different between potato vs aircraft

English

Alternative forms

• potatoe (obsolete)
• p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??te?.t??/, [p???t?e?t???]
• (General American) enPR: p?-t??t?, IPA^(key): /p??te?.to?/, [p???t?e??o?], [p???t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Synonyms

• (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
• (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

Anagrams

• patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, /p??ta.t?/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po??ta?.to?/, [po??t?ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, [p??t???t??]

Verb

p?t?t?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future active imperative of p?t?

Quotations

English

Etymology

From air +? craft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.k???ft/, /??.k???ft/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.k?æft/, /???.k?æft/

Noun

aircraft (plural aircraft)

1. A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift

Usage notes

• The nonstandard plural form aircrafts is in use among non-native speakers of English.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:aircraft

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aeroplane (UK), airplane (US)