different between omit vs forslow

English

Etymology

At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittere, present active infinitive of omitt? (“to let go”), from ob- + mitt? (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
2. (transitive) To fail to perform.
3. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

Synonyms

• (leave out or exclude): leave off, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit
• (fail to perform):
• (take no notice of): disregard, ignore, pass, turn a blind eye

Related terms

• omission
• mission
• elide

Translations

Anagrams

• Mito, mito, mito-

Finnish

Verb

omit

1. Second-person singular indicative present form of omia.
2. Second-person singular indicative past form of omia.

Anagrams

• Timo, Tomi, moti, toim, toim., tomi

French

Verb

omit

1. third-person singular past historic of omettre

English

Alternative forms

• foreslow, fore-slow

Etymology

From Middle English forslowen, forslewen (“to neglect”), from Old English forsl?wian, forsl?wan (“to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off”), equivalent to for- +? slow.

Verb

forslow (third-person singular simple present forslows, present participle forslowing, simple past and past participle forslowed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, V.8:

     If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

     But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]

   • 1682, John Dryden, Epistles, XIII:

     The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:

     Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

Synonyms

• (To be dilatory about): See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
• (To delay): See also Thesaurus:hinder
• (To be slow or dilatory): See also Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• forslowth