different between company vs pod

English

Alternative forms

• companie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?ni/
• Hyphenation: com?pany

Noun

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

   2. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
   3. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

   4. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
   5. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.

2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
6. (uncountable) Companionship.

Synonyms

• (in legal context, a corporation): corporation
• (group of individuals with a common purpose): association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
• (companionship): fellowship, friendship, mateship

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kampn?)

Translations

Verb

company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.

     companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

Synonyms

• (to accompany): attend, escort, go with
• (to have sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pa?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pa?/

Noun

company m (plural companys, feminine companya)

1. companion, colleague
2. partner, mate

Derived terms

• acompanyar

Related terms

• companyia

Further reading

• “company” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

company

1. Alternative form of companye

English

Etymology

From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), possibly from Old English p?d (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paid? (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh?- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old Saxon p?da (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic ???????????????????? (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek ????? (baít?, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: pawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

pod (plural pods)

1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

   Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel

2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
4. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

   Synonym: gam

5. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
6. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
7. A nicotine cartridge.
8. A lie-flat business or first class seat.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• like two peas in a pod

Translations

Verb

pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)

1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Translations

Anagrams

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pod

Adverb

pod

1. (focus) also; too
2. (after a negative) either

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pot/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: pode

   Antonym: nad

Further reading

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

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

pod

1. Superseded spelling of pód.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?pó + *d?h?-o-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (isolated) /p?t/
• Homophone: pot

Preposition

pod

1. (+ instrumental) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes location)

2. (+ accusative) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes movement)
3. (+ accusative) against

4. (+ instrumental) near

Related terms

• pode

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Noun

pod n (plural poduri)

1. bridge
2. attic

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• mansard?
• punte

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. floor

2. ground

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Alternative forms

• poda (enclitic pronominal form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Preposition

p?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (+ accusative case) under, beneath (with change of position, answering the question kùda)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

2. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (stationary, answering the question gdj?/gd?)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

3. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (being in a particular condition)

4. (+ accusative case) near, toward, in (temporal, with nouns denoting a final temporal segment)

5. (+ instrumental case) during (temporal)

6. (+ accusative case) as, instead of, in lieu of

7. miscellaneous idiomatic meanings

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: podo

   Antonym: nad

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t/

Noun

p?d m inan

1. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: tla

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• spodaj

Volapük

Noun

pod (nominative plural pods)

1. apple

Declension