different between affair vs proceeding
affair
English
Alternative forms
- affaire (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English afere, affere, from Old French afaire, from a- + faire (“to do”), from Latin ad- + facere (“to do”). See fact, and confer ado.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f??/
- (otherwise) (US) IPA(key): /??f??(?)/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
affair (plural affairs)
- (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
- Synonyms: matter, concern
- Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
- (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
- A material object (vaguely designated).
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
- An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
- A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
- A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
- A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
- (slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
- [S]he, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
Translations
See also
- liaison
References
- affair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- raffia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English affair, from French affaire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?fe?/, [a?fe?]
Noun
affair m (plural affaires)
- affair (extramarital relationship)
- Synonym: aventura
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proceeding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???si?d??/
- Rhymes: -i?d??
Verb
proceeding
- present participle of proceed
Noun
proceeding (plural proceedings)
- The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
- An event or happening; something that happens
- 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire
- He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 50
- It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.
- 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire
- (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
- Progress or movement from one thing to another.
- A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
- 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
- The proceedings of the high commission.
- 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
- (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
- December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
- Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.
- December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
Synonyms
- procedure
- measure
- step
Translations
See also
- transaction.
Anagrams
- prodigence
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