different between role vs appointment

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?l
• IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: roll

Etymology 1

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll.

Alternative forms

• rôle

Noun

role (plural roles)

1. A character or part played by a performer or actor.

2. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

3. The function or position of something.
4. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes

5. (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
   • 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2

     Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.

6. (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

Hyponyms

• subrole

Derived terms

• role-based
• roleless
• roleplay

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

role (plural roles)

1. (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

References

• role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, lore, orle, relo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rol?]
• Rhymes: -ol?
• Hyphenation: ro?le

Etymology 1

From German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).

Noun

role f

1. role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
2. lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
3. role (e. g. of a person in a society)
4. (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
5. scroll [19th c.]

Declension

Synonyms

• (of an actor): úloha, part
• (text): part
• (in a society): úloha
• (scroll): svitek

Derived terms

• roli?ka

Related terms

• rolovat
• roláda

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *orl?ja, from*orati.

Noun

role f

1. (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
2. old unit of field measurement
3. (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)

Declension

Synonyms

• (in agriculture): pole
• (domain): obor, okruh

Derived terms

• roli?ka

Related terms

Anagrams

• orel, orle

Further reading

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

References

Old French

Noun

role m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)

1. roll; scroll (rolled up document)

Descendants

• ? English: roll
• French: rôle
  • ? English: role

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (role, supplement)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.l?/

Noun

role

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola

Further reading

• role in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

role

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rolar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rolar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rolar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rolar

Spanish

Verb

role

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rolar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rolar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rolar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rolar.

English

Etymology

From Middle French apointement (French appointement). See appoint.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??nt.m?nt/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /??p??nt.m?nt/, [??p????n?m?n?], [??p??????m?n?]

Noun

appointment (plural appointments)

1. The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust

2. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed

3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
4. An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.

5. (religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
6. (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
7. (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
8. (in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
9. (US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.

10. (obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.

Synonyms

• command
• designation
• direction
• equipment
• establishment
• order

Antonyms

• (act of appointing): dismissal

Translations

References

• appointment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

See also

• calendar
• meeting
• schedule