different between coral vs fence

English

Etymology

From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew ???????? (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic ?????? (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek ???? (kór?) (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???l/
  • Homophone: choral
• Rhymes: -???l, -????l

Noun

coral (countable and uncountable, plural corals)

1. (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
2. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
3. (countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
4. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
5. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

Translations

Adjective

coral (not comparable)

1. Made of coral.
2. Having the orange-pink colour of coral.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• coral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlo, Carol, Claro, Clora, carol, claro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??al/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??al/

Etymology 1

cor (“heart”) +? -al

Adjective

coral (masculine and feminine plural corals)

1. strong, close (relationship)

Etymology 2

cor (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral (masculine and feminine plural corals)

1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

1. chorus music
2. chorale

Etymology 3

Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

1. coral (organism)

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??al/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese coral, borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. (zoology) coral
   • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:

     mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro

     I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold

2. coral (color)
3. roe (the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans)

   Synonym: míllaras

4. sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa)

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais)

1. choral

Noun

coral f (plural corais)

1. chorale

References

• “coral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “coral” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “coral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “coral” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coral” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French coral, from Old French corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko??al]

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. coral
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 14v.

     DEl dozeno grado del ?igno de tauro es la piedra aque dizen coral negro.

     Of the twelfth degree of the sign of Taurus is the stone they call black coral.

Descendants

• Ladino: koral
• Spanish: coral

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko??aw/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin choralis, equivalent to coro +? -al.

Alternative forms

• choral (obsolete)

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. (music) choir (ensemble of people who sing together)

   Synonym: coro

2. (music) choral song (song written for a choir to perform)
3. (music) chorale (a Lutheran hymn)
4. (figuratively) a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais, comparable)

1. (music) choral (relating to choirs)
2. (music) choral (written to be performed by a choir)

Etymology 2

From Late Latin corallum or Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion, “coral”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

1. coral (any of various species of anthozoans)
2. coral (the skeleton of marine polyps)
3. coral (colony of marine polyps)
4. coral (a yellowish pink colour)

Noun

coral f (plural corais)

1. Short for cobra-coral.

Adjective

coral m or f (plural corais, comparable)

1. coral in colour

   Synonym: coralino

Romanian

Etymology

From French choral

Adjective

coral m or n (feminine singular coral?, masculine plural corali, feminine and neuter plural corale)

1. choral

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??al/, [ko??al]
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish coral, from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. (zoology) coral
2. (botany) coral vine (Kennedia coccinea)

Derived terms

• arrecife de coral (“coral reef”)
• coral pétreo
• Gran Barrera de Coral

Adjective

coral (plural corales)

1. coral (color)

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +? -al.

Adjective

coral (plural corales)

1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

1. chorale

References

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English fence, fens, short for defence, defens (“the act of defending”), from Old French defens, defense (see defence).

The sense "enclosure" arises in the mid 15th century.Also from the 15th century is use as a verb in the sense "to enclose with a fence". The generalized sense "to defend, screen, protect" arises ca. 1500. The sense "to fight with swords (rapiers)" is from the 1590s (Shakespeare).

Displaced native Old English edor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ns/, [f?ns], [f?nts]
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

fence (countable and uncountable, plural fences)

1. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
2. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
3. (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
4. Skill in oral debate.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) The art or practice of fencing.
6. A guard or guide on machinery.
7. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
8. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.

Hyponyms

• catch fence
• electric fence
• picket fence

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Pennsylvania German: Fens

Translations

See also

• wire netting
• wire gauze

Verb

fence (third-person singular simple present fences, present participle fencing, simple past and past participle fenced)

1. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
2. (transitive) To defend or guard.
3. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

4. (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
5. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
6. (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:

     A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.

Synonyms

• (to sell or buy stolen goods): pawn

Derived terms

• ring-fence, ringfence

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?
• Hyphenation: fen?ce

Noun

fence

1. dative singular of fenka
2. locative singular of fenka