different between inkling vs comprehension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???kl??/
• Hyphenation: inkl?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English ningkiling, nyngkiling (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), and then either:

• possibly a variant of nikking, nyckyng (“hint, slight indication; mention, whisper”), possibly from nikken (“to mark (a text) for correction (?)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs); or
• from inklen (“to mention (in a low voice); to tell (the truth)”) [and other forms] + -ing, -inge; inklen may be derived from inca, inke (“dread, fear; doubt; danger, risk (?)”), from Old English inca (“doubt, uncertainty; suspicion; fear; cause for complaint, grievance, grudge, ill-will, offence; quarrel; occasion, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache; grief; regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng-, *yen?- (“illness”). The English word would then be analysable as inkle +? -ing.

Sense 3 (“desire, inclination”) may have been influenced by incline (“to tend to believe or do something”) or French enclin (“inclined, prone”).

Noun

inkling (plural inklings)

1. Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given.

   Synonym: intimation
2. Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.
3. (Britain, dialectal) A desire, an inclination.

Translations

Etymology 2

From inkle +? -ing.

Verb

inkling

1. present participle of inkle

References

Anagrams

• kilning, klining, linking

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensi? (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) +? prehend? (“take”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?n?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?n?n?/

Noun

comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)

1. thorough understanding
2. (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
3. (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
4. (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.

Synonyms

• understanding

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