different between sally vs onset

English

Alternative forms

• salley (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæli/
• Rhymes: -æli

Etymology 1

From Middle English saly, from Old English sali?, sealh (“willow”). More at sallow.

Noun

sally (plural sallies)

1. A willow
2. Any tree that looks like a willow
3. An object made from the above trees' wood

Derived terms

• sally rod

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin sal?re (“to leap”)

Noun

sally (plural sallies)

1. A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
2. A sudden rushing forth.

   Flocks of these birds stir up flying insects, which can then be picked off in quick sallies.

3. (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
4. An excursion or side trip.

   • Everyone shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that […] goes still round in the same track.

5. A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.

Translations

See also

• sally port

Verb

sally (third-person singular simple present sallies, present participle sallying, simple past and past participle sallied)

1. (intransitive) To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).

   The troops sallied in desperation.

   A feeding strategy of some birds is to sally out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch.

2. (intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")

   As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester

3. (intransitive) To venture off the beaten path.

Translations

Etymology 3

salvation +? -y

Noun

sally (plural sallies)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.

Synonyms

• Salvo

Related terms

• Sally Army

Etymology 4

Unknown.

Noun

sally (plural sallies)

1. A kind of stonefly.
2. A wren.

Anagrams

• Sylla, lylas, y'all's

English

Etymology

From on- +? set. Compare Old English onsettan (“to impose; oppress, bear down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??n?s?t/

Noun

onset (plural onsets)

1. (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.

   Synonym: storming

   • 1800, William Wordsworth, Six thousand Veterans

     Who on that day the word of onset gave.

2. (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.

3. (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.

   Synonym: anlaut

   Antonym: coda

   Coordinate terms: nucleus, coda, rime

   Holonym: syllable

4. (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
5. A setting about; a beginning.

   Synonyms: start, beginning; see also Thesaurus:beginning

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Delays

     There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
6. (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare , Titus Andronicus, Act 1, Scene 1

     And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:

     And, for an onset, Titus, to advance

     Thy name and honourable family,

     Lavinia will I make my empress.

Translations

Verb

onset (third-person singular simple present onsets, present participle onsetting, simple past and past participle onset)

1. (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
2. (obsolete) To set about; to begin.

References

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

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, set on, seton, steno, steno-, stone, tones