different between outwork vs tenaille

English

Etymology

out- +? work

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w??k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw??k/
• (General American)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûrk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w???k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûrk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw???k/

Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

1. (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].

2. To work faster or harder than.

Noun

outwork (countable and uncountable, plural outworks)

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

Translations

Anagrams

• work out, workout

English

Etymology

From French tenaille (“a pair of pincers or tongs”), from Latin tenaculum. See tenaculum.

Noun

tenaille (plural tenailles)

1. (military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from tene?. Compare Occitan, Portuguese tenalha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.naj/

Noun

tenaille f (plural tenailles)

1. pincer (tool)

Verb

tenaille

1. first-person singular present indicative of tenailler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tenailler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tenailler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tenailler
5. second-person singular imperative of tenailler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• entaille, entaillé