different between critical vs jugular

English

Etymology

From the suffix -al and Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”) <????? (krín?, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??t?k?l/

Adjective

critical (comparative more critical, superlative most critical)

1. Inclined to find fault or criticize

   Synonyms: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting

2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
3. Extremely important.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     Third Pole glaciers are critical to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.

5. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.

   Coordinate terms: fair, serious, stable

6. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.

7. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.

8. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.

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Translations

Noun

critical (plural criticals)

1. A critical value, factor, etc.
   • 2008, John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)

     Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace […] Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.

2. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

Further reading

• critical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Medical state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• critical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• critical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• critical at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Late Latin jugul?ris, from iugulum (“neck, throat”), from iugum (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???.j?.l?/, /?d???.j?.l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???.j?.l?/, /?d???.j?.l?/

Adjective

jugular (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
2. (zoology, of fish) Having ventral fins attached under the throat.
3. (humorous) Relating to juggling.

Translations

Noun

jugular (plural jugulars)

1. (anatomy) A jugular vein.
2. (by extension) Any critical vulnerability.

   It was vicious; he went for the jugular.

Usage notes

The plural form jugulars is almost never used.

Synonyms

• jugular vein

Derived terms

• go for the jugular

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Scientific Latin iugularis, jugularis, from Latin iugulum.

Adjective

jugular m or f (plural jugulares, comparable)

1. jugular (relating to the neck or throat)

Noun

jugular f (plural jugulares)

1. jugular vein

Related terms

• jugo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jugulaire, Medieval Latin or Scientific Latin iugularis, jugularis, from Latin iugulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.?u?lar/

Adjective

jugular m or n (feminine singular jugular?, masculine plural jugulari, feminine and neuter plural jugulare)

1. jugular; pertaining to the neck or throat

Declension

Related terms

• ven? jugular?
• junghia