different between remedy vs choir

English

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m?di/
• Hyphenation: rem?e?dy

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Synonyms

• (Scottish contexts): remeid

Derived terms

• home remedy
• remediless

Translations

Verb

remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.

     Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Synonyms

• redress
• help
• correct
• cure
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Related terms

• remediable
• remedial

Further reading

• remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• quire (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and Modern French chœur. Doublet of chorus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwa??/
• Rhymes: -a??
• Homophone: quire

Noun

choir (plural choirs)

1. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.

2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

Derived terms

• chorister
• Nikon choir

Related terms

• choral
• chorus
• quire

Translations

Verb

choir (third-person singular simple present choirs or quires, present participle choiring or quiring, simple past and past participle choired or quired)

1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.
   • 1859, The Presbyterian Magazine (volume 9, page 423)

Anagrams

• chiro, chiro-, chori, ichor

French

Etymology

From Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Compare Norman caeir, Franco-Provençal chêre, Occitan caire, Catalan caure, Italian cadere, Spanish caer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?/
• Rhymes: -wa?

Verb

choir (defective) (past participle chu)

1. (literary) to fall

   Synonym: tomber

Conjugation

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in certain tenses.

Derived terms

• chute
• déchoir
• échoir
• méchoir
• rechoir

Further reading

• “choir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [x???]

Noun

choir m

1. Lenited form of coir.