different between niche vs site
niche
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Latin n?dus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, Canada, Ireland, UK) IPA(key): /ni??/
- Rhymes: -i??
- (US) IPA(key): /n?t??/, /ni?/, /n??/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
niche (plural niches)
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. Hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
- Synonym: nook
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
- Synonyms: specialty, specialization,
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
Derived terms
- fundamental niche
- niche market
Translations
Verb
niche (third-person singular simple present niches, present participle niching, simple past and past participle niched)
- (transitive) To place in a niche.
- a niched vase
- (transitive, marketing) To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
- 2002, Frederick Betz, Executive Strategy (page 92)
- Product differentiation will be mostly limited to market niching and fashion.
- 2002, Frederick Betz, Executive Strategy (page 92)
Adjective
niche (comparative more niche, superlative most niche)
- Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.
Translations
See also
- niché
Anagrams
- Chien, chine, chiné
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ni?/
- Hyphenation: ni?che
Noun
niche f (plural niches, diminutive nicheje n)
- (especially in ecology and business) a niche
See also
- nis
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ni?/
Etymology 1
From Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nichier (“make a nest”), from Latin n?dus (“nest”) (via a verb *n?dic?re).
Noun
niche f (plural niches)
- niche
- kennel (for dog)
Descendants
- ? Danish: niche
- ? Dutch: niche
- ? English: niche
- ? Macedonian: ???? (niša)
- ? Russian: ???? (niša)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
niche
- first-person singular present indicative of nicher
- third-person singular present indicative of nicher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of nicher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of nicher
- second-person singular imperative of nicher
Further reading
- “niche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- chien, chine, Chine, chiné
Norman
Etymology
From Old French niche, from nichier (“make a nest”), from Latin n?dus (“nest”).
Noun
niche f (plural niches)
- (Jersey) kennel
Synonyms
- câniche
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nit??e/, [?ni.t??e]
Noun
niche m (plural niches)
- (Venezuela, slang, offensive) low-class
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site
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?t, IPA(key): /sa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: cite, sight (The term "site" can be a misspelling of the latter homophone.)
Etymology 1
Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).
Noun
site (plural sites)
- (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
- a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5
- Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.
- a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5
Etymology 2
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.
Noun
site (plural sites)
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
- A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
- 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,
- However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
- 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
- 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, p. 192,
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
- 1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208
- Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
- 2006, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations, Zondervan, ?ISBN, p. 7,
- Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
- 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, p. 192,
- The posture or position of a thing.
- 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,
- And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
- 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W. Taylor, p. 11,
- There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
- 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,
- A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, p. 433,
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
- 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 208,
- If the site is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.
- 2006, Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 298,
- The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
- 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, p. 433,
- A website.
- 1986, Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Signet Classic (1986), ?ISBN, p. 398,
- Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site.
- 1992, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1992), ?ISBN, p. xxvi,
- Voice of the Shuttle: https://web.archive.org/web/19980223210306/http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
- 2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, ?ISBN, p. 248,
- When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
- 1986, Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Signet Classic (1986), ?ISBN, p. 398,
- (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- A part of the body which has been operated on.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)
- (architecture) To situate or place a building.
- 1835, Mining Journal,
- A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
- 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,
- For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
- 2006, Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, p. 22,
- It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
- 2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06),
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.
- 1835, Mining Journal,
Further reading
- site on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- site in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- site in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- site at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, ties
Chuukese
Etymology
si- +? -te
Pronoun
site
- we (inclusive) will never
- so we (inclusive) do not
Related terms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English site.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?i?t/
- Hyphenation: site
Noun
site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)
- web site
- Synonyms: website, webstek
- archaeological site
- Synonym: opgraving
- (uncommon) construction site
- Synonym: bouwplaats
Derived terms
- advertentiesite
- datingsite
- gamesite
- goksite
- internetsite
- nieuwssite
- sekssite
- pornosite
- vacaturesite
- veilingsite
French
Etymology
From Latin situs.
Noun
site m (plural sites)
- site
- (Internet) website
Derived terms
- site web
- site Internet
- site perso
Further reading
- “site” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
site
- feminine plural of sito
Anagrams
- seti, stie, tesi
Khumi Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?i?.te?/
Adjective
site
- bad
Synonyms
- hawi-yte
Derived terms
- bälungsite
References
- R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 429
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?[4], Payap University, page 50
Latin
Participle
site
- vocative masculine singular of situs
Neapolitan
Verb
site
- second-person plural present indicative of èssere
Old French
Etymology
From Latin situs.
Noun
site m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)
- site; location
Descendants
- English: site
- French: site
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (site)
- sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- saite (Brazilian)
Etymology
From English site.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?saj.t??i/
Noun
site m (plural sites)
- site; web site (a collection of pages on the World Wide Web)
- Synonyms: sítio, website, web site
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
site
- inflection of sit:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Noun
site
- locative singular of sito
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [si?te]
- Hyphenation: si?te
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French cité.
Noun
site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)
- housing estate
- city
Declension
Etymology 2
Semantic loan from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.
Noun
site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)
- (Internet) Web site
Declension
Derived terms
- Web sitesi
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