different between rhombus vs garden

English

Etymology

From Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ????? (rhémb?, “I turn around”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???mb?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????mb?s/

Noun

rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses)

1. (geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]
   1. The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
2. In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
3. (zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. [from 16th c.]
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:

     the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].

4. (zoology, archaic) Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

Synonyms

• (geometry): diamond (not in technical use), lozenge (if not square), rhomb

Related terms

Derived terms

• rhombus star

Translations

References

• rhombus at OneLook Dictionary Search
• rhombus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Alternative forms

• rombus, rumbus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ????? (rhémb?, “I turn around”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?rom.bus/, [?r?mb?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?rom.bus/, [?r?mbus]

Noun

rhombus m (genitive rhomb?); second declension

1. rhombus (geometry)
2. flatfish
3. (Medieval Latin) sturgeon

   Synonym: sturi?

   Hyponym: carroc?

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhombus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rhombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• rhombus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhombus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardo (“fenced-in yard, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô, *gardaz, whence also inherited English yard.

The final -in derives either from the Frankish inflected form *gardin or is a Romance diminutive of *gard (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardinus).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gär?d?n, IPA^(key): /????dn?/
• (General American) enPR: gär?d?n, IPA^(key): /????d?n/, /-n?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
• Hyphenation: gar?den

Noun

garden (plural gardens)

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
   1. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

   2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

      • The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.

2. (Britain, Ireland) The grounds at the front or back of a house.

3. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
4. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
   • 1965: Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, page 11 (Morrow)

     Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

5. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
   • 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006

     Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.

   • N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than its intended meaning in 950 BC.
   • c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -

     Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.

Synonyms

• (decorative place outside):
• (gardens with public access): park, public gardens
• (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US, Canada, Australia)
• (the pubic hair): See pubic hair

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dyari
• ? Nafaanra: yaadi

Translations

Verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

   Synonym: make garden (dated)

   I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

2. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

   Synonym: farm

Derived terms

• gardener
• gardening

Translations

Adjective

garden (not comparable)

1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Anagrams

• Gander, danger, gander, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garden.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar?den

Noun

garden

1. a garden

Verb

garden

1. to make or turn into a garden

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:garden.

Danish

Noun

garden c

1. definite singular of garde

Galician

Verb

garden

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of gardar

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French gardin.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardyn

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman guardein.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardein

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard
2. definite singular of garde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????rn?/

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??rdn?/

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of garde