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scent
English
Alternative forms
- sent (obsolete)
Etymology
From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sent?re, present active infinitive of senti?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?nt, IPA(key): /s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophones: cent, sent
Noun
scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)
- A distinctive odour or smell.
- An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
- The sense of smell.
- A perfume.
- (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
- (obsolete) Sense, perception.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
Usage notes
- Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).
Synonyms
Derived terms
- scented
- scentless
Translations
Verb
scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)
- (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
- (transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of.
- (transitive) To impart an odour to.
- (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.
- Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.
- To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Translations
Anagrams
- cents
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inference
English
Etymology
Morphologically infer +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.f?.??ns/, [???.f?.??ns], [???.f??ns]
Noun
inference (countable and uncountable, plural inferences)
- (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Hyponyms
Translations
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??nf?r?nt?s?]
Noun
inference f
- inference
Synonyms
- usuzování
Related terms
- See oferta
Further reading
- inference in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- inference in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
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