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facet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæs?t/
- Rhymes: -æs?t
Noun
facet (plural facets)
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- Synonym: aspect
- The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- the articular facet of a bone
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
Derived terms
- multifaceted
- facetal
Translations
Verb
facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)
- To cut a facet into a gemstone.
Usage notes
- Faceting and faceted are more common in the US. Facetting and facetted are more common in the UK.
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette (“facet”), diminutive of face.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fas?t/, [fa?s?d?]
Noun
facet c (singular definite facetten, plural indefinite facetter)
- facet
Declension
Further reading
- facet on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- “facet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa??s?t/
- Hyphenation: fa?cet
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
facet n (plural facetten, diminutive facetje n)
- facet
Derived terms
- facetoog
Descendants
- Afrikaans: faset
- ? Indonesian: faset
Polish
Etymology
From Latin fac?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa.t?s?t/
Noun
facet m pers (diminutive facecik, feminine facetka)
- (colloquial) guy, fellow, chap
Declension
Further reading
- facet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- facet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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property
English
Alternative forms
- propretie
Etymology
From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
- Hyphenation: prop?erty
Noun
property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)
- Something that is owned.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- Synonyms: land, parcel
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
- (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- Synonym: prop
- (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
- (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
- Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
- I am too high-born to be propertied,
- To be a secondary at control,
- Or useful serving-man and instrument,
- To any sovereign state throughout the world.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
References
- property at OneLook Dictionary Search
- property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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