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Le bois est **solide**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11536430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11536430) [\#11536436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11536436)) - Here the mire was almost **solid**, there almost liquid. La vase était ici presque **solide**, là presque liquide. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27932) - But **solid** food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. Mais la nourriture **solide** est pour les hommes faits, pour ceux dont le jugement est exercé par l’usage à discerner ce qui est bien et ce qui est mal. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 5:14) - We need **solid** evidence. Nous avons besoin d'éléments de preuve **solides**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949496) - (suspended **solids**) (mg/l) (**solides** en suspension) (mg/l) ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3935231) ## matières Used about 532 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 532). - Total suspended **solids** (TSS) **Matières** en suspension totales (MEST) ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3830544) - suspended **solids** 愦灭;lt; 20 mg/l **matières** en suspension 愦灭;lt; 20 mg/l ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2494613) - suspended **solids** 愦灭;lt; 30 mg/l **matières** en suspension 愦灭;lt; 30 mg/l ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2494611) - Coagulation is carried out by adding coagulants with charges opposite to those of the suspended **solids**. La coagulation est obtenue en ajoutant des coagulants de charge opposée à celle des **matières** en suspension. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3539353) - If a layer of oil forms at the surface, cool in the refrigerator until the fat solidifies and remove the **solid** layer with a spatula. Si une couche de **matières** grasses se forme à la surface, refroidir jusqu’à solidification de la phase grasse qui sera ensuite enlevée à l’aide d’une spatule. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1508096) ## liquides Used about 215 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 215). - (vii) Liquids collected from spills or from free-product subsurface recovery systems at contaminated sites; (b) **Solids**: vii) **Liquides** recueillis à la suite d ' un déversement accidentel ou provenant de systèmes de récupération des produits enfouis sur des sites contaminés; ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12853026) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I need **solid** evidence. Il me faut une preuve tangible. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362983) [\#11521589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11521589)) - The king's throne was made out of **solid** gold. Le trône du roi était en or massif. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2984539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2984539) [\#11401675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11401675)) - Is the beam **solid** or hollow? La poutre est-elle pleine ou creuse ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3030970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3030970) [\#11955272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11955272)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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