different between proposal vs diagram

English

Etymology

propose +? -al

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???po?z?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p??z?l/

Noun

proposal (plural proposals)

1. Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance
   1. A scheme or design

   2. The terms or conditions proposed
      • 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad Chapter VIII

        "That's about the size of it," I said. "Now, if it is a fair question, what was your side proposing to shed?" / I had him, there. He saw he had made a blunder, so he hastened to explain it away. He said he had spoken jestingly. Then he added that he and his principal would enjoy axes, and indeed prefer them, but such weapons were barred by the French code, and so I must change my proposal.

   3. The document on which such a thing is written.
      • December 22 2016, Simon Parkin in the Irish Times Basement idea to blockbuster: The story of Fifa, the video game

        Lewis, who had been sent to London to set up EA's European office, wrote a proposal for a lavish, high-tech football...

   4. The act of asking someone to be one's spouse; an offer of marriage
      • October 25 2013, Guardian Express Kim Kardashian Says a Prenup Is the Only Way to Marry

        Kanye may have been love stricken when Kim accepted his proposal to marry him but Kim has always supported the idea of a prenup.

      • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid Chapter 4

        You could open his collected works almost anywhere and shut your eyes and dab down your finger on some red-hot passage. A proposal of marriage is a thing which it is rather difficult to bring neatly into the ordinary run of conversation. It wants leading up to.

      • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times Chapter XV

        ‘Louisa, my dear, you are the subject of a proposal of marriage that has been made to me.’ Again he waited, and again she answered not one word. This so far surprised him, as to induce him gently to repeat, ‘a proposal of marriage, my dear.’ To which she returned, without any visible emotion whatever:

   5. (law) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.

Synonyms

• proffer
• tender
• overture

Derived terms

Related terms

• proposition

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• diagramme (archaic)

Etymology

From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?da?.?.??æm/, /?da?.??æm/

Noun

diagram (plural diagrams)

1. A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

   Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.

2. A graph or chart.
3. (category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".

Synonyms

• (plan or similar to show relationships or similar): schematic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:diagram

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

diagram (third-person singular simple present diagrams, present participle diagraming or diagramming, simple past and past participle diagramed or diagrammed)

1. (transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
2. (Britain) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.

Related terms

• diagrammatic
• diagrammatically

References

• diagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diagram on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• diagram at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?ja?ram]

Noun

diagram m

1. diagram

Declension

Derived terms

• diagram rybí kosti m
• stavový diagram m

Further reading

• diagram in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• diagram in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

diagram n (singular definite diagrammet, plural indefinite diagrammer)

1. diagram

Declension

References

• “diagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagramme or English diagram, from Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a???r?m/
• Hyphenation: di?a?gram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram n (plural diagrammen, diminutive diagrammetje n)

1. diagram

Derived terms

• staafdiagram
• venndiagram

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dij??r?m]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram (plural diagramok)

1. diagram

Declension

References

Further reading

• diagram in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram or diagrammer, definite plural diagramma or diagrammene)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram, definite plural diagramma)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dja.?ram/

Noun

diagram m inan

1. diagram

Declension

Swedish

Noun

diagram n

1. a diagram, a graph, a drawing

Declension