chicane

See also: chicané

English

a chicane in a roadway

Etymology

Borrowed from French chicane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkeɪn/, /t͡ʃɪˈkeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

chicane (countable and uncountable, plural chicanes)

1. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed.
   • 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.

2. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
3. Chicanery.
   • (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     to shuffle from them by chicane

Translations

a temporary barrier or serpentine curve

• Catalan: xicana f
• Czech: šikana (cs) f
• Finnish: šikaani (fi)
• German: Schikane (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: siceán m
• Italian: chicane f, intoppo (it) m, intralcio (it) m, impedimento (it) m, curva a gomito f
• Polish: szykana

chicanery

• Bulgarian: двусмислица (bg) f (dvusmislica)
• Czech: podvod (cs) m, trik m, podvrh m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: juonittelu (fi), petkutus (fi), šikaani (fi)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
2. (transitive) To deceive.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “chicane”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Etymology

From chicaner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.kan/

• Audio:

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Verb

chicane

1. first-person singular present indicative of chicaner
2. third-person singular present indicative of chicaner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chicaner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chicaner
5. second-person singular imperative of chicaner

Noun

chicane f (plural chicanes)

1. (road transport) Chicane (obstruction designed to reduce speed), double road bend.
2. Bickering, quibbling, especially as delay tactic.

Further reading

• chicane on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “chicane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• caniche

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Portuguese

Verb

chicane

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