different between narc vs nare

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: näk, IPA^(key): /n??k/
• (US) enPR: närk, IPA^(key): /n???k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

Clipping of narcotics (control) officer.

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) A police officer assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative spelling of nark, influenced by narc (“narcotics officer”).

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark (“spy”)

Verb

narc (third-person singular simple present narcs, present participle narcing, simple past and past participle narced)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark

See also

• stool pigeon

Etymology 3

Clipping of narcosis.

Verb

narc (third-person singular simple present narcs, present participle narcing, simple past and past participle narced)

1. (underwater diving, slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving).

Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of narcissist.

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (colloquial, informal) A narcissist.

Anagrams

• Carn, Cran, NRCA, cRNA, carn, cran, cran-, crna

English

Noun

nare (plural nares)

1. (rare, anatomy) A nostril
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

Derived terms

• narial

Usage notes

The Latin declension, naris (singular) and nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares and naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, Webster's 1913 enters it, and Samuel Butler's use of it in Hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of Edgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to "The Folio Club". It is likely that the singular nare began as the back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an English regular plural, which in turn caused that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine and narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error for naris.

Anagrams

• Arne, EARN, Earn, Near, Nera, eRNA, earn, erna, near, rean

Aromanian

Noun

nare f

1. Alternative form of nari

Basque

Adjective

nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)

1. calm

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

nare

1. Inflected form of naar

Anagrams

• erna

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: nà?re

Noun

nare f pl

1. Obsolete form of nari (“nostrils”).

Japanese

Romanization

nare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Verb

n?re

1. present active infinitive of n?

Middle English

Adjective

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

Adverb

nare

1. Alternative form of narwe

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From na +? -re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?na.??]

Adverb

nare

1. yesterday

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare

1. buffalo

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

nare

1. inflection of nara (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Romanian

Noun

nare f (plural n?ri)

1. Alternative form of nar?

Declension

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare 9 or 10 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nját??.

Noun

nare 9 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

Venetian

Verb

nare

1. Alternative form of ndar