different between archipelago vs festoon

English

Etymology

From Italian arcipelago, formed on the basis of Ancient Greek ????- (arkhi-, “main”) + ??????? (pélagos, “sea”), a designation for the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the term Arcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a common noun for any sea with many islands, and then to the islands in such a sea.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k??p?l????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???k??p?l???o?/
• Hyphenation: ar?chi?pe?la?go

Noun

archipelago (plural archipelagos or archipelagoes)

1. (collective) A group of islands.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.

2. (by extension) Something scattered around like an archipelago.

Related terms

• archipelagic

Translations

See also

• island chain

Further reading

• archipelago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

archipelago m (plural archipelagos)

1. Obsolete spelling of arquipélago (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Etymology

From French feston.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f?s?tu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

festoon (plural festoons)

1. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
2. (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
3. A raised cable with light globes attached.
4. (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
5. (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
6. (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
7. (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
9. (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.

Translations

Verb

festoon (third-person singular simple present festoons, present participle festooning, simple past and past participle festooned)

1. To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
2. To make festoons.
3. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
   • 2005, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Norton, p. 804:

     A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.

   • 2014 September 23, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian:

     Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
4. (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

Translations

Further reading

• festoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eftsoon