These boots have thick, padded tongues.
• Straighten the tongue before you tie your laces.

Synonymes : flap

Expressions courantes : shoe tongue, padded tongue, leather tongue

s’avancer

S’avancer dans une autre zone en formant de longues bandes étroites.

En anglais simple : To extend into another area in long, narrow shapes.

• The soil layer tongues into clay.
• A thin deposit tongued into the surrounding rock.
• Several sandy layers tongue through the darker soil.

Comment l'utiliser : tongue into something (The sandy layer tongues into the clay beneath it.)

Synonymes : extend, project

Expressions courantes : tongue into something, tongue through something

assembler à rainure et languette

Joindre des pièces de bois en insérant un bord étroit saillant dans une rainure adaptée.

En anglais simple : To join pieces of wood using a narrow raised edge that fits into a matching cut.

• The carpenter tongued the boards together.
• We need to tongue these floorboards before fitting them.
• She carefully tongued the edges to make a firm joint.

Expressions courantes : tongue boards together, tongue the edges