different between pepper vs attack

English

Alternative forms

• piper (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the European spice.

Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of peepul.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. (Britain, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
4. (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

   Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

5. (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

Synonyms

• (fruit of the capsicum):
  • (spicy): chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
  • (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: pepa
• ? Hawaiian: pepa
• ? Marshallese: pepa

Translations

Verb

pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)

1. (transitive) To add pepper to.
2. (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
3. (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

4. (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.

5. (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.

Derived terms

• bepepper
• peppering

Related terms

Translations

See also

• salt
• Wikipedia article on pepper
• Wikipedia article on peppers (fruits of the capsicum plant)

Middle English

Noun

pepper

1. Alternative form of peper

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse piparr

Pronunciation

Noun

pepper m (definite singular pepperen)

1. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

• pepperkake
• peppermynte

See also

• pepar (Nynorsk)

References

• “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, General Australian) IPA^(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

attack (plural attacks)

1. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
2. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

3. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.

4. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.

   Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.

5. (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.

   birthday attack; denial-of-service attack

6. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
7. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.

   Synonyms: hit, spike

8. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
9. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.

10. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
11. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.

    Antonyms: decay, release

12. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:attack

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)

1. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

2. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
3. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
   • 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat

     Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.

4. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.

5. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
6. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
7. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
8. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
9. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
10. (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:attack

Translations

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

From French attaque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?tak/

Noun

attack c

1. attack; an attempt to cause damage
2. attack; offense of a battle

Declension

Synonyms

• anfall

Related terms

• attackera

Derived terms

• hjärtattack

Anagrams

• tackat