different between gerbe vs fountain

English

Etymology

Late 16th century, from French gerbe, from Frankish garba or garbe. Doublet of garb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???b/

Noun

gerbe (plural gerbes)

1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (mathematics) An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf.
4. (pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe

French

Etymology

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French garbe, jarbe, from Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b/

Noun

gerbe f (plural gerbes)

1. (agriculture) sheaf (of wheat)
2. spray, bouquet (of flowers)
3. collection, anthology (of pieces of literature)
4. (heraldry) garb
5. (historical) tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime
6. (slang) puke, throw up (vomit)

Descendants

• ? English: gerbe

Verb

gerbe

1. first-person singular present indicative of gerber
2. third-person singular present indicative of gerber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
5. second-person singular imperative of gerber

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• berge

German

Verb

gerbe

1. inflection of gerben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n.tn?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?fa?n.?n?]

Noun

fountain (plural fountains)

1. (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
2. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
3. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
4. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
5. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:

     Nothing will plea?e ?ome Men, but Books ?tuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.

6. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
7. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
8. (US) A soda fountain.
   • 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)

     He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.

9. (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
10. A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
11. (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.

Synonyms

• fount
• wellspring
• (heraldry) syke

Derived terms

Related terms

• font

Translations

Verb

fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)

1. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices

     The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.

Translations

References

Further reading

• fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• infonaut