clôture — French to English

How French clôture is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: clôture (33 123), clôtures (791). By style: everyday 74 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 501 · legal and administrative 4 769 · UN documents 28 567.

fence

Used about 15 094 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · parliamentary ≈ 145 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 086 · UN documents ≈ 12 796). Forms: fence, fences, fencing. Meaning: fence in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom a peint la clôture.

  Tom painted the fence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3921811 #5452599

• De simples clôtures ne résoudront pas cette tragédie humaine.

  Fences alone are not the answer to this human tragedy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 725310

• ☐浡㭰 clôtures ou barrières

  ☐浡㭰 fencing or barriers

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4323250

• Construction de clôtures autour des aéroports principaux

  Fencing of main airports

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27239668

• J'ai escaladé la clôture.

  I climbed over the fence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3732755 #7437922

closure

Used about 5 120 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 109 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 441 · UN documents ≈ 3 571). Meaning: closure in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Clôture de la séance

  Closure of the sitting

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1078030

• RÉSILIATION ET CLÔTURE DES DCA

  TERMINATION AND CLOSURE OF DCAS

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3562697

• Clôture de la session

  Closure of the session

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24866503

• Second point: la clôture 1994-1999.

  My second point is the 1994-1999 closure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 496119

• Clôture de comptes de dépôt d'exploitant

  Closure of operator holding accounts

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2180613

closing

Used about 3 321 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 44 · legal and administrative ≈ 596 · UN documents ≈ 2 678).

• Avez-vous regardé la cérémonie de clôture des Jeux olympiques?

  Did you watch the Olympics closing ceremony?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #5391316 #5391348

• Clôture de la session annuelle

  Closing of the session

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21736

• Stocks de clôture (en tonnes)

  Closing stocks (in tonnes)

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3439372

• 8. Clôture de la réunion.

  8. Closing of the meeting.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8315969

• Il pense inviter beaucoup de gens à la cérémonie de clôture.

  He is planning on inviting a lot of guests to the closing ceremony.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and JimBreen · checked, community translation · #6608920 #6609035

barbed

Used about 199 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 199). Meaning: barbed in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ronces artificielles, torsades en fils ou feuillards de fer ou acier, pour clôtures

  Barbed wire and barbed wire entanglements made from steel or steel wire

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2422627

twisted

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1).

• Ainsi, un immense pâté, ce que les Romains appelaient insula, de maisons bourgeoises, flanqué à droite et à gauche de deux blocs de palais couronnés l'un par le Louvre, l'autre par les Tournelles, bordé au nord d'une longue ceinture d'abbayes et d'enclos cultivés, le tout amalgamé et fondu au regard; sur ces mille édifices, dont les toits de tuiles et d'ardoises découpaient les uns sur les autres tant de chaînes bizarres, les clochers tatoués, gaufrés et guillochés des quarante-quatre églises de la rive droite; des myriades de rues au travers; pour limite d'un côté une clôture de hautes murailles à tours carrées (celle de l'Université était à tours rondes); de l'autre, la Seine coupée de ponts et charriant force bateaux: voilà la Ville au quinzième siècle.

  Thus an immense block, which the Romans called insula, or island, of bourgeois houses, flanked on the right and the left by two blocks of palaces, crowned, the one by the Louvre, the other by the Tournelles, bordered on the north by a long girdle of abbeys and cultivated enclosures, all amalgamated and melted together in one view; upon these thousands of edifices, whose tiled and slated roofs outlined upon each other so many fantastic chains, the bell towers, tattooed, fluted, and ornamented with twisted bands, of the four and forty churches on the right bank; myriads of cross streets; for boundary on one side, an enclosure of lofty walls with square towers (that of the University had round towers); on the other, the Seine, cut by bridges, and bearing on its bosom a multitude of boats; behold the Town of Paris in the fifteenth century.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1957

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• L'entreprise clôture ses comptes à la fin du mois de mars.

  The company closes its books at the end of March.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · #49036 #11377454

• À l'époque, les bicyclettes commençaient à être populaires et, ici et là, il y avait de mauvais débutants qui renversaient les passants et défonçaient leurs clôtures.

  At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #564161 #564167

• Ce n'est pas en érigeant des clôtures qu'on obtient la sécurité, mais en ouvrant des portes.

  Security isn't achieved by erecting barriers, but by opening gates.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · #9991407 #9990844

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