different between born vs sextuplet

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ?eboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *giboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beran? (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +? -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

Verb

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to.

2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

Translations

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• borne
• né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• Brno, Norb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barn

Noun

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn

English

Noun

sextuplet (plural sextuplets)

1. A group of six objects.
2. One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.
3. (music) A group of six notes played in the time of four.
   1. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first, third and fifth notes.
   2. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first and fourth notes; a double triplet.
   3. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with an accent only on the first note.

Usage notes

Some authorities (for instance, Hugo Riemann, Theodore Bacon and Franklin Taylor) consider the double triplet to be a "false sextuplet", others (for instance, Evangelos Sembos, John Stainer and William Alexander Barrett) define the sextuplet solely as the double triplet, and still others (such as Antoine Damour, Aimable Burnett, and Élie Elwart) do not differentiate between the two.

Synonyms

• (six notes played in the time of four): sextolet

Coordinate terms

• (one of six born together): twin

Translations

See also