different between manage vs wieldy

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
• (US)
  • (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
  • (no weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
• Rhymes: -æn?d?
• Hyphenation: man?age

Verb

manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)

1. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
2. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
3. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

   • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
4. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
6. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
7. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (To handle with skill, wield): bewield

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Translations

Noun

manage (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age

     Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
2. (horseriding) Manège.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..

See also

• man
• Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• manage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• manage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Meagan, agname

English

Etymology

From Middle English w??ld?, weldy (“agile, vigorous; of a shield: easy or satisfying to wield”), from w??lden, welde (“to govern, preside over, reign, rule; to command, control, dominate; to dwell, reside; to accomplish, bring about; to overcome, prevail; to handle (a tool, weapon, etc.), use”), from Old English wylde (“controlling, dominant”), from Proto-Germanic *waldiz (“manageable; powerful”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“to rule; powerful, strong”); analysable as wield +? -y. Later uses of sense 2 (“capable of being easily wielded”) are likely a back-formation from unwieldy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?wi?ldi/, [?w??ld?]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wildi/
• Hyphenation: wiel?dy

Adjective

wieldy (comparative wieldier, superlative wieldiest)

1. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) Able to wield one's body well; active, dexterous.

   Synonyms: agile, nimble, vigorous
2. Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy.

   Synonyms: manageable, wieldsome

   Antonym: unwieldy

Derived terms

• wieldiness

Related terms

• unwieldy
• wield
• wielder
• wieldsome

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References

Anagrams

• Wildey, dewily, widely