different between brut vs monster

English

Etymology

From French brut (“raw”), from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy”).

Adjective

brut (comparative more brut, superlative most brut)

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

Anagrams

• Burt, trub

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?ut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. unrefined, unpurified
2. dirty

   Synonyms: sutze, llord

   Antonym: net

3. gross

Derived terms

• brutament

Further reading

• “brut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “brut” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “brut” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “brut” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• brot

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta)

1. ugly
2. bad

French

Etymology

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy, dull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?yt/

Adjective

brut (feminine singular brute, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. gross (as opposed to net)
2. raw
3. (drinks) strong

Derived terms

• art brut
• produit intérieur brut

Related terms

• brutal
• brute

Descendants

• ? English: brut
• ? German: brut

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French brut, from Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

brut (not comparable)

1. brut

Declension

Further reading

• “brut” in Duden online

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *br?di, whence also Old Saxon br?d, Old English br?d, Old Norse brúðr,

Noun

br?t f

1. bride

Coordinate terms

• br?tigomo

Descendants

• Middle High German: br?t
  • Alemannic German: Bruut
  • Central Franconian: Brock, Brout, Bruut, Bruck

    Hunsrik: praut

  • German: Braut
  • Luxembourgish: Braut
  • ? Friulian: brût
  • ? Old French: bruy
    • French: bru

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German br?t

Pronunciation

Noun

br?t n (plural brut) (diminutive brut?a)

1. bread
2. loaf (of bread)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewd-. Through vowel-substitution also found as bryt, bryit; compare bruttu.

Pronunciation

• (Umeå, Bygdeå) IPA^(key): /²br??t/
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): /²bre???t/
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /²br????t/

  Rhymes: -???t

Verb

brut (preterite bröjt or braut, supine brutti)

1. (transitive, with å or sånder) to break; to divide abruptly or remove a piece from something by breaking it

   Hä skikkä säg sä, att’n braut å bäinä

   It so happened, that he broke his leg.

Derived terms

• breot heode för

Related terms

• bruttu

English

Alternative forms

• monstre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English monstre, borrowed from Old French monstre, mostre, moustre, from Latin m?nstrum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?nst?(?)/
• (US) enPR: m?n'st?(r), IPA^(key): /?m?nst?/
• Rhymes: -?nst?(?)

Noun

monster (plural monsters)

1. A terrifying and dangerous creature.
2. A bizarre or whimsical creature.

3. A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.

   Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!
4. (medicine, archaic) A horribly deformed person.
   • 1837, Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)

     Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.

5. (figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.

6. (informal) Something unusually large.
7. (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.

8. (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.

Derived terms

Related terms

• monstrous
• monstrously
• monstrose

Translations

Descendants

• ? German: Monster
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Korean: ??? (monseuteo)

Adjective

monster (not comparable)

1. (informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
2. (informal) Great; very good; excellent.

Synonyms

• (very large): gigantic, monstrous

Translations

Verb

monster (third-person singular simple present monsters, present participle monstering, simple past and past participle monstered)

1. To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
   • 1983, Michael Slater, Dickens and Women, page 290,

     A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.

   • 2005, Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are, Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity, page 82,

     The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered, often unable to get work or housing.

   • 2011, Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, page 234,

     Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.

2. To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
   • 1968, Robert Lowell, Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays, page 145,

     Animals in our world have been monstered by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were monstered by the primal crime.

   • 2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 292,

     In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “monstering” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.¹⁷⁷

   • 2010, Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture, page 39,

     The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering, and the MPs complied.

3. (chiefly Australia) To harass.

Anagrams

• Monters, mentors, meronts, metrons, monstre, montres, termons

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nst?r/
• Hyphenation: mon?ster

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch monster, probably from Old French monstre, from Latin m?nstrum. Cognate with English monster.

Noun

monster n (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje n)

1. A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.
2. An extremely antisocial person, especially a criminal.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Cognate with English muster.

Noun

monster n (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje n)

1. sample; small, representative quantity of a substance or material, as used for analysis or selection.

Derived terms

Verb

monster

1. first-person singular present indicative of monsteren
2. imperative of monsteren

Anagrams

• morsten, stormen, stromen

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin monstrum.

Pronunciation

Noun

monster n

1. A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.

Declension

Synonyms

• odjur
• vidunder
• best

Anagrams

• mentors, mostern, stormen