different between skype vs discord

English

Alternative forms

• Skype

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?p, IPA^(key): /ska?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping, simple past and past participle skyped)

1. (transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
2. (transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.
3. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.

   I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

Hypernyms

• vidcall
• vidchat

Translations

Anagrams

• kypes, pesky, pykes

German

Pronunciation

Verb

skype

1. inflection of skypen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

For Wiktionary's chat room on Discord, see Wiktionary:Discord server.

English

Etymology

Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).

Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discord?re, from discord-, as above.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/

Noun

discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)

1. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

   • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

     Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.

2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
3. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
4. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Derived terms

• apple of discord

Related terms

• discordant
• Discordianism

Translations

Pronunciation 2

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Verb

discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
2. (transistive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.