different between muse vs propose

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo?oz
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /mju?z/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /mjuz/
• Homophones: mews, Meuse
• Rhymes: -u?z

Etymology 1

From Middle French muse, from Latin M?sa, from Ancient Greek ????? (Moûsa).

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. A source of inspiration.

2. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 85:

     My toung-tide Mu?e in manners holds her ?till,

     While comments of your prai?e richly compil'd,

     Re?erue their Character with goulden quill,

     And precious phra?e by all the Mu?es fil'd.

Synonyms

• (source of inspiration): Pierian spring

Related terms

• museum
• music

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

Verb

muse (third-person singular simple present muses, present participle musing, simple past and past participle mused)

1. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
2. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
3. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
   • c. 1726, James Thomson, Hymn

     Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
4. (transitive) To wonder at.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ponder

Related terms

• muser
• musing
• amuse

Translations

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:

     He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

Etymology 3

From French musse. See muset.

Noun

muse (plural muses)

1. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

   Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Anagrams

• Semu, emus, umes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myz/
• Homophones: musent, muses

Noun

muse f (plural muses)

1. artistic inspiration
2. muse (specific artistic subject)

Verb

muse

1. first-person singular present indicative of muser
2. third-person singular present indicative of muser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muser
5. second-person singular imperative of muser

Anagrams

• émus, meus, mues, seum

Italian

Noun

muse f

1. plural of musa

Anagrams

• sume

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?s.

Noun

muse

1. Alternative form of mous

Etymology 2

From Latin M?sa.

Noun

muse

1. Alternative form of Muse

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French musée, from Latin m?s?um, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.se?/, [m??.?se?]

Noun

muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse or museer, definite plural museene or musea)

1. Alternative form of musé

References

• “muse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (Moûsa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m??.s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

muse f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural muser, definite plural musene)

1. a muse

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m??.s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

muse (present tense musar, past tense musa, past participle musa, passive infinitive musast, present participle musande, imperative mus)

1. to whisper

   Synonym: kviskre

Etymology 3

From French musée, from Latin m?s?um, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.se?/, [m??.?se?] (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

muse n (definite singular museet, indefinite plural muse, definite plural musea)

1. alternative spelling of musé

References

• “muse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

muse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of musirse.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of musirse.

English

Etymology

From Middle English proposen, from Anglo-Norman proposer (verb), propos (noun), Middle French proposer (verb) , propos (noun), from Latin pr?p?n?, pr?p?n?re, with conjugation altered based on poser. Doublet of propound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???po?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

propose (third-person singular simple present proposes, present participle proposing, simple past and past participle proposed)

1. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.

   Synonyms: put forth, suggest, (rare) forthput

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.

2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

3. (transitive) To intend.
   • 1859, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Preface (Google preview):

     I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
4. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1:

     HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;

     There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice

     Proposing with the prince and Claudio

5. (obsolete) To set forth.
   • 1616, George Chapman (translator), Homer's Iliad, book 11:

     . . . so weighty was the cup,

     That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

Usage notes

• In use 1, this is sometimes a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In use 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs
• Compared to to suggest, to propose is more deliberate and definite. To suggest is merely to mention, while to propose is to have a definite plan and intention.

Derived terms

• proposal
• proposement

Related terms

• proponent
• proposition

Translations

Noun

propose (plural proposes)

1. (obsolete) An objective or aim.

Anagrams

• opposer, poopers

French

Verb

propose

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

Anagrams

• opposer

Italian

Verb

propose

1. third-person indicative past historic of proporre

Anagrams

• propeso