different between concur vs league

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

concur (third-person singular simple present concurs, present participle concurring, simple past and past participle concurred)

1. To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.

2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.

3. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
4. (rare) To converge.

Synonyms

• (to unite or agree): accord, agree, coexist; See also Thesaurus:agree
• (to meet in the same point): cooperate, unite
• (to run together): assemble, congregate, crowd, flock
• (to converge):

Antonyms

• (to unite or agree): disagree, dissent
• (to meet in the same point):
• (to run together): disperse, disassemble
• (to converge): diverge

Related terms

• concourse
• concurrence

Translations

References

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege