different between manoeuvre vs oeuvre

English

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• Rhymes: -u?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: ma?noeu?vre

Noun

manoeuvre (plural manoeuvres)

1. Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Verb

manoeuvre (third-person singular simple present manoeuvres, present participle manoeuvring, simple past and past participle manoeuvred)

1. (transitive) Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Derived terms

• manoeuvrable

See also

• overtaking

Anagrams

• manoeuver, manœuver

English

Alternative forms

• œuvre

Etymology

From French œuvre, from Latin opera. Doublet of opera and ure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v??/, /?u?v??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???v??/, /?u?v??/

Noun

oeuvre (plural oeuvres)

1. A work of art.
2. (uncountable, collective) The complete body of an artist's work.

   Synonyms: body of work, complete works

Related terms

• hors d'oeuvre
• manoeuvre

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

oeuvre n (plural oeuvres, diminutive oeuvretje n)

1. oeuvre

French

Pronunciation

Noun

oeuvre f (plural oeuvres)

1. Nonstandard spelling of œuvre.

Usage notes

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• érouve

Middle French

Alternative forms

• œuvre

Etymology

Old French uevre.

Noun

oeuvre m or f (plural oeuvres)

1. work; piece of work