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By style: everyday 743 · literary 122 · biblical 177 · parliamentary 5 318 · legal and administrative 7 623 · UN documents 93 648. ## full Used about 68 898 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 403 · literary ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 95 · parliamentary ≈ 2 548 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 382 · UN documents ≈ 63 408). Meaning: [full in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/full/). - Le sac est **plein**. The bag is **full**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#2478232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2478232) [\#6324108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6324108)) - --L'assiette est toute **pleine**. “The plate is quite **full**.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31287) - une coupe d’or de dix sicles, **pleine** de parfum; one golden ladle of ten shekels, **full** of incense; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 7:38) - Aux Pays-Bas, le débat à ce sujet bat son **plein**. In the Netherlands, the debate on this is in **full** swing. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 549531) - Effectifs totaux (équivalents temps **plein**) Total staff (**Full** Time Equivalent) ([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 3461366) ## solid Used about 3 053 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 588 · UN documents ≈ 1 463). Meaning: [solid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/solid/). - —Et tout ce granit ne pourrait se maintenir à l'état solide et serait en **pleine** fusion. "And all this **solid** granite ought to be running in fusion." ([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 2140) - Bandages **pleins** ou creux (mi-**pleins**) **Solid** or cushion tyres ([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 3009410) - Les zones encadrées peuvent être **pleines**. The framed areas may be **solid**. ([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 20954255) - Jean Valjean n'avait rien changé au mobilier du premier jour; seulement il avait fait remplacer par une porte **pleine** la porte vitrée du cabinet de Cosette. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door leading to Cosette’s dressing-room replaced by a **solid** door. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9514) - À des fins douanières, la distance horizontale entre les anneaux sur les éléments **pleins** du véhicule ne devra pas dépasser 200 mm. The horizontal distance between the rings, if used for Customs purposes, on the **solid** parts of the vehicle shall not exceed 200 mm. ([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 26412031) ## powers Used about 67 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 28 · legal and administrative ≈ 40). - Ce dernier a limogé son gouvernement et s’est attribué les **pleins** pouvoirs. He sacked the Government and assumed direct **powers** himself. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 651855) - Il a estimé que la Commission avait outrepassé ses pouvoirs en matière d'aides d'État en développant puis en imposant sa propre interprétation du principe de **pleine** concurrence. In particular, it considered the Commission to have exceeded its **powers** in the field of State aid by developing and imposing its own interpretation of the arm's length principle. ([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 4512852) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Notre voiture est tombée en panne en **plein** milieu de la rue. Our car broke down in the middle of the street. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#262595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/262595) [\#128063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128063)) - Servez-vous. Il y en a encore **plein** dans la cuisine. Help yourselves. There's plenty more in the kitchen. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7590440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7590440) [\#7647145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7647145)) - Tom cria à **plein** poumons. Tom screamed at the top of his lungs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1024201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1024201) [\#1091936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1091936)) ## 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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