different between solution vs chevisance

English

Etymology

From Old French solucion (French solution), from Latin sol?ti?nem, accusative singular of sol?ti?, from the verb solv?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l(j)u???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

solution (countable and uncountable, plural solutions)

1. A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
2. An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
3. The answer to a problem.
4. (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
5. (law, Britain, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
6. The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
7. (medicine, archaic) The crisis of a disease.

Antonyms

• (answer to a problem): problem
• (act of dissolving): precipitation

Related terms

Translations

Verb

solution (third-person singular simple present solutions, present participle solutioning, simple past and past participle solutioned)

1. To treat with a solution.

French

Etymology

From Old French solucion, from Latin sol?ti?nem, accusative singular of sol?ti?, from the verb solv?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.ly.sj??/
• Homophone: solutions

Noun

solution f (plural solutions)

1. solution
2. liquid mix

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: solu?ie

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• chevisaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French chevisance, from chevir. The 'chivalrous adventure' sense is thought to be first used by Edmund Spenser, who incorrectly linked chevisance to Old French chevalerie (“chivalry”).

Noun

chevisance (countable and uncountable, plural chevisances)

1. (obsolete) Help, remedy; a resource or solution.
2. (obsolete) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
3. (obsolete) Chivalrous adventure.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, lxxxi:

     Ah! be it not pardie declared in France, / Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize, // That we forsook so fair a chevisance, / For doubt or fear that might from fight arise.

4. (obsolete) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
5. (obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract.

Anagrams

• chievances

Old French

Noun

chevisance f (oblique plural chevisances, nominative singular chevisance, nominative plural chevisances)

1. sustenance

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (chevisance)