different between multiple vs perverse

English

Etymology

From French multiple, itself from Late Latin multiplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?lt?pl?/

Adjective

multiple (not comparable)

1. More than one (followed by plural).

2. Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).

Synonyms

• (more than one): manifold, many, morefold, several; see also Thesaurus:manifold
• plural

Antonyms

• (many): paucal (rare)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

multiple (plural multiples)

1. (mathematics) A whole number that can be divided by another number with no remainder.
   • 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
2. (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
3. One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
   • 1996, Southeastern College Art Conference Review

     One might view this attempt to ensure the scarcity of a multiple as both a marketing ploy and form of elitism.

4. A single individual who has multiple personalities.
   • 2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar

     I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!

   • 2000, Henk Driessen, Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)

     Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.

5. One of a set of siblings produced by a multiple birth.
6. A chain store.
   • 1979, Management Today (page 96)

     The big advantage such multiples can offer over a purely catalogue operation is that winners can be given shopping vouchers enabling them to choose from goods on display in the multiples' many outlets (Woolworths, for example, has 1,000).

7. A discovery resulting from the work of many people throughout history, not merely the work of the person who makes the final connection.
   • 2016, Thomas Söderqvist, The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography (page 99)

     Merton's argument that all scientific discoveries are multiples would seem to contradict the theory of genius […]

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   • 1976, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone (volume 147, issues 1-6, page 40)

     First of all, the 'greenhorn' stigma of piercing has worn off. The older woman sees her daughter wearing multiples. So she's confident enough to have her ears pierced at least once.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• pull time

French

Etymology

From Late Latin multiplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl.tipl/

Adjective

multiple (plural multiples)

1. multiple

Noun

multiple m (plural multiples)

1. (mathematics) Multiple.

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

multiple

1. feminine plural of multiplo

Latin

Adjective

multiple

1. vocative masculine singular of multiplus

Swedish

Adjective

multiple

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of multipel.

Anagrams

• multipel

English

Etymology

From Old French pervers, from Latin perversum, past participle of pervertere > per- 'thoroughly' + vertere 'to turn'. So, "thoroughly turned".

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??v?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??v??s/
• Hyphenation: per?verse
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

perverse (comparative more perverse or perverser, superlative most perverse or perversest)

1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.

   •     I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different.

2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
3. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

Antonyms

• docile
• innocent

Derived terms

• perversely
• perverseness
• perversity

Translations

Anagrams

• persever, preserve

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

1. Inflected form of pervers

French

Adjective

perverse

1. feminine singular of pervers

Anagrams

• préserve, préservé

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

1. inflection of pervers:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

perverse

1. feminine plural of perverso

Latin

Participle

perverse

1. vocative masculine singular of perversus

References

• perverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• perverse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• perverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette