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carriage
English
Etymology
From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??d?/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -æ??d?
- Hyphenation: car?riage
Noun
carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)
- The act of conveying; carrying.
- Means of conveyance.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]
- In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (US, New England) A shopping cart.
- (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
- The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).
- Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate
- (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
- And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Appendix:Carriages
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fright
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: fr?t, IPA(key): /f?a?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- (Canada, Northern US) IPA(key): /f??it/
Etymology 1
From Middle English fright, furht, from Old English fryhtu, fyrhto (“fright, fear, dread, trembling, horrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *furht?? (“fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr?k- (“to fear”).
Cognate with Scots fricht (“fright”), Old Frisian fruchte (“fright”), Low German frucht (“fright”), Middle Dutch vrucht, German Furcht (“fear, fright”), Danish frygt (“fear”), Swedish fruktan (“fear, fright, dread”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (faurhtei, “fear, horror, fright”). Compare possibly Albanian frikë (“fear, fright, dread, danger”).
Noun
fright (countable and uncountable, plural frights)
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
- You might be sure she was a perfect fright;
- She did this during even her husband's life
- I recommend as much to every wife.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fright (third-person singular simple present frights, present participle frighting, simple past and past participle frighted)
- (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
Derived terms
- befright
Etymology 2
Probably short for affright, from Middle English afright, from Old English ?fyrht, past participle of ?fyrhtan (“to make afraid; terrify”).
Adjective
fright (comparative more fright, superlative most fright)
- (rare) frightened; afraid; affright
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
fright
- Alternative form of frith
References
- “frith, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
Etymology 2
From Old English fryhtu, from earlier fyrhtu, from Proto-Germanic *furht??.
Alternative forms
- fri?t, freyhte, fyrht, furht, frigt, fry?t
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?frixt(?)/, [?friçt(?)]
Noun
fright (plural *frightes)
- A fright or scare.
Related terms
- frighten
- frightful (rare)
- frighti (rare)
- frightly (rare)
Descendants
- English: fright
- Scots: fricht
References
- “fright, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
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