different between love vs ant
love
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /l?v/, [??v]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /l?v/
- Rhymes: -?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).
The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Noun
love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)
- (uncountable) Strong affection.
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- 2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (?ISBN)
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
- 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:
- The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]
- 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:
- A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
- A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
- 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):
- For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?
- 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
- Open the temple gates unto my love.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2
- O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion
- (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
- 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:
- But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."
- 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:
- (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
- 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:
- The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.
- 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:
- (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
- 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":
- —What think you, my lord, of... love?
- —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
- 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":
- An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
- 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):
- Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.
- 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):
- Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
- Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
- c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):
- At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]
- c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):
- (obsolete) A thin silk material.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]
- A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Synonyms
- (darling, sweetheart): baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
- (term of address): mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
- (sexual desire): aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
- (sexual activity): coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
- (instance of being in love): romance
Antonyms
- (strong affection): hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
- (absence of love): indifference
Translations
See love/translations § Noun.
Verb
love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)
- (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- 2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- (transitive) To need, thrive on.
- (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
- (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
- John 3:16
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Matthew: 22:37-38
- You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- John 3:16
- (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (have a strong affection for): adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
- (have sexual intercourse with): enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Antonyms
- hate, despise
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See love/translations § Verb.
See also
- charity
Etymology 2
From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.
Verb
love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)
- (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
- (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
Etymology 3
Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.
Noun
love (uncountable)
- (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- 2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life
- The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.
- Nothing; no recompense.
- 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child
- I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.
- 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child
Translations
References
- love at OneLook Dictionary Search
- love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?v?/
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani love.
Noun
love f pl
- (slang) money
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- See also prachy
Noun
love m
- vocative singular of lov
Further reading
- love in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l??v?/, [?l????], [?l???]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German l?ve, from Proto-Germanic *galaubô, cognate with German Glaube.
Noun
love c
- (obsolete) trust, faith
- only in the phrase på tro og love (“solemnly”)
References
- “love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)lub?n?, cognate with Swedish lova (“to promise; to praise”), German loben (“to praise”), geloben (“to vow”), Dutch loven (“to praise”).
Verb
love (past tense lovede, past participle lovet)
- to promise
- (solemn) to praise
Inflection
References
- “love,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “love,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
See See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
love c
- indefinite plural of lov
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
love
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of loven
Anagrams
- velo, voel
French
Verb
love
- inflection of lover:
- first-person /third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- vélo, vole, volé
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetian lova, French louve.
Pronunciation
Noun
love f (plural lovis)
- she-wolf
Related terms
- lôf
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lo?v?/
Verb
love
- to praise
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Inari Sami
Numeral
love
- ten
Middle Dutch
Noun
l?ve
- dative singular of lof
Middle English
Alternative forms
- luve, lufæ, lufe
Etymology
From Old English lufu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?luv(?)/
Noun
love (plural loves)
- love
Descendants
- English: love
- Scots: luve, lufe
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse lofa.
Verb
love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past and past participle lova or lovet, present participle lovende)
- to praise
Verb
love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past lova or lovet or lovte or lovde, past participle lova or lovet or lovt or lovd, present participle lovende)
- to promise
- (as an adjective) det lovede land - the Promised Land
Related terms
- løfte
References
- “love” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
love (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)
- Alternative form of lova
Noun
love m (definite singular loven, indefinite plural lovar, definite plural lovane)
- Alternative form of lóve
Anagrams
- vole
Romani
Noun
love
- plural of lovo
- money
Descendants
- ? French: lové
- ? Hungarian: lóvé
- ? Romanian: lovea
- ? Russian: ????? (lav??)
- ? Scots: lowie
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ?????
- Latin: lóva
- ? Slovak: lóve
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
love (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- vocative singular of lov
Verb
love (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of loviti
love From the web:
- what lovers do lyrics
- what lovers do
- what love language am i
- what love got to do with it movie
- what love means
- what love is for movie
- what love is this lyrics
- what love language are you
ant
English
Alternative forms
- ante, ampte (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ?mette (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *?maitij? (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *?- (“off, away”) + *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt, IPA(key): /ænt/
- (General New Zealand) enPR: ?nt, IPA(key): /?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: änt, IPA(key): /??nt/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [??nt], [e?nt]
- Rhymes: -ænt
- Homophone: aunt (in some accents)
Noun
ant (plural ants)
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
- (Internet) A Web spider.
Synonyms
- (insect): emmet (archaic), pismire (archaic)
Hyponyms
- (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ant- (prefix)
- -ant (suffix)
- Appendix: Animals
- army
- bike
- colony
- nest
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
- (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
References
Anagrams
- NAT, NTA, Nat, Nat., TAN, TNA, Tan, nat, tan
Breton
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
ant m
- furrow
Catalan
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?an/
Noun
ant m (plural ants)
- elk, moose
Crimean Tatar
Noun
ant
- oath
Declension
Synonyms
- yemin
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Egyptian
Romanization
ant
- Manuel de Codage transliteration of ?nt.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French entre (“between”).
Preposition
ant
- between
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?nt]
Preposition
añt (with genitive)
- on
Meroitic
Romanization
ant
- Romanization of ?????????????
Middle Welsh
Alternative forms
- aant
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?nt/
Verb
ant
- third-person plural present indicative of mynet
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- Hyphenation: ant
Verb
ant
- past participle of ane
- past participle common of ane
- past participle neuter of ane
Anagrams
- nat, tan
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *?nt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????? (nt), Azerbaijani and, etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ant/
- Hyphenation: ant
Noun
ant (definite accusative and?, plural antlar)
- oath
Synonyms
- kasem
- yemin
Turkmen
Noun
ant (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
- oath
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
?nt f (plural anta)
- duck
ant From the web:
- what antibiotics treat uti
- what antibiotic is used for uti
- what antibiotics treat bv
- what antibiotic for sinus infection
- what antibiotics treat pneumonia
- what antibiotics treat strep throat
- what antibiotics treat chlamydia
- what antidepressants cause weight loss
you may also like
- love vs ant
- shocker vs electro
- trance vs electro
- aluminum vs electro
- electro vs electrostatic
- electra vs electro
- electro vs electric
- show vs unveiled
- unveiled vs unravelled
- reveal vs unveiled
- unveiled vs revealed
- unfurled vs unveiled
- unveiled vs inveiled
- unveined vs unveiled
- unveiled vs unceiled
- sjw vs leftist
- leftist vs right
- liberals vs leftist
- leftist vs communist
- leftist vs leftwing