different between apparatus vs tackle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin appar?tus. Doublet of apparat.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, General South African, India)
  • IPA^(key): /æ.p???e?.t?s/
  • Rhymes: -e?.t?s
• (US, Canada, Philippine)
  • IPA^(key): /æ.p???æ.t?s/
  • Rhymes: -æt?s
• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, Jamaica)
  • IPA^(key): /æp?????t?s/
  • Rhymes: -??t?s

Noun

apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (rare) apparatûs or (hypercorrect) apparati)

1. The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

   Synonyms: dynamic, mechanism, setup

2. A complex machine or instrument.

   Synonyms: device, instrument, machinery

3. An assortment of tools and instruments.

   Synonyms: tools, gear, equipment

4. A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

   Synonym: machine

5. (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
6. (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

   Hyponyms: parallel bars, uneven bars, vault, floor, pommel horse, rings aka still rings, horizontal bar aka high bar, balance beam

7. (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

   Hyponyms: windlass crossbow, compound bow, complex trap

Usage notes

The word is occasionally used as an invariant plural, as in look at all of those apparatus, maintaining the Latin inflection in English on a loanword basis. But because the word also has a mass noun sense in English and it often appears in such a way that its number (singular or plural) is disguised by absence of any inflectional or lexical signals as to which of these two senses pertained in the mind of the writer, readers may parse it in either sense. Thus in the phrase he was dazzled by the electronic apparatus scattered throughout the room, either parsing works, and the reader cannot tell which one the writer had in mind, although that slight ambiguity is unimportant to the point being made.

Related terms

• apparat

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of appar? (“prepare”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.pa?ra?.tus/, [äp?ä??ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.pa?ra.tus/, [?p??????t?us]

Participle

appar?tus (feminine appar?ta, neuter appar?tum, comparative appar?tior, superlative appar?tissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. prepared, ready, having been prepared
2. supplied, furnished, having been supplied
3. magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

appar?tus m (genitive appar?t?s); fourth declension

1. preparation, a getting ready
2. A providing
3. tools, implements, instruments, engines
4. supplies, material
5. magnificence, splendor, pomp
6. vocative singular of appar?tus

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Noun

appar?t?s m

1. genitive singular of appar?tus
2. nominative plural of appar?tus
3. accusative plural of appar?tus
4. vocative plural of appar?tus

References

• apparatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apparatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apparatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• apparatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• apparatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæk?l/, [?t?æk??]
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

1. A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
2. A block and tackle.
3. (nautical, slang, uncountable) Clothing.
4. (fishing, uncountable) Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
5. (uncountable, informal, by extension) Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
   • 2004 June 24–30, "Jeff Gordon Never Gets Tired Of Seeing Face On Cheap Plastic Crap", The Onion, available in Embedded in America, ?ISBN, page 193,

     ... an illuminated license-plate frame bearing his likeness, signature, and yellow number 24. "That there's a real nice piece of tackle. ..."

6. (sports, countable) A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
7. (rugby, American football, countable) A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
8. (countable) Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
9. (American football) An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
10. (American football) A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
11. (slang) A man's genitalia.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tackle (third-person singular simple present tackles, present participle tackling, simple past and past participle tackled)

1. To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into him or her.
2. To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.

   The government's measures to tackle crime were insufficient.
3. (sports) To attempt to take away a ball.
4. (rugby, American football) To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
5. (Singapore, colloquial) To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.

Translations

References

• tackle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tackle at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tacklent, tackles, tacle, tacles

Verb

tackle

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tackle.

Noun

tackle m (plural tackles)

1. (sports) tackle