different between enterprise vs mart

English

Alternative forms

• enterprize (chiefly archaic)
• entreprise (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehend?, see prehensile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt??p?a?z/
• Hyphenation: en?ter?prise

Noun

enterprise (countable and uncountable, plural enterprises)

1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

   The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.

   A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.

2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.

   Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.

3. (uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

   He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.

   • 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live

     This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.

4. (uncountable) Active participation in projects. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• initiative

Derived terms

• enterprising
• commercial enterprise
• scientific enterprise

Translations

Verb

enterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)

1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

   • Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia

2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
   • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

     The business must be enterprised this night.

   • c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry

     What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!

3. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

References

• enterprise at OneLook Dictionary Search
• enterprise in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• enterprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• entreprise

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: märt, IPA^(key): /m??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marc?tus, an alternative form of Classical Latin merc?tus. See market.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. A market.
   • 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems Fourth Edition, 271:

     In London. Where has commerce such a mart,
     So rich, so thronged, so drained, and so supplied,
     As London—opulent, enlarged, and still
     Increasing, London?
2. (obsolete) A bargain.
   • 1616, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, ii.2

     Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart.

Verb

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

1. (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
2. (obsolete) To traffic.

Etymology 2

From Latin M?rs. See Mart.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. (obsolete) Battle; contest.
2. (historical) Alternative form of marque (letters of mart).

Anagrams

• RATM, matr-, tarm, tram

Azerbaijani

Noun

mart (definite accusative mart?, plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avqust, sentyabr, oktyabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: az:Months)}

Catalan

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mart/

Noun

mart m (plural marts)

1. marten

Further reading

• “mart” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mart” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mart” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mart” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

mart

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may?s, iyün, iyül, avgust, sentâbr, oktâbr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: crh:Months)}

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Hungarian

Etymology

mar +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?rt]
• Hyphenation: mart

Verb

mart

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mar

Participle

mart

1. past participle of mar

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox or cow slaughtered for meat, ox- (cow-) carcass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a??t?/

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, nominative plural mairt)

1. heifer or bullock carcass
2. heifer or bullock fattened for slaughter
3. (figuratively) beefy person

Declension

Derived terms

• mairteoil f (“beef”)
• martán m (“small ox”)

Mutation

References

• "mart" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart/
• Homophone: mard

Noun

mart

1. construct form of mara

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch maart.

Noun

mart

1. March

See also

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox, cow”).

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, plural mairt)

1. cow

Synonyms

• bò

Derived terms

• mairtfheòil (“beef”)

Mutation

References

• “mart” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mârt/

Noun

m?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) March

Declension

Synonyms

• òžujak (Croatian)

Derived terms

• m?rtovsk?

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/sije?anj, februar/velja?a, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Tatar

Noun

mart (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. March

Declension

Related terms

• (month): Previous: febräl. Next: äpril

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????, from Latin martius.

Pronunciation

Noun

mart (definite accusative mart?, plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; ocak, ?ubat, mart, nisan, may?s, haziran, temmuz, a?ustos, eylül, ekim, kas?m, aral?k ^{(Category: tr:Months)}

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (mart).

Noun

mart (definite accusative marty, plural martlar)

1. March

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) aý; ýanwar, fewral, mart, aprel, maý, iýun, iýul, awgust, sentýabr, oktýabr, noýabr, dekabr ^{(Category: tk:Months)}

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ???? (mart), from Latin m?rtius.

Noun

mart (plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

Related terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) oy; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avgust, sentabr, oktabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: uz:Months)}