different between pluto vs earth

English

Etymology

Originally coined in 2006 by the American Dialect Society, in reference to Pluto's demotion from planet status, defeating climate canary for Word of the Year.

Verb

pluto (third-person singular simple present plutos, present participle plutoing, simple past and past participle plutoed)

1. (neologism) To demote or devalue something.
   • 2007 April 21, The Meerkat <[email protected]>, OT:Catholic Church ditches Limbo, aus.tv, Usenet.

     Limbo has been plutoed. No half way house any more. It's heaven or hell.

   • 2007, Andrew Swift, The Daily Iowan - Opinion Column

     Winter is dead. The break the university community has just returned from is ostensibly known as winter break. But those who stayed in the Iowa City area know the sad truth: The four seasons Midwesterners grew up with have been Plutoed.

   • 2007, Richard Davis, Courier Press - Entertainment Column

     I'm sure I looked really cool (or has that word been plutoed?) in my sneakers and old-fashioned Levis, next to jocks, Greek Life poster children, guys with Bluetooth headsets, and a young woman in ski boots and leotards that left little to the imagination.

   • 2008 April 13, GET WISDOM! <[email protected]>, GET WISDOM! Understanding, GET WISDOM!, Usenet.

     As a result of...plutoing that class, I made room for another in-depth marketing class that will better serve me and you, my clients and readers.

Further reading

• American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (2006)

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• pluot, poult

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plu.t?/

Verb

pluto

1. impersonal past of plu?

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plûto/

Noun

pl?to n (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. Alternative form of pl?ta (“cork”)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ? (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse j?rfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (compare Ancient Greek *??? (*éra) in ????? (éraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).

Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian ????? (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *?ar??- – whence Arabic ?????? (?ar?), Hebrew ?????? (?ere?) – is probably not related.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Proper noun

earth

2. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.

Usage notes

• The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

Translations

Noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

1. (uncountable) Soil.

2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.

3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
9. The people on the globe.
10. (archaic) The human body.
11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
12. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

1. (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.

   Synonym: ground

2. (transitive) To bury.
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
4. (intransitive) To burrow.

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

Derived terms

• earthing
• unearth

Translations

Anagrams

• Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare