different between aspect vs endowment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspici? (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speci? (“look, look at, behold; observe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsp?kt/
• Hyphenation: as?pect

Noun

aspect (plural aspects)

1. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

   Synonym: facet

2. The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
3. The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
4. A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
5. One's appearance or expression. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: appearance, look, blee
6. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.

7. Prospect; outlook.
   • 1643, John Evelyn, Diary

     This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built ...

8. (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. [from 19th c.]
9. (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. [from 14th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, lines 656 to 664.
10. (religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
11. (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1590, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 924:

      The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.

    • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1:

      ... his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, ...

12. (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
    • 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, Vol 1, Chapter IX.

      They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.

    • 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. IV, Chapter XVIII

      Three days later he opened the parliament. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.

13. (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
14. (rail transport) The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.

Hyponyms

• (grammar): grammatical aspect, aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect; lexical aspect

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (grammar): aspectuality
• (grammar): Aktionsart, aktionsart

Verb

aspect (third-person singular simple present aspects, present participle aspecting, simple past and past participle aspected)

1. (astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
2. (Wicca) To channel a divine being.
3. (obsolete) To look at.

References

• aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Grammatical aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aspect”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• aspect at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• epacts, escap't

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch aspect, from Middle French aspect, from Latin aspectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sp?kt/, /?s?p?kt/
• Hyphenation: as?pect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

aspect n (plural aspecten, diminutive aspectje n)

1. aspect, element
2. aspect, appearance
3. (linguistics) aspect (grammatical category)

Derived terms

• aspectueel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: aspek
• ? Indonesian: aspek

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspectus. The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Russian ??? (vid).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.p?/
• Rhymes: -?
• Homophone: aspects

Noun

aspect m (plural aspects)

1. aspect
2. (grammar) aspect (grammatical quality of a verb)

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aspect, Latin aspectus.

Noun

aspect n (plural aspecte)

1. aspect, look

Synonyms

• înf??i?are

English

Etymology

From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA^(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
• (US) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA^(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/

Noun

endowment (plural endowments)

1. Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
   • 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):

     I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.

   • 1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association:

     We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

   • 1985, Jonas Salk, Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):

     What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.
2. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
   • 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:

     Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.

   • 1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

     I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
3. (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
4. (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.

Synonyms

• (something with which a person or thing is endowed): gift

Derived terms

• endowment mortgage

Related terms

• endow

Translations

Middle English

Noun

endowment

1. Alternative form of endowement