different between goat vs window

English

Etymology

From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English g?t, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t/, /???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?t/, [?o??(t?)], [?o?(?)t?]
• Rhymes: -??t
• (Scotland, Canada, North-East England) IPA^(key): /?o?t/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /????t/

Noun

goat (plural goats)

1. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
   1. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

2. (slang) A lecherous man.
3. (informal) A scapegoat.
   • 2008, "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008

     Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.

   • 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas

     Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.

4. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
5. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
6. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.

Synonyms

• (lecherous man): See also Thesaurus:libertine
• (scapegoat): See also Thesaurus:scapegoat

Holonyms

• (group of goats): tribe, herd

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
• ? Marshallese: koot
• ? Rotokas: goti

Translations

See also

• chevon
• ewe
• herd
• hircine
• kid
• ram
• tribe
• Appendix:collective nouns objects-G

Verb

goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)

1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
   • 1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51

     Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously

2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
   • 2001, "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today, July 15, 2001

     John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save

Anagrams

• gato, Gøta, Toga, atgo, toga, TOGA

West Frisian

Noun

goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje)

1. Alternative form of goate

English

Etymology

From Middle English windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole”), i.e. ("air-hole"), equivalent to wind +? eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (“window”), Faroese vindeyga (“window”), Norwegian Nynorsk vindauga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu (“window”), Danish vindue (“window”), Swedish vindöga (“window”), Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?). Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nd??/
• (US) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?ndo?/, [?w???o?]
• (some accents) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: win?dow

Noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p.173:

     A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
3. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. A period of time when something is available.
5. A restricted range.
   • 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)

     In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.

6. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
   • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery

     till he has windows on his bread and butter

8. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
9. (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)

Coordinate terms

• door

Derived terms

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Verb

window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.