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# 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fence/).

- Tom a peint la **clôture**.
  Tom painted the **fence**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3921811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3921811) [\#5452599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5452599))

- De simples **clôtures** ne résoudront pas cette tragédie humaine.
  **Fences** alone are not the answer to this human tragedy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 4323250)

- Construction de **clôtures** autour des aéroports principaux
  **Fencing** of main airports
  ([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 27239668)

- J'ai escaladé la **clôture**.
  I climbed over the **fence**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3732755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3732755) [\#7437922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/closure/).

- **Clôture** de la séance
  **Closure** of the sitting
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 3562697)

- **Clôture** de la session
  **Closure** of the session
  ([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 24866503)

- Second point: la **clôture** 1994-1999.
  My second point is the 1994-1999 **closure**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5391316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391316) [\#5391348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391348))

- **Clôture** de la session annuelle
  **Closing** of the session
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 3439372)

- 8. **Clôture** de la réunion.
  8. **Closing** of the meeting.
  ([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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and JimBreen · checked, community translation · [\#6608920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6608920) [\#6609035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6609035))

## barbed

Used about 199 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 199). Meaning: [barbed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/barbed/).

- 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](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 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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#49036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49036) [\#11377454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#564161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/564161) [\#564167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9991407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9991407) [\#9990844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9990844))

## Grammar

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