English-French translations for rubber

caoutchouc
Que l'on recouvre les pièges de caoutchouc n'a aucune incidence sur les pattes des animaux. The fact that you cover the traps with a bit of rubber makes no difference at all to an animal's legs. Ma ville natale comptait autrefois une usine de caoutchouc, mais elle n’existe plus. In my home town there was once a rubber factory, but it is no longer there. Deuxièmement, parce que ce rapport, comme ses prédécesseurs, ressemble à du caoutchouc. Secondly, because this report – like others before it – are like rubber.
gomme
Les manufacturiers seraient alors obligés de modifier en urgence la structure du pneu et la dureté de la gomme en dégradant l'adhérence. Manufacturers would therefore be obliged to urgently modify the structure of the tyre and the hardness of the rubber by reducing the grip.

capote
préservatif
chèque en boisCette appréciation n' est cependant ni un chèque en bois, ni un chèque en blanc. It is not a worthless rubber cheque, Mr President, as we are aware of the developments in relation to the previous Commission.
condom
préso

Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene
An eraser
A condom
Someone or something which rubs
The cushion of an electric machine
Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes
Tires, particularly racing tires
A hardship or misfortune
Not covered by funds on account
In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches
A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie
To eavesdrop on a telephone call
To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity

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