different between contra vs unlike
contra
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin contr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?nt??/
Preposition
contra
- 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)
- contrary to something
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:contrarily
Translations
Noun
contra (plural contras)
- (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
- (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- (accounting) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- (dance) A contra dance.
- (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.
- 2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.
Translations
Verb
contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)
- (accounting) To undo; to reverse.
Translations
Anagrams
- Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Preposition
contra
- against
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?k?n.t??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?kon.t?a/
Adverb
contra
- against
Noun
contra m (plural contres)
- 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
- 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
- Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)
Declension
Synonyms
- contrasissi
French
Verb
contra
- third-person singular past historic of contrer
Anagrams
- carton
Galician
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Preposition
contra
- against
Noun
contra f (plural contras)
- (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
- Obsolete form of contro.
See also
- contrapposto
Etymology 2
Inflected form of contrare
Verb
contra
- third-person singular present indicative of contrare
- second-person singular imperative of contrare
Anagrams
- tronca
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Preposition
contra
- 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)
- against
- opposite to
- contrary to
- otherwise
- in return, back
Preposition
contr? (+ accusative)
- against
- 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
- against
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /?kõ.t??/
- Hyphenation: con?tra
Preposition
contra
- 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
- against, versus
Adverb
contra
- against, opposed to, opposite
- in exchange for
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin contr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kont?a/, [?kõn?.t??a]
Preposition
contra
- 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)
- con (disadvantage)
- Antonym: pro
Noun
contra f (plural contras)
- antidote
- counterpunch
Adverb
contra
- 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
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unlike
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?la?k/
- Rhymes: -a?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unl??, un?el?? (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungal?kaz; surface analysis: un- +? like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
Adjective
unlike (comparative more unlike, superlative most unlike)
- Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance.
- Unequal.
- (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
Synonyms
- (not like): See also Thesaurus:different
Translations
Preposition
unlike
- Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
- In contrast with; as opposed to.
- Not typical of one's character or personality.
Translations
Noun
unlike (plural unlikes)
- Something that is not like something else; something different.
- 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science
- If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.
- 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science
Etymology 2
From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- +? like.
Verb
unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)
- To dislike.
- (Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.
- 2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
- Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
- 2010 June 25, "TheKorn" (username), "Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet:
- My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.
- 2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
Noun
unlike (plural unlikes)
- (Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.
- 2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans (page 552)
- Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.
- 2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling (page 13)
- On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]
- 2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans (page 552)
Anagrams
- ukelin
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