different between session vs series

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.?i?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in series
• (media, television) TV series
• (electrical) series-wound

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)

Translations

Adjective

series (not comparable)

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   Antonym: parallel

Further reading

• series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• series at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s???i.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??i.es/

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. Plural form of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From ser? (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]

Noun

seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]

Etymology 1

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

Verb

series

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie