wild

sauvage

Qui vit ou pousse dans la nature sans être élevé ou cultivé par les humains.

En anglais simple : Living or growing in nature, without being kept or grown by people.

• Wild flowers grow beside the path.
• Do not feed the wild animals.
• We saw wild horses near the river.

Synonymes : undomesticated, untamed

Contraires : tame, domesticated

Expressions courantes : wild animals, wild flowers, wild birds

déchaîné, indiscipliné

Qui se comporte sans retenue, souvent sans respecter les règles habituelles.

En anglais simple : Behaving in a way that is hard to control, often without following normal rules.

• He was a wild teenager.
• The party became too wild for me.
• Their wild behavior upset the other guests.

Synonymes : unruly, reckless, uncontrolled

Contraires : restrained, well-behaved

Expressions courantes : wild behavior, wild party, wild child

dingue, délirant

Très excitant, inhabituel ou impressionnant.

En anglais simple : Very exciting, unusual, or impressive.

• That is a wild shirt!
• She showed us some wild designs.
• The concert was a wild experience.

Synonymes : amazing, exciting, outrageous

Contraires : boring

Expressions courantes : wild idea, wild design, wild ride

déchaîné, effréné

Très intense et exprimé librement, sans retenue ni limites.

En anglais simple : Very strong and freely expressed, without control or limits.

• The news caused wild excitement.
• He shouted in wild rage.
• The dancers moved with wild abandon.

Synonymes : unrestrained, uninhibited, uncontrolled

Contraires : restrained

Expressions courantes : wild excitement, wild rage, wild applause

joker

Qui peut remplacer toute autre carte dans un jeu ou des caractères dans une recherche informatique.

En anglais simple : Able to replace any other card in a game, or other characters in a computer search.

• The joker is wild.
• In this game, all twos are wild.
• A wild character can match several different letters.

Expressions courantes : wild card, wild joker, wild character

sauvage

Issu d’animaux ayant toujours vécu libres, et non d’animaux domestiques échappés.

En anglais simple : Descended from animals that have always lived without human control, rather than from escaped domestic animals.

• These horses are feral rather than wild.
• Researchers compared the wild population with domestic breeds.
• The animals come from a truly wild lineage.

Synonymes : undomesticated

Contraires : domesticated

Expressions courantes : wild population, wild ancestors, wild lineage

à côté, hors cible

En s’écartant de la direction prévue ou en manquant la cible.

En anglais simple : Away from the intended direction or target.

• His first shot went wild.
• The ball flew wild and hit a window.
• Under pressure, she threw wild and missed her teammate.

Synonymes : off target, wide

Expressions courantes : shoot wild, fly wild, throw wild

séparément

En enregistrant le son séparément du tournage pour l’associer ensuite aux images.

En anglais simple : With sound recorded separately from the filming, to be matched to the pictures later.

• We recorded the dialogue wild.
• The director asked us to record wild after filming.
• These footsteps were recorded wild for the final scene.

Expressions courantes : record wild, shoot wild, capture wild