different between such vs every

English

Alternative forms

• sich, sech (dialectal)
• soch, soche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swel?, from Proto-Germanic *swal?kaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so +? like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), Low German sölk, sulk, sülk, suk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Determiner

such

1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
2. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.

3. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
4. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

   • In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.

   • To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.

Translations

Pronoun

such

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
   • 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:

     These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.

Translations

Noun

such (plural suches)

1. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.

Related terms

Anagrams

• CHUs, Cush, cush, hucs

German

Pronunciation

Verb

such

1. second-person singular imperative present of suchen

Middle English

Determiner

such

1. Alternative form of swich

English

Alternative forms

• ev’ry (poetic)
• euery (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ?fre ?l?, ?fre ??hwil?, ?fre ?ehwil? (“each and every”), equivalent to ever +? each and/or ever +? which.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??v.(?.)?i/
• Hyphenation: eve?ry, ev?e?ry

Determiner

every

1. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
2. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

3. (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.

   We wish you every happiness in the future.

   I have every confidence in him.

   There is every reason why we should not go.

Synonyms

• each
• (slang) e'ry

Antonyms

• no
• none

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ibri

Translations

See also

• all
• each

Anagrams

• veery, verye, y'ever

Middle English

Adjective

every

1. Alternative form of everich
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.

     And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

     Of which vertu engendred is the flour;