different between ambulance vs surgery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance, from (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”), from Latin ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.bj?.l?ns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /?æm.bj??læns/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lance

Noun

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• ambulatory
• ambulant

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????????? (embulens)

Translations

Verb

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.

Further reading

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ambulant?s?]

Noun

ambulance f

1. ambulance
2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

Declension

Synonyms

• (ambulance): sanitka

Related terms

• ambulantní
• ambulantn?

Further reading

• ambulance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ambulance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.by?l?n.s?/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lan?ce
• Rhymes: -?ns?

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance
   • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, 59.

     Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.

   • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).

     Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek

Synonyms

• ziekenauto
• ziekenwagen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ambulans
• ? Indonesian: ambulans

French

Etymology

From Latin ambulans, present participle of ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by.l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ambulance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. (Jersey) ambulance

English

Etymology

From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kheirourgía), from ???? (kheír, “hand”) + ????? (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?d???i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??d???i/

Noun

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

1. (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

   Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

3. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
4. A room or department where surgery is performed.
   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 51:

     The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.

6. (Britain) A doctor's office.

   I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

7. (Britain) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

   Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.

8. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
9. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Synonyms

• (procedure): operation
• (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre
• (doctor's office): office (UK)

Hypernyms

• medical speciality

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

• surgery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

surgery

1. Alternative form of surgerie