different between bay vs corner

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

   • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations

     The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (rail transport) A bay platform.
7. A bay window.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

   • Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.

   • The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

Etymology 5

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Derived terms

• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• En

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

2. A horse of this color.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.

Translations

See also

• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

Anagrams

• Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

1. an address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Compare balay.

Noun

bay

1. a house

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Mutation

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Declension

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varl?kl? (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• zü?ürt (poor)

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).

Verb

bay • (????, ????)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (????)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay cho?a ?e?e
• güex?oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?(?)/
• Hyphenation: cor?ner
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?(?)

Etymology

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of corn? (“projecting point, end, horn”). More at hirn.

Noun

corner (plural corners)

1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
   1. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
   2. The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

   3. An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

   4. (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.

2. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
   • c. 1596-1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7:

     Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
3. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

4. An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
5. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.

6. (heading) Relating to the playing field.
   1. (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

   2. (baseball) First base or third base.

   3. (soccer) A corner kick.
   4. (American football) A cornerback.
   5. (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
   6. (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
7. A place where people meet for a particular purpose.

8. (obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.

Quotations

• 2006, Kelly K. Chappell, Effects of Concept-based Instruction on Calculus Students’ Acquisition of Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skill, in John Dossey, Solomon Friedberg, Glenda Lappan, W. James Lewis (editorial committee), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education VI, page 41,

  Of the students enrolled in a traditional learning environment, 65% (42 of 65) correctly answered that the function ${\displaystyle f(x)=|x-3|+4}$ was not differentiable (or had no derivative) at ${\displaystyle x=3}$.Of those, 55% (23 of 42) argued that a function did not have a derivative at a corner.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (k?n?)

Translations

Verb

corner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)

1. (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.

2. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

3. (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
4. (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

5. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

6. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

7. (transitive) To supply with corners.
   • 1937, Mechanical World and Engineering Record (volume 102, page 208)

     Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades

Translations

Catalan

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis)

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English corner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.nœ?/

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. (soccer) corner kick, corner

Synonyms

• coup de pied de coin

Etymology 2

corne +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ne/

Verb

corner

1. to fold a corner of a page
2. to blow, horn (a cornet or horn)
3. to bellow
4. to honk, beep (a vehicle's horn)
5. to shout from the rooftops

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English corner.

Noun

corner m (plural corner)

1. (soccer) corner
2. (figuratively) difficult situation
3. (economics) market niche in which a company has a monopoly

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cornere, korner, cornare, cornyere
• cornel, cornelle

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cornere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rn?r(?)/, /?k?rne?r(?)/

Noun

corner (plural corneres)

1. A corner or angle; an intersection of two objects where both terminate.
2. The interior or inside of a corner.
3. A refuge or redoubt; a location of safety.
4. A place, especially a faraway or distant one.
5. (rare) A overlook or viewpoint.
6. (rare) The side of a troop or host.

Derived terms

• cornered
• corner stoon

Descendants

• English: corner
• Scots: corner
• Yola: curneale, kurneal

References

• “corn???r, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Old French

Verb

corner

1. to blow; to horn (sound a horn)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Spanish

Noun

corner m (plural corneres)

1. corner kick