different between sailor vs kraken

English

Alternative forms

• sailour (obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail +? -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?se?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?se?l?/
• Hyphenation: sail?or
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

sailor (plural sailors)

1. A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
2. Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.

3. A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
4. A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.

   Coordinate term: yachtsman

5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sailor

Derived terms

• mouth of a sailor
• sailoress
• sailor-fish

Translations

See also

• sailor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lascar

Anagrams

• Lorias, Losari, Solari

English

Noun

kraken (plural krakens)

1. Alternative form of Kraken

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cr?ken, from Old Dutch *krakon, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kra?k?(n)/

Verb

kraken

1. (transitive) to crack, break open (a shell)
2. (intransitive) to make a creaky sound, like something being cracked
3. (transitive) to break up into (chemical) components
4. (transitive, figuratively) to break someone mentally
5. (transitive, figuratively) to solve a code
6. (transitive and intransitive, figuratively) to practise chiropractic (on a patient)
7. (transitive, figuratively) to squat (a building)
8. (intransitive) to start (said of the day)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (start): krieken

Derived terms

Related terms

• krak

Noun

kraken

1. Plural form of kraak
2. Alternative form of kraak.

Anagrams

• kanker

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).

Noun

kraken m (plural krakens)

1. Kraken

References

Further reading

• “kraken” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

kraken

1. definite singular of krake

Swedish

Noun

kraken

1. definite form singular of krake