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say
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?, IPA(key): /se?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English se??an (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan? (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sok?-h?-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sek?- (“to tell, talk”).
Cognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”).
The adverb and interjection are from the verb.
Alternative forms
- saie, saye, seye (obsolete)
- thay, zay (pronunciation spelling)
Verb
say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle said)
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I want to say I’m sorry for yesterday. — It’s okay, Anna.
- I want to say I’m sorry for yesterday. — It’s okay, Anna.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- 1815, George Gordon Byron, The Hebrew Melodies/They say that Hope is happiness:
- They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
- 1819, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 8:
- It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
- 1841, Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine), page 379:
- It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
- 1815, George Gordon Byron, The Hebrew Melodies/They say that Hope is happiness:
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it okay to steal some food?
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money: a suicide note
- I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say, and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt […]
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
Conjugation
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
say (plural says)
- A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
Translations
Adverb
say (not comparable)
- For example; let us assume.
Interjection
say
- (colloquial) Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
Synonyms
- (used to gain attention): hey
References
- say in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- say in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Etymology 2
From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).
Noun
say (countable and uncountable, plural says)
- A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
Etymology 3
Aphetic form of assay.
Verb
say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle sayed)
- To try; to assay.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Noun
say (plural says)
- Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, page 193
- If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, page 193
- Tried quality; temper; proof.
- Essay; trial; attempt.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Etymology 4
Noun
say (plural says)
- (Scotland) A strainer for milk.
Anagrams
- AYs, ays, yas
Azerbaijani
Etymology 1
Deverbal of saymaq.
Noun
say (definite accusative say?, plural saylar)
- number, quantity, count
- Synonyms: ?d?d, r?q?m
- (grammar) numeral
- (colloquial) value, importance
Etymology 2
From Proto-Turkic *say.
Noun
say (definite accusative say?, plural saylar)
- shallow, shoal
Declension
Crimean Tatar
Noun
say
- shallow place, island
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[4], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Middle English
Noun
say
- Alternative form of assay
Portuguese
Verb
say
- Obsolete spelling of sai
Tatar
Noun
say
- area covered with stones
Turkish
Verb
say
- second-person singular imperative of saymak
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *p-ri? (“drunk”); cognate with Muong khay, Arem p?r??.
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [saj??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [?aj??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [?a(?)j??] ~ [sa(?)j??]
Verb
say • (????)
- to be drunk; to be inebriated
- (by extension) to be (car, sea, etc.) sick
- (figuratively) to be enamoured of; to take a deep interest in
Derived terms
Adjective
say
- deep (of sleep); fast asleep
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charge
English
Etymology
From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Medieval Latin carric? (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An accusation.
- Synonym: count
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- An instruction.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
- (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- to assign a duty or responsibility to
- Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
- (transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account
- (transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card
- (transitive, intransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
- (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
- (law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- to impute or ascribe
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- to call to account; to challenge
- (transitive) to place a burden or load on or in
- the charging of children's memories […] with rules
- 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya:
- [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
- to ornament with or cause to bear
- (heraldry) to assume as a bearing
- (heraldry) to add to or represent on
- (transitive) to load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- (transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge
- (transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy
- (intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (basketball) to commit a charging foul
- (cricket, of a batsman) to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- charge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- charge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Creagh
Dutch
Alternative forms
- chargie (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French charge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???r.??/
- Hyphenation: char?ge
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- A charge (fast ground attack).
Derived terms
- cavaleriecharge
Related terms
- chargeren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sarsie
French
Etymology
From charger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a??/
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- load, burden
- cargo, freight
- responsibility, charge
- (law) charge
- (military) charge
- (in the plural) costs, expenses
Derived terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: charge
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of charger
- third-person singular present indicative of charger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger
Related terms
- chargement
- charger
Further reading
- “charge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gâcher
Middle English
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of chargen
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French charge.
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- cartoon (satire of public figures)
- Synonym: cartum
Further reading
- charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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