different between communistic vs apparat

English

Etymology

communist +? -ic

Adjective

communistic (comparative more communistic, superlative most communistic)

1. Characteristic of communism.
2. (zoology) Living or having their nests in common.

   communistic birds

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???????? (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

apparat (plural apparats)

1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 184:

     The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

Related terms

• apparatchik
• apparatus

Danish

Etymology

German Apparat (“device, apparatus”), from Latin appar?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aparat/, [?b???????d?], /ap?rat/, [?b???????d?]

Noun

apparat n (singular definite apparatet, plural indefinite apparater)

1. instrument, apparatus, appliance, machine
2. device
3. radio or TV set
4. camera
5. telephone, handset, extension
6. machinery

Inflection

Further reading

• “apparat” in Den Danske Ordbog
• apparat on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.?a/

Noun

apparat m (plural apparats)

1. pomp, ceremony

Derived terms

• apparat critique

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

apparat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of appar?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat or apparater, definite plural apparata or apparatene)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• forstørrelsesapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat, definite plural apparata)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

Noun

apparat c

1. apparatus; complex machine or instrument, often run by electricity
2. apparatus; a bureaucratic organization, especially within the area of politics
3. short for TV-apparat or radioapparat: TV set or radio receiver

Declension

Derived terms

• (bureaucratic organization): partiapparat