different between heed vs respect

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 Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respici? (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speci? (“to see”). Doublet of respite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sp?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: re?spect

Noun

respect (countable and uncountable, plural respects)

1. (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

   Synonyms: deference, esteem, consideration, regard, fealty, reverence, aught

2. (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration

   Synonyms: admiration, esteem, reverence, regard, recognition, veneration, honor

3. (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

4. (countable) a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:

     In our two loves there is but one respect

   Synonyms: aspect, dimension, face, facet, side

5. Good will; favor
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 2:25:

     And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "respect": great, high, utmost, absolute

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• respective

Translations

Verb

respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)

1. To have respect for.

2. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

3. To abide by an agreement.

4. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
5. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
   • 1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany:

     Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
6. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
7. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (to have respect for): esteem, honor, revere, venerate
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): esteem, value
• (to abide by an agreement): honor

Antonyms

• (to have respect for): contemn, despect (verb) (archaic), despise, dis, diss, disrespect (verb)
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): belittle, ignore, neglect, slight

Translations

Interjection

respect

1. (Jamaican) hello, hi

References

• respect at OneLook Dictionary Search
• respect in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• respect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• respect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Sceptre, recepts, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French respect, from Old French respect, from Latin respectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?s?p?kt/, /r??sp?kt/
• Hyphenation: res?pect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect

   Synonym: eerbied

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: respek
• ? Indonesian: respek

French

Etymology

From Latin respectus. Doublet of répit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.p?/

Noun

respect m (plural respects)

1. respect

Derived terms

• avec tout le respect que je vous dois
• respecter
• respectueux
• sauf votre respect
• tenir en respect

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• spectre

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• respeck

Etymology

From English respect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?sp?k/
• Hyphenation: res?pect

Interjection

respect

1. greetings, hello, hi
   • (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

2. bye, goodbye
   • (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

See also

• guidance
• manners
• protection

Noun

respect

1. respect

   Synonym: ratings

Derived terms

• respect due

Verb

respect

1. respect

   Synonym: rate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French respect, Latin respectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /res?pekt/

Noun

respect n (uncountable)

1. respect, consideration, deference, esteem, regard

   Synonym: stim?

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• respect in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)