different between node vs hump

English

Etymology

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knot and nodus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

node (plural nodes)

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ? and ?.
3. (botany) A leaf node.
4. (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
9. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
10. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
11. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
12. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
13. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
15. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Synonyms

• (computer networking): host
• (graph theory): vertex

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: nód

Translations

See also

• neurode

References

• node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned

Danish

Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

1. (music) note

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

node

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of nood

Japanese

Romanization

node

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

n?de

1. vocative singular of n?dus

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??d(?)/

Noun

node (plural nodez)

1. (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
2. (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

Descendants

• English: node
  • ? Irish: nód

References

• “n?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²nu?.d?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)

1. a node

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

Alternative forms

• noda

Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)

1. Synonym of nyste

Etymology 3

Verb

node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodd/nodt, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)

1. Synonym of neia

References

• “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /h?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

hump (plural humps)

1. A mound of earth.
2. A speed hump.
3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
4. (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.

   She's got the hump with me.

   Go away! You're giving me the right hump.

7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.

   That guy is such a hump!

8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

Synonyms

• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
3. to rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.

   2. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
4. (US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
5. (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
6. (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

Synonyms

• (to carry): heft, shoulder, tote; see also Thesaurus:carry
• (to go on foot): hike, trek, walk; see also Thesaurus:walk
• (to have sex): bang, bone, ride, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to vex): bother, irk, rile; see also Thesaurus:annoy

Derived terms

• dry-hump
• hump it

Translations

Anagrams

• phum, umph

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humper, definite plural humpene)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humpar, definite plural humpane)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.