different between menage vs manage

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman meinage, maynage, Old French mainage, menage, from manoir (“to stay”), maneir, maindre.

Noun

menage (plural menages)

1. Alternative form of ménage

Anagrams

• Meegan, manege, manège

Danish

Etymology

From French ménage (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mena?sj?/, [me?næ???]

Noun

menage c (singular definite menagen, plural indefinite menager)

1. menage
2. mess
3. menagerie

Inflection

Synonyms

• (menagerie): menageri

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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