different between striking vs manifest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?a?k??/
• Rhymes: -a?k??

Adjective

striking (comparative more striking, superlative most striking)

1. Making a strong impression.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

   • 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):

     This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

Translations

Verb

striking

1. present participle of strike

Noun

striking (plural strikings)

1. The act by which something strikes or is struck.
   • 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)

     We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

Anagrams

• skirting

English

Etymology

From Middle French manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infend? (“strike”) (from the root of d?fend?, offend?, etc.). Doublet of manifesto.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæn.?.f?st/, /?mæn.?.f?st/
• Hyphenation: man?i?fest

Adjective

manifest (comparative more manifest, superlative most manifest)

1. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
2. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
3. (rare, used with "of") Detected; convicted.

Synonyms

• (evident to the senses, easy to understand): apparent, plain, clear, distinct, obvious, palpable, patent
• See also Thesaurus:obvious.

Derived terms

• manifest content
• manifest destiny

Translations

Noun

manifest (plural manifests)

1. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
2. (computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.
3. (obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.

Translations

Verb

manifest (third-person singular simple present manifests, present participle manifesting, simple past and past participle manifested)

1. (transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
2. (intransitive) To become manifest; to be revealed.

   His osteoporosis first manifested as pain in his hips.

3. (transitive, initially occult, now slang) To will something to exist.
4. (transitive) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

Translations

Related terms

• manifestation
• manifestly
• manifesto

Further reading

• manifest at OneLook Dictionary Search
• manifest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• manifest in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Manifest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• antifems

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m?.ni?fest/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma.ni?fest/

Adjective

manifest (feminine manifesta, masculine plural manifests or manifestos, feminine plural manifestes)

1. manifest, obvious

Noun

manifest m (plural manifests or manifestos)

1. manifesto

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin manifestare (“make public, declare”).

Noun

manifest

1. manifesto

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[6], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Noun

manifest m

1. manifesto

Related terms

• manifestace f
• manifestovat

Danish

Noun

manifest n (singular definite manifestet, plural indefinite manifester)

1. manifesto

Declension

References

• “manifest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

manifest n (plural manifesten, diminutive manifestje n)

1. manifest

Adjective

manifest (not comparable)

1. manifest; obvious, undeniable

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mani?f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

manifest (comparative manifester, superlative am manifestesten)

1. manifest

Declension

Further reading

• “manifest” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin manifestus

Noun

manifest n (definite singular manifestet, indefinite plural manifest or manifester, definite plural manifesta or manifestene)

1. a manifesto

References

• “manifest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin manifestus

Noun

manifest n (definite singular manifestet, indefinite plural manifest, definite plural manifesta)

1. a manifesto

References

• “manifest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French manifeste, from Middle French manifeste, from Latin manif?stus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendere "strike".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??i.f?st/

Noun

manifest m inan

1. manifesto (public declaration)

Declension

Further reading

• manifest in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• manifest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French manifeste

Noun

manifest n (plural manife?ti)

1. manifest

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From English manifest.

Verb

manifest (third-person singular present manifests, present participle manifestin, past manifestit, past participle manifestit)

1. to manifest