different between orange vs president

English

Etymology

From Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and (n)arancia (“orange”), from Arabic ????????? (n?ranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (n?ra?ga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil ????????????? (n?rtta?k?y), compound of ??????? (narantam, “fragrance”) and ???? (k?y, “fruit”); also Telugu ??????? (n?ra?gamu), Malayalam ?????? (n?ra??a), Kannada ?????? (n?ra?gi)).

For other similar cases of the incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) of the above Italian word, but in English, see Category:English rebracketings.

For the color sense, see Old English ?eolur?ad (literally “yellow-red”); compare English blue-green.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?r??nj, -?nzh, IPA^(key): /????n(d)?/
• (US, East Coast) enPR: är??nj, ?r??nj, IPA^(key): /?????nd??/, /???-/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ôr??nj, IPA^(key): /?????nd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???(?)nd??/, /????nt??/
• Homophone: Orange
• Rhymes: -???nd?
• Hyphenation: or?ange, orange

Noun

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
2. (countable) The fruit of the orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.
3. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

   Synonym: (uncommon) yellowred

4. Various drinks:
   1. (uncountable) Orange juice.
   2. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
   3. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

Usage notes

• It is commonly stated that “orange” has no rhymes. While there are no commonly used English dictionary words that rhyme exactly with “orange” (“door-hinge” comes close in US pronunciation), the English surname Gorringe is a rhyme, at least in UK pronunciation. See the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word “orange”

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: oran?o
• ? Japanese: ???? (orenji)
• ? Korean: ??? (orenji)
• ? Malay: oren
• ? Marshallese: oran

Translations

Adjective

orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)

1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

Antonyms

• (having orange as its colour): nonorange

Translations

Verb

orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)

1. (transitive) To color orange.
2. (intransitive) To become orange.

See also

References

• orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gorean, Ragone, groane, onager

French

Etymology

Short form of late Old French pume orenge or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange, from where these fruits came to the north.See orange (English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.????/
• Rhymes: -???
• Homophone: oranges

Noun

orange f (plural oranges)

1. orange (fruit)

Descendants

• ? Breton: orañjez
• ? Belarusian: ????????? (aránžavy)
• ? Bulgarian: ???????? (oránžev)
• ? German: Orange
• ? Latvian: oranžs
• ? Low German: Orange
• ? Luxembourgish: Orange
• ? Norwegian: oransje
• ? Romanian: oranj
• ? Russian: ?????????? (oránževyj)
• ? Swedish: orange

Noun

orange m (plural oranges)

1. orange (color)

Derived terms

• oranger
• Orangina

Adjective

orange (invariable)

1. orange

Usage notes

While theoretically the adjective orange is invariable, being (originally) a colour name derived from a noun, the nonstandard plural oranges is in use.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• “orange” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• onagre, organe, rongea

German

Etymology

From the noun Orange (“orange fruit”), from French orange.

Pronunciation

• (predicative only) IPA^(key): /o??ã??/, /o??a??/, /o??????/, /o?????/
• (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA^(key): /o??ã???/, /o??a???/, /o???????/, /o??????/

Adjective

orange (comparative oranger or orangener, superlative am orangesten or am orangensten)

1. orange

Usage notes

• The adjective has two sets of forms. In the formal standard language, endings are added directly to the stem (orang-). In less formal style and in the vernacular, another set of forms is used in free variation, in which an -n- is infixed before the endings.
• It is also officially correct to leave the adjective entirely undeclined. This usage is rare, however, and seems dated.

Declension

Standard forms

Colloquial forms

Further reading

• “orange” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??????/

Adjective

orange (masculine orangen, neuter oranget, comparative méi orange, superlative am orangesten)

1. orange

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Middle English

Noun

orange

1. Alternative form of orenge

Norman

Alternative forms

• oraunge (Cotentin)

Etymology

From Old French.

Pronunciation

Adjective

orange m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.

Pronunciation

• (indefinite common singular) IPA^(key): /??ran?/, (southern) /??ra??/
• (indefinite neuter singular) IPA^(key): /??ran?t/, (southern) /??ra??t/
• (definite masculine singular) IPA^(key): /??ran??/, (southern) /??ra???/
• (definite or plural) IPA^(key): /??ran?a/, (southern) /??ra??a/

Adjective

orange

1. orange

Declension

Less common:

Noun

orange ?

1. orange (color)

English

Alternative forms

• President (honorifically)
• præsident (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French president, from Latin praesid?ns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praeside? (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sede? (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesid?ns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)

1. The head of state of a republic.
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     […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

2. In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
5. Obsolete form of precedent.

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Synonyms

• (American head of state): POTUS
• (head of a college or university): provost (UK)
• (head of various specific bodies): prepositus
• (informal, jocular): prexy, prez

Translations

Adjective

president (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

References

• president at OneLook Dictionary Search
• president in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Related terms

• presidència
• presidencial
• presidir

Further reading

• “president” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “president” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “president” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “president” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

president m

1. Alternative spelling of prezident

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)

1. president

Derived terms

• vicepresident

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: presiden

Ladin

Alternative forms

• presidënt

Noun

president m (plural presidenc)

1. president

Middle French

Noun

president m (plural presidens)

1. president (leader of an organization)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidenter, definite plural presidentene)

1. a president

Derived terms

• presidentvalg

References

• “president” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidentar, definite plural presidentane)

1. a president

References

• “president” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Spanish

Etymology

Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?esi?dent/, [p?e.si?ð??n?t?]

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president of Catalonia

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

president c

1. a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law
2. a president, head of state in a republic

Declension

Related terms

References

• president in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)