different between junk vs permanent

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English junke (“old cable, rope”), probably from Old French jonc (“rush”), from Latin iuncus (“rush”). Doublet of junco and juncus.

Noun

junk (uncountable)

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
   • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7

     Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.

4. (slang) The genitalia, especially a man’s.
   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

     I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

     Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

     Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

5. (nautical) Salt beef.
   • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere

     My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

6. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
   • 1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

     Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
     An' gives a good-sized junk to all

8. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

9. Nonsense; gibberish

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trash
• Thesaurus:cameltoe
• Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw away.
2. (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Synonyms

• (throw away): bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

Etymology 2

From Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk (or reinforced), from Malay or Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong (“seagoing ship”), ultimately from Chinese.

Noun

junk (plural junks)

2. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

References

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Sappada) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• djung, jung, jungh

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Tredici Comuni) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian diunk, from Proto-Germanic *dinkwaz, variant of *dankwaz (“dark”). Compare with German dunkel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /j??k/

Adjective

junk

1. (Sylt) dark

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon jung

Adjective

junk (comparative jinja)

1. young

English

Etymology

Used in English since 15th century, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanens, from perman?o (“I stay through”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?m?n?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??m?n?nt/
• Hyphenation: per?ma?nent

Adjective

permanent (comparative more permanent, superlative most permanent)

1. Without end, eternal.

2. Lasting for an indefinitely long time.

Synonyms

• (without end): everlasting, neverending, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal or Thesaurus:endless
• (lasting for an indefinitely long time): durable, intransient; see also Thesaurus:lasting

Antonyms

• impermanent, temporary

Derived terms

Related terms

• permafrost
• permatemp

Translations

Noun

permanent (plural permanents)

1. A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
   • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 8:

     She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

2. (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an ${\displaystyle n\times n}$ matrix ${\displaystyle a_{ij}\,}$, the sum over all permutations ${\displaystyle \pi \,}$ of ${\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i\pi (i)}}}$.
3. (collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.

Translations

See also

• determinant
• ephemeral
• relaxer
• temporary

Verb

permanent (third-person singular simple present permanents, present participle permanenting, simple past and past participle permanented)

1. (transitive, dated) To perm (the hair).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Petermann, merpentan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p??.m??nent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?r.m??nen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pe?.ma?nent/

Adjective

permanent (masculine and feminine plural permanents)

1. permanent

Related terms

• permanència
• permanentment

Further reading

• “permanent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin permanentem (accusative of permanens).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.ma.n??/

Adjective

permanent (feminine singular permanente, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

Derived terms

• ordre permanent

Noun

permanent m (plural permanents)

1. (mathematics) permanent

Related terms

• permanence
• impermanent

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French permanent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ma?n?nt/

Adjective

permanent (not comparable)

1. permanent

Declension

Adverb

permanent

1. permanently, incessantly

Synonyms

• ständig, unaufhörlich

Further reading

• “permanent” in Duden online

Ladin

Alternative forms

• permanënt

Adjective

permanent m (feminine singular permanenta, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

Latin

Verb

permanent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of permane?

Middle French

Adjective

permanent m (feminine singular permanente, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin permanens

Adjective

permanent (neuter singular permanent, definite singular and plural permanente)

1. permanent
2. (as an adverb) permanently

References

• “permanent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin permanens

Adjective

permanent (neuter singular permanent, definite singular and plural permanente)

1. permanent

References

• “permanent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French permanent

Adjective

permanent m or n (feminine singular permanent?, masculine plural permanen?i, feminine and neuter plural permanente)

1. permanent

Declension