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care

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??/
  • (General American) enPR: kâr, IPA(key): /k?(?)?/, /ke(?)?/, [ke(??)?], [k?(??)?]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ?earu (care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble), from Proto-Germanic *kar? (care, sorrow, cry), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?r- (shout, call). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (concern, action), Middle High German kar (sorrow, lamentation), Icelandic kör (sickbed), Gothic ???????????????? (kara, concern, care). Related also to Dutch karig (scanty), German karg (sparse, meagre, barren), Latin garri?, Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus). See also chary.

Noun

care (countable and uncountable, plural cares)

  1. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii[1]:
      More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II Scene ii[2]:
      Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:
      One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.
  2. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
  3. Worry.
  4. Maintenance, upkeep.
    • Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
  5. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
  6. The state of being cared for by others.
  7. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • chary
Translations
Quotations
  • 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
    ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’

Etymology 2

From Middle English caren, carien, from Old English carian (to sorrow, grieve, be troubled, be anxious, to care for, heed), from Proto-West Germanic *kar?n (to care), from Proto-Germanic *kar?n? (to care).

Cognate with Middle High German karn (to complain, lament, grieve, mourn), Alemannic German karen, kären (to groan, wheeze, give a death rattle), Swedish kära (to fall in love), Icelandic kæra (to care, like), Gothic ???????????????????? (kar?n, to be concerned).

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle caring, simple past and past participle cared)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
    • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene i[4]:
      [] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king? []
  2. (intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
  3. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
  4. (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
    • 2006, Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox, A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, Univ. of Tennessee Press (?ISBN), page 108:
      After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient had "refused" therapy. [...] It was not until months later that this therapist [...] discovered that she should have been interpreting "I don't care to" as "I don't mind" doing those exercises now.
Usage notes
  • The sense "to want" is most commonly found as an interrogative or negative sentence, and may take a for clause (would you care for some tea?) or (as a catenative verb) takes a to infinitive (would you care to go with me?). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • Acre, CERA, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, acre, e-car, race, race-

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka?/
  • Homophones: car, carent, cares, carre, carrent, carre, quarre, quarres, quarrent, quart

Verb

care

  1. inflection of carer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • acre, âcre, créa, race

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -are

Adjective

care

  1. feminine plural of caro

Anagrams

  • acre, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

  • car?: (Classical) IPA(key): /?ka.re?/, [?kä?e?]
  • car?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]
  • c?re: (Classical) IPA(key): /?ka?.re/, [?kä???]
  • c?re: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]

Verb

car?

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of care?

Adjective

c?re

  1. vocative masculine singular of c?rus

References

  • care in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • care in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • care in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English caru, ?earu (care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble). See Modern English care for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ka?r(?)/

Noun

care (plural cares)

  1. grief; sorrow [from 13th c.]
    • Than Feraunte his cosyn had grete care and cryed full lowde [].

Descendants

  • English: care
  • Scots: care
  • Yola: caure

References

  • “c?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

care

  1. inflection of cara (walker; frequenting):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Verb

care

  1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of carati (to walk)
  2. optative active singular of carati (to walk)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin qu?lis, qu?lem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kare/
  • Rhymes: -are

Determiner

care

  1. which

Inflection

Pronoun

care

  1. which, that, who

Etymology 2

Noun

care n pl

  1. plural of car (cart)

Etymology 3

Verb

care

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of c?ra
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of c?ra

Venetian

Adjective

care f

  1. feminine plural of caro

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attack

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (to join, attach) (used in attaccare battaglia (to join battle)), from Frankish *stakka (stick). Doublet of attach.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

attack (plural attacks)

  1. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
  2. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
  3. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
  4. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
    Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
  5. (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
    birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
  6. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  7. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
    Synonyms: hit, spike
  8. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  9. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  10. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  11. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
    Antonyms: decay, release
  12. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:attack

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)

  1. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
  2. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
  3. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
    • 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
      Hydrofluoric acid [] attacks the glass.
  4. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
  5. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  6. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  7. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  8. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  9. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
  10. (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:attack

Translations

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

From French attaque.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a?tak/

Noun

attack c

  1. attack; an attempt to cause damage
  2. attack; offense of a battle

Declension

Synonyms

  • anfall

Related terms

  • attackera

Derived terms

  • hjärtattack

Anagrams

  • tackat

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