different between eyebrow vs hunger

English

Etymology

From Middle English e?ebreu, alteration of Old English ?aganbr? (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye +? brow. The corresponding Old English ?agbr?w meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??b?a?/

Noun

eyebrow (plural eyebrows)

1. The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
2. (construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
3. A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

1. (intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
2. (transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows.
   • 2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie (page 23)

     Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back.

See also

• brow
• eyelash
• eyelid
• supercilium
• unibrow

References

• eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)
• Hyphenation: hun?ger

Etymology 1

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

Noun

hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers)

1. A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (by extension) Any strong desire.

   I have a hunger to win.

Usage notes

The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.

Antonyms

• satiety
• satiation

Derived terms

• hunger is the best spice
• hungerless
• hunger stone

Translations

See also

• thirst

Etymology 2

From Old English hyngran, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijan?.

Verb

hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)

1. (intransitive) To be in need of food.
2. (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
   • 1993, The The, Love Is Stronger Than Death

     In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.

3. (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.

Derived terms

• ahungered/anhungered

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• rehung

Danish

Noun

hunger

1. (uncommon) hunger

Declension

Synonyms

• sult

Derived terms

• hungersnød

German

Verb

hunger

1. inflection of hungern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) hunngerr, hungor, hungær
• hunguer, honguer, honger, hungre, hongre, hungere, hongur, hounger, hounguer, hungir, hungyr, hungur

Etymology

From Old English hungor, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hun??r/, [?hu???r]

Noun

hunger (uncountable)

1. Hungriness; the feeling of being hungry or requiring satiation.
2. Hunger; a great lack or death of food or nutrition.
3. A shortage of food in a region or country; widespread hunger.

4. Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
5. (rare) Any strong drive or compulsion.

Derived terms

• hungren
• hungry
• hungrylych

Descendants

• English: hunger
• Scots: hounger, hunger

References

• “hunger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

Noun

hunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)

1. hunger

Synonyms

• sult

Derived terms

• hungersnød

Related terms

• hungrig

References

• “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hungr

Noun

hunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)

1. hunger

Synonyms

• svolt

Derived terms

• hungersnaud, hungersnød

Related terms

• hungrig

References

• “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

Pronunciation

Noun

hunger c (uncountable)

1. hunger

Declension

See also

• hungrig
• hungra