different between concern vs sideshow

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concern?, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concern? (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cern? (“distinguish”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Hyphenation: con?cern

Noun

concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)

1. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.

   Synonym: interest

2. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
3. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

4. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
   • 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:

     At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.

Translations

Further reading

• concern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• concern in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)

1. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31

     Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

     our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation

   • 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy

     ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
2. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended

     They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
3. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

Synonyms

• (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain

Derived terms

• concernable

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English concern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?rn/
• Hyphenation: con?cern
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n)

1. company, business, concern

Derived terms

• chemieconcern

English

Alternative forms

• side show

Etymology

From side +? show.

Noun

sideshow (plural sideshows)

1. a minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar
   • 1999 November 8, Frank Hayes, The Back Page: The main event, Computerworld, page 86,

     And IT people dismiss IT?s impact because, hey, we like being a sideshow to the real action.

   • 1999, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book, Australia, Number 81, page 349,

     Other recreation services, including amusement parks or arcades, sideshows, circuses and agricultural shows, accounted for another 666 businesses. These businesses employed 10,318 persons and a further 3,518 volunteers.

   • 2002, Steve Evans, Ron Middlebrook, Cowboy Guitars, page 146,

     In Australia he busked (singing on street corners), steeplejacked, was a drover and sheep shearer, did motor bike stunts in sideshows and even painted the Sydney Harbor^[sic] Bridge.

   • 2005, Joe Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshows, page 126,

     They taught the twins to play saxophone and transferred them from the sideshow to vaudeville.

   • 2006, Lynda Mannik, Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia: Representation, Rodeo, and the RCMP at the Royal Easter Show, 1939, page 13,

     Entertainment features and sideshows enhanced attendance.

   • 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 63,

     Don?t miss the rusty relics dredged up from the original pier, and the spooky old sideshow machines.

   • 1972 October 14, Henry Johnston, U.S. Tune Wins Rio Festival, Billboard, page 64,

     Sideshows for foreign guests included one provided by Philips manager Andre Midani with his chief recording artists including Chico Buarque, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa Quintato, and Violado.

2. an incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern
   • 1997, Frank Stilwell, One Nation For Whom?, Michael Costa, Mark Hearn (editors), Reforming Australia's Unions: Insights from Southland Magazine, page 244,

     Far from learning from the failures of ‘economic rationalism,’ the Liberals want us to swallow more of the snake oil medicine while diverting our attention to the consumption tax sideshow.

3. (US) an incident in which drivers block traffic to perform stunts like donuts and burnouts for an extended period of time
   • 2021 January, Kim McLane Wardlaw writing for the Ninth Circuit in Villanueva v. Cleveland[1]:

Antonyms

• main attraction

Derived terms

• sideshow alley (Australia)