different between paragon vs cannon

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman paragone, peragone, Middle French paragon, from Italian paragone (“comparison”) or Spanish parangón, from paragonare, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parakoná?, “I sharpen, whet”), from ???? (pará) +? ????? (akón?, “whetstone”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ????n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæ?????n/, /?pæ?????n/, /?pæ????n/
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction)

Noun

paragon (plural paragons)

1. A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody
2. (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal. [16th–19th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Comparison; competition. [16th–17th c.]
4. (typography, printing, dated) The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point. [from 18th c.]
5. A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.

Translations

Verb

paragon (third-person singular simple present paragons, present participle paragoning, simple past and past participle paragoned)

1. To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
2. To compare with; to equal; to rival.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid

3. To serve as a model for; to surpass.
4. To be equal; to hold comparison.

Translations

Further reading

• paragon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paragon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paragon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?para?on]

Noun

paragon m

1. A receipt, sales slip.

Synonyms

• stvrzenka
• ú?tenka

Further reading

• paragon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• paragon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Polish

Etymology

Mid 16th century: from obsolete French paragon, from Italian paragone (“touchstone to try good (gold) from bad”), from Byzantine Greek ???????? (parakón?, “whetstone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra.??n/

Noun

paragon m inan

1. receipt (written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received)

Declension

Further reading

• paragon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• paragon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of canyon.

This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'?n, IPA^(key): /?kæn.?n/
• Rhymes: -æn?n
• Homophone: canon

Noun

cannon (countable and uncountable, plural (mainly UK) cannons or cannon)

1. A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
2. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
   1. (military, aviation) An autocannon.
3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
4. A cannon bit.
5. (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
6. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.

   In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

7. (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.

   He's got a cannon out in right.

8. (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
9. (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”)
10. (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.

Related terms

• autocannon
• cannonade
• cannonball
• cannoneer
• glass cannon
• nursery cannon

Translations

Verb

cannon (third-person singular simple present cannons, present participle cannoning, simple past and past participle cannoned)

1. To bombard with cannons.
2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

   The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
   • 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Maltese Cat" in The Day's Work, [2]

     […] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.

   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.

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References

Further reading

• cannon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia