different between cadre vs cadr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /e?/ may be due to a mistaken assumption that this word comes from Spanish or Italian, when in fact it is strictly French (the Spanish and Italian equivalents are respectively cuadro and quadro).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/, /?k??.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.d?e?/, /?kæd.?e?/, /?k?.d??/, /?kæd.?i/, /?k?.d?i/, /?k?.d??/

Noun

cadre (plural cadres)

1. A frame or framework.
   • 1848, Parliamentary Papers (volume 27, page 283)

     […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
     Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.

2. (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
3. (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
   • 1997, Jae Ho Chung, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, edited by David S.G. Goodman, Routledge, p. 146:

     Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
4. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

French

Etymology

From Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). Cf. Old French querre, inherited from the same source; see also carre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?d?/

Noun

cadre m (plural cadres)

1. frame (of a door or picture)
2. backbone (of an organization)
3. box, square (on a printed page)
4. (business) executive
5. scope, framework
6. (military) cadre
7. context, parameters
8. frame (of a bicycle)

Derived terms

• cadrage
• cadrer
• dans le cadre de...
• décadrer
• encadrer

Related terms

• carre
• carreau
• carrer
• équerre

Descendants

• ? English: cadre
• ? German: Kader
• ? Russian: ???? (kadr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (kadr)

Verb

cadre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cadrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cadrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cadrer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• carde
• crade

English

Etymology

Contraction of car of the cdr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d?/, /?k?d?/, /?ke?d?/, /?ke?d?/

Noun

cadr (plural cadrs)

1. (programming) Car of the cdr in LISP. The second element in a list.
   • 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J. Strother Moore, Computer-Aided Reasoning: An Approach

     If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.

Derived terms

• caddr

Anagrams

• Card, DARC, Drac, card