What does pioche in French mean?
What is the meaning of the word pioche in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use pioche in French.
The word pioche in French means pickaxe, stack, pile, transmission key, dig, draw, pick up, good draw, lucky draw, make a bad draw, not strike it lucky, bad pick, bad draw, bad choice, wrong choice, dumbo, nitwit. To learn more, please see the details below.
Meaning of the word pioche
pickaxenom féminin (outil de terrassement à bout pointu) (UK) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Ils creusèrent un passage à coups de pioche. They dug a passage with a pickaxe. |
stack, pilenom féminin (jeu : tas de cartes) (playing cards) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Au rami, on prend une carte dans la pioche. In rummy, you take a card from the stack (or: pile). |
transmission keynom féminin (figuré (manipulateur télégraphique) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) Les opérateurs télégraphiques envoyaient leurs messages en donnant des coups courts ou longs sur une pioche. Telegraph operators sent their messages by making short or long taps on a transmission key. |
digverbe transitif (creuser) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Nous avons pioché notre allée de garage pour installer des drains. We dug up our driveway to fit drains. |
drawverbe transitif (jeu : prendre une carte) (playing card) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Il piocha une carte pour continuer à jouer. He drew a card to keep playing. |
pick upverbe transitif (se débrouiller pour récupérer [qch]) (phrasal verb, transitive, separable: Verb with adverb(s) or preposition(s), having special meaning, divisible--for example, "call off" [=cancel], "call the game off," "call off the game.") Elle a fait un mémoire en piochant des informations çà et là. She did her dissertation by gathering information here and there. |
good draw, lucky drawnom féminin (jeu : avoir tiré une bonne carte) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
make a bad drawlocution verbale (ne pas tirer la carte escomptée) (cards) (verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.") Il a fait une mauvaise pioche avec ce 9 de trèfle. |
not strike it luckylocution verbale (figuré (faire le mauvais choix) (verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.") Il a fait une mauvaise pioche en choisissant cette file d'attente. |
bad pick, bad drawnom féminin (jeu : nouvelle carte inutile) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
bad choice, wrong choicenom féminin (figuré (mauvais choix) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
dumbo, nitwitnom féminin (familier (insulte) (informal, pejorative) (noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.) |
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