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business
English
Etymology
From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisi?nes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +? -ness. Doublet of busyness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /?b?d.n?s/, /?b?d.n?z/
- Hyphenation: busi?ness
Noun
business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)
- (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
- (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- (uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
Derived terms
Related terms
- pidgin
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
business
- Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
- Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
See also
- Appendix: Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
References
- business at OneLook Dictionary Search
- business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- business in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Noun
business m
- business
Declension
Further reading
- business in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- business in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bisnes/, [?bis?ne?s?]
- IPA(key): /?pisnes/, [?pis?ne?s?]
- IPA(key): /?busines?/, [?bus?ine?s??]
Noun
business
- Alternative spelling of bisnes
Usage notes
It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.
Declension
This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.
Pronunciation "bisnes":
Pronunciation "business":
Synonyms
- See Synonyms-section under bisnes
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biz.n?s/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [b?z.n?s]
Noun
business m (plural business)
- business, firm, company
- business, affairs
Further reading
- “business” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?biz.nis/
Noun
business m (invariable)
- business (commercial enterprise)
- Synonyms: affare, affari, impresa
Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English business.
Noun
business
- business
Declension
References
business dairäläre i?tibar?n Tatarstan belän
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science
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa??ns/
- Hyphenation: sci?ence
- Rhymes: -a??ns
Noun
science (countable and uncountable, plural sciences)
- (countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability. [from 14th c.]
- Specifically the natural sciences.
- (uncountable, archaic) Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area. [from 14th c.]
- 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...
- If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, […] his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
- 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hamlet
- Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
- 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...
- (now only theology) The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, I Timothy 6:20-21
- O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, I Timothy 6:20-21
- (uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline. [from 18th c.]
- 1951 January 1, Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
- I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality […] Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
- 1951 January 1, Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
- (uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
- (uncountable, collective) The scientific community.
- (euphemistic, with definite article) Synonym of sweet science (“the sport of boxing”)
- 1816, The art and practice of English boxing (page v)
- From a conviction, that the science is universally understood, the strong are taught humility, and the weak confidence. Many have laughed at the idea, that Boxing is of national service, but they have laughed at the expence[sic] of truth.
- 1816, The art and practice of English boxing (page v)
Usage notes
Since the middle of the 20th century, the term science was normally used to indicate the natural sciences (e.g., chemistry), the social sciences (e.g., sociology), and the formal sciences (e.g., mathematics). In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term was broader and encompassed scholarly study of the humanities (e.g., grammar) and the arts (e.g., music).
Coordinate terms
- art
Synonyms
- sci
- sci.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
science (third-person singular simple present sciences, present participle sciencing, simple past and past participle scienced)
- (transitive, dated) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
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- (transitive, colloquial, humorous) To use science to solve a problem.
Etymology 2
See scion.
Noun
science
- Obsolete spelling of scion
Further reading
- science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- science on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- "science" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 276.
French
Etymology
From Middle French science, from Old French science, escience, borrowed from Latin scientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sj??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
- Homophone: sciences
Noun
science f (plural sciences)
- science (field of study, etc.)
Derived terms
Related terms
- scientificité
- scientifique
- scientiste
References
Further reading
- “science” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- scyence, syens, sciens, sciense, sience
Etymology
From Old French science, from Latin scientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si???ns(?)/, /si??ns(?)/
Noun
science (plural sciences)
- facts, knowledge; that which is known:
- A science; the body of knowledge composing a specific discipline.
- learnt knowledge, especially from written sources.
- applied or situational knowledge.
- truth, reality, verified information.
- One's faculty of finding information; knowing or insight
- One's faculty of making sound decisions; sagaciousness.
- One's aptitude or learning; one's knowledge (in a field).
- A non-learned discipline, pursuit, or field.
- (rare) verifiability; trust in knowledge.
Descendants
- English: science
- Scots: science
References
- “sc??ence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-24.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French science.
Noun
science f (plural sciences)
- science (field of study, etc.)
- knowledge
Descendants
- French: science
Old French
Alternative forms
- escience
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scientia.
Noun
science f (nominative singular science)
- knowledge; wisdom
Descendants
- ? Middle English: science
- English: science
- ? Japanese: ?????
- ? Malay: sains
- ? Indonesian: sains
- ? Swahili: sayansi
- English: science
- Middle French: science
- French: science
- ? Khmer: ????? (sy?ng)
- French: science
- Norman: scienche
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