different between firedog vs colocar

English

Alternative forms

• fire dog

Etymology

fire +? dog

Noun

firedog (plural firedogs)

1. (archaeology) A Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.
2. (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.

Synonyms

• (support for holding logs): andiron

Translations

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of colloc? (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

Verb

colocar (first-person singular indicative present coloco, past participle colocáu)

1. to put, place
2. to tidy, tidy up

Conjugation

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• collocar (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of colloc? (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.lu.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.lo.?ka(?)/, [kö.l?ö.?kä(?)]

Verb

colocar (first-person singular present indicative coloco, past participle colocado)

1. (transitive) to place; to put

   Synonyms: pôr (more formal), botar (informal)

   Antonyms: tirar, retirar

2. (transitive) to put [in a situation]

   Synonyms: pôr, deixar

3. (transitive) to hire; to employ

   Synonyms: empregar (more common), contratar (more common)

4. (transitive) to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)

   Synonyms: investir (more common), aplicar (more common)

5. (usually takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with em or entre (with a plural object)) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)

   Synonym: ganhar

6. (transitive) to put forth [a question]

7. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of colocar
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of colocar
9. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of colocar
10. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of colocar

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:colocar.

Derived terms

References

• LUFT, Celso Pedro. Microdicionário de língua portuguesa Luft. São Paulo, Brazil: Ática, 2000. ?ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of colloc? (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar. Cognate with English collocate and couch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo?ka?/, [ko.lo?ka?]

Verb

colocar (first-person singular present coloco, first-person singular preterite coloqué, past participle colocado)

1. to place
2. to put

   Synonym: poner

3. to get in

4. (reflexive, slang) to take drugs
5. (transitive, slang) to intoxicate (stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• colocación