different between ret vs natin

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch r?ten, reeten (compare Middle Low German r?ten; Middle High German r?zen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijan? (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

Verb

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XLVIII:

     the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

Derived terms

• retter

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Adjective

ret

1. retired

Translations

Anagrams

• ERT, ETR, TER, ert, ter, ter-

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/
• (Banda Aceh) IPA^(key): [r?t]

Noun

ret

1. road

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ret/

Etymology 1

From Latin rete (“net”).

Noun

ret m (plural rets)

1. hairnet

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ret

1. third-person singular present indicative form of retre
2. second-person singular imperative form of retre

Further reading

• “ret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?t?. Compare Russian ??? (rot, “mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/

Noun

ret m inan

1. lip

Declension

Derived terms

• rt?nka f

Further reading

• ret in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ret in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/, [??ad?], [???d?]
• Homophone: rat

Etymology 1

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?re?tós, hence Latin r?ctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ??????? (orektós, “stretched out”).

Adjective

ret (plural and definite singular attributive rette)

1. straight

2. right, proper
3. rightful

   Synonym: retmæssig Antonym: uretmæssig

4. plain (in knitting)

   Antonym: vrang

Adverb

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

Etymology 2

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtuz, related to the adjective *rehtaz. The Danish word has been influenced by the German cognates Recht (“right, law”) and Gericht (“court”). The meaning “course of food” is influenced by Middle Low German richte and German Gericht.

Noun

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) justice, law

   Synonyms: jura, lov, justits

2. court, courtroom, lawcourt (institution)
3. courtroom (physical location)
   • 2016, Louise Damløv, Cecilie Kallestrup, Tre meter fra Breivik: En beretning fra Nordens største terrorretssag, Informations Forlag (?ISBN)

     Kun omkring halvdelen af de vidner, forsvaret havde indkaldt for at sandsynliggøre, at Breiviks ideologi ikke var galemandssnak, mødte op i retten.

     Only about half of the witness that the defense had summoned to support that Brevik's ideology was not the talk of a madman appeared in court.

   • 2017, Nadine Gordimer (tr. by Finn Holten Hansen), Æresgæst, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Retten var fyldt, og ansigter blev ved med at kigge ind ad vinduerne fra en voksende mængde udenfor.

     The courtroom was full, and faces kept looking in through the windows from a growing crowd outside.

   Synonym: retssal

4. (uncountable) right, entitlement

   Alle mennesker har ret til basal respekt.

   All humans have a right to basic respect.

   Synonym: rettighed

5. dish, course (of food)
6. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric')

Inflection

References

“ret,1” in Den Danske Ordbog“ret,2” in Den Danske Ordbog“ret,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ret

1. imperative of rette

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English red.

Adjective

ret

1. red

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (redd), from Arabic ????? (radd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

ret (definite accusative reddi, plural retler)

1. refusal
2. denial

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Derived from riit.

Noun

ret

1. (hunting) A flag or stake that is used as a signal in the seal hunting grounds, or as you put on the boat to find it again among the icebergs when departing from it to hunt.

Verb

ret

1. The singular active preterite indicative of riit.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?natin/, relaxed pronunciation IPA^(key): /?nat?n/

Pronoun

1. by us, of us (including the person talking to)

2. our

See also