different between mandatory vs slave

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandator (“one who commands”); see mandate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d?.t(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæn.d??t?.?i/

Adjective

mandatory (comparative more mandatory, superlative most mandatory)

1. Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

   Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.

   • 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276

     This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.

   • 2011, Dirk Bünger, Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure: Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 57

     It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information.

2. Of, being or relating to a mandate.

   Mandatory Palestine

Synonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
• (relating to a mandate):

Antonyms

• (required or commanded by authority): optional, elective; See also Thesaurus:optional
• (relating to a mandate):

Derived terms

• mandatoriness
• mandatorily

Translations

Noun

mandatory (plural mandatories)

1. (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

   Synonym: (colloquial) mando

2. (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Further reading

• mandatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandatory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• damnatory

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin scl?vus (“slave”), from Late Latin Scl?vus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?v, IPA^(key): /sle?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Noun

slave (plural slaves)

1. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
2. (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
3. (figuratively) An abject person.

   Synonym: wretch
4. (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
5. (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.

   Hypernym: sub
6. A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
7. (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

   Synonyms: secondary, worker

   Antonyms: master, primary

Usage notes

• In the technical sense increasingly replaced with less-charged terms such as secondary, worker etc.

Alternative forms

Hyponyms

• bossale, bozal

Coordinate terms

• chattel
• indentured servant

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• slave (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• slavery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• master/slave (technology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

slave (third-person singular simple present slaves, present participle slaving, simple past and past participle slaved)

1. To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
   • 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women

     MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved?
     SOPHONISBA: No, free

   • 1908, James Wells, Stewart of Lovedale: The Life of James Stewart, D.D., M.D., Hon. F.R.G.S., page 88:

     The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .

   • 2011, David Eltis, Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge, The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 128:

     Despite these examples, the majority of enslaved Africans were not able to rely on rulers for help against slaving. Africans living in chiefdoms and villages ruled by allied African authorities were, however, able to use the legal system (Tribunal of Mukanos) in place in the regions under formal Portuguese control […]

   • 2016, Thomas Arcaro, et al. Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen, Routledge (?ISBN):

     With ready access to firearms through trade, the slaving Africans held a distinct upper-hand over the groups they preyed upon, which were often politically and socially weakened or destroyed by the trade.

   • 2016, Alistair Paterson, A Millennium of Cultural Contact, Routledge (?ISBN), page 117:

     Significant impacts resulted from slaving; there is evidence of how communities dealt with the threat and benefits of slaving. Africans provided most of the slaves to European slavers. Most slaves were created either to settle debts or raise funds, through warfare, or as punishment for a real or perceived crime.

2. (intransitive) To work hard.

3. (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.
   • 2005, Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)

     Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation […]

Translations

References

Anagrams

• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Selva, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, selva, vales, valse, veals

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sklave, from Latin scl?vus, whence also slaver.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?v?

Noun

slave c (singular definite slaven, plural indefinite slaver)

1. slave

   Synonym: træl

Inflection

Derived terms

• slaveri

Verb

slave (imperative slav, infinitive at slave, present tense slaver, past tense slavede, perfect tense har slavet)

1. slave

   Synonym: trælle

Esperanto

Etymology

From slavo +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slave/
• Hyphenation: sla?ve
• Rhymes: -ave

Adverb

slave

1. In a Slavic language; Slavically

French

Etymology

From Middle French Sclave, from Medieval Latin Scl?vus, from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Sklábos), which see for more. Doublet of esclave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slav/

Adjective

slave (plural slaves)

1. Slav, Slavic

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

slave m (uncountable)

1. A Slavic language.

References

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• laves, lavés, levas, salve, valse, valsé

Italian

Adjective

slave

1. feminine plural of slavo

Noun

slave f

1. plural of slava

Anagrams

• salve, selva, svela, valse

Latvian

Noun

slave f (5th declension)

1. (dialectal) fame, glory; alternative form of slava

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

slave m (definite singular slaven, indefinite plural slaver, definite plural slavene)

1. slave

Derived terms

Related terms

• slaveri

References

• “slave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slave m (definite singular slaven, indefinite plural slavar, definite plural slavane)

1. slave

Derived terms

Related terms

• slaveri

References

• “slave” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.