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avocation
English
Etymology
From Latin ?voc?ti? (“a distraction”), from ?voc? (“I call off, distract”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /av?(?)?ke???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /ævo??ke???n/, /æv??ke???n/
- Hyphenation: av?o?ca?tion
Noun
avocation (countable and uncountable, plural avocations)
- (obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
- A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
- 1934, Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
- But yield who will to their separation,
- My object in living is to unite
- My avocation and my vocation
- As my two eyes make one in sight.
- 18 April, 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5462
- Gardening is a wholesome avocation that encourages appreciation for nature and concern for the preservation and enhancement of our environment.
- 1934, Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
- That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
- Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
- November 1, 1711, William King, Letter to Jonathan Swift
- I have several things on the anvil, and near finished, that perhaps might be useful, if published: but the continual avocation by business, the impositions on me by impertinent visits, and the uneasiness of writing, which grows more intolerable to me every day, I doubt, will prevent my going any farther.
- I have been received with unsurpassable politeness, delicacy, sweet temper, hospitality, consideration, and with unsurpassable respect for the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health.
- November 1, 1711, William King, Letter to Jonathan Swift
- The calling of a case from an inferior to a superior court.
Synonyms
- (hobby): See also Thesaurus:hobby
Related terms
- avocational
- avocationally
- vocation
Translations
See also
- volunteerism
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trade
English
Etymology
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *trad? (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Noun
trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)
- (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- Synonym: commerce
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
- Synonyms: deal, barter
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- Synonym: business
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:
- In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
- Synonym: craft
- 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- Synonym: patronage
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
- (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:trade.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage in trade.
- Synonym: deal
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
- Synonyms: exchange, swap, switch, truck
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (transitive, intransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- Synonym: do business
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
trade (not comparable)
- Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
See also
- buy
- sell
Anagrams
- E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, rated, tared, tread
Dutch
Verb
trade
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of treden
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??d/
Verb
trade
- first-person singular present indicative of trader
- third-person singular present indicative of trader
- first-person singular present subjunctive of trader
- third-person singular present subjunctive of trader
- second-person singular imperative of trader
Anagrams
- dater, tarde, tardé
Galician
Alternative forms
- trado
Etymology
From the medieval (Old Galician / Old Portuguese) form traado (13th century), from Late Latin taratrum (“auger”), attested by Isidore of Seville. Either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia or from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh?-tro-. Cognate with Portuguese trado, Spanish taladro, Old Irish tarathar, Old Welsh tarater, Breton tarar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?aðe?/
Noun
trade m (plural trades)
- auger
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
- quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca
- four augers and a hatchet and an adze
- quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
Derived terms
- tradar
Related terms
- tarabelo
References
- “traado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “traad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “trade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “trade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “trade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin
Verb
tr?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of tr?d?
References
- trade in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
trade From the web:
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- what trades are there
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