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situation
English
Alternative forms
- scituation (hyper?correct, obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English situacioun, situacion, from Middle French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (“position, situation”), from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). Equivalent to situate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?t-yo?o-?'sh?n, s?ch-o?o-?'sh?n, IPA(key): /s?tju??e???n/, /s?t?u?(w)e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
situation (plural situations)
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- 1833, Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:
- [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
- 1833, Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 78:
- When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
- 1946, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie:
- You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
- And read the situations from the front to the back
- The only job that's open need a man with a knack
- So put it right back in the rack Jack.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 78:
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- Boss, we've got a situation here...
Synonyms
- (combination of circumstances): condition, set up; see also Thesaurus:state
Related terms
- site
- situate
- situated
- situationism
Translations
See also
- situation comedy, sitcom
References
- Source for the definitions:
- Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [1] (accessed: March 10, 2007).
- situation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- situation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- situation at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- titanious
French
Etymology
situer +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.t?a.sj??/
Noun
situation f (plural situations)
- situation (all meanings)
Derived terms
- mise en situation
- situation intéressante
Descendants
- ? Romanian: situa?ie
Further reading
- “situation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
situation (plural situationes)
- situation, state of affairs
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?tva??u?n/, /s?t?a??u?n/
Noun
situation c
- a situation
Declension
Synonyms
- läge
Related terms
- nödsituation
- situationskomik
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role
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?l
- IPA(key): /???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: roll
Etymology 1
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll.
Alternative forms
- rôle
Noun
role (plural roles)
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- The function or position of something.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2
- Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
- 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Hyponyms
- subrole
Derived terms
- role-based
- roleless
- roleplay
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
role (plural roles)
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
References
- role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, lore, orle, relo
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rol?]
- Rhymes: -ol?
- Hyphenation: ro?le
Etymology 1
From German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).
Noun
role f
- role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
- lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
- role (e. g. of a person in a society)
- (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
- scroll [19th c.]
Declension
Synonyms
- (of an actor): úloha, part
- (text): part
- (in a society): úloha
- (scroll): svitek
Derived terms
- roli?ka
Related terms
- rolovat
- roláda
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *orl?ja, from*orati.
Noun
role f
- (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
- old unit of field measurement
- (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)
Declension
Synonyms
- (in agriculture): pole
- (domain): obor, okruh
Derived terms
- roli?ka
Related terms
Anagrams
- orel, orle
Further reading
- role in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- role in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
References
Old French
Noun
role m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)
- roll; scroll (rolled up document)
Descendants
- ? English: roll
- French: rôle
- ? English: role
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (role, supplement)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.l?/
Noun
role
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola
Further reading
- role in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Verb
role
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rolar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rolar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rolar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rolar
Spanish
Verb
role
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rolar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rolar.
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