different between ledger vs ledged

English

Etymology

From Middle English lygger, ligger, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from leggen, liggen, leyen, variants of l?en (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English li??an (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??(?)
• Hyphenation: led?ger

Noun

ledger (plural ledgers)

1. A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
2. A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
   1. (cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
3. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
4. (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
5. (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

   Synonym: ligger
6. (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

Alternative forms

• leidger, leiger (obsolete)
• leger (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• distributed ledger
• nominal ledger
• sales ledger

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ledger (third-person singular simple present ledgers, present participle ledgering, simple past and past participle ledgered)

1. (transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
2. (transitive, fishing) To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
3. (intransitive, fishing) To engage in bottom fishing.

Alternative forms

• leger

Translations

See also

• book of original entry

Notes

References

Further reading

• ledger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ledger stone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ledger in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• gelder, red-leg, redleg

English

Etymology

ledge +? -ed

Adjective

ledged (not comparable)

1. Having a ledge or ledges.

Anagrams

• gelded