different between role vs proxy

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??k.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??k.si/
• Rhymes: -?ksi

Etymology 1

Contraction of Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin pr?c?r?ti?, from Latin pr?c?r? (“I manage, administer”) (English procure).

Adjective

proxy (not comparable)

1. Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.

Translations

Noun

proxy (plural proxies)

1. An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.

   • Every peer […] may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.

2. The authority to act for another, especially when written.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.

3. The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
5. (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.

Synonyms

• deputy
• substitute
• representative
• See also Thesaurus:deputy

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

proxy (third-person singular simple present proxies, present participle proxying, simple past and past participle proxied)

1. To serve as a proxy for.
   • 1983, Alfred Blumstein, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Sentencing Research, Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, page 143

     In many of the studies we reviewed, it is common practice to use an observed variable to proxy for a relevant variable that could not be observed.

2. (networking) To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.

Etymology 2

proximity + -y.

Noun

proxy (plural proxies)

1. (video game slang) A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.
   • 2001, "TripleRaid", Perfect Dark: Glitch FAQ [1]

     (Make sure you don't move!! Might trigger a proxy..!)

   • 2001, "CyricZ", Perfect Dark: FAQ/Walkthrough [2]

     the only means the Protectors have of delaying is by laying mines and Sentry Guns, and the Runners can only use the Magnums to blow up Proxies and Sentries.

   • 2002, "yc", Super Smash Bros.: Kirby [3]

     Usually, the only reason I play in Yoshi's Island is to have fun with the clouds - put proxies on them, taunt from them, whatever.

   • 2006, "eatyourmumshead", Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Online Mode FAQ [4]

     You can also walk with your gun out, as this will limit your speed, allowing you do [sic] evade the proxies.

Synonyms

• proxy mine

Italian

Noun

proxy m (invariable)

1. (computing) proxy (interface program)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English proxy.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p??.ksi/

Noun

proxy m (plural proxies)

1. (software) proxy (software serving as an interface for a service)
2. Clipping of servidor proxy.

Turkish

Noun

proxy (definite accusative proxyi, plural proxyler)

1. (computing) The proxy.

Declension

Synonyms

• vekil sunucu
• yetkili sunucu