different between party vs gang

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.ti/, [?p????i]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?(?)?i/, [?p??(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -??(r)ti
• Hyphenation: par?ty

Etymology 1

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin part?ta (“a part, party”), from Latin part?ta, feminine of part?tus, past participle of part?r? (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

Noun

party (plural parties)

1. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     if the Jury had found that the party slain had been of English race and nation, it had been adjudged felony

2. A person.
   1. (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
   2. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

3. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Ch.6:

     A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see that all members of the tribe were accounted for.

   1. (role-playing games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
   2. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
4. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

   • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

   • The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

5. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

6. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
   1. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
   2. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
   3. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.

7. (obsolete) A part or division.

   • And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.

Synonyms

• (social gathering): bash, do, rave
• See also Thesaurus:party

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (p?r??)
• ? Japanese: ????? (p?t?)
• ? Korean: ?? (pati)

Translations

Verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

1. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

   We partied until the early hours.

2. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
3. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
4. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).

   If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

Derived terms

• party down
• party on

Translations

References

• Party (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin part?tus (“parted”), past participle of partiri (“to divide”). More at part.

Adjective

party (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
2. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

   an escutcheon party per pale

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• praty, yrapt

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch partij, from Middle Dutch partie, from Old French partie.

Noun

party (plural partye)

1. party (group, especially a political one)

Determiner

party

1. some, a few

Czech

Alternative forms

• párty

Noun

party f

1. party (gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)

Synonyms

• See ve?írek

Related terms

• See part

Further reading

• party in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• party in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party f or m (plural party's, diminutive party'tje n)

1. party

Synonyms

• feest, fuif

Derived terms

• schuimparty

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.ti/

Noun

party m or f (plural parties or partys)

1. (Canada) party (social gathering)

Usage notes

party has two genders in French: In Canada, it is a masculine noun, and in France it is a feminine noun.

Derived terms

• garden-party
• party hot-dog
• suicide-party

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.ti/

Noun

party m (invariable)

1. party (social gathering)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party or partyer, definite plural partya or partyene)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party, definite plural partya)

1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

• fest

References

• “party” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.t?/

Participle

party

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of prze?

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

party

1. Obsolete spelling of parti

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party. Doublet of partida.

Noun

party m (plural partys or parties)

1. party

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party n

1. party; social gathering

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?ng, IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-Germanic *gangan? (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step, walk”). Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.

Alternative forms

• gan

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
   • 1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy. Act III

     (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has).

Noun

gang (plural gangs)

2. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

   the Gashouse Gang

   The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.

3. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

   a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.

4. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

   a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.

6. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

   The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.

7. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

   The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.

   Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.

8. (US) A chain gang.
9. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

   a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.

10. A set; all required for an outfit.

    a new gang of stays.

11. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

    an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.

12. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

    a gang of wires

    Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.

13. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
    • 1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes I.3:

      In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang

    • 1869, Papa André, Once a Week, page 418/1:

      That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.

    • 1895, Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl, Modern Language Association of America, page 229:

      Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.

14. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, page 290:

      Þaða he to gange com.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: gangue
• ? Thai: ???? (g??ng)

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
   • 1981, United States. Department of Defense, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems (page 58)

     Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]

Derived terms

• gang up
• gang up on

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 3

See gan.

Verb

gang (second-person singular simple present gangst)

1. Pronunciation spelling of gan.

Etymology 4

Shortening of gangbang.

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.
   • 2015, Richard Allen, Skinhead, page 80:

     […] there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.

References

• The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Etymology 5

Noun

gang (countable and uncountable, plural gangs)

1. (mining) Alternative form of gangue

Anagrams

• gnag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gang, from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang (plural gange)

1. a passageway, alley

Alemannic German

Verb

gang

1. second-person imperative singular of gaa

Balinese

Etymology

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”).

Noun

gang

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gang

Etymology 1

From English gang.

Noun

gang

1. a gang; a criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city

Etymology 2

From langga, pangga. Compare lang.

