plongée
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French plongée. See plunge.
Noun edit
plongée (plural plongées)
- (military) A slope or sloping toward the front.
- the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plongée”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /plɔ̃.ʒe/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: plongé, plongeai, plongée, plongées, plonger, plongés, plongez
Noun edit
plongée f (plural plongées)
Derived terms edit
Participle edit
plongée f sg
Further reading edit
- “plongée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.