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gravity

English

Etymology

16th century, learned borrowing from Latin gravit?s (weight) (compare French gravité), from gravis (heavy). Doublet of gravitas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???æv?ti/
  • Hyphenation: grav?i?ty

Noun

gravity (countable and uncountable, plural gravities)

  1. The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
  2. The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
  3. (music) The lowness of a note.
  4. (physics) Force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
  5. (in casual discussion, also) Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
  6. (physics) Specific gravity.

Synonyms

  • weightfulness
  • The state or condition of being grave: graveness, seriousness

Derived terms

  • anti-gravity
  • centre of gravity
  • gravitation
  • graviton
  • gravity-assist
  • gravity drag
  • gravity turn
  • gravity wave
  • microgravity
  • quantum gravity
  • zero gravity

Translations

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “gravity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
  • Gravitation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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interest

English

Alternative forms

  • enterest (obsolete)
  • interess (obsolete)
  • intherest (pronunciation spelling, suggesting an Irish accent)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt??st/
  • Hyphenation: in?ter?est

Noun

interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)

  1. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]
  2. (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
      You shall have your desires with interest
  3. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
  4. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  5. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
  6. (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.
  7. (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
    • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
      The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
  8. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  9. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

Synonyms

  • (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed): cost of money, oker

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)

  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
    It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
    Action films don't really interest me.
  2. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
    • 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
      Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
  3. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
    • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
      The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.

Antonyms

  • bore
  • disinterest

Derived terms

  • interested
  • interesting

Translations

Further reading

  • "interest" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 171.

Anagrams

  • Steinert, ernstite, inertest, insetter, interset, sternite, tres-tine, trientes

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • interesse (obsolete)
  • intrest

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of interesse.

Pronunciation

Noun

interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje n)

  1. (finance) interest

Synonyms

  • rente

Latin

Verb

interest

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of intersum

References

  • interest in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • interest in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • interest in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Noun

interest m (plural interests)

  1. interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)

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