ruler

règle

Outil droit portant des graduations, qui sert à mesurer des longueurs ou à tracer des lignes droites.

En anglais simple : A straight tool with marked distances, used to measure lengths or draw straight lines.

• Use a ruler to draw the line.
• My ruler is thirty centimeters long.
• Have you seen my ruler?

Expressions courantes : a plastic ruler, use a ruler, wooden ruler, draw with a ruler

dirigeant, souverain

Personne qui gouverne ou contrôle un pays ou un groupe de personnes.

En anglais simple : A person who controls or governs a country or group of people.

• The king was a cruel ruler.
• She was the first female ruler of the country.
• The people wanted a new ruler.

Comment l'utiliser : ruler of something (She became the ruler of a small kingdom.)

Synonymes : leader, sovereign

Expressions courantes : powerful ruler, ruler of something, absolute ruler