different between impart vs mutter

English

Etymology

From Middle English imparten, borrowed from Middle French impartir, empartir, from Late Latin imparti?, imperti?, from im- (“in”) + Latin parti? (“divide”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p???t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

impart (third-person singular simple present imparts, present participle imparting, simple past and past participle imparted)

1. (transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).

2. (transitive) To give a part or to share.

   Synonyms: bequeath, bestow, give; see also Thesaurus:give

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, line 440

     Expressing well the spirit within thee [Adam] free, / My [God's] image, not imparted to the brute.
3. (transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).

   Synonyms: disclose, tell; see also Thesaurus:announce, Thesaurus:inform

   • 1662, John Dryden, letter to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

     Well may he then to you his cares impart.
4. (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
5. (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
   • c. 1587 Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber

     Sweet Cossen, what we may not now impart, heere let vs bury it, closely in our hart

Translations

References

• impart at OneLook Dictionary Search
• impart in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Primat, arm pit, armpit

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: mut?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin. Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin mutt?re, mut?re.

Noun

mutter (plural mutters)

1. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

   The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.

Translations

Verb

mutter (third-person singular simple present mutters, present participle muttering, simple past and past participle muttered)

1. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

   You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.

   The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
2. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

   The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
3. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

   April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.

Synonyms

• (speak under one's breath): growl, grumble, mumble
• (speak incoherently): babble, mumble, murmur, ramble, stutter
• (make a low sound): growl, putter, rumble
• See also Thesaurus:mutter

Derived terms

• mutterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (ma?ar)

Alternative forms

• matar

Noun

mutter

1. (Indian cuisine) Peas.

Derived terms

• mutter paneer

Danish

Etymology

From German Mutter (“mother”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t?r/, [?m?d??], /mut?r/, [?mud??]

Noun

mutter c (singular definite mutteren, not used in plural form)

1. mommy, mummy, ma
2. old woman
3. missus

References

• “mutter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From a Germanic language, compare Finnish mutteri.

Noun

mutter (genitive mutri, partitive mutrit)

1. nut (that screws onto a bolt)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Mutter

Noun

mutter m (definite singular mutteren, indefinite plural muttere or mutre or mutrer, definite plural mutterne or mutrene)

1. a nut (for bolts)

   skrue og mutter - nut and bolt

References

• “mutter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Mutter

Noun

mutter m (definite singular mutteren, indefinite plural mutterar or mutrar, definite plural mutterane or mutrane)

1. a nut (for bolts)

References

• “mutter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From or at least cognate to German Mutter.

Noun

mutter c

1. a nut (for bolts)

Declension

Noun

mutter n (uncountable)

1. mutter; obscure utterance

Declension