sage

sauge

Plante aux feuilles vert grisâtre utilisées pour parfumer les aliments.

En anglais simple : A plant with gray-green leaves used to add flavor to food.

• Add some sage to the soup.
• She grows sage beside the kitchen door.
• We cooked the pasta with butter and fresh sage leaves.

Synonymes : common sage

Expressions courantes : fresh sage, sage leaves, sage butter

sage

Personne respectée pour sa grande sagesse, souvent un maître âgé ou un guide spirituel.

En anglais simple : A person respected for great wisdom, often an older teacher or spiritual guide.

• They asked the sage for advice.
• An elderly sage taught him to be patient.
• The book contains stories about famous sages.

Synonymes : wise person, wise man

Contraires : fool

Expressions courantes : ancient sage, village sage, wise sage

sauge

Toute plante du genre des sauges, dont beaucoup sont cultivées pour leurs fleurs colorées.

En anglais simple : Any plant in the salvia group, including many grown for their colorful flowers.

• This sage has bright red flowers.
• Several species of sage grow in the garden.
• Bees visited the flowering sages all afternoon.

Synonymes : salvia

Expressions courantes : ornamental sage, red sage, flowering sage

sauge sauvage

Petit arbuste ressemblant à la sauge culinaire, souvent avec des feuilles grises ou une odeur forte.

En anglais simple : A small bush resembling the cooking herb, often with gray leaves or a strong smell.

• Wild sage covered the dry hillside.
• The desert sage gave off a strong scent.
• Small birds sheltered among the gray sages.

Expressions courantes : desert sage, wild sage, sage scrub

sage, avisé

Qui fait preuve d’un bon jugement grâce à ses connaissances et à son expérience.

En anglais simple : Showing good judgment gained from knowledge and experience.

• She offered some sage advice.
• His sage counsel helped us avoid a mistake.
• The eldest sister gave a sage nod.

Synonymes : wise, judicious

Contraires : foolish

Expressions courantes : sage advice, sage counsel, sage words

sage

Option d’un forum d’images permettant de répondre sans faire remonter la discussion en tête de liste.

En anglais simple : An imageboard option used when replying without moving the discussion to the top of the list.

• Enter sage in the email field.
• She selected sage before posting her reply.
• The board accepts sage to keep a thread from rising.

Expressions courantes : sage in email, sage option

utiliser sage

Répondre sur un forum d’images avec l’option qui empêche la discussion de remonter dans la liste.

En anglais simple : To reply on an imageboard using an option that keeps the discussion from moving up the list.

• Please sage this thread.
• She saged her reply to avoid bumping the discussion.
• Users often sage when a thread has become repetitive.

Expressions courantes : sage a thread, sage your reply