Noun

gang

1. a term of address for a beloved person; dear; sweetie

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gang.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??an??/, [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From Old Danish gang, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“stride, step”).

Noun

gang c (singular definite gangen, plural indefinite gange)

1. the act of walking, a walk
2. a time (an occurrence, an incidence)

   Hvor mange gange slog klokken?

   How many times did the bell toll?

3. a way or path to walk on, either outdoors or indoors (a corridor)

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See gange.

Verb

gang

1. imperative of gange

References

• “gang” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “gang” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Hyphenation: gang
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

gang m (plural gangen, diminutive gangetje n)

1. passageway, alley
2. gait, walk (person's manner of walking or stepping)
3. journey
4. hallway, corridor
5. course

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gang
• ? Indonesian: gang

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /????/
• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang, group of ill-doers

Derived terms

• en gang

Further reading

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

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gang

1. river

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 114

German

Verb

gang

1. obsolete form of geh, second-person imperative singular of gehen

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

gang (plural gangok)

1. (informal) hanging corridor (along the main walls of the courtyard of a tenement building, a major venue of socializing with neighbours)

   Synonym: (mainly as an architectural term) függ?folyosó

Declension

Derived terms

• gangos
• körgang

Further reading

• gang 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

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”), from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Doublet of geng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Hyphenation: gang

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

   Synonym: lorong

Descendants

• ? Min Nan: ? (kàn, “narrow street”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. Alternative spelling of geng (“gang”)

Verb

gang

1. Alternative spelling of geng

References

Further reading

• “gang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

• ganga, ghenga, ghega (dated)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?/

Noun

gang f (invariable, dated plural gangs)

1. gang, specifically:
   1. (dated) A group of people.
   2. (dated) A group of laborers under one foreman.
   3. A criminal group.

Related terms

• gangster

References

• gang in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Mandarin

Pronunciation

Romanization

gang

1. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gàng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural ganger, definite plural gangene)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett fra deg skoene i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

   I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.

   The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkelig.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. time

    Vi vant fem ganger på rad!

    We won five times in a row!

11. plot, action

    Historiens gang var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

12. (mining) dike, lode
13. vein
14. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

References

• “gang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural gangar, definite plural gangane)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett frå deg skorne i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkeleg.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. plot, action

    Gangen i soga var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

11. (mining) dike, lode
12. vein
13. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

See also

• gong

References

• “gang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• geng, gong, gung

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Related to Old English gangan (“to go, walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?/, [????]

Noun

gang m

1. going, walking
2. path
3. gait
4. toilet

Declension

Derived terms

• gangsetl
• gangst?l
• ingang
• niþergang
• ?pgang
• ?tgang
• ymbgang

Descendants

• Middle English: gang, gong
  • Scots: gang
  • English: gang, gong, goung
    • ? Dutch: gang
    • ? Portuguese: gangue
    • ? Norman: dgaîngue

Derived terms

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Noun

gang m (plural ganga)

1. A path, course, way, journey; a going

Declension

Derived terms

• ubargang
• Wolfgang

Descendants

• Middle High German: ganc
  • German: Gang

Polish

Etymology

From English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ank/

Noun

gang m inan

1. gang (criminal group with a common background)

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) gangster, gangsterstwo, gangsteryzm
• (adjective) gangsterski

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

gang m (Portugal) or f (Brazil) (plural gangs)

1. Dated spelling of gangue.

Romanian

Etymology

From German Gang

Noun

gang n (plural ganguri)

1. passageway

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

• gae
• gan

Etymology

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan, Old Norse ganga, with inflected forms from Old English g?n (like English go).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

gang (third-person singular present gangs, present participle gaun, past gaed, past participle gaen)

1. To go.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red, Rose":

   And I will love thee still, my dear
   Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Spanish

Etymology

From English gang.

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a????]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *c-ka?? (“handspan”).

Noun

gang

1. a handspan

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *t-ka??, from Old Chinese ? (OC *C.k?a?) (B-S) (SV: c??ng).

Noun

gang

1. cast iron