different between brook vs rever

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: br??k, IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /b?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
   • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104

     After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
2. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii^[2]:

     […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?

3. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

Synonyms

• (use): apply, employ, utilize
• (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
• (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

• abrook

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

   • The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
2. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Holcombe Brook
• Rea Brook
• Stamford Brook

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

1. To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.

English

Noun

rever (plural revers)

1. The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Unlike a collar, the rever is always formed from the same piece of fabric as the rest of the garment's bodice.

Related terms

• revers

Anagrams

• verré

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese *rev?ir, from Latin reveni?. Cognate with Portuguese revir and Spanish revenir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??e?/

Verb

rever (first-person singular present revo, first-person singular preterite revín, past participle revido)

1. (intransitive) to stale
2. (intransitive) to sour

   Synonym: picar

3. (intransitive) to shrink; to wane

   Synonym: minguar

4. (intransitive) to ooze

   Synonym: zumegar

Conjugation

References

• “rever” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “rever” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rever” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman rivere.

Noun

rever

1. Alternative form of ryver

Etymology 2

From Old English r?afere.

Noun

rever

1. Alternative form of revere

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rever m

1. indefinite plural of rev (Etymology 1)

Verb

rever

1. present of reve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rever f

1. indefinite plural of reve

Portuguese

Etymology

From re- (“re-”) +? ver (“to see”), or from Latin revideo, revidere. Cf. French revoir.

Verb

rever (first-person singular present indicative revejo, past participle revisto)

1. (transitive) To see again.

Conjugation

Romanian

Etymology

From French revers.

Noun

rever n (plural revere)

1. reverse side
2. backhand

Declension

Spanish

Verb

rever (first-person singular present reveo, first-person singular preterite reví, past participle revisto)

1. (transitive) to see again

Conjugation