different between decline vs pine

English

Etymology

From Middle English declinen, from Old French decliner, from Latin declinare (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”), from de (“down”) + cl?n? (“I bend, I incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??kla?n/
• Hyphenation: de?cline
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

decline (countable and uncountable, plural declines)

1. Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. A weakening.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. A reduction or diminution of activity.
6. The act of declining or refusing something.

Antonyms

• incline

Translations

Verb

decline (third-person singular simple present declines, present participle declining, simple past and past participle declined)

1. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

2. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.

3. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

   • in melancholy site, with head declined
4. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.

   • You have declin'd his means.

   • He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.

5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

   a line that declines from straightness

   conduct that declines from sound morals

   • Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

6. (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
   • 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor

     Could I decline this dreadful hour?

7. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender; more specifically, to recite all the different declined forms of a noun.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (first edition)

     after the first declining of a noun and a verb

8. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
9. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.

   The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.

Usage notes

• Decline, refuse, forbear, refrain: Decline is gentler than refuse and carries a connotation that the non-acceptance is an acceptable or anticipated option (decline an invitation) or the result of a considered decision (the judge declined to grant the motion). Refuse has a stronger connotation of rejection, firmness, resistance, or non-compliance. For example, if someone declines to give their name, that suggests they were given a choice and elected not to give their name. If someone refuses to give their name, the connotation is more toward a suggestion that they normally should have given their name and are being intransigent. Forbear or refrain, conversely, suggest choosing not to do something that one might indulge in or be tempted to do (refrain from smoking), with forbear having an added connotation of showing some fortitude in withstanding the temptation (forbear to show anger). Refrain can also be used to refer to a general policy or preference rather than a choice on a single occasion.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Delnice

Portuguese

Verb

decline

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of declinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of declinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of declinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of declinar

Romanian

Verb

decline

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of declina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of declina

Spanish

Verb

decline

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of declinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of declinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of declinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of declinar.

English

Alternative forms

• pyne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyne, from Latin p?nus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”). Doublet of pinus.

Noun

pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

   Synonyms: pine tree, pinus

2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.

   Synonym: pinewood

4. (archaic except South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana) A pineapple.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude” in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1920, pp. 38-39,^[2]

     Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] she put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pine, pyne, from Old English *p?n (“pain”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n? (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain.

Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German p?n?n, Old Norse pína.

Noun

pine (plural pines)

1. (archaic) A painful longing.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pinen, from Old English p?nian (“to torment”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n?, from Proto-Germanic *p?n? (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).

Verb

pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

   Synonyms: languish, droop

   • 1855, John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847

     Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

   Synonyms: long, yearn
3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.

   Synonyms: torment, torture, afflict

   • 1648, Joseph Hall, The Breathings of the Devout Soul

     One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

Derived terms

• pine away

Translations

Further reading

• pine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pine at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• pein

Bih

Noun

pine

1. woman, girl

Further reading

• Tam Thi Min Nguyen, A grammar of Bih (2013)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?i?n?]

Etymology 1

Via Old Saxon p?na from Medieval Latin p?na (“punishment in hell”), from Latin poena (“punishment”), a loan from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

Noun

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

1. torment
2. (in compounds) ache

Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German p?nen, derived from the noun.

Verb

pine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, perfect tense er/har pint)

1. torment
2. torture

Synonyms

• martre
• nage
• plage

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pin/

Etymology 1

Originally “pinecone”, from Latin p?nea

Noun

pine f (plural pines)

1. (slang) nob, penis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pine

1. first-person singular present indicative of piner
2. third-person singular present indicative of piner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of piner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of piner
5. second-person singular imperative of piner

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

pine f

1. plural of pina

Anagrams

• peni

Latin

Noun

p?ne

1. vocative singular of p?nus

Maori

Etymology

Probably English pin

Noun

pine

1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun

pine f or m (definite singular pina or pinen, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

• hodepine
• tannpine
• ørepine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint)

1. to torment, to torture

References

• “pine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

Noun

pine f (definite singular pina, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

• hovudpine
• tannpine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint, passive infinitive pinast, present participle pinande, imperative pin)

1. to torment, to torture

References

• “pine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

pine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pinar

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

1. pain, ache

Further reading

• “pine”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zazaki

Noun

pine

1. patch
2. (computing) patch