different between site vs plight

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /sa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: cite, sight (The term "site" can be a misspelling of the latter homophone.)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian syt).

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
   • a1307, Piers Langtoft, Chronicle, read in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I, Samuel Bagster (1810) p. 5

     Ine þe kyng had a sonne, his name Adellus./Dede he toke & he died, als it salle do vs./Sorow & site he made, þer was non oþer rede,/For his sonne & heyre, þat so sone was dede.

Etymology 2

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
   • 1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8,

     A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.

   • 1705, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c., Charles Brome & John Nicholson, p. 315,

     However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....

   • 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney, Lea Brothers and Co, p. 74,

     At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
   • 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures, John Hooke, p. 192,

     The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site, do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.

   • 1716, John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions, R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock, p. 208

     Having given you an Account of the Site, Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.

   • 2006, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations, Zondervan, ?ISBN, p. 7,

     Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.

3. The posture or position of a thing.
   • 1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179,

     And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.

   • 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words], W. Taylor, p. 11,

     There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
   • 1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, p. 433,

     The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...

   • 1991, V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol, read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 208,

     If the site is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the site go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the site can fail for other reasons.

   • 2006, Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 298,

     The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.

5. A website.
   • 1986, Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Signet Classic (1986), ?ISBN, p. 398,

     Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site.

   • 1992, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1992), ?ISBN, p. xxvi,

     Voice of the Shuttle: https://web.archive.org/web/19980223210306/http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

   • 2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, ?ISBN, p. 248,

     When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.

6. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

site (third-person singular simple present sites, present participle siting, simple past and past participle sited)

1. (architecture) To situate or place a building.
   • 1835, Mining Journal,

     A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.

   • 1872, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, p. 24,

     For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.

   • 2006, Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, p. 22,

     It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.

   • 2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06),

     Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, ties

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +? -te

Pronoun

site

1. we (inclusive) will never
2. so we (inclusive) do not

Related terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English site.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i?t/
• Hyphenation: site

Noun

site m (plural sites, diminutive siteje n)

1. web site

   Synonyms: website, webstek

2. archaeological site

   Synonym: opgraving

3. (uncommon) construction site

   Synonym: bouwplaats

Derived terms

• advertentiesite
• datingsite
• gamesite
• goksite
• internetsite
• nieuwssite
• sekssite
• pornosite
• vacaturesite
• veilingsite

French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site m (plural sites)

1. site
2. (Internet) website

Derived terms

• site web
• site Internet
• site perso

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

site

1. feminine plural of sito

Anagrams

• seti, stie, tesi

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i?.te?/

Adjective

site

1. bad

Synonyms

• hawi-yte

Derived terms

• bälungsite

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 429
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[4], Payap University, page 50

Latin

Participle

site

1. vocative masculine singular of situs

Neapolitan

Verb

site

1. second-person plural present indicative of èssere

Old French

Etymology

From Latin situs.

Noun

site m (oblique plural sites, nominative singular sites, nominative plural site)

1. site; location

Descendants

• English: site
  • French: site

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (site)
• sit on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• saite (Brazilian)

Etymology

From English site.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?saj.t??i/

Noun

site m (plural sites)

1. site; web site (a collection of pages on the World Wide Web)

   Synonyms: sítio, website, web site

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:site.

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

site

1. inflection of sit:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

site

1. locative singular of sito

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [si?te]
• Hyphenation: si?te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French cité.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

1. housing estate
2. city

Declension

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.

Noun

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

1. (Internet) Web site

Declension

Derived terms

• Web sitesi

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?t, IPA^(key): /pla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk") and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).

Noun

plight (plural plights)

1. A dire or unfortunate situation. [from 14th c.]
   • 2005, Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist, 243c:

     Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
2. (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state. [from 14th c.]
3. (obsolete) Good health. [14th–19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:

     All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares […].

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and pl?on (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish ??????? (flikht). More at pledge.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
5. (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

Derived terms

• plightful
• plightly

Translations

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
3. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:

     I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

Derived terms

• plighter

Etymology 3

From Middle English plyghten, ply?ten, pley?ten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

Etymology 4

From Middle English pli?t, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

2. (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

Further reading

• Plight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)