different between barge vs cruise

English

Etymology

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Late Latin barca, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ????? (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian b?jr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of bark and barque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Synonyms

• lighter

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
2. (transitive) To push someone.

Anagrams

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, begar, rebag

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Etymology 1

Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

1. (slang, verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin. Doublet of barque

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

Anagrams

• gerba

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Late Latin barca, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), from Coptic ????? (baare), from Egyptian b?jr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bard?(?)/, /?ba?rd?(?)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

• “b??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?par?ke/

Verb

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin.

Noun

barge f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

Descendants

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • ? Russian: ????? (barža)
• ? Middle English: barge, bargge, baarge, berge, barche
  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)

English

Alternative forms

• cruize

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro?oz, IPA^(key): /k?u?z/
• Homophone: crews
• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

cruise (plural cruises)

1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
2. (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
3. (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
   • 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin (page 16)

     I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]

   • 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923

     The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)

1. (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.

   • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
4. (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
6. (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
7. (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.

Derived terms

• beach cruiser
• cruiser
• cruising for a bruising

Descendants

• ? Dutch: cruisen, cruise

Translations

Anagrams

• crusie, curies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kru?s/
• Hyphenation: cruise
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)

1. cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseboot
• cruisereis
• cruiseschip

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.