different between import vs merit

English

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?m?pôt, IPA^(key): /??m.p??t/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?pôrt, IPA^(key): /??m.p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?m?p?rt, IPA^(key): /??m.po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??m.po?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?mpôt?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (General American) enPR: ?mpôrt?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?mp?rt?, IPA^(key): /?m?po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin import? (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + port? (“I carry, bear; convey”).

Noun

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

1. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
2. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
3. (uncountable) Significance, importance.

4. (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

Synonyms

• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

Antonyms

• (practice of importing): export
• (something brought in from a foreign country): export
• insignificance

Translations

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

   Antonym: export

2. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

   Antonym: export

   How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin import?.

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury

     See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.

2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
   • If I endure it, what imports it you?

3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England:

     It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
   • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:

     It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.

6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mport]

Noun

import m inan

1. import

   Synonym: dovoz

   Antonyms: export, vývoz

Related terms

• importér
• importní
• importovat

Dutch

Etymology

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.p?rt/
• Hyphenation: im?port

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

1. Geographical import.
2. (Netherlands, collective) A person or people who is/are not native to a city, village or region, but moved there from outside.

Synonyms

• (import): invoer

Antonyms

• (import): export, uitvoer

Derived terms

• importbruid
• importgoederen
• importhandel

Related terms

• importeur

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: impor
• ? West Frisian: ymport

French

Noun

import m (plural imports)

1. Geographical import

Derived terms

• importeur m

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?import]
• Hyphenation: im?port
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

import (plural importok)

1. import

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English or German

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importer, definite plural importene)

1. import

Related terms

• importere

References

• “import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English or German

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importar, definite plural importane)

1. import

References

• “import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English import, from Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin import?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im.p?rt/

Noun

import m inan

1. (economics) import (act of importing)

   Antonym: eksport

2. (economics) import (something brought in from a foreign country)

   Antonym: eksport

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) importowa?, zaimportowa?
• (adjective) importowy

Related terms

• (noun) importer

Further reading

• import in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• import in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from importa

Noun

import n (plural importuri)

1. import

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English import, from Latin importare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mport/
• Hyphenation: i?mport

Noun

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. import (practice of importing)
2. An import (something brought in from a foreign country)

Declension

References

• “import” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

import c

1. import

Declension

Synonyms

• införsel

Antonyms

• export

Related terms

• importera
• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right; deserving, meritorious”), perfect passive participle of mere? (“to deserve, earn, obtain, merit; to earn a living”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot, assign”). The English word is probably cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “component, part; portion, share; destiny, fate, lot”) and cognate with Old Occitan merit.

The verb is derived from Middle French meriter, Old French meriter (“to deserve, merit”) (modern French mériter), from merite: see further above. The word is cognate with Italian meritare (“to deserve, merit; to be worth; to earn”), Latin merit?re (“to earn regularly; to serve as a soldier”), Spanish meritar (“to deserve, merit; to earn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?r??t, IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
• Rhymes: -???t
• Hyphenation: me?rit

Noun

merit (countable and uncountable, plural merits)

1. (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
2. (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.

   Antonym: demerit
3. (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.

   Synonyms: excellence, value, worth

   Antonym: demerit
4. (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
5. (uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
6. (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)

1. (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
2. (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
3. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• merit (Buddhism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (Catholicism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• merit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• merit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• merit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Terim, ermit, miter, mitre, remit, timer

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin meritum.

Pronunciation

Noun

merit m (plural meric)

1. merit

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?merit]

Etymology 1

From French mérite.

Noun

merit n (plural merite)

1. merit

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

merit

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of merita