different between nag vs tax

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næ?/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /ne??/, IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English nagge, cognate with Dutch negge.

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. A small horse; a pony.
3. An old, useless horse.

   Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
4. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. x. 11:

     Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!

Coordinate terms

• (old useless horse): bum (racing)

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage, Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).

Verb

nag (third-person singular simple present nags, present participle nagging, simple past and past participle nagged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

1. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

   The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

2. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

   a nagging pain in his left knee

   a nagging north wind

Synonyms

• (continually remind or complain): ride
• (bother with thoughts or memories): haunt
• (persistently bother or annoy): worry

Derived terms

• nag screen
• nagware

Related terms

• gnaw

Translations

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A repeated complaint or reminder.
3. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry

Synonyms

• (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• nagless

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

nag

1. Misspelling of knack.

References

• nag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nag in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• AGN, ANG, GAN, GNA, GaN, Gan, NGA, gan

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nacht (“night”), from Middle Dutch nacht, from Old Dutch naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Noun

nag (plural nagte)

1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
2. (countable) darkness.

Colán

Noun

nag

1. moon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)

1. grudge

Derived terms

• bære nag

Verb

nag

1. imperative of nage

Gaikundi

Noun

nag

1. sago

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

nag

1. singular imperative of nagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of nagen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nâ??/

Adjective

n?g (definite n?g?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. naked

Declension

Synonyms

• g?l, g?

Derived terms

• nág?st

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ná?k/

Adjective

n?g (not comparable)

1. naked

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• gòl (more formal)

Derived terms

• nágost

Further reading

• “nag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nek?e, a combination of Proto-Indo-European *ne (negative particle) and *-k?e (“and”); compare Latin neque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Particle

nag

1. not (in answers and tag questions)

Usage notes

Used before a vowel, but not when that vowel has resulted from the soft mutation of g. Thus na + gallan becomes na allan, not *nag allan.

Alternative forms

• na (used before a consonant)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na???/

Noun

nag

1. rain

Derived terms

• los nag

Wolof

Noun

nag (definite form nag wi)

1. cow, cattle

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *na?k? (“otter”). Cognate with Thai ??? (nâak), Ahom ???????????? (nak).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /na?k?/
• Tone numbers: nag⁸
• Hyphenation: nag

Noun

nag (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography nag)

1. otter

   Synonym: duznag

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?ks, IPA^(key): /tæks/
• Homophone: tacks
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

   Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy

   Antonym: subsidy
2. (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
4. (obsolete) charge; censure

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

5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

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

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: takis
  • ? Rotokas: takisi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax? (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).

3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
4. (transitive) To accuse.
5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Derived terms

• taxable
• taxation

Translations

Anagrams

• ATX, xat

Latin

Alternative forms

• tuxtax

Interjection

tax

1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack

References

• tax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??x/

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. district, neighborhood, quarter
2. district, region

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tacks

Noun

tax c

1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension