different between capacity vs chore

English

Etymology

From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin cap?cit?s, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capi? (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??pæs?ti/

Noun

capacity (countable and uncountable, plural capacities)

1. The ability to hold, receive or absorb
2. A measure of such ability; volume
3. The maximum amount that can be held

   It was hauling a capacity load.

   The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.

4. Capability; the ability to perform some task
5. The maximum that can be produced.
6. Mental ability; the power to learn
7. A faculty; the potential for growth and development
8. A role; the position in which one functions
9. Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
10. Electrical capacitance.
11. (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

    Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.

Synonyms

• throughput
• See also Thesaurus:skill

Derived terms

• capac
• capacitance
• capacitate
• capacitive
• capacitation
• capacitor

Translations

References

• capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search

Adjective

capacity

1. Filling the allotted space.

   There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.

   • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.

Related terms

• capacious

Further reading

• capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• capacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology 1

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

Derived terms

• choreful
• choreless
• chorelike
• choresome
• chore wheel

Translations

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Alternative forms

• chor (Geordie)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

2. (Britain, informal) To steal.

Synonyms

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

Anagrams

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

Lower Sorbian

Adjective

chore

1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.r?/

Adjective

chore

1. inflection of chory:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Verb

chore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar