different between festoon vs happy

English

Etymology

From French feston.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f?s?tu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

festoon (plural festoons)

1. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
2. (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
3. A raised cable with light globes attached.
4. (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
5. (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
6. (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
7. (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
9. (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.

Translations

Verb

festoon (third-person singular simple present festoons, present participle festooning, simple past and past participle festooned)

1. To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
2. To make festoons.
3. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
   • 2005, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Norton, p. 804:

     A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.

   • 2014 September 23, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian:

     Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
4. (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

Translations

Further reading

• festoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eftsoon

English

Etymology

From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) +? -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæpi?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæpi/
• Rhymes: -æpi
• Hyphenation: hap?py

Adjective

happy (comparative happier or more happy, superlative happiest or most happy)

1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
   • 1731, Thomas Bayes, Divine Benevolence: or, An Attempt to Prove that the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures: Being an Answer to a Pamphlet, Entitled, Divine Rectitude; or, An Inquiry Concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity. With a Refutation of the Notions therein Advanced Concerning Beauty and Order, the Reason of Punishment, and the Necessity of a State of Trial antecedent to Perfect Happiness, London: Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in Cheapside, near Mercers-Chapel, OCLC 642498368; quoted in Andrew I. Dale, Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes (Studies and Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), New York, N.Y.: Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-0-387-00499-0, page 138:

     […] For the most happy universe is not one that consists of the greatest possible number of the most happy beings only; but one that consists of that, and the greatest possible number of beings next inferior to the first rank, and so downward, till we come to those that approach the nearest to insensible matter.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
4. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 58:

     ‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’ Williams shouted back. ‘It poaches in the soup. Not unlike an Italian stracciatella. Singularly toothsome...’

5. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.
6. (rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Usage notes

• (contented, joyous): Said of people, hours, times, thoughts, etc.
• (fortunate, lucky): Said of efforts, expedients, omens, ventures, etc.

Alternative forms

• happie (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (contented, joyous): cheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad, joyful, jubilant, merry, orgasmic
• (fortunate, lucky): fortunate, lucky, propitious
• See also Thesaurus:happy

Antonyms

• (contented, joyous): blue, depressed, down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, unhappy
• (fortunate, lucky): unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious
• (content, satisfied): disenchanted, dissatisfied
• (appropriate, apt): inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: happy
• ? Welsh: hapus (calque)
• ? Japanese: ????

Translations

Noun

happy (plural happies)

1. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Verb

happy (third-person singular simple present happies, present participle happying, simple past and past participle happied)

1. (intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
2. (transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Synonyms

• (to make happy): happify

Further reading

• Happy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English happy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?pi/

Adjective

happy (comparative happyer, superlative am happysten)

1. (colloquial, chiefly predicative) glad; satisfied; momentarily happy

Usage notes

• The German word is used as a synonym of froh (“glad, momentarily happy”) rather than glücklich (“happy, both momentarily and generally in life”).
• On the rare occasion that this adjective is used attributively, the positive form happy typically remains undeclined, whereas the comparation forms are declined in the normal fashion.