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resign
English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resign?re (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + sign?re (“to seal, stamp”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???za?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Verb
resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)
- (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
- (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position). [from 14th c.]
- I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
- He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
- (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. [from 15th c.]
- He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.
- 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, ?ISBN, page 394 [1]:
- Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?
Synonyms
- quit
Derived terms
- resignation
- resign oneself
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? sign
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i??sa?n/
Verb
resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign
- 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020
- Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.
- 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020
Usage notes
The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.
Anagrams
- Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer
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defer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /d??f?/
- Hyphenation: de?fer
Etymology 1
Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differ?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive) To delay or postpone
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
Derived terms
- deferral
- deferment
Related terms
- differ
Translations
Etymology 2
From late Middle English differren (“to refer for judgement”), from Middle French déférer, from Latin d?fer?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive, intransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
- worship deferred to the Virgin
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
Derived terms
- deference
Translations
Anagrams
- freed, refed
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?de?.fer/, [?d?e?f?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?de.fer/, [?d???f?r]
Verb
d?fer
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?fer?
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