different between abate vs thin
abate
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??be?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??be?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English abaten, from Old French abatre (“to beat down”) (possibly via Middle French), from Late Latin abbatto, from ab- (“away”) + batto, from Latin battuere (“to beat”). Cognate to modern French abattre.
Verb
abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)
- (transitive, obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. [attested since about 1150 to 1350]
- (intransitive) To become null and void. [attested since the late 15th century]
- (transitive, law) To nullify; make void. [attested since the late 15th century]
- (transitive, obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally. [attested from around 1150 to 1350 until the mid 1600s]
- The hyer that they were in this present lyf, the moore shulle they be abated and defouled in helle.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally. [attested from around 1150 to 1350 until the mid 1600s]
- (transitive, obsolete) To curtail; to deprive. [attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the mid 1800s]
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii:
- She hath abated me of half my train.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii:
- (transitive) To reduce in amount, size, or value. [attested since 1325]
- His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- (intransitive) To decrease in size, value, or amount. [attested since 1325]
- (transitive) To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside. [attested since around 1150 to 1350]
- 1597, Francis Bacon Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall:
- Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.
- 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Part 3, page 267:
- The fury of Glengarry […] rapidly abated.
- 1597, Francis Bacon Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall:
- (intransitive) To decrease in intensity or force; to subside. [attested since around 1150 to 1350]
- c. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- […] in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, […]
- c. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- (transitive) To deduct or omit. [attested since around 1350 to 1470]
- (transitive) To bar or except. [attested since the late 1500s]
- (transitive) To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt. [attested from the mid 1500s till the late 1600s]
- (transitive, archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground. [attested since around 1350 to 1470]
- 1542, Edward Hall, The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York:
- The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.
- 1542, Edward Hall, The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York:
Synonyms
- (bring down or reduce): lessen; diminish; contract; moderate; cut short; decrease; lower; suppress; terminate; remove; remit; slacken
- (diminish in force or intensity): diminish; subside; decline; wane; ebb; mitigate; assuage; temper; alleviate; relax
- (bring someone down): humble; depress; appease; pacify; soothe; soften; tranquilize
- (come to naught): fall through; fail
Antonyms
- (bring down or reduce): augment, accelerate, aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, intensify, magnify, prolong, raise, rise, revive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
abate (plural abates)
- (obsolete) Abatement. [from around 1400 until the late 1600s]
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman abatre, an alteration of enbatre, from Old French en + batre (“to beat”).
Verb
abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)
- (intransitive, law) to enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Etymology 3
From Italian abate, from Latin abb?s, abb?tis, from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”). Doublet of abbot.
Alternative forms
- abbate
Noun
abate (plural abates)
- an Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
References
- abate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- abate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- abeat
Italian
Alternative forms
- abbate
Etymology
From Late Latin abb?tem, accusative form of abb?s, from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?ba.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: a?bà?te
Noun
abate m (plural abati, feminine badessa)
- abbot
Derived terms
- abatino (diminutive)
- abatonzolo (pejorative)
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Albanian: abat
- ? Belarusian: ???? (abat)
- ? Bulgarian: ???? (abat)
- ? English: abate
- ? Romanian: abate
- ? Russian: ????? (abbat)
- ? Ukrainian: ???? (abat)
Anagrams
- beata
References
- abate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- abate in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
Latvian
Etymology
From abats (“abbott”) +? -e (fem.).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [abat?]
Noun
abate f (5th declension, masculine form: abats)
- abbess (the female superior of a Catholic abbey or nunnery)
Declension
Related terms
- abatija
Further reading
- abate at tezaurs.lv
Lithuanian
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): [?b.??t??]
Noun
abatè
- locative singular of abatas
- instrumental singular of abat?
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): [?b?a?.t??]
Noun
abãte
- vocative singular of abatas
- vocative singular of abat?
Middle English
Verb
abate
- Alternative form of abaten
Portuguese
Verb
abate
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of abater
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of abater
Romanian
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu?, from Latin battu?.
Verb
a abate (third-person singular present abate, past participle ab?tut) 3rd conj.
- to stray (often figuratively in a moral sense), derogate, deviate, divert from, digress
- Synonyms: devia, îndep?rta
- to change paths, swerve from, wander from
- (reflexive) to stop (going a certain way)
- Synonym: opri
- to dissuade
- to knock down
- Synonyms: d?râma, da jos
Conjugation
Derived terms
- abatere
Related terms
- bate
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian abate, from Latin abb?s, abb?tis, from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”).
Noun
abate m (plural aba?i)
- abbot
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?bate/, [a???a.t?e]
Verb
abate
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of abatir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of abatir.
abate From the web:
- what abated mean
- what abates fire
- what abate does mean
- what abatement cost
- what's abatement in spanish
- what's abatement in french
- what does abate stand for
- what is abatement in construction
thin
English
Etymology
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunn?, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjan? (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh?us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Sanskrit ??? (tanú, “thin”), Persian ???? (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: tin (with th-stopping), fin (with th-fronting)
Adjective
thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- thin person
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Water is thinner than honey.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- a thin disguise
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
- Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
Synonyms
- (having little thickness from one surface to its opposite): narrow; see also Thesaurus:narrow
- (very narrow in all diameters): fine
- (having little body fat or flesh): reedy, skinny, slender, slim, svelte, waifish; see also Thesaurus:slender or Thesaurus:scrawny
- (of low viscosity): runny, watery; see also Thesaurus:runny
- (not close or crowded): spaced out, sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- (not numerous): scant, scarce, slight
Antonyms
- thick
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
thin (plural thins)
- (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Translations
Verb
thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned)
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- To dilute.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
Derived terms
- thin out
Translations
Adverb
thin (comparative more thin, superlative most thin)
- Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
- seed sown thin
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
Further reading
- thin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- thin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Nith, hint
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thin (subjective pronoun þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thy”)
Pronoun
thin (subjective þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thine”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
thin
- Alternative form of thinne (“thin”)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dijn
- Dutch: dijn
- Limburgish: dien
Further reading
- “th?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði?n/
Determiner
th?n
- Alternative form of din
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Old Saxon
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?n/
- (late Old Saxon) IPA(key): [ði?n]
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Declension
See also
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014
- Altsächsisches Elementarbuch by Dr. F. Holthausen
Etymology 2
See here.
Determiner
thin
- instrumental singular masculine/neuter of th?
Welsh
Noun
thin
- Aspirate mutation of tin.
Mutation
thin From the web:
- what thins your blood
- what things are blue
- what things are purple
- what things can be recycled
- what things weakened the soviet union
- what things are red
- what things have gluten
- what things are green
you may also like
- abate vs thin
- condescending vs imperious
- lean vs skeletal
- casual vs lethargic
- unfriendly vs inimical
- peevish vs discontented
- discernment vs apprehension
- join vs interlink
- reside vs visit
- justly vs ethically
- crack vs wallop
- reverse vs regressive
- nunnery vs cathedral
- contributing vs valuable
- disclosure vs rumour
- simple vs frivolous
- exquisite vs gauzy
- ditch vs crevasse
- impersonation vs guise
- conscientious vs animated