网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 false friend
释义
false friend
noun[C]
uk
/ˌfɒls ˈfrend/us
/ˌfɑːls ˈfrend/
a word that is oftenconfusedwith a word in anotherlanguagewith a differentmeaningbecause the two wordslookorsoundsimilar:
（另一语言中的某个词的）形近异义词，同形异义词，同音异义字
TheFrenchword "actuellement" and theEnglishword "actually" arefalsefriends.法语单词 actuellement 和英语单词 actually 是一对形近异义词。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary
  • alphabetic
  • Anglicism
  • antonym
  • antonymous
  • applicative
  • archaism
  • buzzword
  • cognate
  • hypernym
  • hyponym
  • inappropriacy
  • inflectional
  • initialism
  • lexis
  • superordinate
  • synonymously
  • syntagmatic
  • term of art
  • terminological
  • vocab
See more results »
(Definition offalse friendfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse friend

false friend
If interactivity is functional across languages, we should expect that in the course of naming a word in one language its corresponding "falsefriend" in the non-response language is activated.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The word "implementation" is afalsefriendin this context.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I recognise that anything we can achieve must be to some degree conditioned by the views of others, but expediency is always afalsefriend.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The word "federal" is afalsefriendand a false enemy.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Or is it a necessary way of distinguishing from the casual orfalsefriend?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Extending the period of maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay is afalsefriend.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Therefore, it is afalsefriend.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
When faced with afalsefriend, memorization and repetition are the keys to mastery.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The term "wandern", frequently misused as afalsefriend, does in fact not mean to wander, but to hike.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These items are often referred to with the terms "false friends" or "quasi-homophones across languages".
From theCambridge English Corpus
Other terms used are ' 'interlexical homographs' ' or ' 'false friends' '.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As triggering depends on conceptual overlap and not on similarities in word form, false friends are not predicted to facilitate codeswitching in this scenario.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Therefore, false friends (words sharing form but not meaning characteristics) are not predicted to facilitate codeswitching in this scenario.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Furthermore, false friends also offer us the possibility of testing whether the semantic system activates the two languages of a bilingual.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is indeed afalsefriend.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/false-friend##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/27 20:35:34