different between club vs birch

English

Etymology

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- (“log, block”), from *gel- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?b, IPA^(key): /kl?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

club (plural clubs)

1. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
      • 1783, Benjamin Franklin:^[1]

        He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

2. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
   1. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
3. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
   • 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary

     first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club

4. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

5. A black clover shape (?), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
   1. A playing card marked with such a symbol.

6. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.

7. A club sandwich.
   • 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)

     Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.

8. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

Synonyms

• (association of members): confraternity
• (weapon): cudgel
• (sports association): team

Hyponyms

• chess club
• sports club

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Tokelauan: kalapu

Translations

Verb

club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)

1. (transitive) To hit with a club.

   He clubbed the poor dog.

2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.

   • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.

   a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes

4. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.

   We went clubbing in Ibiza.

   When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.

5. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne

     The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.

6. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

   to club the expense

7. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
8. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

   to club exertions

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Derived terms

• clubbing
• go clubbing

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

1. club (association)
2. (golf) club

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?p/
• Hyphenation: club
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)

1. club, association
2. (golf) club

Derived terms

• clubhuis
• damclub
• golfclub
• handbalclub
• schaakclub
• skiclub
• stamclub
• tennisclub
• voetbalclub

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /klœb/, /klyb/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /kl?b/

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

1. club (association)
2. (golf) club

Synonyms

• (golf club): bâton (Quebec)

Derived terms

• bienvenue au club

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klab/, /?kl?b/

Noun

club m (invariable)

1. club (association)
2. club (golf implement)

Middle English

Noun

club

1. Alternative form of clubbe

Romanian

Etymology

From French club.

Noun

club n (plural cluburi)

1. club

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klub/, [?klu??]

Noun

club m (plural clubs or clubes)

1. club (association)

   Synonyms: asociación, cofradía, gremio

Derived terms

• club de fans
• club nocturno

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English bir?e, bier?e, from Proto-West Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Germanic *birkij?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH?os.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA^(key): /b?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)ch, IPA^(key): /b??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

birch (countable and uncountable, plural birches)

1. Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
3. A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
4. A birch-bark canoe.

Synonyms

• (stick, rod or bundle of twigs): makepeace, switch

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

birch (third-person singular simple present birches, present participle birching, simple past and past participle birched)

1. to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
2. to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

Derived terms

• bircher

Translations

Middle English

Noun

birch

1. Alternative form of birche