different between casement vs easement

English

Noun

casement (plural casements)

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.

   • For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.^Wp
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

     Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.

   • 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night

     The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

3. (military) Occasionally seen as a usage error due to the similarity of the words: A casemate.

Hyponyms

• (window): French casement

Translations

References

• casement at OneLook Dictionary Search
• casement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• casement windows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• can't seem, cæments, menacest

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?zm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?izm?nt/
• Hyphenation: ease?ment

Noun

easement (countable and uncountable, plural easements)

2. (law) The legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
3. (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
4. (archaic) Easing, relief.
   • 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bvnyan, London: Printed by George Larkin, OCLC 12787585; 6th corr. edition, London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Pea-cock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688, OCLC 643954458, pages 92–93:

     But now, thought I, if this ?in is not unto death, then it is pardonable; therefore from this I have encouragement to come to God by Chri?t for mercy; to con?ider the promi?e of forgivene?s, as that which ?tands with open arms to receive me, as well as others. This therefore was a great ea?ement to my mind; to wit, that my ?in was pardonable, that it was not the ?in unto death, […]
5. (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
6. (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
7. Assistance.
8. Support.
9. Gratification.

Derived terms

• (act of relieving oneself): do one's easement, house of easement, stool of easement

Translations

Further reading

• easement (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tee-names