different between barrage vs ado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French barrage (“barrage, barrier”). Compare barrier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??????/

Noun

barrage (plural barrages)

1. An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

   Hyponym: dam

2. (military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.
   • 2014, Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 350:

     The 75s of V Corps fired a standard rolling barrage, while the larger 155 mm and 8-inch pieces fired standing barrages 500 meters beyond the barrage line. For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.

3. A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.
4. (by extension) An overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism.
5. (fencing) A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.
6. Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.

Derived terms

• barrage balloon
• barrage jamming
• rolling barrage

Translations

Verb

barrage (third-person singular simple present barrages, present participle barraging, simple past and past participle barraged)

1. (transitive) To direct a barrage at.

   Synonym: bombard

Further reading

• barrage (dam) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• barrage (artillery) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

barrer +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?a?/, /b?.?a?/

Noun

barrage m (plural barrages)

1. dam, barrage
2. barrier, roadblock

Derived terms

• faire barrage à

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bagarre, bagarré

English

Etymology

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??du?/

Noun

ado (uncountable)

1. trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i^[1]:

     Antonio:

     In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

     It wearies me; you say it wearies you;

     But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,

     What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,

     I am to learn;

     And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,

     That I have much ado to know myself.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience:

     Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

Usage notes

Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.

Translations

References

• ado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• AOD, DAO, DOA, Dao, ODA, Oda, dao, oad, oda

Afar

Alternative forms

• (Southern dialects) aadó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??do/
• Hyphenation: a?do

Noun

adó f 

1. (Northern dialects) generation
2. (Northern dialects) era

Declension

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Clipping of adolescent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do/

Noun

ado m or f (plural ados)

1. (colloquial) teen, teenager

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

ado

1. second-person singular aorist active of dad?ti (“to give”)

Sidamo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ado/

Noun

ado f

1. milk

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62