different between fend vs parry

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin d?fend? (“to ward off”), from d?- +? *fend? (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“strike, kill”).

Verb

fend (third-person singular simple present fends, present participle fending, simple past and past participle fended)

1. (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
   • 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act,^[2] U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,

     Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.

     Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.

   • 2003, Scott Turow, Reversible Errors, page 376

     The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.

2. (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).

   • With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.

   • 1999, Kuan-chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, page 39

     He fends, he blocks, too skillful to be downed.

   • 2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 187

     “ […] My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fend (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

Etymology 2

From Middle English f?nd, feond, from Old English f?ond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of **fijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate”). More at fiend.

Noun

fend (plural fends)

1. (Britain dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

Anagrams

• Fed'n, def'n, defn

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) fên(i)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spenda, from Proto-Indo-European *spand-, related to Ancient Greek ??????? (sphadáz?, “to shiver, tremble”), Sanskrit ??????? (spandate, “to quiver, shake”), Old Norse fisa (“to fart”), Norwegian fattr (“id”)).

Verb

fend (first-person singular past tense fenda, participle fendur)

1. I break wind, fart (silently)

Synonyms

• pjerdh

Derived terms

• fendur (participle)

Related terms

• fendë f (fëndë f)

Further reading

• [3] active verb fend • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

References

French

Verb

fend

1. third-person singular present indicative of fendre

Hungarian

Etymology

fen +? -d

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?nd]
• Hyphenation: fend

Verb

fend

1. second-person singular imperative present definite of fen

   Synonym: fenjed

Manx

Etymology

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Verb

fend (verbal noun fendeil, past participle fendit)

1. to protect, defend

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

fend (plural fendes or fendis)

1. Alternative form of feend

English

Alternative forms

• parree (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier parree, from Middle English *parree, *paree, from Old French paree (“preparation, ceremony, parade”), from Medieval Latin par?ta (“preparation, parade”), from par?re (“to ward off, guard, defend, prepare, get ready”). More at pare. The English verb is taken from the noun.

Alternative etymology derives the verb parry from French parez, the imperative form of parer (“to fend off”), ultimately from the Medieval Latin par?re. See above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ?i/
• Rhymes: -æri

Verb

parry (third-person singular simple present parries, present participle parrying, simple past and past participle parried)

1. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

Translations

Noun

parry (plural parries)

1. A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
2. (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
3. (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.

Derived terms

• beat parry
• opposition parry
• yielding parry

Translations

Further reading

• Parry in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• pray'r