different between partner vs partition

partner

English

Etymology

From Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (joint heir) from parçon (partition), from Latin part?ti?nem, singular accusative of part?ti? (portion). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (part holder). Compare also Middle English partifere (partner), partifelewe (partner). Doublet of parcener.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??tn?(?)/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?p??tn?/, [?p???n?]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /?p??tn?/
  • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?p??tn?/

Noun

partner (plural partners)

  1. One of each halves of a pair of someone or something that belongs together.
  2. Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
    1. A member of a business or law partnership.
      • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
        He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
    2. A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.
    3. Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
      • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. [] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
    4. Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
  3. (nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
  4. (Jamaican) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:associate
  • See also Thesaurus:spouse

Descendants

Translations

Verb

partner (third-person singular simple present partners, present participle partnering, simple past and past participle partnered)

  1. (transitive) To join as a partner.
  2. (intransitive, often with with) To work or perform as a partner.

Translations


Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m (indefinite plural partnerë, definite singular partneri, definite plural partnerët)

  1. partner

Declension


Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?partn?r]

Noun

partner m

  1. partner

Related terms

  • See part

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

From English partner.

Noun

partner c (singular definite partneren, plural indefinite partnere)

  1. partner

Inflection

References

  • “partner” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?rt.n?r/
  • Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

partner m (plural partners, diminutive partnertje n)

  1. partner, love interest, romantic and/or sexual companion
  2. partner, companion (someone whom one engages in business)
    Synonyms: deelgenoot, genoot, vennoot

Derived terms


Hungarian

Etymology

From English partner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?p?rtn?r]
  • Hyphenation: part?ner
  • Rhymes: -?r

Noun

partner (plural partnerek)

  1. partner

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • partner in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m or f (invariable)

  1. partner (all senses)

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

  • pardner, partnah

Etymology

From English partner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p??dna/
  • Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

partner (plural: partner dem, quantified: partner)

  1. partner
  2. (financial): An informal saving scheme.

See also

  • throw partner

Further reading

  • Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 430

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English partner.

Noun

partner m (definite singular partneren, indefinite plural partnere, definite plural partnerne)

  1. a partner

Derived terms

  • partnerskap

See also

  • partnar (Nynorsk)

References

  • “partner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English partner, from Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (joint heir), from parçon (partition), from Latin part?ti?nem, singular accusative of part?ti? (portion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?par.tn?r/

Noun

partner m pers (feminine partnerka)

  1. partner (someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest)
  2. partner (spouse, domestic, or romantic partner)
  3. equal (someone of equal status to others)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • (adverb) partnersko (adverb)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner, from Old French parçonneour (joint heir).

Noun

partner m, f (plural partneres)

  1. (dancing) a dance partner
    Synonym: par

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pârtner/
  • Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

p?rtner m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

  1. partner

Declension


Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner c

  1. partner
    Synonyms: kompanjon, medspelare, moatjé

Usage notes

  • The English plural partners is also used.

Declension

Related terms

References

  • partner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m (plural partneriaid or partners)

  1. partner
    Template:coordinate term

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “partner”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English parter.

Noun

partner c (plural partners)

  1. partner

Derived terms

  • partnerskip

Further reading

  • “partner”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

partner From the web:

  • what partnership
  • what partner means
  • what partnership has light with darkness
  • what partner in crime means
  • what partnerships does tesla have
  • what partner do i need
  • what partners need to know about pregnancy
  • what partner pokemon would i have


partition

English

Etymology

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," borrowed from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (division, portion), from partitus, the past participle of partire (to split (up), part(ition)).

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: pärt?'sh?n, IPA(key): /p???t???n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

partition (countable and uncountable, plural partitions)

  1. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
  2. A part of something that has been divided.
  3. (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
  4. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
  5. A vertical structure that divides a room.
    a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions
  6. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
    • No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
  7. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
  8. (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
  9. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
  10. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
  11. (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
  12. (music) A musical score.

Usage notes

  • (set theory): The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.

Synonyms

  • dismemberment

Derived terms

  • equipartition

Related terms

  • partite

Translations

Verb

partition (third-person singular simple present partitions, present participle partitioning, simple past and past participle partitioned)(transitive)

  1. To divide something into parts, sections or shares
  2. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
  3. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off

Synonyms

  • dismember

Derived terms

  • partitioner
  • partitionist

Related terms

  • partner

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin part?ti?, part?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as partir +? -tion.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?.ti.sj??/

Noun

partition f (plural partitions)

  1. (heraldry) a (geometrical) division using two colors
  2. (music) a score, often comprising all parts
  3. (databases, computing) partition

Derived terms

  • partitionner
  • partitionnement
  • partitionniste

Further reading

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

partition From the web:

  • what partition to install windows 10
  • what partition style for ssd
  • what partitions are needed for windows 10
  • what partition style for ssd windows 10
  • what partition is windows installed on
  • what partition style for hdd
  • what partition style to use
  • what partition means
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like