different between remedy vs fic

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

Etymology

A shortening of fanfic, itself a shortening of fan fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?k/

Noun

fic (countable and uncountable, plural fics)

1. (slang, countable) A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• CFI, CIF, FCI, ICF, IFC

Albanian

Etymology

From an unattested *fij, from Proto-Albanian *spija, cognate with Sanskrit ??????? (spháyate, “to become fat”), Proto-Slavic *sp?ti (“to ripen”).

Verb

fic (first-person singular past tense fica, participle ficur)

1. to make soft

Related terms

• butë

References

Middle English

Noun

fic

1. Alternative form of fyke

Old English

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *f?ca, from Latin f?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?k/

Noun

f?c m

1. a fig or fig tree
2. piles, hemorrhoids

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: fike, fyke
  • English: fike