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Why are there over 100,000+ words for coloring materials in French?
100k is a theoretical gross estimation of the number of distinct coloring materials but no dictionary lists them.
In chemistry, molecules are described by their formulas and from these formulas, a ...
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Website that aggregates definitions from multiple French dictionaries in one place
Commercial dictionaries would certainly object:
Le Robert:
Par conséquent, sauf autorisation de l’Editeur, l’utilisation de systèmes automatisés ou de logiciels pour extraire et collecter tout ou ...
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Why are there over 100,000+ words for coloring materials in French?
I can answer that question from the chemical side.
First, the number of possible molecules is infinite. If you restrict the list to commercially available molecules, there are various estimates of ...
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What is the expanded form of "éd. augm."?
As already mentioned in a comment, the answer is édition augmentée: “expanded edition”.
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Why are there over 100,000+ words for coloring materials in French?
As None's deleted answer mentioned based on the following dictionnaire-academie.fr, the Dictionnaire de la chimie de Duval may contain many entries for coloring materials:
Si l’on parle de la langue ...
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What is the expanded form of "éd. augm."?
Your source is a Latin glossary, a composite work of the medieval and modern over two centuries.
The contents of the first publication were augmented in the 1730s by the Benedictine order in the ...
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Connaissez vous une Onomastique en ligne?
Bonjour. Il y a le travail de Jean Tosti, Dictionnaire des noms de famille, qui contient pas mal de noms de France et est accessible en ligne. Il y a également le Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de ...
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Lack of phonetic transcriptions in French & Audio Dictionaries with Pronunciations
WordReference
The WordReference French-English dictionary usually includes an IPA transcription, as well as audio from France and Quebec. For example, genou [ʒ(ə)nu].
The key for their system is here: ...
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French?
I would like to recommend a crime serie called Meurtres à... . Every episode takes place at a some beautiful location in France, most of them are little towns, villages or even islands. Watching it ...
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