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purpose
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?p?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??p?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”), from Latin pr? (“forth”) + pono, hence Latin propono, proponere, with conjugation altered based on poser.
Noun
purpose (countable and uncountable, plural purposes)
- An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
- A result that is desired; an intention.
- The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[2]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[2]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
- (obsolete) Instance; example.
Synonyms
- (target): aim, goal, object, target; See also Thesaurus:goal
- (intention): aim, plan, intention; See also Thesaurus:intention
- (determination): determination, intention, resolution
- (subject of discourse): matter, subject, topic
- (reason for doing something): reason
Hyponyms
- common purpose
- metapurpose
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English purposen, from Old French purposer (“to propose”).
Verb
purpose (third-person singular simple present purposes, present participle purposing, simple past and past participle purposed)
- (transitive) To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
- (transitive, passive) To design for some purpose. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
- purposed
- purposer
- purposive
- on purpose
Synonyms
- (have set as one's purpose): aim, intend, mean, plan, set out
- (designed for some purpose): intended
Translations
References
- “purpose” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “purpose”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- "purpose" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
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fate
English
Etymology
From Latin fata (“prediction”), plural of fatum, from fatus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). Displaced native Old English wyrd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Synonyms
- destiny
- doom
- fortune
- kismet
- lot
- necessity
- orlay
- predestination
- wyrd
Antonyms
- choice
- free will
- freedom
- chance
Derived terms
- fatal
- fatalism
- fatality
- tempt fate
Related terms
- amor fati (Amor fati)
Translations
See also
- determinism
- indeterminism
Verb
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
Translations
Anagrams
- EFTA, TAFE, TFAE, feat, feat., feta
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fa?.t?e], /?fate/
- Hyphenation: fà?te
Verb
fate
- inflection of fare:
- second-person plural indicative present
- second-person plural imperative
Noun
fate f
- plural of fata
Anagrams
- afte
Latin
Participle
f?te
- vocative masculine singular of f?tus
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??a.t?]
- Hyphenation: fa?te
Verb
fate
- (transitive) to hit
- (intransitive) to hit
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fat)
- Alternative form of fata
Anagrams
- EFTA, efta, feta
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?t/
Noun
fate
- feat
Volapük
Noun
fate
- dative singular of fat
Yamdena
Alternative forms
- fat
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fate
- Alternative form of fat
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