different between calling vs traffic
calling
English
Etymology
call +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??l??/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
calling
- present participle of call
Noun
calling (plural callings)
- A strong urge to become religious.
- A job or occupation.
Synonyms
- vocation
Translations
calling From the web:
- what callings come from the stake presidency
- what calling apps work in dubai
- what calling out means
- what calling restrictions mean
- what callings does the bishop extend
- what callings does the stake president extended
- what callings come from high council
- what callings are extended by stake president
traffic
English
Alternative forms
- traffick
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA(key): /?t?æf?k/
- Rhymes: -æf?k
Noun
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
- Synonym: trade
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Derived terms
- trafficker
- trafficking
Translations
References
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
traffic From the web:
- what traffic sign is a rectangle
- what traffic signs mean
- what traffic sign is a circle
- what traffic sign is a triangle
- what traffic violations are felonies
- what traffic sign is a pentagon
- what traffic school is best for online
- what traffic sign is a yellow triangle
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