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Forms: center, centre, centres. Meaning: [center in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/center/). - Où est le **centre** commercial ? Where's the shopping **center**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#52856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52856) [\#644377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/644377)) - —Oui, Axel, jusqu'au **centre** de la terre.» "As far as the **centre** of the earth, Axel." ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1003) - Au **centre** encore, apparaissaient quatre animaux, dont l’aspect avait une ressemblance humaine. Out of its **center** came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 1:5) - (Applaudissements au **centre** et à gauche) (Applause from the **centre** and the left) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 431936) - **Centres** d'aide et de soins Help and care **centres**, ([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 2846234) ## facilities Used about 22 404 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 174 · UN documents ≈ 22 230). - Le projet pilote est mis en œuvre par la Commission avec l’aide éventuelle de contractants extérieurs, de **centres** de recherche et de parties prenantes intéressées. The pilot project is implemented by the Commission with possible assistance by external contractors, research **facilities** and relevant stakeholders. ([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 5049553) - Fourniture de médicaments à 109 **centres** Provision of drugs to 109 health **facilities** ([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 25996531) - **Centres** de culture physique pour les aînés Fitness **facilities** for the elderly population ([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 24277547) - Des photographies de pièces d ' interrogatoire et de **centres** de détention sont projetées. Photographs of interview rooms and detention **facilities** were projected. ([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 15036937) - Aiguillage de certains malades vers des **centres** médicaux spécialisés à l ' extérieur du **Centre** Referral of needy patients to advanced medical **facilities** outside of the center ([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 22314077) ## research Used about 193 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 193). Meaning: [research in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/research/). - Alors que nous parlons de l'importance des universités et des **centres** de recherche, les financements en faveur de ces institutions sont, en réalité, réduits. While we talk about the importance of universities and **research** facilities, funding for these institutions is, in fact, being reduced. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1399834) - La Cour attire l'attention sur le fait que le **centre** ne respecte pas scrupuleusement les procédures financières d'appel d'offres pour des projets de recherche. The Court has drawn attention to the fact that they are not following the financial regulations strictly in obtaining tenders for projects in the **research** field. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825358) - Dans sa politique de recherche, le parti de la gauche veut donner la priorité à l'éducation scientifique, à la recherche fondamentale et à la création de **centres** universitaires créatifs. The Swedish Left Party's priorities in this field are: researcher training, basic **research** and the establishing of creative research environments in the universities. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926284) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Y a-t-il un **centre** commercial près d'ici ? Is there a mall near here? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mayliu and CK · checked, community translation · [\#59634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59634) [\#822502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/822502)) - D'où partent les bus pour le **centre**-ville ? Where do the buses for downtown leave from? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Delapouite and CK · checked, community translation · [\#246129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246129) [\#1419806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1419806)) - L'Amérique est tout simplement un **centre** commercial géant. America is just one giant outlet store mall. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6945894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6945894) [\#10547838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10547838)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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