different between gathering vs corps

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ.ð?.???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather +? -ing (verbal noun ending).

Noun

gathering (plural gatherings)

1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

2. A group of people or things.

3. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

4. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Translations

Further reading

• gathering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Section (bookbinding) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English gaderynge, equivalent to gather +? -ing (present participle ending).

Verb

gathering

1. present participle of gather

Adjective

gathering (not comparable)

1. That gathers together

Derived terms

• data-gathering
• evidence-gathering

Anagrams

• nightgear

English

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?z/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

1. plural of corp

Anagrams

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?r/
• Hyphenation: corps

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)

Derived terms

• corpsbal
• corpslid
• studentencorps

French

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: cor, cors

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

• Karipúna Creole French: kó
• ? Danish: korps
• ? English: corps
• ? Dutch: corps, korps
• ? German: Korps
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
• ? Swedish: kår

Further reading

• “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• porcs