different between heed vs discrimination

English

Etymology

From Middle English h?den, from Old English h?dan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: he'd

Noun

heed (uncountable)

1. Careful attention.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

Usage notes

• Often used with give, pay or take.

Synonyms

• (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention

Translations

Verb

heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)

1. (obsolete) To guard, protect.
2. (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
   • 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1

     With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.

   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):

     Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.

Translations

Anagrams

• ehed, hede

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?afod, from Proto-Germanic *haubud? (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??d/, /?h?v?d/, /?h??v?d/, /?h?vd/, /?h??vd/

Noun

heed (plural heedes)

1. head (top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck):
   1. The place where one's head rests (on a bed or when buried)
   2. That which covers the head; headwear or hair.
   3. The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
   4. horns, antlers (of a cervid)
2. The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
   1. boss, leader, executive
   2. capital city
3. start, origin
   1. The topmost end of a body of water or a geographical feature.
   2. One of the lengthwise ends of a geographic feature having more length than width.
   3. headwater
   4. The top end or peak of something; the uppermost point of something.
   5. The outermost extremity, point or projection of something.
4. The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
5. A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
6. One's ability to live (presumably as decapitation kills)
7. impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
8. (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
9. (rare) military force or troop

Alternative forms

• hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
• heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
• hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (early)

Related terms

• forheed
• heedles
• hoggeshed
• spere-hed

Adjective

heed

1. head

Descendants

• English: head
• Scots: heid
• Yola: haade, heade

References

• p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
• “h?d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.

Etymology 2

Noun

heed (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hed (“heed”)

Etymology 3

Verb

heed

1. Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)

English

Etymology

From Latin discr?min?ti?, discr?min?ti?nem, the action noun to discr?min?, discr?min?re (“distinguish”).

Learned Latinism in English use from the 17th century.Morphologically discriminate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?sk??m??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

discrimination (countable and uncountable, plural discriminations)

1. Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions.
2. The act of recognizing the 'good' and 'bad' in situations and choosing good.
3. (sometimes discrimination against) Distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.

   Hyponyms: heterosexism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, classism, religionism, homophobia

4. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• stereotype
• bias
• racism

French

Etymology

From Latin discrim?nati?, discrim?nati?nem. Synchronically, from discriminer +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.k?i.mi.na.sj??/
• Rhymes: -asj??

Noun

discrimination f (plural discriminations)

1. discrimination, distinction

Related terms

• discriminatoire

Further reading

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