different between fable vs report

fable

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin f?bula, from f?r? (to speak, say) + -bula (instrumental suffix). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: f??b?l, IPA(key): /?fe?b?l/
  • Rhymes: -e?b?l
  • Hyphenation: fa?ble

Noun

fable (plural fables)

  1. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
    Synonym: morality play
  2. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
    • Old wives' fables.
    Synonym: legend
  3. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  4. The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Derived terms

  • personal fable
  • fabulist

Translations

Verb

fable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2,[1]
      He fables not; I hear the enemy:
      Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.
    • 1706, Matthew Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen,” stanza 17, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London, 1779, Volume 30, p. 254,[2]
      Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell,
      That wavering Conquest still desires to rove!
      In Marlborough’s camp the goddess knows to dwell:
      Long as the hero’s life remains her love.
    • 1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,[3]
      He fables, yet speaks truth.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, lines 288-292,[4]
      [] err not, that so shall end
      The strife which thou callest evil, but we style
      The strife of glory; which we mean to win,
      Or turn this Heaven itself into the Hell
      Thou fablest []
    • 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, “Cassandra, or, Divination,” [5]
      The Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Cassandra, was by her many shifts and cunning slights still deluded in his Desire []
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter II,[6]
      Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess. []
    Synonyms: make up, invent, feign, devise

Derived terms

  • fabler

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • befal

French

Etymology

From Old French fable, borrowed from Latin fabula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fabl/

Noun

fable f (plural fables)

  1. fable, story

Synonyms

  • conte
  • histoire

Related terms

  • affabulation

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from f?(r?) (to speak, say) + -bula (instrumental suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f??bl?/

Verb

fable (imperative fabl or fable, present tense fabler, passive fables, simple past and past participle fabla or fablet)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success

Derived terms

  • fabel

References

  • “fable” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from f?(r?) (to speak, say) + -bula (instrumental suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f??bl?/

Verb

fable (imperative fabl, present tense fablar, simple past and past participle fabla)

  1. to fantasize, dream
    fable om suksess
    dream about success
  2. to make up (something)

Derived terms

  • fabel

References

  • “fable” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fabula.

Noun

fable f (oblique plural fables, nominative singular fable, nominative plural fables)

  1. fable, story

Synonyms

  • conte
  • estoire

Descendants

  • ? Dutch: fabel
  • ? English: fable
  • French: fable

Spanish

Verb

fable

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

fable From the web:

  • what fable means
  • what fables did aesop write
  • what fable is the crooked man from
  • what fable game is the best
  • what fablehaven creature are you
  • what fabletics size am i
  • what fable games are on pc
  • what fable is bluebeard from


report

English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (to carry back, return, remit, refer), from re- + port?re.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
  3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
  4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
  5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
  6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
  8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
    Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
  9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
  10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
  11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
      Baldwin, his son, [] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
  12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Derived terms

  • aforereported
  • reporter
  • underreport
  • unreported

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

  1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
  2. Reputation.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
      I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
  3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
      While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      [] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
  4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
    Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

  • (piece of information): on report, report card
  • (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)

Translations

Further reading

  • Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

deverbal of reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.p??/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

  1. postponement
  2. deferment

Synonyms

  • ajournement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • porter

report From the web:

  • what report rate for mouse
  • what reports must be reported to caci
  • what reports to credit bureaus
  • what report shows the percent of site
  • what report indicates the last page
  • what report shows which web pages
  • what report shows the percentage of traffic
  • what report shows which type of mobile
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like