different between armchair vs budding

English

Alternative forms

• arm-chair

Etymology

From arm +? chair

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)mt???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???mt???/

Noun

armchair (plural armchairs)

1. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

Hypernyms

• chair
• furniture

Meronyms

• arm

Coordinate terms

• couch
• sofa

Translations

Adjective

armchair (not comparable)

1. (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

2. (figuratively) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

armchair (third-person singular simple present armchairs, present participle armchairing, simple past and past participle armchaired)

1. To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.
2. To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.

References

• “armchair”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• armchair at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?di?/
• Hyphenation: bud?ding
• Rhymes: -?d??

Adjective

budding (not comparable)

1. Beginning to develop.

Translations

Noun

budding (countable and uncountable, plural buddings)

1. (horticulture) The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark; the result of this practice.
   • 1956, Rubber Journal (volume 131, page 232)

     Whatever the mode of origin, buddings from a particular bud-parent have been found to agree in habit and general characteristics, while all buddings develop similar features which distinguish them from seedling trees.

Synonyms

• bud grafting

Verb

budding

1. present participle of bud

Danish

Noun

budding

1. pudding (gelatinous dessert)

Declension

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: puutinngi
• ? Icelandic: búðingur