different between rally vs league

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ.li/
• Rhymes: -æli

Etymology 1

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

Noun

rally (plural rallies)

1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

3. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
5. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

Hyponyms

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

Translations

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
   • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]

     The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

   • The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.

3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
4. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

Synonyms

• (gather, unite, especially troops): muster
• (increase in value): bounce back, rebound

Antonyms

• (increase in value): decline

Derived terms

• rallying point

Translations

Etymology 2

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.

   • Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.

   • 1713, John Gay, The Fan

     Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

Noun

rally (uncountable)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

References

• rally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ryall

Czech

Noun

rally f

1. rally (motor racing event)

Synonyms

• rallye f

Italian

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

Spanish

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. rally

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege