different between peace vs fritter

English

Etymology

From Middle English pes, pais, pees, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pac?scor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Middle English frith, frede (“peace”) (from Old English friþ, fr?od (“peace”)), Middle English sib, sibbe (“peace”) (from Old English sibb (“peace, kinship”)), Middle English grith (“peace, security”) (from Old English griþ and Old Norse grið), Middle English saht, saught (“peace, reconciliation”) (from Old English seht, sæht (“peace, pact, agreement”)). Doublet of pax.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?s, IPA^(key): /pi?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Homophone: piece

Noun

peace (usually uncountable, plural peaces)

1. A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.

   Synonyms: (poetic) frith; see also Thesaurus:calm

   Antonyms: disruption, violence

2. A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.

3. Harmony in personal relations.
4. A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.

   Antonyms: war, violence

   • 1969 March 31, John Lennon, Bagism Press Conference at Sacher Hotel, Vienna

     Now, a lot of cynics have said, “Oh, it’s easy to sit in bed for seven days,” but I’d like some of them to try it, and talk for seven days about peace. All we’re saying is give peace a chance.

   • 1993, Marky Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).

Derived terms

Pages starting with “peace”.

Related terms

• pacific
• pacify
• pacification
• pacifism
• pacifist

Translations

Interjection

peace

1. (archaic) Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
2. (slang) Shortened form of peace out; goodbye.

Verb

peace (third-person singular simple present peaces, present participle peacing, simple past and past participle peaced)

1. To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
   • 1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49:

     Within every hood they have to be peacing with themselves. Then when you're living in peace with yourself, [...]
2. (slang) To peace out.

Further reading

Wikiversity

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

English

Etymology

From Old French friture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??t?/
• (US) enPR: fr?t??r, IPA^(key): /?f??t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

fritter (plural fritters)

1. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

   • And cut whole giants into fritters.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fritter (third-person singular simple present fritters, present participle frittering, simple past and past participle frittered)

1. (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.

   I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.

   He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.

   It is quite possible to fritter one's life away in answer to the endless calls of others.

2. (transitive) To sinter.
3. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
4. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tempura

French

Verb

fritter

1. (transitive) to fritter / sinter

Conjugation

Further reading

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