different between command vs protest

English

Etymology

From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander (modern French commander), from Vulgar Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mand? (“I order, command”). Compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??mænd/
• Hyphenation: com?mand

Noun

command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)

1. An order to do something.

   I was given a command to cease shooting.

2. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.

   to have command of an army
3. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.

   he had command of the situation

   England has long held command of the sea

   a good command of language
4. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.

   General Smith was placed in command.

5. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
   • 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, p. 180

     Command cannot be otherwise than savage, for it implies an appeal to force, should force be needful.

6. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
7. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
8. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
9. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.

   He's got good command tonight.

10. A command performance.
    • 1809, Dorothy Jordan, letter, cited in Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 2012, p. 220:

      Atkinson […] had hinted to me that the Duke of Richmond was so delighted with my acting that he should not be surprised if there was a second command.

Translations

See also

• imperative mood

References

• Command on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

command (third-person singular simple present commands, present participle commanding, simple past and past participle commanded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.

   The soldier was commanded to cease firing.

   The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Revenge

     We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.

   to command an army or a ship
3. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.

   he commanded silence

   • 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]

     The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.

4. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.

   Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)

5. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.

   A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

   Justice commands the respect and affections of the people.

   The best goods command the best price.

   This job commands a salary of £30,000.

6. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.

   The fort commanded the bay.

   • Two wooden bridges led across the river; each was commanded by a fortified house

   • December 1699, Joseph Addison, letter to William Congreve

     One [side] commands a view of the finest garden.

   • 1834, The Hobart Town Magazine (volume 2, page 323)

     […] they made considerable progress in the art of embalming the wild fruits of their native land, so that they might command cranberries and hindberries at all times and seasons.

7. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
8. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

Synonyms

• (give an order): decree, order

Translations

Derived terms

References

• command in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “command”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

English

Etymology

From the Middle English verb protesten, from Old French protester, from Latin pr?test?r?, present active infinitive of pr?testor, from pr? + testor, from testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???.t?st/
• (US) enPR: pr??t?st, IPA^(key): /?p?o?.t?st/
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Verb

• enPR: pr?.t?st?, IPA^(key): /p???t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Verb

protest (third-person singular simple present protests, present participle protesting, simple past and past participle protested)

1. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
2. (transitive) To affirm (something).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     Our youth, now, emboldened with his success, resolved to push the matter farther, and ventured even to beg her recommendation of him to her father's service; protesting that he thought him one of the honestest fellows in the country, and extremely well qualified for the place of a gamekeeper, which luckily then happened to be vacant.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, Ch.8

     She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.

3. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.

4. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
5. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To publish; to make known.

Translations

Noun

protest (countable and uncountable, plural protests)

1. A formal objection, especially one by a group.

2. A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration.

3. The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.
4. A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.

Synonyms

• dissent
• objection
• protestation

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Potters, potters, spotter, strepto, strepto-

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?prot?st]

Noun

protest m

1. protest

Related terms

• protestní
• protestovat
• protestant
• protestantismus
• protestantský
• protestantství

Further reading

• protest in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• protest in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin protest?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro??t?st/
• Hyphenation: pro?test
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

protest n (plural protesten, diminutive protestje n)

1. protest (occasion to express dissatisfaction)
2. protest (expression of disagreement)

Hyponyms

• betoging
• demonstratie

Derived terms

Related terms

• protestant
• protesteren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: protes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin protestari, as for protestere

Noun

protest m (definite singular protesten, indefinite plural protester, definite plural protestene)

1. a protest

Derived terms

• protestmarsj

Related terms

• protestere

References

• “protest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin protestari

Noun

protest m (definite singular protesten, indefinite plural protestar, definite plural protestane)

1. a protest

Derived terms

• protestmarsj

References

• “protest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From German Protest, from Italian protesto, from Latin pr?test?r?, present active infinitive of pr?testor, from pr? + testor, from testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?.t?st/

Noun

protest m inan

1. (law) protest (formal objection)
2. protest (demonstration)

Declension

Synonyms

• demonstracja

Related terms

• protestant, protestantka
• protestowa?, zaprotestowa?

Further reading

• protest in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• protest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from protesta

Noun

protest n (plural proteste)

1. protest

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Protest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?test/
• Hyphenation: pro?test

Noun

pròtest m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. protest

Declension

Synonyms

• pròsvjed

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

protest c

1. protest

Declension

Related terms

• protestera
• protestant

Anagrams

• torpets

Welsh

Etymology

From English protest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?t?sd/, [?pr???t??st]

Noun

protest f (plural protestiadau or protestadau)

1. protest, demonstration (collective gesture of disapproval)

   Synonym: gwrthdystiad

Derived terms

• protestio (“to protest”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “protest”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies