French: carboniséEnglish translation: carbonized 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | carbonisé | | English translation: | carbonized | | Entered by: | zkt |
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | | French term or phrase: carbonisé | La phrase décrit une scène:
Sous la forme d'un arbre carbonisé, en feu et courbé par la tempête
ce qui me tracasse c'est carbonisé suivi de en feu
Merci |
| | | burnt /burnt-out / smoldering remains of a tree | Explanation:
guess
the image that came to my mind was that the tree was largely reduced to embers or a burnt-out shape, but there were still some flames from the fire -- and there was a tempest???
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Note added at 33 mins (2007-07-20 11:49:31 GMT)
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forli - For some reason, I just didn't think of lightning! I kept picturing a fire consuming a tree, then a tempest arriving, bending the remains even further,
then a flood, then an earthquake... OK, je plaisante... :-)
but up to the storm arriving, that's what I was picturing, not impossible, but still, odd: the mixture of big flames and extra-strength storm all at the same time...
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Note added at 36 mins (2007-07-20 11:52:24 GMT)
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* carbonized
I like "carbonized remains"
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-07-20 14:02:18 GMT)
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Vaughn : "IF it's "curved" then it is still supple - this isn't after, this is IN a storm."
From the time the tree is green and living to when it becomes a hardened coal, it goes through many transformations, and the fire will not burn all of it at once, nor will it burn the entire tree with the same intensity. So no, it doesn't simply solidify into a hard non-bending coal in 3 seconds, in an Either/Or condition, and the tree remains supple in many ways for quite some time, while still being quite burnt and smoldered in others.
carbonisé seems quite strong to mean just a mere change in color. |
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| Note from asker to answererMerci Vera :-)
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