different between actress vs heroin

English

Alternative forms

• actoress

Etymology

From Old French actriz, actrice, from Latin ?ctr?x, feminine agent noun of ag? (“act”). Equivalent to actor +? -ess. Doublet of actrix.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ak.t??s/, /?ak.t??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.t??s/

Noun

actress (plural actresses, masculine actor)

1. A female who performs on the stage or in films. [from 17th c.]
   • 2011, "Not going quietly", The Economist, 27 Jan 2011:

     Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress.

2. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense). [from 16th c.]
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 290:

     My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.

Usage notes

• Actor may also be used to refer to a female player.

Translations

Anagrams

• Casters, casters, recasts, scarest

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aktr?s/

Noun

actress (plural actresses)

1. actress

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark said to derive from Ancient Greek ???? (h?r?s, “hero”) (due to the feelings of power and exaltation while under the influence of the drug) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Alternatively explained as reference to the heroic school of medicine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??o?.?n/
• Homophone: heroine
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

1. A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

   • 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22^nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

     The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

Synonyms

• (chemical names): diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
• (street names): Big H, boy, brown, bujj, dope, junk, H, horse, Ron, shit, skag, smack, train, yam yam

Translations

Further reading

• heroin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Horine, hieron, on hire

Czech

Noun

heroin m

1. heroin

Synonyms

• herák

Further reading

• heroin in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• heroin in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -in

Noun

heroin c or n (singular definite heroinen or heroinet, uncountable)

1. heroin

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eroin

Noun

heroin

1. Instructive plural form of hera.

Anagrams

• hieron

Japanese

Romanization

heroin

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xer?i?n/
• Hyphenation: he?ro?in

Noun

herò?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. heroin

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From German Heroin.

Noun

heroin n

1. heroin

Declension