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Meaning: [pollution in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pollution/). - La **pollution** endommage notre terre. **Pollution** is damaging our earth. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#25711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25711) [\#888812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/888812)) - La **pollution** est identifiable et mesurable. **Pollution** is identifiable and measurable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094138) - MPME POUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LA **POLLUTION** SONORE BEMP FOR NOISE **POLLUTION** ([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 4787276) - ii) la **pollution** et l ' énergie; (ii) **pollution** and energy. ([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 6260969) - La **pollution** s'aggrave d'année en année. The **pollution** worsens with each year. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#453208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453208) [\#11918789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11918789)) ## water Used about 884 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 34 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 820). Meaning: [water in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/water/). - L’homme qui aura une **pollution** lavera tout son corps dans l’eau, et sera impur jusqu’au soir. “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in **water**, and be unclean until the evening. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 15:16) - Hormones, protéines étrangères, injections d'eau, **pollutions** et bactéries toxiques, chacun en a déjà entendu parler. Hormones, foreign proteins, **water** injections, impurities and harmful bacteria - they will all sound familiar to you. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 467843) - Les échantillons de poissons et d'eau sont manipulés en permanence de manière à minimiser les **pollutions** et les pertes (résultant par exemple de l'absorption par le matériel d'échantillonnage). Fish and **water** samples are handled throughout in such a manner as to minimise contamination and loss (e.g. resulting from adsorption by the sampling device). ([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 1537427) - Prévention de la **pollution** accidentelle des eaux Poursuivre les travaux sur la prévention de la **pollution** accidentelle des eaux 3.1.1 Continuation of work on the prevention of accidental **water** Joint ad hoc expert group on Germany (in kind -one meeting) US$ 25,000 Implementation of the programme of ([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 8069475) - La **pollution** microbiologique des sources d ' eau de boisson est considérable dans les pays de l ' EOCAC, tandis que la salinisation est inquiétante en Europe centrale. Microbiological contamination of drinking-**water** supplies is significant in EECCA, while contamination by salts is a concern for Central Europe. ([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 10655726) ## emissions Used about 820 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 820). - La réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre y compris à travers les mesures susmentionnées et la diminution des **pollutions** liées au transport et aux déchets organiques; The reduction of greenhouse gas **emissions** via the above two measures and reduced emissions of transport and bio-wastes; ([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 17227583) ## air Used about 34 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34). Meaning: [air in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/air/). - Je redoute beaucoup que l’enquête ne se limite à la qualité de l’air extérieur et à la **pollution** de celui-ci. I am very worried that the investigation will restrict itself to the quality of the **air** outdoors and rather narrowly to the contamination of this type of air. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 570062) ## industrial Used about 28 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 28). Meaning: [industrial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/industrial/). - Toujours selon elles, ces immeubles concentreraient les **pollutions** générées par l'activité industrielle. They further claim that these are the buildings that housed the polluting **industrial** activity. ([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 3528638) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - La **pollution** recouvrait Tokyo. Smog hung over Tokyo. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sbgodin and CM · checked, community translation · [\#51416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51416) [\#1989566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1989566)) - Telle est la loi pour celui qui a une gonorrhée ou qui est souillé par une **pollution**, This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 15:32) - Tout homme de la race d’Aaron, qui aura la lèpre ou une gonorrhée, ne mangera point des choses saintes jusqu’à ce qu’il soit pur. Il en sera de même pour celui qui touchera une personne souillée par le contact d’un cadavre, pour celui qui aura une **pollution**, “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 22:4) ## 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. 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