different between fail vs pine

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?l, IPA^(key): /fe?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??l- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sg??h?el- (“to stumble”). Compare Dutch feilen, falen (“to fail, miss”), German fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fela (“to fail, be wanting, do wrong”), Icelandic feila (“to fail”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).

Verb

fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed)

1. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
2. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

3. (transitive) To neglect.

4. (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

5. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism

     A poor Irish Widow […] went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever […]
6. (transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

7. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

8. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
10. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
    • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

      If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.

11. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

13. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Alternative forms

• faile (obsolete)
• fayle (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (to be unsuccessful): fall on one's face
• (to receive non-passing grades in academic pursuits): flunk (US)

Antonyms

• (to be unsuccessful): succeed

Derived terms

• failure
• fail-safe
• words fail someone

Related terms

• default
• fallacy
• false
• fault

Translations

Noun

fail (countable and uncountable, plural fails)

1. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

2. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
3. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success)
4. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
5. A failing grade in an academic examination.

Derived terms

Adjective

fail (comparative more fail, superlative most fail)

1. (slang, US) That is a failure.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (“hedge”), Scots faill (“turf”). Attested from the 16th century.

Alternative forms

• feal

Noun

fail (plural fails)

1. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

Derived terms

• fail and divot

References

• fail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fail in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fail at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -afil, alif, fila

Indonesian

Etymology

From English file, from Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin filum (“thread”). Compare to Malay fail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fa?l]
• Hyphenation: fa?il

Noun

fail

1. file,
   1. a collection of papers collated and archived together.

      Synonyms: berkas, dokumen

   2. (computing) an aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
2. file rack

Further reading

• “fail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish foil, from Proto-Celtic *wali-, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (hélix, “something twisted”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?al?/

Noun

fail f (genitive singular faile, nominative plural faileanna)

1. ring
2. bracelet
3. wreath
4. sty

Declension

Mutation

Malay

Etymology

From English file.

Noun

fail (plural fail-fail)

1. file (collection of papers)
2. information or a document about someone, something etc.
3. (computing) file (aggregation of data on a storage device)

Derived terms

• pemfailan (the process of filing)
• berfail-fail (a lot of files)

Verb

fail (used in the form memfailkan)

1. file (commit papers)
2. file (to archive)
3. (computing) file (store computer data)
4. (with untuk) file (make a formal request)

Old Irish

Verb

fail

1. Alternative form of fil

English

Alternative forms

• pyne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyne, from Latin p?nus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”). Doublet of pinus.

Noun

pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

   Synonyms: pine tree, pinus

2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.

   Synonym: pinewood

4. (archaic except South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana) A pineapple.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude” in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1920, pp. 38-39,^[2]

     Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] she put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pine, pyne, from Old English *p?n (“pain”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n? (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain.

Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German p?n?n, Old Norse pína.

Noun

pine (plural pines)

1. (archaic) A painful longing.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pinen, from Old English p?nian (“to torment”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n?, from Proto-Germanic *p?n? (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).

Verb

pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

   Synonyms: languish, droop

   • 1855, John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847

     Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

   Synonyms: long, yearn
3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.

   Synonyms: torment, torture, afflict

   • 1648, Joseph Hall, The Breathings of the Devout Soul

     One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

Derived terms

• pine away

Translations

Further reading

• pine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pine at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• pein

Bih

Noun

pine

1. woman, girl

Further reading

• Tam Thi Min Nguyen, A grammar of Bih (2013)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?i?n?]

Etymology 1

Via Old Saxon p?na from Medieval Latin p?na (“punishment in hell”), from Latin poena (“punishment”), a loan from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

Noun

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

1. torment
2. (in compounds) ache

Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German p?nen, derived from the noun.

Verb

pine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, perfect tense er/har pint)

1. torment
2. torture

Synonyms

• martre
• nage
• plage

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pin/

Etymology 1

Originally “pinecone”, from Latin p?nea

Noun

pine f (plural pines)

1. (slang) nob, penis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pine

1. first-person singular present indicative of piner
2. third-person singular present indicative of piner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of piner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of piner
5. second-person singular imperative of piner

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

pine f

1. plural of pina

Anagrams

• peni

Latin

Noun

p?ne

1. vocative singular of p?nus

Maori

Etymology

Probably English pin

Noun

pine

1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun

pine f or m (definite singular pina or pinen, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

• hodepine
• tannpine
• ørepine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint)

1. to torment, to torture

References

• “pine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

Noun

pine f (definite singular pina, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

• hovudpine
• tannpine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint, passive infinitive pinast, present participle pinande, imperative pin)

1. to torment, to torture

References

• “pine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

pine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pinar

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

1. pain, ache

Further reading

• “pine”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zazaki

Noun

pine

1. patch
2. (computing) patch