different between professional vs non
professional
English
Etymology
profession +? -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???f???n?l/
Noun
professional (plural professionals)
- A person who belongs to a profession
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity
- A reputation known by name
- An expert.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 97:
- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 97:
Derived terms
- non-professional, nonprofessional
- pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
- semi-professional, semiprofessional
- super professional, super-professional, superprofessional
Translations
Adjective
professional (comparative more professional, superlative most professional)
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
Derived terms
- non-professional, nonprofessional
- professionalism
- pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
- semi-professional, semiprofessional
- unprofessional
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
professió +? -al
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /p?o.f?.si.o?nal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /p?u.f?.si.u?nal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /p?o.fe.si.o?nal/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
professional (masculine and feminine plural professionals)
- professional
Derived terms
- professionalisme
- professionalment
Noun
professional m or f (plural professionals)
- professional
Further reading
- “professional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “professional” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “professional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “professional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From English professional.
Pronunciation
Noun
professional m (plural professionals)
- a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
- an expert in a (professional) field
Related terms
- professionalism n
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non
English
Pronunciation
Adverb
non (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of none.
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin non.
Adverb
non
- no
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /non/
Pronoun
non
- inessive indefinite inanimate of nor; where
Chiricahua
Noun
non
- Alternative spelling of nun
Chuukese
Preposition
non
- in
Cimbrian
Noun
non
- plural of nono (“grandfather”): grandparents
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch nonne, which ultimately derives from Late Latin nonna.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
non f (plural nonnen, diminutive nonnetje n)
- nun
Synonyms
- zuster
- kloosterzuster
Fala
Alternative forms
- nun
Etymology
From Old Portuguese non, from Latin n?n (“not”).
Adverb
non
- not (negates the meaning of the modified verb)
French
Etymology
From Old French non, from Latin n?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??/
- Homophones: nom, noms, nons
Adverb
non
- no
Conjunction
non
- not
Noun
non m (plural nons)
- a no, a negative response
Interjection
non
- no!
Derived terms
Further reading
- “non” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin n?men, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn?.
Noun
non m (plural nons)
- name
Galician
Alternative forms
- não (lusist reintegrationist)
- nom (reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese non, from Latin n?n.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [n??], [?no?]
Adverb
non
- no, not, not at all.
- no (used to show disagreement or negation)
- no (used to reinforce an affirmation as negation of the alternative - but it can be omitted without changing the meaning)
- no (reinforces a mandate in interrogative sentences)
Usage notes
Non usually contracts in speech with a following definite article or personal pronoun (a, as, o, os). The result of this contraction, in the past written as nono, no-no, n'o, among other forms, is [nona], [nono], [nonas], [nono] in the east and central areas and [na], [no], [nas], [nos] in the west. Today these contractions are rarely shown in written Galician:
- Non o queres? ("You don't want it?"): IPA(key): (central) [nono?k???s], (western) [no?k?s].
Further reading
- “non” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “non” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “non” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French nom (“name”)
Noun
non
- name
Related terms
- onon
Ido
Etymology
From English nine, German neun, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?néwn?. In length from English nona-, French nona-, Italian nono, Spanish nono.
Numeral
non
- nine (9)
Interlingua
Adverb
non
- not
Istriot
Alternative forms
- nom
Etymology
From Latin n?men. Compare Friulian non, Dalmatian naun.
Noun
non
- name
Italian
Etymology
From Latin n?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /non/
Adverb
non
- not
- un-
- don't
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin n?n.
Adverb
non (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????)
- not
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”) (= ne + ?nus). See also n? and n?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /no?n/, [no?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /non/, [n?n]
Particle
n?n (negative particle)
- not
Usage notes
The particle n?n may be used to negate verbs, adjectives, nouns, or phrases.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- non in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- non in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- non in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Lote
Noun
non
- man
References
- Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??/
Etymology 1
From French nom.
Noun
non
- name
Alternative forms
- nom
Etymology 2
From French non.
Adverb
non
- no; a word used to indicate disagreement or negation
- Antonym: wi
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French non.
Interjection
non
- no
Descendants
- French: non
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse nón, from Latin nona (hora) (“ninth hour”). Akin to English noon and nones.
Noun
non n (definite singular nonet, indefinite plural non, definite plural nona)
- (historical) the ninth hour after dawn (about 3pm)
- a meal eaten around 3-5 pm
- (Catholicism) none, nones
Derived terms
- nonsmat m
References
- “non” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- onn
Old English
Etymology 1
From Latin n?na (“ninth; ninth hour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /no?n/
Noun
n?n ?
- (historical) Nones, the ninth hour after sunrise
- (Christianity) Nones, the religious service appointed to this hour
Synonyms
- (time): n?nt?d, n?nt?ma
- (religious service): n?nsang
Derived terms
- n?ngereord, n?nmete, n?nsang, n?nt?d, n?nt?ma
Descendants
- Middle English: non, none, noon, noun, noune
- English: noon
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /non/
Noun
non m
- a form of address from younger to older monks
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “n?n”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “non”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin n?n.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -on
Interjection
non
- no
Adverb
non
- not
Noun
non m (oblique plural nons, nominative singular nons, nominative plural non)
- Alternative form of nom
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin n?n (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nõ/
Adverb
non
- no, not
- ?i ou non
- yes or no
- ?i ou non
Descendants
- Fala: non
- Galician: non
- Portuguese: não
Romansch
Etymology
From Late Latin nonnus (compare Italian nonno).
Noun
non m (plural nons)
- (Puter) grandfather
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tat
- (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner
Related terms
- nona
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- nun, unn, 'un, nn'
Etymology
From Latin n?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?n/
Adverb
non
- not
Spanish
Etymology 1
From Latin non.
Adverb
non
- Archaic form of no.
Etymology 2
From Latin non (par).
Adjective
non
- odd (indivisible by two)
- Synonym: impar
- Antonym: par
Further reading
- “non” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Uzbek
Noun
non (plural nonlar)
- bread
Declension
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [n?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [n????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [n????]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *k-n??n, from *k-rn-??n, which Ferlus considered an infixed derivation of Proto-Vietic *k??n (“child”). Cognate with Chut [R?c] kun??n¹, Semai kenon (“child”), Juang k?n?n ("child, son, the young one; young"), Khmu [Cuang] krn??n ("uterus"). Likely received some semantic influence from ? (MC nu?nH) (SV: n?n) as well.
Adjective
non • (?)
- young, tender, green
- new
- mild
- premature
- not up to the mark
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
non • (????, ????)
- mountain
Derived terms
Western Apache
Alternative forms
- noi
Etymology
Cognates: Navajo noo?, Chiricahua nun, Mescalero nun, Plains Apache n??.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nòn]
Noun
non
- something stored away, cache
Zazaki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?non]
- Hyphenation: non
Noun
non m
- Alternative form of nan
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