different between knack vs endowment
knack
English
Etymology
Use as "special skill" from 1580. Possibly from 14th century Middle English krak (“a sharp blow”), knakke, knakken, from Middle Low German, by onomatopoeia. Latter cognate to German knacken (“to crack”). See also crack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /næk/
- Audio (UK)
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
knack (plural knacks)
- A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something. [from 1580]
- Synonyms: skill, facility, dexterity
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 254a.
- The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
- A petty contrivance; a toy.
- Synonyms: plaything, knickknack, toy
- Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity. [from mid 14th c.]
- Synonyms: trick, device
Derived terms
- knackless
Translations
Verb
knack (third-person singular simple present knacks, present participle knacking, simple past and past participle knacked)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
- To speak affectedly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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endowment
English
Etymology
From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
- (US) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
Noun
endowment (plural endowments)
- Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
- 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.
- 1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association:
- We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
- 1985, Jonas Salk, Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):
- What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.
- 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
- Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
- 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- 1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
- 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:
- (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
- (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
Synonyms
- (something with which a person or thing is endowed): gift
Derived terms
- endowment mortgage
Related terms
- endow
Translations
Middle English
Noun
endowment
- Alternative form of endowement
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