different between lecture vs scald

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of leg? (“I read, I recite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?k.t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?k.t???/

Noun

lecture (plural lectures)

2. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

3. (by extension) a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1) [usually at college or university]

4. A berating or scolding.

5. (obsolete) The act of reading.

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Verb

lecture (third-person singular simple present lectures, present participle lecturing, simple past and past participle lectured)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

3. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Derived terms

• lecturer

Related terms

• analects
• lectern
• lection
• lesson

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Anagrams

• truecel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin l?ct?ra, feminine of Classical Latin l?ct?rus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k.ty?/

Noun

lecture f (plural lectures)

1. reading (act or process of reading, interpretation, material read, and some other senses)

Derived terms

Related terms

• lecteur
• leçon
• lire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• lecteur

Latin

Participle

l?ct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of l?ct?rus

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, /sk?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“hot”)

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. To burn with hot liquid.

   to scald the hand

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song

References

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?lda