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ability
English
Alternative forms
- abilitie, hability, habilitie (obsolete)
Etymology
First attested in the 1300s. From Middle English abilite (“suitability, aptitude, ability”), from Middle French habilité, from Old French ableté, from Latin habilit?s (“aptness, ability”), from habilis (“apt, fit, skillful, able”), equivalent to able +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??b?l.?.ti/, /??.b?l.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
ability (countable and uncountable, plural abilities)
- (obsolete) Suitableness. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.]
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
- The legal wherewithal to act. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
- (archaic) Financial ability. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
- (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty. [First attested in the late 16 th century.]
- (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]
- 1769, King James Bible, Acts 11:29
- Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren.
- 1769, King James Bible, Acts 11:29
Usage notes
- Ability, capacity : these words come into comparison when applied to the higher intellectual powers.
- Ability has reference to the active exercise of our faculties. It implies not only native vigor of mind, but that ease and promptitude of execution which arise from mental training. Thus, we speak of the ability with which a book is written, an argument maintained, a negotiation carried on, etc. It always supposes something to be done, and the power of doing it.
- Capacity has reference to the receptive powers. In its higher exercises it supposes great quickness of apprehension and breadth of intellect, with an uncommon aptitude for acquiring and retaining knowledge. Hence it carries with it the idea of resources and undeveloped power. Thus we speak of the extraordinary capacity of such men as Lord Bacon, Blaise Pascal, and Edmund Burke. "Capacity," says H. Taylor, "is requisite to devise, and ability to execute, a great enterprise."
- The word abilities, in the plural, embraces both these qualities, and denotes high mental endowments.
Synonyms
- (quality or state of being able): capacity, faculty, capability
- (a skill or competence): See Thesaurus:skill
- (high level of skill or capability): talent, cleverness, dexterity, aptitude
- (suitability or receptiveness to be acted upon): capability, faculty, capacity, aptness, aptitude
Antonyms
- inability, unability
- disability
Derived terms
- notability
Related terms
- able
Translations
Further reading
- ability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
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mind
English
Etymology
From Middle English minde, münde, ?emünde, from Old English mynd, ?emynd (“memory, remembrance; memorial, record; act of commemoration; thought, purpose; consciousness, mind, intellect”), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic ???????????????????? (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin m?ns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit ???? (mánas), Ancient Greek ????? (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?nd, IPA(key): /ma?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
- Homophone: mined
Noun
mind (plural minds)
- The ability for rational thought.
- #*
- “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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- The ability to be aware of things.
- The ability to remember things.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- A healthy mental state.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:
- The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
Synonyms
- (ability for rational thought): brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
- (ability to be aware of things): awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
- (ability to remember things): memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
- (ability to focus the thoughts): attention, concentration, focus
- (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities): genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
- (judgment, opinion, or view): judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
- (desire, inclination, or intention): desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
- (healthy mental state): sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
- (process of): cognition, learning
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:
- Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
- 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:
- (now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:
- The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:
- (Obsolete or dialectical) To remind; put one's mind on.
- 1599, William Shakespear, Henry V, Act IV, sc 3:
- Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
- c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 2:
- Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
- I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
- 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"
- I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
- He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
- 1599, William Shakespear, Henry V, Act IV, sc 3:
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- ca. 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. 2:
- Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.
- ca. 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. 2:
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- 1611, King James Translators, Romans 12:16:
- Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
- 1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:
- It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.
- 1611, King James Translators, Romans 12:16:
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]
- Mind you don't knock that glass over.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.]
- You should mind your own business.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I Scene i:
- My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710:
- Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:
- Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]
- Would you mind my bag for me?
- To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
- 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ?ISBN, page xv:
- Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
- 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ?ISBN, page xv:
- (now Obsolete except in Dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, sc. 1
- I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- […] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, sc. 1
- (Britain, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]
- I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
- Do you mind if I smoke?
Synonyms
- (remember): See also Thesaurus:remember
- (dislike): See also Thesaurus:dislike
- (pay attention to): heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
- (look after): See also Thesaurus:care
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Verb
mind
- imperative of minde
Estonian
Etymology
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Pronoun
mind
- partitive singular of mina
Hungarian
Etymology
Presumably from mi? (“what?”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mind]
- Rhymes: -ind
Pronoun
mind
- all of it, all of them, each of them (grammatically singular)
- Synonyms: mindegyikük, mindegyik, az összes
Declension
Adverb
mind (not comparable)
- with everyone, all (usually of persons)
- Synonyms: mindnyájan, mindannyian
- (formal) increasingly (used with comparative form)
- Synonym: egyre
- (up) until…, up to… (used with -ig; not (until) sooner than a given point in time)
- Synonym: egészen
- (Note: Most other phrases with this meaning are written without a space: mindaddig, mindeddig, mindmáig, mindmostanáig, mindvégig)
Derived terms
Conjunction
mind
- (formal) both... and..., as well as
- Synonym: is
References
Further reading
- (pronoun & adverb): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (conjunction): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *mendus (“mark, sign”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?in?d/
Noun
mind n (nominative plural mind)
- A symbol indicating honour or rank; a crown, insignia, emblem
Inflection
Descendants
- Irish: mionn
- Scottish Gaelic: mionn
Mutation
References
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mind, minn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scots
Etymology
From Old English ?emynd, from Proto-Germanic *gamundiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?end/
Noun
mind (plural minds)
- memory, recollection.
- mind.
Verb
mind (third-person singular present minds, present participle mindin, past mindit, past participle mindit)
- To remember.
- To remind.
- To mind, care.
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