different between architecture vs pillow

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architect?ra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (arkhitékt?n, “architect”, literally “chief builder, principal craftsman”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.k?.?t?k.t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?t?kt??/
• Hyphenation: ar?chi?tec?ture

Noun

architecture (countable and uncountable, plural architectures)

1. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
   • April 21, 2017, Max Roscoe, How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness[1]

     Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook.# The profession of an architect.

2. Any particular style of building design.
3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science for Unscientific People

     the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     the formation of the first Earth, after such a wonderful manner, being a piece of Divine Architecture

4. A unifying structure.
5. (computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
6. (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.

7. The structure and design of a system or product.
   • 2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture

     The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernel architecture must support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals.

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Appendix:Glossary of architecture

French

Etymology

From Latin architect?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?i.t?k.ty?/

Noun

architecture f (plural architectures)

1. architecture

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Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English pilwe, from Old English pylwe, pylu, pyle (“pillow”), from Proto-West Germanic *pulw? (“pillow”), from Latin pulv?nus (“cushion”), derived from pulvis (“dust, powder”) +? -?nus (“-ine”), for the filler of a pillow. Doublet of pulvinus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?lo?/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /?p?lo?/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

pillow (countable and uncountable, plural pillows)

1. A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     And it is a pillow!

2. (geology) A pillow lava.
3. (engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
4. (nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
5. The socket of a pivot.
6. (uncountable) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

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Descendants

• ? Maori: pera

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Verb

pillow (third-person singular simple present pillows, present participle pillowing, simple past and past participle pillowed)

1. (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)

     She had pillowed her head on her arm.