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league
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)
- 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.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- 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)
- 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)
- (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.
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- 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
league From the web:
- = 5.55600 kilometers
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unit
English
Etymology
Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju?.n?t/
- Rhymes: -u?n?t
Noun
unit (plural units)
- (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. [from 16th c.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall S?me, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
- The number one.
- Clipping of international unit.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
- (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
- (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
- (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
- (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
- Hypernym: regular element
- (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
- (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
- (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
- (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
- (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
- (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- A work unit.
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
- 2018, 11 December, BBC News, Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury
- Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
Mr Campanaro added: "He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant."
- Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
- 2018, 11 December, BBC News, Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury
Synonyms
- (identity element): identity element, unity, unit element
Hyponyms
- (chip): arithmetic logic unit
Translations
Adjective
unit (not comparable)
- For each unit.
- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 9:
- Consider the following time sequence
- ,
- where is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval independent of .
- Consider the following time sequence
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 9:
Translations
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- unit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- unit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- uint
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /u?nit/
- Rhymes: -it
Adjective
unit (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
- united
Derived terms
- Emirats Àrabs Units
- Estats Units
- Estats Units d'Amèrica
- Regne Unit
Verb
unit m (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
- past participle of unir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.ni/
Verb
unit
- third-person singular present indicative of unir
- third-person singular past historic of unir
Anagrams
- nuit
Indonesian
Etymology
From English unit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??n?t?]
- Hyphenation: unit
Noun
unit (first-person possessive unitku, second-person possessive unitmu, third-person possessive unitnya)
- unit:
- (mathematics) oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
- Synonym: satuan
- (sciences) a standard measure of a quantity.
- (mathematics) oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
Classifier
unit
- Classifier for singularity.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “unit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Verb
?nit
- third-person singular present active indicative of ?ni?
Occitan
Pronunciation
Verb
unit
- past participle of unir
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [u?nit]
Participle
unit
- past participle of uni
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
- unet (colloquial)
- unset (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /???n?t/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?i?n?t/, /??n?t/
Verb
unit
- (literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of uno
Mutation
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