different between league vs correlate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege

English

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/, /?k???le?t/
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/, /?k???l?t/

Verb

correlate (third-person singular simple present correlates, present participle correlating, simple past and past participle correlated)

1. (transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
2. (intransitive) To be related by a correlation
   • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

     Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.

Translations

Noun

correlate (plural correlates)

1. Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.

Anagrams

• coral tree

Italian

Verb

correlate

1. second-person plural present indicative of correlare
2. second-person plural imperative of correlare
3. feminine plural of correlato