different between pada vs decan

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (pada).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??d?/

Noun

pada (plural padas)

1. (Sanskrit prosody) The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 79:

     There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.

Anagrams

• ADAP, Adap

Balinese

Romanization

pada

1. Romanization of ??.
2. Romanization of ???.
3. Romanization of ??.

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

pada (genitive paja, partitive pada)

1. cauldron, pot

Declension

Synonyms

• katel

Derived terms

• rahapada

Etymology 2

Noun

pada (genitive pada, partitive pada)

1. (card games) spades

Declension

Synonyms

• poti

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (pada)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Preposition

pada

1. at, on
2. with (a person)

Karelian

Alternative forms

• pata (North Karelian)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pata, from Proto-Uralic *pata.

Noun

pada (genitive puan, partitive padua)

1. (South Karelian) pot

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pada]

Verb

pada

1. third-person singular present of pada?

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (pada)

Preposition

pada (Jawi spelling ??? or ?????)

1. at, on
2. with (a person)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

pada n

1. foot
2. footstep

   Antonym: apada

3. path, way
4. constituent
5. word, quarter verse, verse, stanza, sentence
6. (grammar) ending

Declension

Derived terms

• janapada (“state, territory”)

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ???? (pud, “word; punctuation mark”)
• ? Burmese: ????? (puid, “paragraph”)
• ? Lao: ??? (bot, “chapter”)
• ? Thai: ?? (bòt, “chapter”)
• ? Northern Thai: ???? (“chapter”)

References

“pada”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.da/

Verb

pada

1. third-person singular present of pada?

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pata, from Proto-Uralic *pata.

Noun

pada

1. pot
2. jar

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n

Noun

decan (plural decans)

1. (Egyptology, astrology) One of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by approximately 10 degrees.

Etymology 2

de- +? can

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.kæn/

Verb

decan (third-person singular simple present decans, present participle decanning, simple past and past participle decanned)

1. To remove (something, especially nuclear reactor fuel) from a can or similar protective enclosure, cladding, etc.
   • 1962, American Nuclear Society, Hot Laboratory Division, Winter Meeting, Proceedings of the tenth Conference on Hot Laboratories and Equipment:

     (4) The time required to decan the elements should be minimized due to the highly reactive nature of the exposed fuel even in the inert atmosphere of the cell. Remote Repair. The decanning machine is to be remotely operated, [...]

   • 1965, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Reactor Development Program Progress Report

     A machine to decan the blanket elements contained in the core, outer, and inner blanket subassemblies is being designed. The machine will consist of transfer magazines, a cutting unit, an ejector unit and a sampling unit.

   • 1996, Journal of Engineering for Industry

     Can Design for Nonisothermal Pancake Forging of Gamma Titanium Aluminide Alloys

     The design of cans to produce [...]. After decanning, the pancakes revealed "flaky" and sporadically cracked flat surfaces, noticeable dead metal zones at the [...]

   • 2011, Frank Crundwell, Michael Moats, Venkoba Ramachandran, Timothy Robinson, W. G. Davenport, Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel, Cobalt and Platinum Group Metals, Elsevier (?ISBN), page 539:

     (a) collecting end-of-use automobiles; (b) dismantling them into major components, including batteries and catalytic converters; (c) decanning the converters by shearing the cans crossways into two halves; (d) [...]

Anagrams

• Caden, Dance, acned, caned, dance

Esperanto

Adjective

decan

1. accusative singular of deca