different between carriage vs movement
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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movement
English
Alternative forms
- mov., movt, mvmt, mvt (abbreviation and contractions used in music)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum.
Morphologically move +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mu?v.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: move?ment
Noun
movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)
- Physical motion between points in space.
- Synonym: motion
- Antonym: stasis
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- An act of emptying the bowels.
- (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- speed
- symphony
- vector
- velocity
- The Movement (literature)
Middle French
Alternative forms
- mouvement
Etymology
From Old French movement.
Noun
movement m (plural movemens)
- movement
Descendants
- French: mouvement
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan; equivalent to mover +? -ment. Cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum.
Noun
movement m (plural movements)
- movement (physical motion)
- movement (trend in various fields)
Related terms
- mòure / mover
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 664.
Old French
Etymology
movoir +? -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin m?vimentum (itself probably partly based on the Old French or other early Romance cognates), from Latin move?.
Noun
movement m (oblique plural movemenz or movementz, nominative singular movemenz or movementz, nominative plural movement)
- movement
Descendants
- English: movement
- Middle French: movement, mouvement
- French: mouvement
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