different between satisfaction vs agrin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satisfactio, satisfactionis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæt?s?fæk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

satisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural satisfactions)

1. A fulfilment of a need or desire.

2. The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
   • November 4, 1860, Henry David Thoreau, letter to Mr. D. R.

     This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

3. The source of such gratification.
4. A reparation for an injury or loss.
5. A vindication for a wrong suffered.

Translations

Derived terms

• satisfaction note
• satisfaction piece
• satisfaction theory of atonement

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satisfactio, satisfactionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tis.fak.sj??/

Noun

satisfaction f (uncountable)

1. satisfaction
2. fulfilment
3. pleasure

Synonyms

• (fulfilment): assouvissement
• (pleasure): plaisir

Further reading

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

English

Etymology 1

From a- +? grin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.???n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Adjective

agrin (not comparable)

1. grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess:

     Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave
     Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,
     And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream
     All that I would. But that large-moulded man,
     His visage all agrin as at a wake,
     Made at me through the press, and, staggering back
     With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came
     As comes a pillar of electric cloud,
     Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,
     And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes

Etymology 2

AGRN (“the name of the associated gene”) +? -in

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.???n/

Noun

agrin (plural agrins)

1. (neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development

Anagrams

• A ring, Grain, Ngari, Nigra, Ragin, Rigan, grain, nigra, raign, raing