different between dais vs pulpit

English

Alternative forms

• daïs (dated)
• deas (obsolete, Scotland)
• deis (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from ?????? (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, and disk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?.?s/, /?de?.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?de?.?s/, /?da?-/, /-?s/

Noun

dais (plural daises)

1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]
2. (historical, northern Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
3. (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. [13th–17th c.]
4. The canopy over an altar, etc.

Synonyms

• (raised platform): podium

Translations

See also

• predella

Further reading

• dais on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AIDS, Aids, IADS, IADs, Said, Saïd, aids, sadi, said, sida

Champenois

Noun

dais

1. (Auve) finger

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?^[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin d?(n)sus. Compare Italian denso, Romanian des.

Adjective

dais m (feminine daisa)

1. dense
2. thick

French

Etymology

From Old French deis, dois, inherited from Latin discus. Doublet of disque, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?/

Noun

dais m (plural dais)

1. dais

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

dais

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Portuguese

Verb

dais

1. second-person plural (vós) present indicative of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dais/, [?d?ai?s]

Verb

dais

1. Informal second-person plural (vosotros, vosotras) present indicative form of dar.

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qrep (“bear”). Cognate with Iu Mien jiepv.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dai??/

Noun

dais

1. bear (mammal).

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[2], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?lp?t/, /?p?l-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?lp?t/, /?p?l-/
• Hyphenation: pul?pit

Noun

pulpit (plural pulpits)

1. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
2. Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
3. A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
4. (nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit.
5. A bow platform for harpooning.
6. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit.
   • 1941 March 24, Life, p. 85:

     In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

Synonyms

• (dated British slang for cockpit): office; see also cockpit

Derived terms

• bully pulpit
• wayside pulpit

Related terms

• ambo

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pulpet, pollepyt, pullpite, polepitt, pulpitte, pulpytt, pulpette, pulpite

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulpitum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pulpit/

Noun

pulpit

1. A pulpit (podium for religious oratory)
2. A podium for non-religious oratory.
3. (rare) A seat in a church for royalty.

Descendants

• English: pulpit
• Scots: poopit, poupit

References

• “pulpit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin pulpitum (“platform”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pul.p?it/

Noun

pulpit m inan (diminutive pulpicik)

1. (computing) desktop (the main graphical user interface of an operating system)
2. pulpit, lectern

Declension

Further reading

• pulpit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pulpit in Polish dictionaries at PWN