different between ligation vs liaison

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ligatio, ligationis, from Latin ligo. Doublet of liaison.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

ligation (countable and uncountable, plural ligations)

1. Something that ties, a ligature.
2. The act of tying, of applying a ligature.
3. The state of having a ligature, of being tied.
4. (medicine) The act of tying off or sealing a blood vessel or fallopian tube during surgery.
5. (chemistry) The formation of a complex by reaction with a ligand.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• intaglio, logitian, taglioni

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin lig?ti? (stem ligation-) (English ligation), derived from lig? (“I bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”). Doublet of ligation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?z?n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /li?e?.z??/, /li?e?.z?n/, /li?e?.z(?)n/, (nonstandard) /la??e?.z?n/, /la??e?.z?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /li.?e?.z?n/, /li.?e?.s?n/, (nonstandard) /?la?.?.s?n/

Noun

liaison (countable and uncountable, plural liaisons)

1. Communication between two parties or groups.
2. Co-operation, working together.
3. A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
4. A tryst, romantic meeting.
5. (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
6. (linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".

   Hypernym: sandhi

Related terms

• liaise
• ligation

Translations

Verb

liaison (third-person singular simple present liaisons, present participle liaisoning, simple past and past participle liaisoned)

1. (proscribed) To liaise.

Anagrams

• isolani

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin lig?ti?, lig?ti?nem, derived from Latin lig? (“bind”), or formed from lier +? -aison based on the Latin word. Compare also Old Occitan liazó, liazon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lj?.z??/

Noun

liaison f (plural liaisons)

1. link, bond
2. friendship
3. liaison (romantic encounter)
4. liaison (communication)
5. (linguistics) liaison (phonological phenomenon)
6. (chemistry) bond

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

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