different between fashion vs knead

English

Alternative forms

• fascion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin facti? (“a making”), from faci? (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   • the innocent diversions in fashion

   • 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: fasin
• ? Bengali: ?????? (ppha?ôn)
• ? Burmese: ??????? (hpakhrang)
• ? Hindi: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Irish: faisean
• ? Japanese: ?????? (fasshon)
• ? Korean: ?? (paesyeon)
• ? Malay: fesyen
  • Indonesian: fesyen
• ? Portuguese: fashion
• ? Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
• ? Sotho: feshene
• ? Spanish: fashion
• ? Thai: ?????? (f??-chân)
• ? Urdu: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Welsh: ffasiwn

Translations

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:

     […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

   • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

   • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.

4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Derived terms

• disfashion
• misfashion
• newfashion
• refashion
• fashioning needle
• unfashioned

Translations

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.?õ/

Adjective

fashion (invariable, comparable)

1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms

Noun

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

1. fashion

English

Etymology

From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudan?, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: n?d, IPA^(key): /ni?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: kneed, need

Verb

knead (third-person singular simple present kneads, present participle kneading, simple past and past participle kneaded)

2. (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
   • 2001, Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook

     Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...

3. (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
4. (intransitive, of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
   • 1991, Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts

     Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.

5. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.

Synonyms

• (mix): amalgamate

Translations

Noun

knead (plural kneads)

1. The act of kneading something.

See also

• baking board
• dough

Anagrams

• Danek, Kaden, naked