different between career vs kiss

English

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (a road or racecourse), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carr?ria based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. Alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera ("road"), from Late Latin carr?ria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????/
• Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

career (plural careers)

1. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
2. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

3. (archaic) Speed.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     when a horse is running in his full career

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

     It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.

4. A jouster's path during a joust.
   • 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.

5. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:

     It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.

   • 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)

     Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble

6. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
7. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

   • to think of going back again the same career

Related terms

• careerism
• careerist

Translations

Verb

career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)

1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

   Synonym: careen

   The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.

Translations

Adjective

career (not comparable)

1. Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)

   a career criminal

   • 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness (page 38)

     Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.

Further reading

• "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.

Scots

Etymology

From English career.

Noun

career (plural careers)

1. career

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?s, IPA^(key): /k?s/, [k??s]
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-Germanic *kussijan? (“to kiss”), cognates include Danish kysse, Dutch kussen, German küssen, Icelandic kyssa,Norwegian kysseand Swedish kyssa. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ku, *kus (probably imitative), with cognates including Ancient Greek ????? (kúss?), poetic form of ???? (kús?, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

Verb

kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed)

1. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
   • 1870, Alfred Tennyson, The Window

     Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.
3. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
4. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

Derived terms

• bekiss
• kissing
• kissle
• kissy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Noun

kiss (plural kisses)

1. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
2. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
3. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth, conjunction.

Synonyms

• (touch with the lips): See Thesaurus:buss

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• x
• xo
• xoxo
• xoxoxo
• xxx

Anagrams

• KSIs, Sisk, skis

Middle English

Verb

kiss

1. Alternative form of kissen

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s/

Etymology

Partly imitative, partly an euphemism for piss (see pissa (“to pee”)).

Noun

kiss n (uncountable)

1. pee, wee, tinkle, urine

Declension

Anagrams

• siks