different between old vs pistol

English

Alternative forms

• ol', ol, ole
• olde (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English old, ald, from Old English ald, eald (“old, aged, ancient, antique, primeval”), from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown-up”), originally a participle form, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eltós (“grown, tall, big”). Cognate with Scots auld (“old”), North Frisian ool, ual, uul (“old”), Saterland Frisian oold (“old”), West Frisian âld (“old”), Dutch oud (“old”), Low German old (“old”), German alt (“old”), Swedish äldre (“older, elder”), Icelandic eldri (“older, elder”), Latin altus (“high, tall, grown big, lofty”). Related to eld.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???ld/, /???ld/, /???ld/
• (US) enPR: ?ld, IPA^(key): /?o?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Adjective

old (comparative older or elder, superlative (US, dialectal) oldermost or oldest or eldest)

1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
   1. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.

   2. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.

2. Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.

3. Having existed or lived for the specified time.

4. (heading) Of an earlier time.
   1. Former, previous.
      • 1994, Michael Grumley, Life Drawing

        But over my old life, a new life had formed.

   2. That is no longer in existence.

   3. Obsolete; out-of-date.

   4. Familiar.
      • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

        Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

   5. (Britain) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
5. Tiresome after prolonged repetition.

6. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
7. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)

8. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 2:

     URSULA: Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused;

Synonyms

• (having existed for a long period of time): ancient, long in the tooth; see also Thesaurus:old
• (having lived for many years): aged, ageing / aging, elderly, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly
• (having existed or lived for the specified time): aged, of age
• (former): erstwhile, ex-, former, one-time, past; see also Thesaurus:former
• (out-of-date): antiquated, obsolete (of words), outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Antonyms

• (having existed for a long period of time): brand new, fresh, new
• (having lived for many years): young
• (former): current, latest, new

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

old (plural olds)

1. (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

   A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.

2. (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
3. (slang, most often plural) One's parents.

   I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.

Anagrams

• DLO, DOL, Dol, LDO, LOD, Lo'd, LoD, Lod, dol, lod

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?/, [??l?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ?ld, from Proto-Germanic *aldiz, cognate with Gothic ???????????????? (alds).

Noun

old c (singular definite olden, not used in plural form)

1. (archaic) period, age, generation
   • 1813, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Kristjan den sjette, in: Poetiske Skrifter, vol. 3, p. 306

   • 1805, Adam Oehleschläger, Isefjorden / https://kalliope.org/da/text/oehlenschlaeger2019020350

2. (archaic, rare) antiquity
   • 1891, Holger Drachmann, Vildt og tæmmet, 299

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “Old,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

Clipping of oldtidskundskab.

Noun

old c (uninflected)

1. Classical Civilization (a course in secondary school)

   Synonym: oldtidskundskab

Derived terms

• oldlærer

References

• “old” in Den Danske Ordbog

German Low German

Alternative forms

• oold, ol, olt

Etymology

From Middle Low German ôlt. The A became an O through the effect of the velarised L in the same manner as in Dutch oud.

Cognate with English old, Dutch oud, German alt, West Frisian âld.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Adjective

old (comparative öller, superlative öllst)

1. old

Declension

Descendants

• ? German: oll

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *a?a- (“to loosen, open (up), untie”) + -d (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?old]
• Homophone: oldd
• Rhymes: -old

Verb

old

1. (transitive) to solve
2. (transitive) to untie

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• old in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Middle Low German

Adjective

old

1. Alternative spelling of ôlt.

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle French pistole, which probably via Middle High German forms like pischulle from Czech píš?ala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Alternatively, from Middle English pistolet, from Middle French pistolet (“small firearm or small dagger”), from or related to Italian pistolese (“short dagger”), from Italian Pistoia (“a Tuscan town noted for its gunsmithing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?l/
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Noun

pistol (plural pistols)

1. A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. [1570s]
2. The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
3. A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
   • February 2012, Thomas Pugsley, Denial (episode) in Young Justice (TV series):

     KENT NELSON —Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza.

   • 2012, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories in ‘You Tube’ Made Me an Overnight Sensation, iUniverse, page 102:

     She features so many dance tunes and is a pistol with her sharp and witty remarks.

4. (Southern US) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
5. (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.

Usage notes

Shooters normally differentiate between a pistol and a revolver, which is named after its rotating chamber; however, in common usage, the word pistol is also imprecisely used to refer to any type of handgun.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pistol (third-person singular simple present pistols, present participle pistoling, simple past and past participle pistoled)

1. (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

See also

• derringer
• pistole
• gat
• rod

Further reading

• Pistol offense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pilots, postil, potlis, sploit, spoilt

References

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• piskot

Etymology

A minced oath of pisti.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pis?tol

Interjection

pistol

1. expressing anger, surprise, excitement, etc.

Danish

Etymology

From Middle French pistole or from German Pistole, either from Italian pistola or from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pisto?l/, [p?i?sd?o??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

pistol c (singular definite pistolen, plural indefinite pistoler)

1. handgun, pistol

Inflection

See also

• pistol on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pistol, from Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (first-person possessive pistolku, second-person possessive pistolmu, third-person possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun)

Malay

Etymology

From Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (plural pistol-pistol, informal 1st possessive pistolku, impolite 2nd possessive pistolmu, 3rd possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun, handheld short firearm weapon)

Further reading

• “pistol” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle, because of the shape”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistoler, definite plural pistolene)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistolar, definite plural pistolane)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ??????? (pistóli)

Noun

pistol n (plural pistoale)

1. pistol

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

Noun

pistol c

1. a pistol (gun)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• revolver