different between injury vs airbag

English

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin ini?ria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + i?s, i?ris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/

Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a human or animal.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

3. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

See also

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

Verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

Further reading

• injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ry?jin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie

English

Etymology

From air +? bag.

Pronunciation

Noun

airbag (plural airbags)

1. (automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
2. A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
   • 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students (page 1030)

     As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.

3. (slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /???r.b??/
• Hyphenation: air?bag

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags, diminutive airbagje n)

1. An airbag.

   Synonym: botsballon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ba?/

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
2. (in the plural, slang) knockers, tits

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Noun

airbag m (invariable)

1. airbag (protective system)

Anagrams

• garbai

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.?b?.?i/

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag

Spanish

Alternative forms

• air bag

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??ba?/, [e????a??]

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
   • 1997, Jesús Calvo Martín, Mecánica del automóvil actual, Reverte (?ISBN), page 218:

Further reading

• “airbag” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From English airbag

Noun

airbag c

1. an airbag

Declension

Synonyms

• krockkudde

Anagrams

• braiga