different between defend vs apologie

English

Etymology

From Middle English defenden, from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin d?fend? (“to ward off”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g??en-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??f?nd/, /di?f?nd/, /d??f?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

defend (third-person singular simple present defends, present participle defending, simple past and past participle defended)

1. (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
2. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
3. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
4. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
5. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
6. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend […].

8. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
9. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defend

Antonyms

• attack

Related terms

• defender
• defense, defence
• defensive

Translations

Anagrams

• fended

English

Noun

apologie (plural apologies)

1. Archaic spelling of apology.
   • 1609, William Heale, An apologie for women, or, An opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion, who held in the act at Oxforde, anno 1608, that it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives,^[1] Joseph Barnes (publisher).
   • 1659, John Evelyn, An apologie for the royal party : written in a letter to a person of the late Councel of State. By a lover of peace and of his country. With a touch at the pretended plea for the army.^[2]

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apologie (from Latin) or directly Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apología).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.po?.lo???i/
• Hyphenation: apo?lo?gie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

apologie f (plural apologieën)

1. An apology (formal justification, defence).

Related terms

• apologeet
• apologetiek
• apologetisch

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin apologia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p?.l?.?i/

Noun

apologie f (plural apologies)

1. apology (formal justification, defence)

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

apologie f

1. plural of apologia

Romanian

Etymology

From French apologie

Noun

apologie f (plural apologii)

1. apology

Declension