different between corporation vs party

English

Etymology

From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

   Synonym: paunch

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

     'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:

     He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,^[2]

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Derived terms

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• corporation tax

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): public limited company (UK)

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/, [?p????i]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?(?)?i/, [?p??(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -??(r)ti
• Hyphenation: par?ty

Etymology 1

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin part?ta (“a part, party”), from Latin part?ta, feminine of part?tus, past participle of part?r? (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

Noun

party (plural parties)

1. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     if the Jury had found that the party slain had been of English race and nation, it had been adjudged felony

2. A person.
   1. (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
   2. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

3. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Ch.6:

     A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see that all members of the tribe were accounted for.

   1. (role-playing games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
   2. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
4. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

   • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

   • The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

5. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

6. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
   1. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
   2. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
   3. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.

7. (obsolete) A part or division.

   • And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.

Synonyms

• (social gathering): bash, do, rave
• See also Thesaurus:party

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (p?r??)
• ? Japanese: ????? (p?t?)
• ? Korean: ?? (pati)

Translations

Verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

1. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

   We partied until the early hours.

2. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
3. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
4. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).

   If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

Derived terms

• party down
• party on

Translations

References

• Party (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin part?tus (“parted”), past participle of partiri (“to divide”). More at part.

Adjective

party (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
2. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

   an escutcheon party per pale

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• praty, yrapt

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch partij, from Middle Dutch partie, from Old French partie.

Noun

party (plural partye)

1. party (group, especially a political one)

Determiner

party

1. some, a few

Czech

Alternative forms

• párty

Noun

party f

1. party (gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)

Synonyms

• See ve?írek

Related terms

• See part

Further reading

• party in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• party in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party f or m (plural party's, diminutive party'tje n)

1. party

Synonyms

• feest, fuif

Derived terms

• schuimparty

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.ti/

Noun

party m or f (plural parties or partys)

1. (Canada) party (social gathering)

Usage notes

party has two genders in French: In Canada, it is a masculine noun, and in France it is a feminine noun.

Derived terms

• garden-party
• party hot-dog
• suicide-party

Further reading

• “party” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.ti/

Noun

party m (invariable)

1. party (social gathering)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party or partyer, definite plural partya or partyene)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party, definite plural partya)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.t?/

Participle

party

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of prze?

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

party

1. Obsolete spelling of parti

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party. Doublet of partida.

Noun

party m (plural partys or parties)

1. party

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party n

1. party; social gathering

Declension