different between haste vs sharpness
haste
English
Etymology
Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian h?st, h?ste (“haste”), Old English h?st (“violence”), Old English h?ste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt (“feud”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig (“vehement”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /he?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
Noun
haste (uncountable)
- Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
- The king's business required haste.
- (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
- I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
- (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
Synonyms
- (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry
References
Anagrams
- ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat
Basque
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /(?)as?.te/
Noun
haste inan
- Verbal noun of hasi.
Declension
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ast?]
- Rhymes: -ast?
Verb
haste (imperative)
- second-person plural imperative of hasit
Esperanto
Adverb
haste
- hastily
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hast?/
- Hyphenation: has?te
- Homophone: hasste
Verb
haste
- inflection of hasten:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
- (colloquial) contraction of hast du
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative hast)
- Alternative form of hasta
Old French
Alternative forms
- hast, ast
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”)
Noun
haste f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)
- urgency, haste, speed
Derived terms
- haster
- hasteier
- hastece, hastance
- hastif
Descendants
- Middle French: haste
- French: hâte
- Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
- ? Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing)
- Dutch: haast
- Afrikaans: haas
- ? West Flemish: hoast
- ? Middle Low German: h?st
- Middle High German: h?st
- German: Hast
- Middle High German: h?st
- Dutch: haast
- ? Middle English: haste, hast
- English: haste
References
Portuguese
Etymology
From hasta.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?a?t?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ast?i/
Noun
haste f (plural hastes)
- pole
- (botany) stem, stalk
Derived terms
- hastear
Further reading
- “haste” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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sharpness
English
Etymology
From Middle English sharpnesse, scharpnesse, from Old English s?earpnes (“sharpness”), equivalent to sharp +? -ness.
Noun
sharpness (countable and uncountable, plural sharpnesses)
- (uncountable) the cutting ability of an edge; keenness
- (uncountable) the fineness of the point a pointed object
- (countable) The product or result of being sharp.
- (of food etc) pungency or acidity
- (of an image) distinctness, focus
- (of intelligence) acuteness or acuity
- (obsolete) edge or blade
Synonyms
- (cutting ability of an edge): keenness
- (fineness of a point):
- (pungency, acidity): acidity, acridity, piquancy, pungency, sourness
- (of an image): clarity, distinctness, focus
- (of intelligence): acuteness, acuity
Translations
See also
- (of an image): acutance
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