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efficient
English
Etymology
1398, “making,” from Old French, from Latin efficientem, nominative effici?ns, participle of efficere (“work out, accomplish”) (see effect). Meaning “productive, skilled” is from 1787. Efficiency apartment is first recorded 1930, American English.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f???nt/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /??f???nt/
- Rhymes: -???nt
Adjective
efficient (comparative more efficient, superlative most efficient)
- making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy
- expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input
- causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent)
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
- (proscribed, old use) effective
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- Ye wake no more to anguish;? ye have borne
The Chosen, the Destroyer!? soon his hand
Shall strike the efficient blow;
Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye,
With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves,
Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!
- Ye wake no more to anguish;? ye have borne
- 1856, William Dexter Wilson, An Elementary Treatise on Logic
- The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
Usage notes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary from 1913 still lists efficient and effective as synonyms, but all major dictionaries now show that these words now only have different meanings in careful use. Use of both for the other meaning is however widespread enough that Longman's Exam Dictionary, for example, finds it necessary to proscribe the use of one for the other with several examples at each entry and provides the following summary:
- efficient (“working quickly and without waste”)
- effective (“having the desired effect”)
Antonyms
- inefficient
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
efficient (plural efficients)
- (obsolete) a cause; something that causes an effect
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.14:
- Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […].
- a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity
- This implies, that something happens without a cause. If it should be said, that motive in this case is not the efficient of the action or doing — this is granted; but at the same time, for reasons already given, it is denied, that the man himself is the efficient cause of it.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.14:
References
Danish
Adjective
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Inflection
Further reading
- “efficient” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Latin effici?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fi.sj??/
- Homophone: efficients
Adjective
efficient (feminine singular efficiente, masculine plural efficients, feminine plural efficientes)
- efficient
- effective
Related terms
- efficience
Further reading
- “efficient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ef?fi.ki.ent/, [?f?f?ki?n?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ef?fi.t??i.ent/, [?f?fi?t??i?n?t?]
Verb
efficient
- third-person plural future active indicative of effici?
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correct
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).
Adjective
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Synonyms
- (free from error): right
- (with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved
Antonyms
- (without error): incorrect, inaccurate
- (with good manners): uncouth
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
correct
- (India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
Etymology 2
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
Verb
correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)
- (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- correct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- correct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- correct at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corr?ctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??r?kt/
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Adjective
correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
- correct
Inflection
Synonyms
- juist
Derived terms
- correctheid
- incorrect
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin correctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.??kt/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /k?.??k/
Adjective
correct (feminine singular correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)
- correct, right
- (colloquial) passable, okay
- (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
Derived terms
- politiquement correct
Related terms
- correctement
- correctif
- correction
- corriger
- incorrect
- incorrectement
Further reading
- “correct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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