different between choir vs choil

English

Alternative forms

• quire (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and Modern French chœur. Doublet of chorus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwa??/
• Rhymes: -a??
• Homophone: quire

Noun

choir (plural choirs)

1. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.

2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

Derived terms

• chorister
• Nikon choir

Related terms

• choral
• chorus
• quire

Translations

Verb

choir (third-person singular simple present choirs or quires, present participle choiring or quiring, simple past and past participle choired or quired)

1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.
   • 1859, The Presbyterian Magazine (volume 9, page 423)

Anagrams

• chiro, chiro-, chori, ichor

French

Etymology

From Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Compare Norman caeir, Franco-Provençal chêre, Occitan caire, Catalan caure, Italian cadere, Spanish caer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?/
• Rhymes: -wa?

Verb

choir (defective) (past participle chu)

1. (literary) to fall

   Synonym: tomber

Conjugation

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in certain tenses.

Derived terms

• chute
• déchoir
• échoir
• méchoir
• rechoir

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [x???]

Noun

choir m

1. Lenited form of coir.

English

Etymology

Unknown; originally a dialectal term from Sheffield.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

choil (plural choils)

1. An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
2. The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

   This knife's large finger choil helps compensate for the short handle.

   1. (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
   2. (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.

See also

• ricasso

References

• http://www.knifeart.com/cusknifen.html
• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• -holic, choli

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?l?/

Noun

choil m

1. Lenited form of coil.