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Dictionary translations for "à double effet"

à double effet adjective

à double effet / à double effet / à double effet / à double effet

dual [ˈdju:əl] (locution adjectivale, invariable, caractéristique fonctionnelle)

double-acting (Business Basic)

Phrases with "à double effet" (2)

amortisseur à double effet - double-acting shock absorber
compresseur à double effet - double-acting compressor

Contexts with "à double effet"

Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.

Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.

C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways

Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.

Est-ce que ce médicament fait effet rapidement ? Does the medicine act quickly?

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