tirage

English

Etymology

French

Noun

tirage (countable and uncountable, plural tirages)

1. The drawing of wine from its barrel.

Anagrams

• Gaiter, aigret, gaiter, triage, trigae

French

Etymology

From tirer +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁaʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

tirage m (plural tirages)

1. pulling (action of pulling)
2. drawing (drawing of lots)
3. (printing) printing (putting symbols on a newspaper)
4. (printing) circulation (number of copies sold of e.g. a newspaper)
5. draw (selection by chance, e.g. for deciding opponents in a sport competition)
6. (military) draught/draft (hiring soldiers)
7. drawing (of cheques)
8. (metallurgy) drawing
9. tirage (taking wine from a barrel)
10. draught, draft (chimney)

Derived terms

• tirage à part
• tirage au sort

Descendants

• Czech: tiráž
• English: tirage
• → Romanian: tiraj
• → Turkish: tiraj
• Russian: тира́ж (tiráž)
  • → Azerbaijani: tiraj
  • → Georgian: ტირაჟი (ṭiraži)

Further reading

• “tirage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• agiter, gérait, réagit, réagît