different between anon vs anonymise

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English anoon, anon, anan (literally “in one (moment)”), from on (“in”) +? ?n (“one”). See on and one.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n?n/ enPR: *?-n?n'
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Hyphenation: a?non

Adverb

anon (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Straight away; at once.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     CALIBAN: Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, / I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.

   • But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

   • The dead man answered thus:

     “What good gift shall God give us?”

     The boards answered him anon:

     “Flesh to feed hell's worm upon.”

2. Soon; in a little while.
3. At another time; then; again.

Derived terms

• ever and anon
• still and anon

Translations

Etymology 2

From anonymous, by shortening

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??n?n/

Noun

anon (plural anons)

1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
   • 1904, Thomas Wright, The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, vol. 1, page 94

     Indeed they did all they could to avoid it, coyly hiding their identities behind initials, asterisks, and anons

   • 1940, Virginia Woolf, "Anon".

     Every body shared in the emotion of Anons [sic] song .... Anon is sometimes man, sometimes woman....

   • 2004, Jane Milling, Peter Thomson, Joseph W. Donohue, Baz Kershaw, The Cambridge History of British Theatre, page 207

     Indeed, virtually every known playwright (and probably most of those 'anons') occupied some position in one or more of the patronage networks

   • 2006, J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, page 185

     those identified by initials only and the 'Anons' (some of whom are here unmasked)

2. A work with an unknown author.
   • 1984, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club", page 214

     On the floor again she came upon a couple of "Anons" and frowned at them: Ought We to Visit Her and Cast Away in The Cold. Those would certainly do very well on the top shelf.

3. A work without a title.

Translations

Adjective

anon (not comparable)

1. anonymous

Related terms

• anonym
• anonymal
• anonymity
• anonymize
• anonymosity
• anonymous
• anonymously
• anonymousness

Anagrams

• 'onna, Nona, Onan, nano, nano-, nona-, onna

Esperanto

Noun

anon

1. accusative singular of ano

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??non/, [??no?n]
• Rhymes: -?non
• Syllabification: a?non

Noun

anon

1. Genitive singular form of ano.

Verb

anon

1. First-person singular present indicative form of anoa.

Anagrams

• nano-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• anan, anone, anoon, onan, onon

Etymology

From Old English on ?n, equivalent to on + an.

Adverb

anon

1. anon (straight away, at once)
2. continually, on and on
3. all the way

Descendants

• English: anon
• Scots: on-ane, one-ane, onan

References

• “an-?n, adv. & conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Verb

anonymise (third-person singular simple present anonymises, present participle anonymising, simple past and past participle anonymised) (non-Oxford British spelling)

1. Alternative form of anonymize

French

Verb

anonymise

1. first-person singular present indicative of anonymiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of anonymiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of anonymiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of anonymiser
5. second-person singular imperative of anonymiser

Anagrams

• moyennais