different between mange vs rule

English

Etymology

From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?nd?/
• Rhymes: -e?nd?

Noun

mange (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

Derived terms

• mangy

Related terms

• mandible
• manger

Translations

See also

• scabies

References

• mange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GenAm, Megan, Megna, engma

Alemannic German

Verb

mange

1. (Uri, auxiliary) should
2. (Uri) to be in need of something

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]

Adjective

mange

1. plural of mangen

   • many, a lot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???/
• Homophones: manges, mangent

Verb

mange

1. inflection of manger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• magne, magné

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French manger

Verb

mange

1. to eat

Noun

mange

1. food

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mange ?

1. cow

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???/

Adjective

mange (comparative fler or flere, indefinite superlative flest, definite superlative fleste)

1. many

Determiner

mange

1. plural of mang en

Derived terms

References

• “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m????/

Adjective

mange (comparative fleire, superlative flest)

1. many

Derived terms

• mangedobbelt
• mange takk
• mangeårig
• rekordmange

Pronoun

mange

1. Alternative form of mang ein

References

• “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?u?l/, [?u??]
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, itself an early semi-learned borrowing from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”); see regent.

Noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life

     We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
2. A regulating principle.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well, Act I, scene I

     There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.

3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. A normal condition or state of affairs.

   My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

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

7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

   a rule for extracting the cube root

8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Sermons

     As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.

9. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
10. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

Derived terms

Related terms

• regulate
• regent
• regular

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regul?re (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
2. (slang, intransitive) To excel.

3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     That's a ruled case with the school-men.

5. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

Synonyms

• (to excel): rock (also slang)

Antonyms

• (to excel): suck (vulgar slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Related to revel.

Noun

rule

1. (obsolete) Revelry.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, lure

Spanish

Verb

rule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rular.