different between doff vs avale

English

Etymology

From Middle English doffen (“take off”), contraction of Old English d?n of. Equivalent to a blend of do +? off. Compare don, dup, dout, gauf.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

doff (third-person singular simple present doffs, present participle doffing, simple past and past participle doffed)

1. (clothing) To remove or take off (something such as clothing).

   Synonym: take off

   Antonym: don

   • At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.

3. To get rid of, to throw off.
4. (reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

     Heaven's King, who doffs himself weak flesh to wear.

Derived terms

• doffer
• doff one's hat to

Translations

Yola

Alternative forms

• daff

Etymology

From Middle English doffen.

Verb

doff (simple past doft)

1. to strip

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From French avaler (“to descend, to let down”)

Verb

avale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto IX,VIII.

     And from their sweaty courses did avale.

Related terms

• avalanche

References

• avale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Estonian

Noun

avale

1. allative singular of ava

French

Verb

avale

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

Spanish

Verb

avale

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