different between intervention vs meddle

English

Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventi?

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation: in?ter?ven?tion

Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)

1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
2. (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
3. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
4. (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• introvenient

Danish

Etymology

From Latin interventi?, from interveni? (“I intervene, come between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ent?rv?nsjo?n/, [ent??v?n??o??n]

Noun

intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

Inflection

Finnish

Noun

intervention

1. Genitive singular form of interventio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventi?, interventi?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

1. intervention

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)

1. intervention

Swedish

Noun

intervention c

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French mesler, meller, from Vulgar Latin *miscul?, from Latin misce? (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d.?l/, /?m?dl?/
• Rhymes: -?d?l
• Homophones: medal, metal, mettle (in accents with flapping)

Verb

meddle (third-person singular simple present meddles, present participle meddling, simple past and past participle meddled)

2. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. [from 14^thc.]

   • Why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt?

   • 1689, John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government

     The civil lawyers […] have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
3. (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
   • 1560, Geneva Bible, Thessalonians 4:11

     Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.

   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated

     The Pythagoreans who, as Aristotle says, were the first among the Greeks, that meddled with Mathematics

4. (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. [14^th-17^thc.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue […].

5. (intransitive, now US regional) To have sex. [from 14^thc.]

Synonyms

• (to interfere in or with): dabble, stick one's nose into, stick one's oar in
• (to mix): bemingle, combine, ming; see also Thesaurus:mix
• (to have sex): do it, get it on, ming; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• meddle and make
• meddlement
• meddlesome
• meddler

Translations

Anagrams

• melded