different between chief vs star

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

From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern? (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r (“star”). Doublet of aster.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??(?)/
• (US) enPR: stär, IPA^(key): /st??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

star (plural stars)

1. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
3. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.
4. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.
5. (acting) An actor in a leading role.

6. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
7. (printing) An asterisk (*).
8. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
9. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
10. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
    • Men bless their stars and call it luxury.
11. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
12. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

Synonyms

• aster (obsolete)
• (astronomy): * (abbreviation), sun

Hypernyms

• (astronomy): celestial body

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• estoile
• étoile
• stella

Descendants

• ? French: star
• ? German: Star
• ? Italian: star

Translations

See star/translations § Noun.

See also

• Thesaurus:star

Verb

star (third-person singular simple present stars, present participle starring, simple past and past participle starred)

1. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.

2. (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
3. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
4. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
5. (intransitive) To shine like a star.

Synonyms

• (to mark with an asterisk): asterisk

Translations

See also

• astronomy
• black hole
• galaxy
• moon
• mullet
• planet
• red giant

Anagrams

• 'rats, RAST, RATs, RTAs, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, sart, tars, tsar

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch star, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staraz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?r

Adjective

star (comparative starder, superlative starst)

1. stiff, frozen
2. rigid

Inflection

Related terms

• halsstarrig

French

Etymology

From English star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?/

Noun

star f (plural stars)

1. star (celebrity)

   Elle est devenue star. - she's become a star.

Derived terms

• stariser

Further reading

• “star” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• arts, rats, tsar

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English star.

Noun

star f (invariable)

1. star (celebrity)

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (sit?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?r/
• Rhymes: -a?r

Noun

star m (plural stari)

1. veil

   Synonym: (commoner) velu

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin st?re.

Verb

star

1. to be (indicates a temporary state)

See also

• ser

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

1. alternative form of stare

Noun

star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by stær

Portuguese

Verb

star (first-person singular present indicative stou, past participle stado)

1. Obsolete spelling of estar

Sabir

Etymology

From Italian stare (“to be”).

Verb

star

1. to be

References

• Feissat et Demonchy, Dictionnaire de la Langue Franque, ou Petit Mauresque

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *star?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stâr/

Adjective

st?r (definite st?r?, comparative stàrij?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. old

Declension

Derived terms

• prastar

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *star?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stár/

Adjective

st?r (comparative star?jši, superlative n?jstar?jši)

1. old, aged

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Antonyms

• mlad

Derived terms

• prestàr

Further reading

• “star”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?. Compare Italian stare

Verb

star

1. (transitive) To stay or remain
2. (transitive) To live (somewhere)

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.