different between incision vs bay

English

Etymology

From Middle English incision, from Old French incision, from Late Latin incisi? from the verb incid? (“I cut into”) + action noun suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

incision (countable and uncountable, plural incisions)

1. A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;

     Let’s purge this choler without letting blood:

     This we prescribe, though no physician;

     Deep malice makes too deep incision;

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 33,^[2]

     Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must “stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision.”

   • 1999, Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, Chapter 28, p. 470,^[3]

     In the midst of the men a black upright stove sends out its heat. On the glowing holes at the top Ya‘qub Artin has carefully placed some chestnuts, each with a neat incision in its side.

2. The act of cutting into a substance.
   • 1539, Thomas Elyot (compiler), The Castel of Helthe, London, Book 3, Chapter 6,^[4]

     The parte of Euacuation by lettyng of blud, is incision or cuttyng of the vayne, wherby the bloud, whiche is cause of syckenes or grefe to the hole body, or any particular part therof, doth most aptly passe.

   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, London, pp. 94-95,^[5]

     Never considering […] that these miseries of the people are still his own handy work, having smitt’n them like a forked Arrow so sore into the Kingdoms side, as not to be drawn out and cur’d without the incision of more flesh.

   • 1800, William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture, London: T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, Epistle 4, p. 89,^[6]

     Mnesarchus, early as a sculptor known,

     From nice incision of the costly stone,

   • 1964, William Trevor, The Old Boys, Penguin, 2014, Chapter 21,^[7]

     Slowly, as meticulously as if engaged upon a surgical incision, Mr Nox opened his mail.

3. (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
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Translations

Anagrams

• inosinic

French

Etymology

First known attestation 1314 in the French translation of Chirurgie by Henri de Mondeville. Learned borrowing from Latin incisi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.si.zj??/

Noun

incision f (plural incisions)

1. (medicine, general use) incision

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

   • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations

     The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (rail transport) A bay platform.
7. A bay window.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

   • Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.

   • The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

Etymology 5

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Derived terms

• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• En

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

2. A horse of this color.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Quotations

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

Translations

See also

• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

Anagrams

• Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

1. an address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Compare balay.

Noun

bay

1. a house

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Mutation

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Declension

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varl?kl? (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• zü?ürt (poor)

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).

Verb

bay • (????, ????)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (????)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay cho?a ?e?e
• güex?oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5