different between literature vs business

English

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Alternative forms

• literatuer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English b?ccræft.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.??.t??(?)/, /?l?.t??.t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t???.t??/, /?l?.t?.t??/
• (Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.t??/

Noun

literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)

1. The body of all written works.
2. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
3. (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

   • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
4. Written fiction of a high standard.

   However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

Derived terms

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:literature

Related terms

• letter
• literal
• literacy
• literate
• literary

Translations

Further reading

• "literature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 183.

Anagrams

• literateur, literatuer

English

Etymology

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisi?nes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +? -ness. Doublet of busyness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /?b?d.n?s/, /?b?d.n?z/
• Hyphenation: busi?ness

Noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

1. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
2. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

3. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

4. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
5. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

6. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
7. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

8. (countable) A particular situation or activity.

9. (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
10. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.

11. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

12. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
13. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
14. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
15. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

16. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

17. (uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pidgin

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

business

1. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

2. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
3. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

• business at OneLook Dictionary Search
• business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• business in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Noun

business m

1. business

Declension

Further reading

• business in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• business in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bisnes/, [?bis?ne?s?]
• IPA^(key): /?pisnes/, [?pis?ne?s?]
• IPA^(key): /?busines?/, [?bus?ine?s??]

Noun

business

1. Alternative spelling of bisnes

Usage notes

It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.

Declension

This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.

Pronunciation "bisnes":

Pronunciation "business":

Synonyms

• See Synonyms-section under bisnes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biz.n?s/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [b?z.n?s]

Noun

business m (plural business)

1. business, firm, company
2. business, affairs

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?biz.nis/

Noun

business m (invariable)

1. business (commercial enterprise)

   Synonyms: affare, affari, impresa

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Noun

business

1. business

Declension

References

business dairäläre i?tibar?n Tatarstan belän