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agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
agreement From the web:
- what agreement was reached with the great compromise
- what agreement was reached in the webster–ashburton treaty
- what agreement was reached at the munich conference
- what agreements does the constitution prohibit
- what was the great compromise agreement about
unison
English
Etymology
From Middle English unisoun, from Middle French unisson, from Medieval Latin ?nisonus (“having the same sound”), from ?ni- +? sonus (“sound”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jun?s?n/, /?jun?z?n/
Noun
unison (usually uncountable, plural unisons)
- (music, acoustics) Identical pitch between two notes or sounds; the simultaneous playing of notes of identical pitch (or separated by one or more octaves). [from 15th c.]
- (music, acoustics) A sound or note having the same pitch as another, especially when used as the base note for an interval; a unison string. [from 15th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- I could not behold him without emotion; when he accosted me, his well-known voice made my heart vibrate, like a musical chord, when its unison is struck.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- The state of being in harmony or agreement; harmonious agreement or togetherness, synchronisation. [from 17th c.]
Abbreviations
- (in music): P1
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- unison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Unions, nonius, unions
Romanian
Etymology
From French unisson, from Latin unisonus.
Noun
unison n (uncountable)
- unison
Declension
Swedish
Adjective
unison (not comparable)
- in unison (of song)
- unison sång
- sing-along
- unison sång
Declension
Anagrams
- unions
unison From the web:
- what unison means
- what union
- what union is ups
- what union was involved in the homestead strike
- what union was involved in the pullman strike
- what union means
- what union states allowed slavery
- what unions are there
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