different between retiral vs retinal

English

Etymology

From retire +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t?????l/

Noun

retiral (countable and uncountable, plural retirals)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Withdrawal, retreat. [from 17th c.]
2. (now chiefly Scotland) Retirement from employment. [from 19th c.]
   • 2003, Alasdair Gray, ‘Job's Skin Game’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story), p. 731:

     By that time I had sold the main business, being past retiral age.

3. (finance) The act of taking up a bill when due.

Anagrams

• retrial, trailer

English

Etymology 1

retina +? -al (of or pertaining to)

Adjective

retinal

1. (ophthalmology) Of or pertaining to the retina.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

retina (“part of eye involved in vision”) +? -al (suffix forming names of aldehydes)

Noun

retinal (plural retinals)

1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) One of several yellow or red carotenoid pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light.

   Synonyms: retinaldehyde, retinene

Anagrams

• -traline, Latiner, art line, entrail, larnite, latrine, line art, ratline, reliant, trainel, trenail

Interlingua

Adjective

retinal (not comparable)

1. retinal

Related terms

• retina

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reti?nal/, [re.t?i?nal]

Adjective

retinal (plural retinales)

1. retinal