different between leeway vs liberty

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??we?]
• Rhymes: -i?we?

Noun

leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)

1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.

   Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom

   • 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,^[1]

     Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
3. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Related terms

• lee
• leeward

Translations

References

• “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?b?ti/

Noun

liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)

1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.

3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
4. Freedom from excessive government control.
5. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.

6. (often plural) A breach of social convention.

7. A local division of government administration in medieval England.
8. (game of Go) an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

Synonyms

• freedom

Derived terms

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Further reading

• liberty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Liberty in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• liberty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Liberty (division) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Birtley, Tribley

Italian

Noun

liberty m (invariable)

1. art nouveau