different between inch vs paddle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynce, borrowed from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”). Doublet of ounce.

Noun

inch (plural inches)

1. A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
2. (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
3. The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
4. (figuratively) A very short distance.

   "Don't move an inch!"

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (inchi)
• ? Korean: ?? (inchi)

Translations

Verb

inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)

1. (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).

   Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.

   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:

     The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
2. To drive by inches, or small degrees.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.

3. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• thou
• mil

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic innis

Noun

inch (plural inches)

1. (Scotland) A small island

Usage notes

• Found especially in the names of small Scottish islands, e.g. Inchcolm, Inchkeith.

Anagrams

• Ch'in, Chin, chin, ichn-

Middle English

Noun

inch

1. Alternative form of ynche

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædl?/, /?pæ.d?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?p?æ.???]
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from ????? (p?dós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

Alternative forms

• paidle (obsolete)

Noun

paddle (plural paddles)

1. A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
2. A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
3. Time spent on paddling.

4. A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
5. A paddlewheel.
6. A blade of a waterwheel.
7. (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
8. (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
9. A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
10. A bat-shaped spanking implement.

11. A ping pong bat.

    Synonym: racket

12. A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.

13. In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
14. A group of inerts.
15. A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
16. (slang) hand
17. (sports) Alternative form of padel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: paddel, padle

Translations

See also

• oar

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
   • while paddling ducks the standing lake desire

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX

     Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe […]

2. (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
3. (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
4. To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
5. To tread upon; to trample.

Translations

Etymology 2

Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
2. To toddle.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

Translations

Further reading

• paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Verb

paddle

1. inflection of paddeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative