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official
English
Etymology
From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin offici?lis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f???l/
- Rhymes: -???l
Adjective
official (comparative more official, superlative most official)
- Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
- official duties
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
- an official statement or report
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- The Official Strategy Guide
- (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
- Despite these testimonies, "accidental asphyxiation" remains his official cause of death.
- (pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
- an official drug or preparation
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- (slang) True, real, beyond doubt.
- Well, it's official: you lost your mind!
- (pharmacology) Listen in a national pharmacopeia.
Antonyms
- unofficial
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
official (plural officials)
- An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
- A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:official
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- official in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- official in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- officiale, offycyal, offyciall, officiall, offecialle
Etymology
From Old French official, from Latin offici?lis; equivalent to office +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fisi?a?l/, /??fisial/
Noun
official (plural officials)
- An underling of a member of the clergy, often heading a clerical court.
- A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
Descendants
- English: official
- Scots: offeecial
References
- “offici?l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.
Adjective
official (plural and weak singular officiale)
- (of body parts) Functional; serving a purpose.
- (rare) Requisite or mandatory for a task.
Descendants
- English: official
- Scots: offeecial
References
- “offici?l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.
Old French
Alternative forms
- officiel
Noun
official m (oblique plural officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative singular officiaus or officiax or officials, nominative plural official)
- court official
- chamber pot
Adjective
official m (oblique and nominative feminine singular officiale)
- official; certified or permitted by an authoritative source
Descendants
- ? Middle English: official, officiale, offycyal, offyciall, officiall, offecialle
- English: official
- Scots: offeecial
- French: officiel
Portuguese
Adjective
official (plural officiaes, comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of oficial
Noun
official m, f (plural officiaes)
- Obsolete spelling of oficial
official From the web:
- what officially started the civil war
- what officially ended the american revolution
- what officially started ww2
- what officially ended ww1
- what officially ended reconstruction
- what officially ended the civil war
- what officially ended the war of 1812
- what officially ended the cold war
umpire
English
Etymology
From a Middle English rebracketing of noumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??m.pa?.?(?)/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Noun
umpire (plural umpires)
- (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.
- (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
- (baseball) One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game.
- (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.
- (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses 3, or in the past 2 or just 1. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are normally not called just umpires alone.
- (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
- (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
Coordinate terms
- referee
Usage notes
- In general, and as a usage guideline, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.
Translations
Verb
umpire (third-person singular simple present umpires, present participle umpiring, simple past and past participle umpired)
- (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.
- Coordinate term: referee
- (transitive) To decide as an umpire.
- Synonyms: arbitrate, settle
- Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
Translations
See also
- Category:English rebracketings.
Further reading
- referee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- umpire (cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- umpire (baseball) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- impure, rumpie
Spanish
Noun
umpire m (plural umpires)
- umpire
umpire From the web:
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- what umpire wear in hand
- what umpire wear in hand in ipl
- what umpire wear in hand in cricket
- what umpire died
- what's umpire's call
- what umpire blew the perfect game
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