What does balise in French mean?

What is the meaning of the word balise in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use balise in French.

The word balise in French means beacon, marker, beacon, tag, heliconia, chicken, scaredy-cat, mark out, mark out, panic, tag, traffic cone, distress signal, distress beacon, traffic signal, HTML element, radio beacon, marked path. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word balise

beacon, marker

nom féminin (marque de guidage)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Pour atterrir, les avions suivent des balises.
In order to land, aircraft follow beacons (or markers).

beacon

nom féminin (dispositif d'alerte)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Toute embarcation doit posséder au moins une balise.
All small boats have to have at least one beacon.

tag

nom féminin (Informatique : marque d'identification) (computing)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le HTML utilise des balises.
HTML uses tags.

heliconia

nom féminin (fruit du balisier) (fruit)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Les balises sont bonnes en confiture.
Heliconia fruit is good in jam.

chicken, scaredy-cat

nom féminin (argot (personne peureuse) (slang)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Robert, c'est une balise de première !
Robert's a real chicken! Robert's a major scaredy-cat!

mark out, mark out

verbe transitif (signaler par des repères) (define physical borders)

(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.")
Deux rangées de torches plantées dans le sol balisent la piste d'atterrissage. Les pisteurs sont allés baliser le sentier.
Two rows of flares set in the ground delineate the landing strip.

panic

verbe intransitif (familier (avoir peur)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")
Mais arrête de baliser, je suis sûr que ça va bien se passer !
Stop panicking! I'm sure it will be fine.

tag

verbe transitif (informatique : munir de repères) (computing)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
J'ai passé l'après-midi à baliser ce texte en HTML.
I spent the afternoon marking up this text in HTML.

traffic cone

nom féminin (ustensile de repérage)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

distress signal, distress beacon

nom féminin (signal de demande de secours)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
En difficultés, on déclenche une balise de détresse.

traffic signal

nom féminin (dispositif de repérage)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

HTML element

nom féminin (indication de formatage) (web code)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Une balise HTLM est la description ou la mise en forme d’un élément de document.

radio beacon

nom féminin (émetteur radio de localisation) (transmitter)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Les balises radio sont utilisées pour la navigation aérienne et marine.

marked path

nom masculin (itinéraire fléché)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

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