un mobile
| 09:21 May 20, 2019 |
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| 3 +1 | moving element |
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moving device Explanation: - |
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peer agreement (net): +1moving element Explanation: Often usable in this sort of sense and context. Also sometimes 'moving part'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 319 days (2020-04-03 21:48:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- No, Asker — that's the whole point! 'mobile' in FR is a bit of a faux ami in respect of 'mobile' in EN, and in very many cases (like this one!), it needs to be translated as 'moving' — as in, for example 'moving parts'. In EN, the difference may be very subtle — even a question of native-speaker "feel" — but 'mobile' is normally used for something that moves from place to place: like a mobile phone, or a mobile library, or a mobile food truck. However, 'mobile' in FR is very often used to describe something that moves / is moving or movable in the same place, in which meaning, we don't normally use 'mobile' in EN — like 'une partie mobile et une partie fixe' — 'a moving part and a fixed part'. |
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