different between contra vs dog

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nt??/

Preposition

contra

1. against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to

Synonyms

• against, anti

Antonyms

• for, pro

Translations

Adverb

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. contrary to something

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

Translations

Noun

contra (plural contras)

1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
2. (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
3. (accounting) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
5. (dance) A contra dance.
6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
   • 2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

Translations

Verb

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kon.t?a/

Adverb

contra

1. against

Noun

contra m (plural contres)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

Related terms

• contra-
• contrari

Further reading

• “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contra” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “contra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

contra

1. against

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Finnish

Noun

contra

1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

Declension

Synonyms

• contrasissi

French

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

Anagrams

• carton

Galician

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

1. (usually in the plural) shutter

Further reading

• “contra” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kon.tra/
• Hyphenation: cón?tra
• Rhymes: -ontra

Etymology 1

From Latin contr?.

Adverb

contra

Preposition

contra

1. Obsolete form of contro.

See also

• contrapposto

Etymology 2

Inflected form of contrare

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular present indicative of contrare
2. second-person singular imperative of contrare

Anagrams

• tronca

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *komter?d, abl.sg.f. of *komteros (“the other of the two who meet, opposite”). The abl.sg.m./n. of the same is continued in Latin contr?-, cognate to Oscan contrud. Ultimately a suffixed form of Latin cum, Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”), like intr? from in, extr? from ex, but unlike these lacking external cognates, and therefore of Italic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.tra?/, [?k?n?t??ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.tra/, [?k?n?t???]

Adverb

contr? (not comparable)

1. against
2. opposite to
3. contrary to
4. otherwise
5. in return, back

Preposition

contr? (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

Derived terms

• contr?rius

Descendants

References

Further reading

• contra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kõ.t??/
• Hyphenation: con?tra

Preposition

contra

1. against

Antonyms

• a favor
• em prol
• em favor
• em defesa

Further reading

• “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contr?. Doublet of the inherited c?tre.

Preposition

contra

1. against, versus

Adverb

contra

1. against, opposed to, opposite
2. in exchange for

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kont?a/, [?kõn?.t??a]

Preposition

contra

1. against, versus

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

Derived terms

Related terms

• contrario
• encontrar

Descendants

• Hiligaynon: kontra
• Tagalog: kontra

Noun

contra m (plural contras)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

1. antidote
2. counterpunch

Adverb

contra

1. opposite, facing

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

Further reading

• “contra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

English

Alternative forms

• darg, dawg, dug (dialectal)
• doggie, doggy (childish)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• ("a dog")
• (US) enPR: dôg, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology

From Middle English dogge (whence also Scots dug (“dog”)), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.

The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal."

In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.

Noun

dog (plural dogs)

1. A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

2. Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
3. (often attributive) A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 149:

     Firstly, he was there to encourage and assist the hounds (a scratch pack – mostly dog-hounds drafted from fox-hound kennels because they were over-sized) […].

4. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

5. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).

6. (slang, derogatory) A coward.

7. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
   • 1599, Robert Greene, Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1599). Act 3.

     Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.
8. (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
9. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
10. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
11. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
    • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

      In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.

12. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
13. A hot dog.
14. (poker slang) Underdog.
15. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.

16. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

17. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
18. shortened form of dog meat.

19. (informal) Something that performs poorly.

    That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.

    1. (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
       • 1969, Ski (volume 34, number 4, page 121)

         Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.

       • 2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne

         “When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog,” Chase said.

Synonyms

• (animal): taxonomic names: Canis familiaris, Canis domesticus, Canis familiarus domesticus, Canis canis, Canis aegyptius, Canis familiarus aegyptius, Canis melitaeus, Canis familiarus melitaeus, Canis molossus, Canis familiarus molossus, Canis saultor, Canis familiaris saultor
• (animal): domestic dog, hound, canine; see also Thesaurus:dog
• (male): stud, sire
• (man): bloke (British), chap (British), dude, fellow, guy, man; see also Thesaurus:man
• (morally reprehensible person): cad, bounder, blackguard, fool, hound, heel, scoundrel
• (mechanical device): click, detent, pawl
• (metal support for logs): andiron, firedog, dogiron

Coordinate terms

• (male adult dog): bitch, pup, puppy

Hyponyms

• (animal):

Hypernyms

• (animal): canid

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See dog/translations § Noun.

Verb

dog (third-person singular simple present dogs, present participle dogging, simple past and past participle dogged)

1. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

   The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.

   It is very important to dog down these hatches...

4. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

   I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.

5. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

   A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.

6. (transitive) To criticize.
7. (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
   • 1902, Winfield Scott Schley, Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry

     A. We never stood 4 to 8 p.m. watches, sir. We dogged our watches.
     Q. I suppose that is 6 to 8 p.m., then; it is a little indistinct. I mean the second dog watch.

   • 2015, Tom Vetter, 30,000 Leagues Undersea

     Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]

Synonyms

• (to pursue with intent to catch): chase, chase after, go after, pursue, tag, tail, track, trail
• (to restrict one's productivity): soldier, goldbrick

Translations

See also

• ????
• Category:en:Canids
• bark
• canine
• cynomorphic
• cynomorphism
• flea bag

Further reading

• Michael Weisenberg (2000), The Official Dictionary of Poker (MGI/Mike Caro University, ?ISBN
• dog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Canis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Dog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Canis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Anagrams

• God, god

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch docht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Verb

dog

1. Alternative form of dag (preterite of dink)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish dogh, which was borrowed from Middle Low German doch, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þauh.

Adverb

dog

1. however

   Det er dog ikke sikkert, at de taler sandt.

   It is, however, not certain that they are telling the truth.

2. Conveying impressedness, emotional affectation, bewilderment.

   Hvor er den hund dog nuttet!

   How cute that dog is!

   Sikke dramatisk du dog kan fremstille sagen!

   How dramatically you can present the matter!

Conjunction

dog

1. though

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dog. Attested since the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?x/
• Hyphenation: dog
• Rhymes: -?x
• Homophone: doch

Noun

dog m (plural doggen, diminutive dogje n)

1. A large dog, especially one of certain breeds.

Derived terms

• Deense dog

Kriol

Etymology

From English dog.

Noun

dog

1. dog

Mbabaram

Etymology

From *dwog(a), from *udwoga, from *gudwaga, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga. Not related to English dog; it is a false cognate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Noun

dog

1. dog

References

Navajo

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

dog

1. thump, dub (sound of a heartbeat; thumping sound of a person walking on the roof of a house as heard by someone in the house)

Synonyms

• ts?idog

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

dog

1. however

Conjunction

dog

1. though

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d??/, /?d?.?i/

Noun

dog m (plural dogs)

1. Clipping of hot dog.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du??/

Verb

dog

1. past tense of dö.

Anagrams

• god

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dog.

Noun

dog

1. dog

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?]

Noun

dog (nominative plural dogs)

1. (male or female) dog

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• doeg
• toradoeg

Westrobothnian

Adjective

dog

1. proper, a lot; added to adj. to reinforce the meaning

   Dog snål

   particularly stingy

   Dog lat

   very lazy