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appoggiature: appoggiatura
appoint: an amount of small change; money which completes a payment, balances an account; complementary support
appointement: stipend, pay, salary; appointment, engagement (arrangement between people to meet); appointment, nomination (to a position)
appointer: to salary (attribute a salary to a position); to appoint (attribute a job, a position to someone); to sharpen into a point; to unite; to become united
appointé: salaried; appointed
appontage: landing (of an aircraft on an aircraft carrier)
appontement: landing stage; pier, wharf
apponter: to land (on an aircraft carrier)
apponteur: a handler or marshal on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier
apport: contribution, input
apporter: to bring (something); to take; to give (support), to give, supply (explanation etc.); to bring (improvement, freedom etc.); to bring in (funding)
apporter de l'eau au moulin de: to add grist for the mill, to bring grist for the mill, to provide ammunition for someone (to provide extra arguments in support of someone's stance)
apporter sa pierre à l'édifice: to make a contribution, to contribute one's fair share, to play one's part, to do one's bit
apporteur: supporting (financially)
apposer: to put up, stick up, attach; to stamp, sign
appositif: appositive
apposition: apposition
apprenable: teachable; learnable, memorizable; apprehensible
apprenant: learner, student (person who is learning something)
apprendre: to learn; to teach
apprenti: apprentice, trainee
apprenti-sorcier: sorcerer's apprentice (person who experiments carelessly, without paying attention to the possible consequences of their experiments and without the ability to contain them should they spiral out of control)
apprentissage: apprenticeship; learning
apprentissage profond: deep learning
apprimé: appressed
appris: learnt
apprivoisable: tameable
apprivoisement: taming (of an animal etc)
apprivoiser: to tame; to win over, to charm
apprivoiseur: tamer
approbateur: approving
approbatif: approbative; approving
approbation: approval (permission)
approbativement: approvingly
approbativité: approbativement
approchable: approachable
approchant: similar; oncoming, approaching
approche: approach
approcher: to approach, to come close to, to move towards
approfondir: to deepen; to consider more thoroughly, to delve deeper into
approfondissement: deepening
approfondisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of approfondir
appropriateur: appropriator
appropriation: appropriation
approprier: to adapt (something) to a situation; to seize, take; to make one's own
approprié: appropriate, suitable
approuvable: approvable
approuver: to approve of
approvisionnement: supply, supplying, stocking up; procurement
approvisionner: to supply; stock; to shop
approvisionneur: supplier, purveyor
approximatif: approximate (not perfectly accurate); rough, vague, approximate; broken
approximation: approximation; an imprecise solution
approximativement: roughly, approximately
approximer: to approximate (to carry or advance near; to cause to approach)
approximé: approximated
appréciabilité: substantiality
appréciable: substantial; noticeable
appréciateur: appreciator
appréciatif: appreciative