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COMPUTER VOCABULARY

FRENCH WORDS USED IN ENGLISH

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COMPUTER VOCABULARY

Delete
EFFACER
Disk
DISQUETTE
Drag the mouse
FAIRE GLISSER LA SOURIS
File
FICHIER
Find&
RECHERCHER
Icon
ICONE
Key
TOUCHE

Touche de fonction
(function key)
Touche de majuscule
(shift key)
Touche de commande
(control key)

Keyboard
CLAVIER

LA BARRE DE MENUS:

Edit
EDITION
View
AFFICHE
Insert
INS&EGRAVE;RE
Format
FORMAT
Font
POLICES
Tools
OUTILS
Screen
ECRAN
Copy
FAIT DES RECOPIES
Cut
EFFACEMENTS
Page Layout
LE MODE PAGE
Outline
LE MODE PLAN
Paste
LE REMPLACEMENT DE TEXTE
Headers and Footers
EN-T&ECIRC;TES ET PIEDS DE PAGE
Footnotes
NOTES DE BAS DE PAGE
Spell check
Contrôle orthographique

Open a file
OUVRIR UN FICHIER
Panel
TABLEAU
Printer
IMPRIMANTE
Pull-down menu
MENU DÉROULANT
Radio button
CASE D’OPTION
Save/Save as
ENREGISTRER/ENREGISTRER SOUS
Sub-directory
SOUS RÉPERTOIRE
Sub-menu
SOUS MENU

FRENCH WORDS USED IN ENGLISH

CLOCHE
Means "bell" in French, but is also used to mean a transparent
glass cover used to protect young plants

CURFEW
Regulation forbidding people to be on the streets after a certain hour. Originally : French - "Couvre feu" - to cover the fire. In the Middle Ages, it referred to announcing the time to put out lights and cover the fire.

LORGNETTE
Eyeglasses mounted on a handle.

MANSARD
Roof with two slopes on each side and the storey under such a roof - from the French architect, Francois Mansard, 1598-1666.

PALETTE
A thin oval board with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters to lay and mix colors.

PARACHUTE
Umbrella-type apparatus used to descend gently from a great height

POMPOM
Ornamental ball or tuft worn on hat, dress, shoes, etc.

QUEUE
Braid of hair down the back, or a long line of people

REVERS
Part of the front of a garment, especially a coat lapel, turned back to show the face of the lining.

TAMBOURINE
Small drum with metal disks, played by shaking it with the hands or knuckles

TUTEUR
A trainer, support trellis for plants

SILHOUETTE
Outline portrait in black (after Etienne de Silhouette, a French Minister of Finance, 1709-67)

VOLUTE
Architecture: spiral or scroll type ornament

VALANCE
Short drapery across top of window or short curtain hanging from frame of bed to floor

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	CLOCHE Means "bell" in French, but is also used to mean a transparent glass cover used to protect young plants

CURFEW Regulation forbidding people to be on the streets after a certain hour. Originally : French - "Couvre feu" - to cover the fire. In the Middle Ages, it referred to announcing the time to put out lights and cover the fire.

	LORGNETTE Eyeglasses mounted on a handle.

MANSARD Roof with two slopes on each side and the storey under such a roof - from the French architect, Francois Mansard, 1598-1666.

	PALETTE A thin oval board with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters to lay and mix colors.

PARACHUTE Umbrella-type apparatus used to descend gently from a great height
	POMPOM Ornamental ball or tuft worn on hat, dress, shoes, etc.
QUEUE Braid of hair down the back, or a long line of people
	REVERS Part of the front of a garment, especially a coat lapel, turned back to show the face of the lining.

TAMBOURINE Small drum with metal disks, played by shaking it with the hands or knuckles

	TUTEUR A trainer, support trellis for plants
	SILHOUETTE Outline portrait in black (after Etienne de Silhouette, a French Minister of Finance, 1709-67)

VOLUTE Architecture: spiral or scroll type ornament

	VALANCE Short drapery across top of window or short curtain hanging from frame of bed to floor