ozoner
English
Etymology
From the supposed concentration of ozone gas at such theaters + -er (“Variety -er”).
Noun
ozoner (plural ozoners)
- A drive-in movie theater.
- 1997 September 14, “Starlite memories Series”, in St. Petersburg Times:
- Instead of The Ten Commandments, ozoners were filled with pictures like The Beach Girls and the Monster, High School Hellcats, and Billy Jack
- 1998 July 26, “The `Ozoner' Layer Colorado's Remaining Drive-ins Flicker With Nostalgia, New Appeal”, in Rocky Mountain News:
- But it wasn't just Denver that was once infatuated with ozoners The whole country was in love with driveins
- 2002 June 30, “KC is a movie lover's paradise”, in The Kansas City Star, The:
- Are you an ozoner fan? Well if you do love drivein movies KC offers seven outdoor screens from which to choose
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French
Pronunciation
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Verb
ozoner
- to ozonate
- Synonym: ozoniser
Conjugation
Conjugation of ozoner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ozoner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ozonant /o.zɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ozoné /o.zɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ozone /o.zɔn/ | ozones /o.zɔn/ | ozone /o.zɔn/ | ozonons /o.zɔ.nɔ̃/ | ozonez /o.zɔ.ne/ | ozonent /o.zɔn/ |
| imperfect | ozonais /o.zɔ.nɛ/ | ozonais /o.zɔ.nɛ/ | ozonait /o.zɔ.nɛ/ | ozonions /o.zɔ.njɔ̃/ | ozoniez /o.zɔ.nje/ | ozonaient /o.zɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ozonai /o.zɔ.ne/ | ozonas /o.zɔ.na/ | ozona /o.zɔ.na/ | ozonâmes /o.zɔ.nam/ | ozonâtes /o.zɔ.nat/ | ozonèrent /o.zɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | ozonerai /o.zɔn.ʁe/ | ozoneras /o.zɔn.ʁa/ | ozonera /o.zɔn.ʁa/ | ozonerons /o.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | ozonerez /o.zɔn.ʁe/ | ozoneront /o.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ozonerais /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/ | ozonerais /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/ | ozonerait /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/ | ozonerions /o.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ozoneriez /o.zɔ.nə.ʁje/ | ozoneraient /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ozone /o.zɔn/ | ozones /o.zɔn/ | ozone /o.zɔn/ | ozonions /o.zɔ.njɔ̃/ | ozoniez /o.zɔ.nje/ | ozonent /o.zɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | ozonasse /o.zɔ.nas/ | ozonasses /o.zɔ.nas/ | ozonât /o.zɔ.na/ | ozonassions /o.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ | ozonassiez /o.zɔ.na.sje/ | ozonassent /o.zɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ozone /o.zɔn/ | — | ozonons /o.zɔ.nɔ̃/ | ozonez /o.zɔ.ne/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ozoner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.