different between strategy vs static

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (strat?gía, “office of general, command, generalship”), from ????????? (strat?gós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from ??????? (stratós, “army”) + ??? (ág?, “I lead, I conduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?æt?d?i/

Noun

strategy (countable and uncountable, plural strategies)

1. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
2. A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Usage notes

• Verbs often used with "strategy": drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject, create.

Synonyms

• generalship

Coordinate terms

• (an art of using similar techniques in politics or business): tactics

Derived terms

Related terms

• stratagem
• strategus

Translations

See also

• long game

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) statick

Etymology

Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (statikós), from ?????? (híst?mi, “to make stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæt.?k/
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

static (not comparable)

1. Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

   Synonym: stable

   Antonym: dynamic

2. making no progress; stalled, no movement or advancement.
3. Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.

   Synonyms: stable, still

   Antonyms: dynamic, kinetic, mobile, moving
4. (programming) Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running, and usually not changeable at runtime

   Antonyms: dynamic, nonstatic

5. (object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

Derived terms

• aerostatic
• anti-static, antistatic
• electrostatic
• hydrostatic
• static caravan
• static electricity
• static fire
• static friction
• statical
• staticity

Related terms

• stasis

Translations

Noun

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

1. (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
   • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

     The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

2. (by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
3. (uncountable) Static electricity.
4. (countable) A static caravan.
5. (uncountable, slang) Verbal abuse.
6. (countable, programming) A static variable.
   • 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques (page 149)

     Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

Related terms

• statics

Translations

Anagrams

• -tastic, Ticats, attics, cat sit, cat-sit, catsit

Romanian

Etymology

From French statique.

Adjective

static m or n (feminine singular static?, masculine plural statici, feminine and neuter plural statice)

1. static

Declension