French English Dictionary

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porter in English:

1. wear wear


Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.
wear wear
Since ski season is almost over, the ski wear that's on sale is all leftovers, so there's nothing that's just my size.
Even if we wear an Armani suite or drive a Jaguar, in the end we're the same as ants. We move and move pointlessly and then we die.
Since I started wearing glasses myself, I started liking the anime where the protagonists wear glasses.
Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
As far as I'm concerned, laws that require drivers to wear seatbelts are paternalistic.
That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.
How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
But Dima would never wear the glasses. Suddenly, his body went limp and he collapsed to the floor.
Well, it's just like the proverb "fine feathers make a fine bird". You look really good when you wear a suit.
Of all things, why did he give me a hat for my birthday? I don't wear a hat.
Christopher Columbus despised pirates, but he loved their eyepatches. Sometimes, he would wear one - just for fun.
If you don't wear warm clothes in winter, it wouldn't be surprising if you caught a bad cold.
Dad was wearing his best suit. She doesn’t usually wear a lot of make-up. She wore her hair in a bun.

English word "porter"(wear) occurs in sets:

500 most important French verbs 276 - 300
Fiches du livre - "Poems" (G.K. Chesterton)
Fiches du livre - "Poems" (George Santayana)
Fiches du livre - "Pan" (Knut Hamsun)
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2. carry carry


Wires carry electricity.
The good thing about this electronic dictionary is that it's easy to carry.
The work wasn't finished at 11:00 p.m. Friday, so they decided to carry it over to the following Monday.
We carry out treatments like whitening. We also do tobacco stain removal and other cleaning procedures.
If you can't lift your backpack, then you can't carry it!
I carry an umbrella everywhere. It rains a lot.
The spaceships will carry the first interstellar travellers to Alpha Centauri at a tenth the speed of light.
My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.
I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
The "subject" is the person or object to carry out the action in the sentence. Transformed to Japanese it would be the part that end in "wa" or "ga".
Carry on working while I am away.
Let us go together. We can swim across the river, carry off the bear cubs, take them to the house on the mountain, and together find happiness.
Ships carry lifeboats so that the crew can escape.
Throat and nose membranes hurt by dry air allow cold viruses to enter more easily. It is important to carry out sensible counter plans against the cold with heaters and against the dryness with humidifiers.
His boosterism makes it sound wonderful but I wonder if he understands how hard it's going to be to actually carry out.

English word "porter"(carry) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Nightfall" (Anthony Pryde)
Fiches du livre - "Private Peat" (Harold R. Peat)
Fiches du livre - "Eskimo Life" (Fridtjof Nansen)
Fiches du livre - "Georgian Folk Tales" (Unknown)
Fiches du livre - "When Love Calls" (Stanley J. We...