different between father vs rev

English

Etymology

From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä'th?(r), IPA^(key): /?f??ð?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: fä'th?r, IPA^(key): /?f?ð?/
• (General Australian) enPR: fä'th?, IPA^(key): /?fa?ð?/
• (obsolete) enPR: f?'th?r, IPA^(key): /?fæð??/
• Homophone: farther (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: fa?ther

Noun

father (plural fathers)

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. The founder of a discipline or science.

7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
   • 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:

     Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

   • 2002, Financial Management:

     "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."

   • 2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan: (?ISBN), page 93:

     “The Father of All Battles”

     On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]

8. Something inanimate that begets.

Synonyms

• (parent): see Thesaurus:father
• (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) mother
• (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

• (a male parent): parent

Derived terms

Related terms

• Father
• Jupiter
• paternal

Translations

Verb

father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)

1. To be a father to; to sire.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4

     Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

2. (figuratively) To give rise to.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2

     Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2

     Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.

     Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

Translations

See also

• beget
• grandpa
• pater
• paternal
• sire

Anagrams

• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah

Middle English

Noun

father

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

Verb

rev (third-person singular simple present revs, present participle revving, simple past and past participle revved)

1. To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

   He revved the engine in a rather macho style.

   You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.

   • 1979, Al Greenwood and Lou Gramm, "Rev on the Red Line" from Head Games:

     Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.

Derived terms

• overrev
• revvy
• rev counter

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of revolution

Noun

rev (plural revs)

1. revolution

Etymology 3

Noun

rev (plural revs)

1. Abbreviation of reverend.

Anagrams

• ERV, VRE, ev'r, ver, ver.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rif, from Proto-Germanic *ribj? (“rib”), cognate with English rib, German Rippe, Dutch rib (English reef, German Riff, Dutch rif come from Old Norse). Doublet of ribbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rev/, [??æw]

Noun

rev n (singular definite revet, plural indefinite rev)

1. reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. (obsolete) rib (one of the long curved bones in the chest)

   Synonym: ribben

3. (obsolete) rib (piece of meat cut from the back of the ox)

   Synonym: højreb

Inflection

Derived terms

• koralrev
• stenrev

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??v/, [??æ?w], [??æw?]
• Homophone: ræv

Verb

rev

1. past participle common of rive

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Noun

rev f

1. run
2. escape

Derived terms

• revandin
• revandî
• reviyayî
• revî
• revîn
• revîner
• revînok
• revok
• revokî

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Germanic *rebaz.

Noun

rev m (definite singular reven, indefinite plural rever, definite plural revene)

1. a fox (also used figuratively)
2. (slang) marijuana

Derived terms

• revebjelle
• rødrev

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif

Noun

rev n (definite singular revet, indefinite plural rev, definite plural reva or revene)

1. a reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. a reef (nautical) (in a sail)

Derived terms

• barriererev
• korallrev

Related terms

• reve (verb)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• (of rive) reiv

Verb

rev

1. imperative of reve
2. simple past of rive

References

• “rev” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Germanic *rebaz.

Noun

rev m (definite singular reven, indefinite plural revar, definite plural revane)

1. a fox (also used figuratively)
   • 1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:

     Dan fatige fangar Reven; dan rike fær Skinnet.

     The poor man catches the fox; the rich man gets its hide.

Derived terms

• fjellrev
• raudrev
• revebjølle

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif

Noun

rev n (definite singular revet, indefinite plural rev, definite plural reva)

1. a reef (ridge of rock or coral in the sea)
2. a reef (nautical) (in a sail)

Derived terms

• barriererev
• korallrev

References

• “rev” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rev c

1. a fishing line

Declension

References

• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rif. Compare Danish rev, Middle Low German rif, German Riff.

Noun

rev n

1. a reef; rocks close to the water surface.

Declension

Derived terms

• korallrev
• metrev

References

• rev in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

rev

1. past tense of riva.