different between octothorpe vs ran

English

Alternative forms

• octothorp

Etymology

Origin disputed. There is no known usage before it was adopted by Bell Labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s, so most sources agree it was coined by someone at Bell Labs, but accounts from Bell Labs personnel conflict on the details. The derivation as a traditional term from octo- (“eight”) and thorpe (“field, hamlet or small village”) lacks any evidence, but there is near universal agreement that the first element refers to the number eight. Eight is derived from the number of ends of the lines. Thorpe could be reference to Jim Thorpe, as one proponent was a fan of the athlete.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kt?????p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???kto?????p/

Noun

octothorpe (plural octothorpes)

1. (chiefly US, typography) The hash or square symbol (#), used mainly in telephony and computing.
   • 1973, U.S patent application ser. no. 05/422,816 (filed Dec. 3 1973), issued as patent no. 3,920,926 (Nov. 18, 1975), Telephone Data Set Including Visual Display Means, col. 3 (first published use of the word)

     ...the octothorp (#) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory unto the telephone line through a send circuit...

   • 1982, Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230

     Octothorp is the # on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...

Synonyms

• hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, tic-tac-toe sign, noughts and crosses sign/symbol, sharp sign [music], hashtag

Translations

See also

• #
• sextile

References

Further reading

• Number sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Verb

ran

1. simple past tense of rin
2. simple past tense of run
3. (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run

Etymology 2

Noun

ran (uncountable)

1. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

Etymology 3

From Old English ran; compare with Danish ran and Norwegian Bokmål ran.

Noun

ran (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Open robbery.

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Anagrams

• Arn, NRA, Nar, RNA

Alemannic German

Adjective

ran

1. (Uri) lanky, slender

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.

Arop-Lokep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?n/, [?r?n]

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• Arop-Lokep, in The Oceanic Languages ?ISBN, Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross), page 257: ran ki "his water"
• Stephen George Parker, Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ran/

Adverb

ran

1. Alternative form of arran

See also

• ran de

Chuukese

Noun

ran

1. day, daylight

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ran]

Noun

ran

1. genitive plural of rána

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?n/, [????n]

Noun

ran n (singular definite ranet, plural indefinite ran)

1. open theft

Inflection

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

German

Etymology

Shortened form of heran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: rann

Adverb

ran

1. (colloquial) near, close to, over to

Further reading

• “ran” in Duden online

Gilbertese

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Thomas Edward Dutton, Darrell T. Tryon, Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World (1994)

Japanese

Romanization

ran

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Karnai

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 59

Malasanga

Noun

ran

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Verna, page 59, 2012

Mandarin

Romanization

ran

1. Nonstandard spelling of rán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of r?n.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Namakura

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rán

Noun

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana or ranene)

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

Related terms

• rane

Etymology 2

Verb

ran

1. imperative of rane

References

• “ran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rán

Noun

ran n (definite singular ranet, indefinite plural ran, definite plural rana)

1. a robbery

Derived terms

• bankran

References

• “ran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?na

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??n/

Noun

r?n n (nominative plural r?n)

1. unlawful seizure of property; robbery

Declension

References

• Joseph Bosworth, edited by T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882
• T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ran/

Noun

ran f

1. genitive plural of rana

Noun

ran n

1. genitive plural of rano

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ran? (Russian ??????? (ránnij), Polish rano).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /râ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Adjective

r?n (definite r?n?, comparative rànij?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. early
2. premature

Declension

Antonyms

• (early): k?san

References

• “ran” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ran?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rá?n/

Adjective

r?n (comparative ránejši, superlative n?jránejši)

1. early

Inflection

Further reading

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English run.

Noun

ran

1. To run

Ulau-Suain

Noun

ran

1. water

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [za?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a????]

Verb

ran

1. to resound; to spread widely

Welsh

Noun

ran

1. Soft mutation of rhan.

Mutation

Welsh Romani

Noun

ran f

1. rod, wand
2. fishing rod

Derived terms

References

• “ran” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.