different between calibre vs status

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæl.?.b?/
• Hyphenation: cal?i?ber

Noun

calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)

1. Alternative form of caliber

Usage notes

• More common than caliber in UK, etc

Related terms

• calibrate

Anagrams

• caliber

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (q?lib).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lib?/

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre

Descendants

Verb

calibre

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ciblera

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??lib??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka??ib?i/

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. caliber / calibre (dimension)
2. gauge (mathematics, physics)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?lib?e/, [ka?li.???e]

Etymology 1

From French calibre.

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre
2. calipers
3. jig, gauge (tool)

Derived terms

• calibrar

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kalibre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

calibre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calibrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calibrar.

Further reading

• “calibre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?t.?s/
• (US, Canada, General Australian) enPR: st?t?s, IPA^(key): /?stæt.?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s, -æt?s

Noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

2. Prestige or high standing.
3. A situation or state of affairs.
4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Usage notes

• Rarely, stat?s (following Latin) is found as the plural form.

Derived terms

• status quo
• status symbol

Translations

Further reading

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

Anagrams

• suttas

Catalan

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Chinese

Etymology

From English status.

Noun

status

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Relationship status, usually in the form A_ or O_.

See also

• ?status
• A0
• O1

Czech

Etymology

From Latin st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /status/

Noun

status m, inanimate

1. status

Declension

Derived terms

• status quo

Related terms

Further reading

• status in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• status in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Learned borrowing from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?.t?s/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (condition)
2. status (legal position)
3. status (station, social standing)
4. medical file

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: status

Esperanto

Verb

status

1. conditional of stati

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status

1. status (a person's position or standing; high standing)

Declension

Anagrams

• tassut

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch status, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?a.t??s]
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)

1. status:
   1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
   2. A situation or state of affairs.
   3. A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
2. (healthcare) A medical file, medical record.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

Further reading

• status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?s?t?ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?st???t?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”).

Participle

status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle

1. fixed, set, having been set
2. regular

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

status m (genitive stat?s); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status
4. (Medieval Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• statu?

References

• status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• status in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?tus/

Adjective

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

Declension

Related terms

(Adjectives)

• sta?ias

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status. Doublet of estado.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.?ta.tus/, /?sta.tus/

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
2. status; state (a condition at some point in time)

   Synonym: estado

3. status; prestige

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status m

1. status

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??tus/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. status, rank

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tatus/, [es?t?a.t?us]

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

Declension

Related terms

• statusjakt
• statussymbol