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appropriation

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??p?o?p?i?e???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)

  1. An act or instance of appropriating.
  2. That which is appropriated.
  3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
  4. (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
  5. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
  6. In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
  7. In constitutional law, the principle that supplies granted by parliament are only to be expended for particular objects specified by itself.

Translations

References

  • appropriation at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • appropriation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • appropriation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin appropri?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

appropriation f (plural appropriations)

  1. appropriation

Related terms

  • approprier

Further reading

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

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grant

English

Alternative forms

  • graunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (to guarantee, assure, vouch for) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (to allow, permit), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credent?re, from Latin credere (to believe, trust). More at guarantee, credit.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????nt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??ænt/
  • (Mid-Atlantic Accent) IPA(key): /???nt/
  • Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt

Verb

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

  1. (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)
  2. (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
    • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
      He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
  3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
    Synonyms: concur, concede, allow
    • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
      The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
  4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.

Translations

Noun

grant (plural grants)

  1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
  5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
  6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

Translations

Anagrams

  • Trang

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??rant]

Noun

grant m

  1. grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)

Derived terms

  • grantový

Related terms

  • See krédo

Further reading

  • grant in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • grant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

  • grand

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (feminine singular grant or granta, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grants or grantes)

  1. big, large

Derived terms


Friulian

Alternative forms

  • grand (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant

  1. big, large

Middle French

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grans)

  1. (early Middle French) Alternative form of grand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grant

  1. neuter singular of grann

Old French

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)

  1. big, large

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle French: grand
    • French: grand
  • Norman: grand
  • Picard: grand
  • ? English: grand

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • grand (alternative spelling)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??ãnt], [??ãn]

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grandes)

  1. Apocopic form of grande; great; big; large.
    • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.
      Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.
      On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Descendants

  • Spanish: gran

Swedish

Adjective

grant

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of grann.

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