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écarter

Pronunciation: /e.kaʁ.te/

“écarter” is a French word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to separate, move apart
  2. to spread, open (fingers, legs etc)
  3. to draw (curtains)
  4. to dismiss, rule out, turn down
  5. to remove a person from a job or position
  6. to lose
  7. to withdraw, diverge, deviate
  8. to stray

In French

  1. Séparer; éloigner.
  2. Détourner.
  3. Rejeter une possibilité de solution, considérée comme inappropriée.
  4. Déployer.
  5. Ne pas projeter son plomb bien serré et bien ensemble, en parlant d'une arme à feu.
  6. Étendre, déployer en long et en large.
  7. Égarer, perdre.
  8. Faire un écart.
  9. Mettre à part ou rejeter des cartes dont on ne veut pas se servir.

Etymology

According to the Trésor de la Langue Française, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *exquartāre, from classical Latin quartus. The Vocabolario Etimologico of Pianigiani gives Vulgar Latin *excarptāre, formed with the supine Latin *excarptum of Latin *excarpāre or Latin excerpō (“choose, select”). At the same time, Pianigiani adds an alternative etymology, though not fully explained, involving a…

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