different between bother vs tribulation
bother
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b??-th?r, IPA(key): /?b?ð??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?b?ð?(?)]
- (UK) IPA(key): [?b?ð?(?)]
- Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
- (US) IPA(key): [?b?ð?]
Verb
bother (third-person singular simple present bothers, present participle bothering, simple past and past participle bothered)
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
- (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
- (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive or the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (annoy): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex; see also Thesaurus:annoy
- (make or take trouble): care, mind; see also Thesaurus:care
Derived terms
- bebother
Translations
References
Noun
bother (countable and uncountable, plural bothers)
- Fuss, ado.
- There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
- Trouble, inconvenience.
- Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother.
Synonyms
- (fuss, ado): See also Thesaurus:commotion
- (trouble, inconvenience): See also Thesaurus:nuisance
Derived terms
- bothersome
- spot of bother
Translations
Interjection
bother!
- A mild expression of annoyance.
- 1926, A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:
- "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
- "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
- "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"
- 1926, A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:
Synonyms
- botheration, blast, dang (US), darn, drat, phooey, fiddlesticks
Translations
Related terms
- be bothered
- bothered
- bothersome
Anagrams
- boreth
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tribulation
English
Etymology
From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin tr?bul?ti? (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribul?re (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from tr?bulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from ter?re (“to rub”); see trite.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t??bj??le????n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t??bj??le????n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: tri?bu?la?tion
Noun
tribulation (plural tribulations)
- Any adversity; a trying period or event.
- 1534, Thomas More, chapter VI, in A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, Made by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and Set Foorth by the Name of an H?gari?, not before this Time Imprinted. B.L., London: In aedibus Richardi Totteli, published 1553, OCLC 503798044; republished as “It Sufficeth not that a Man Have a Desire to be Comforted by God only by the Taking Away of the Tribulation”, in A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Made by the Right Virtuous, Wise and Learned Man, Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England, which He Wrote in the Town of London, A.D. 1534, and entitled thus: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, made by an Hungarian in Latin, and Translated out of Latin into French, and out of French into English now Newly Set Forth with Many Places Restored and Corrected. Now Newly Set Forth, with Many Places Restored and Corrected by Conference of Sundry Copies. (English Catholic Library; 3), London: Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond Street, 1847, OCLC 499142813, page 23:
- What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 12:12:
- Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer
- 1847, Herman Melville, chapter XI, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers; London, John Murray, OCLC 4988695; republished as “Doctor Long Ghost a Wag—One of His Capers”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, 6th edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, 1852, OCLC 22323804, page 62:
- Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
- 1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech in Chicago, Illinois, to the 23rd Republican National Convention; quoted in Linda Carol Harms Case, Bold Beliefs in Camouflage: A–Z Briefings: A Valuable Resource Highlighting an Extraordinary Collection of Prayers, Military Quotations, Scripture Verses, Bible Stories, Hymns, and Testimonies, Relevant to Core Values and Keywords Used by Chaplains, Leaders, Veterans, and Other Members of the American Armed Forces, Victoria, B.C.; Neche, N.D.: FriesenPress, January 2013, ISBN 978-1-77097-632-0, page 203:
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
- 1534, Thomas More, chapter VI, in A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, Made by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and Set Foorth by the Name of an H?gari?, not before this Time Imprinted. B.L., London: In aedibus Richardi Totteli, published 1553, OCLC 503798044; republished as “It Sufficeth not that a Man Have a Desire to be Comforted by God only by the Taking Away of the Tribulation”, in A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Made by the Right Virtuous, Wise and Learned Man, Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England, which He Wrote in the Town of London, A.D. 1534, and entitled thus: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, made by an Hungarian in Latin, and Translated out of Latin into French, and out of French into English now Newly Set Forth with Many Places Restored and Corrected. Now Newly Set Forth, with Many Places Restored and Corrected by Conference of Sundry Copies. (English Catholic Library; 3), London: Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond Street, 1847, OCLC 499142813, page 23:
Derived terms
- tribulate
Translations
Further reading
- tribulation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tribulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin tribulatio, tribulationem, from Latin tribulo.
Pronunciation
Noun
tribulation f (plural tribulations)
- tribulation
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