different between cess vs levy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Etymology uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success.. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
3. (obsolete) Bound; measure.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (Britain, Ireland) To levy a cess.

Derived terms

• bad cess

See also

• cease
• cessation

Etymology 2

Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”.

Noun

cess (plural cesses)

1. (rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
2. (obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
3. (obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.

Derived terms

• cess path
• cess heave

See also

• cesspool
• cesspit

Etymology 3

From French cesser. See cease.

Verb

cess (third-person singular simple present cesses, present participle cessing, simple past and past participle cessed)

1. (obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.

Anagrams

• CSEs, ECSS, ESCs, secs, secs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Cess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

cess m (definite singular cessen, indefinite plural cessar, definite plural cessane)

1. (music) C-flat

Derived terms

• cess-dur m

Swedish

Noun

cess n

1. C-flat

Declension

Related terms

• ciss

References

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?l?.vi/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

   to levy a tax
2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

   • Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.
   • 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece

     A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.

Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

See also

• levee
• Levi

Anagrams

• Elvy, vley

Finnish

Etymology

lev- +? -y; stem from leveä (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?y/, [?le??y]
• Rhymes: -e?y
• Syllabification: le?vy

Noun

levy

1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
4. (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
5. (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
6. Short for keittolevy (“hotplate”).

Declension

Synonyms

• (plate): laatta
• (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)

Hyponyms

• (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single

Derived terms

• levyttää
• levytys

Compounds

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• elvy