different between stance vs perspective

English

Etymology

From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Latin st?ns (“standing; remaining, staying”), from Latin st? (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??ns/, /stæns/
• Rhymes: -??ns
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stæns/
• Rhymes: -æns

Noun

stance (plural stances)

1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.

   Synonyms: position, posture, stand
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
   1. (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a belay.
4. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.

   Synonym: stand
5. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.

   Synonym: stand
6. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stance (third-person singular simple present stances, present participle stancing, simple past and past participle stanced)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.

References

Further reading

• stance (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ascent, casten, enacts, scante, secant

English

Etymology

From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??sp?kt?v/

Noun

perspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)

1. A view, vista or outlook.
2. The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
3. The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
4. (dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
5. (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
6. The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
7. A perspective glass.
   • 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker

     […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]

8. A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.

Hyponyms

• linear perspective
• metaperspective
• microperspective

Derived terms

• point-projection perspective
• side-perspective

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

perspective (not comparable)

1. Of, in or relating to perspective.

2. (obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Seeming Wise

     perspective glasses

Translations

Further reading

• Perspective (graphical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 3D_projection#Perspective_projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perspect?vus, from perspici?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.sp?k.tiv/

Noun

perspective f (plural perspectives)

1. perspective
2. prospect

Derived terms

• en perspective

Descendants

• ? Danish: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: perspektiv
• ? Swedish: perspektiv

Adjective

perspective

1. feminine singular of perspectif

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

perspective

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perspectivar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perspectivar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perspectivar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perspectivar