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English

Etymology

From Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

chief (plural chiefs)

2. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 4:

     My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.

   All firefighters report to the fire chief.

3. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. [from 15th c.]
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".

4. The principal part or top of anything.
5. An informal term of address, sometimes ironic.

   Hey, chief.

Synonyms

• chieftain
• chiefess (female chief)
• See also Thesaurus:boss

Derived terms

Pages starting with “chief”.

Related terms

• captain
• chef
• chieftain

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ch?fu)
• ? Swahili: chifu

Translations

Adjective

chief (comparative chiefer or more chief, superlative chiefest or most chief)

1. Primary; principal.
2. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
   • 2006, James Robertson: The Testament of Gideon Mack, p 324:

     'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'

Translations

Verb

chief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)

1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
   • 2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)

     He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.

See also

• chef

Anagrams

• cheif, fiche, fiché

Middle English

Noun

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Adjective

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chief.

Noun

chief m (plural chiefs)

1. head

Descendants

• French: chef (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

• cap (La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
• chef, cief

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?je?f/

Noun

chief m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)

1. (anatomy) head
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Le chief li desarme et la face.

     He exposed his head and his face.

2. leader, chief
3. front (foremost side of something)

Descendants

• Middle French: chief
  • French: chef (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: chef
• ? Middle English: chef
  • English: chief
  • Scots: chief
• ? Old Spanish: xefe
  • Spanish: jefe, gefe
    • ? English: jefe
    • ? Cebuano: hepe
  • ? Asturian: xefe
  • ? Galician: xefe
  • ? Portuguese: chefe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French integral, from Medieval Latin integr?lis, from Latin integer (“entire”); see integer.

Pronunciation

• Noun
• (UK) enPR: ?n?t?-gr?l, IPA^(key): /??nt????l/
• (US) enPR: ?n?t?-gr?l, IPA^(key): /??nt????l/
• Adjective

Dictionaries give the same pronunciation as for the noun, but the adjective is often pronounced with the accent on the second syllable:

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n-t?g?r?l, IPA^(key): /?n?t????l/

Adjective

integral (comparative more integral, superlative most integral)

1. Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable

   • Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.

   Synonyms: immanent, inherent, necessary; see also Thesaurus:intrinsic

2. (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
3. (mathematics) Relating to integration.
4. (obsolete) Whole; undamaged.

Derived terms

Related terms

• integer
• integrity
• integrous (very rare)

Translations

Noun

integral (plural integrals)

1. (mathematics) A number, the limit of the sums computed in a process in which the domain of a function is divided into small subsets and a possibly nominal value of the function on each subset is multiplied by the measure of that subset, all these products then being summed.

2. (mathematics) A definite integral, a limit of sums.
3. (mathematics) Antiderivative

   Synonyms: antiderivative, indefinite integral, ?

   Antonym: derivative

Derived terms

Related terms

• integer

Translations

Anagrams

• Triangle, alerting, altering, relating, tanglier, teraglin, triangle

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin integr?lis, from Latin integer.

Adjective

integral (masculine and feminine plural integrals)

1. integral

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin integr?lis, from Latin integer.

Adjective

integral m (feminine singular integrale, masculine plural integraux, feminine plural integrales)

1. integral, necessary to the function of the whole
2. whole; entire

Descendants

• French: intégral

References

• integral on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin integr?lis, from Latin integer (“entire; untouched”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.t?e.???aw/
• Hyphenation: in?te?gral

Adjective

integral m or f (plural integrais, comparable)

1. integral; whole; entire
2. (of food) whole (from which none of its constituents has been removed)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:integral.

Synonyms

• (whole): completo, íntegro, inteiro, intacto, total

Derived terms

• integralmente

Noun

integral f or m (in variation) (plural integrais)

1. (mathematics) integral (limits of sums)
2. (mathematics) antiderivative

   Synonym: antiderivada

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:integral.

Related terms

Further reading

• “integral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French intégral, Medieval Latin integr?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.te??ral/

Adjective

integral m or n (feminine singular integral?, masculine plural integrali, feminine and neuter plural integrale)

1. integral

   Synonyms: întreg, complet

Declension

Related terms

• integru

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin integr?lis, from Latin integer (“entire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inte???al/, [?n?.t?e????al]

Adjective

integral (plural integrales)

1. integral
2. whole
3. brown (rice)
4. wholegrain

Derived terms

Related terms

• íntegro

Noun

integral f (plural integrales)|integrales

1. (mathematics) integral

Further reading

• “integral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt???ra?l/

Noun

integral c

1. (mathematics) integral

Declension

Anagrams

• triangel

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French intégral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in.t??.??al?]

Noun

integral (definite accusative integrali, plural integraller)

1. (mathematics) integral

   ${\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}\!f(x)\,dx\,}$

Declension