different between freestyle vs butterfly

English

Etymology

From free +? style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i??sta?l/

Noun

freestyle (countable and uncountable, plural freestyles)

1. A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
   1. (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
      1. (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
   2. (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
      1. (skiing, by extension) The skiing style commonly referred to as skating.
   3. (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
2. (skiing) Ellipsis of freestyle skiing
3. A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping.
4. Modifying programming code in production and quality assurance environments, violating the existing procedures for deploying it.

Translations

Derived terms

• Latin freestyle
• Miami freestyle

Verb

freestyle (third-person singular simple present freestyles, present participle freestyling, simple past and past participle freestyled)

1. (intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
2. (intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fri?st?i?l/, [?fri?s?t??i?l]
• Syllabification: free?style

Noun

freestyle

1. freestyle (sports event in which the participants can choose their own style, especially freestyle skiing)
2. freestyle (style of rapping)

Usage notes

• As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends "nalle" - category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows "risti" -category as if the word were spelled friistaili.

Declension

Synonyms

• (freestyle skiing): freestylehiihto

Portuguese

Noun

freestyle m (uncountable)

1. freestyle (form of rapping)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?istail/, [?f?is.t?ai?l]

Noun

freestyle m (uncountable)

1. freestyle

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?stajl/
• With a more or less English accent.

Noun

freestyle c

1. A walkman, a portable audio cassette player.
   • 1997, Annika Thor, Sanning eller konsekvens, Bonnier Carlsen (publ., 2009 ed.).

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English butorfl?oge, buttorfl?oge, buterfl?oge (from butere (“butter”)), equivalent to butter +? fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.

An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of b?atan (“to beat”).

Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t?(?)fla?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?b???fla?]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?b?t?fla?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

butterfly (plural butterflies)

2. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
3. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

5. (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
6. (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.

   I get terrible butterflies before an exam.

7. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.

Synonyms

• lep

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)

1. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

   butterflied shrimp

   Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.

2. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

See also

• caterpillar
• flutterby
• moth
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

Anagrams

• flutterby

Danish

Noun

butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)

1. bowtie

Inflection