different between node vs weal

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?l, IPA^(key): /wi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophone: we'll; wheal, wheel (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wele, from Old English wela (“wellness, welfare, prosperity, riches, well-being, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, wellness, weal”). Cognate with German Wohl, Danish vel, Swedish väl.

Noun

weal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Wealth, riches. [10th-19th c.]
2. (literary) Welfare, prosperity. [from 10th c.]
3. (by extension) Boon, benefit.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:

     And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, "I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!"

4. Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word). [from 15th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 372:

     Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.

Derived terms

• commonweal
• wealful
• wealsman
• wealth

Related terms

• in weal or woe

Translations

Etymology 2

See wale.

Noun

weal (plural weals)

1. A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.

   Synonym: wheal

   • 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 16,^[1]

     He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs.

   • 2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book Two, Chapter Twenty-One, p. 422,^[2]

     And I saw the green island in the immense sea, the borders of the sea curling with a lining of light, like a vast piece of rice paper, its edges alive with weals of red embers, ready to burst into flame.

Translations

Verb

weal (third-person singular simple present weals, present participle wealing, simple past and past participle wealed)

1. To mark with stripes; to wale.

Anagrams

• alew, e-law, lawe, wale