different between incantation vs chant

English

Alternative forms

• encantation

Etymology

From Old French incantation, from Latin incantatio. More at enchant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkæn?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incantation (plural incantations)

1. The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
2. A formula of words used as above.
3. (computing, slang) Any esoteric command or procedure.
   • 1998, John Purcell, Robert Kiesling, Linux: The Complete Reference: Book 1 (page 412)

     The appropriate incantation of route is shown below; the gw keyword tells it that the next argument denotes a gateway.

   • 2017, James Pogran, Learning PowerShell DSC (page 11)

     Servers move from being special snowflakes to being disposable numbers on a list that can be created and destroyed without requiring someone to remember the specific incantation to make it work.

Related terms

• incanter

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin incant?ti?. Synchronically analysable as incanter +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??.ta.sj??/

Noun

incantation f (plural incantations)

1. incantation

Related terms

• enchanter

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) chaunt

Etymology

From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cant?, cant?re (“to sing”). Doublet of cant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t????nt/, /t??ænt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t??ænt/
• Rhymes: -??nt, -ænt

Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

   The football fans chanted insults at the referee.

   • 2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, p 116 [1]

     On their way to Parliament Square, the demonstrators chanted slogans, sang the Hungarian national anthem, and waved banners and Hungarian flags (minus the hated Communist emblem).

4. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Translations

Noun

chant (plural chants)

1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
2. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
4. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• natch

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

chant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
2. imperative of chanten

Anagrams

• nacht

French

Etymology

From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. song
2. The discipline of singing

Synonyms

• (song): chanson

Related terms

• chanter

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chant.

Noun

chant m (plural chants or chants)

1. song

Descendants

• French: chant

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French chant.

Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. (Jersey) song

Synonyms

• chanson

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

chant m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)

1. song

Synonyms

• chançon

Descendants

• Middle French: chant
  • French: chant

Romansch

Verb

chant

1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ant/

Noun

chant

1. Aspirate mutation of cant.

Mutation