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suggestion
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggesti?, from suggero (“suggest”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??d???st??n/, [s??d????t??n]
- (General American) IPA(key): /s???d???st??n/, /s??d???st??n/
- Hyphenation: sug?ges?tion
Noun
suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)
- (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
- The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
- (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence
Synonyms
- (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
- See also Thesaurus:advice
Derived terms
Related terms
- suggest
- suggestive
Translations
Finnish
Noun
suggestion
- Genitive singular form of suggestio.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy?.??s.tj??/
Noun
suggestion f (plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
- suggestion (psychology, etc.)
Derived terms
- boîte à suggestions
Related terms
- suggérer
Further reading
- “suggestion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.
Noun
suggestion f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
References
- suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
suggestion From the web:
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observation
English
Etymology
From Middle English observacion, borrowed from Middle French observacion. Also a borrowing from French observation and a learned borrowing from Latin observ?ti?(n-).Morphologically observe +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bz??ve??(?)n/
- (General American) enPR: ?b'z?r-v??sh?n, -v?sh?n, IPA(key): /??bz??ve???n/, /-?ve??n?/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: ob?ser?va?tion
Noun
observation (countable and uncountable, plural observations)
- The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
- The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
- A remark or comment.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men
- To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men
- A judgement based on observing.
- Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
- Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- observation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin observ?ti?. Synchronically analysable as observer +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.s??.va.sj??/
Noun
observation f (plural observations)
- observation
Further reading
- “observation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
observation (plural observationes)
- observation (something that has been observed)
- observation (act or process of observing)
- observation (regime under which a subject is routinely observed)
observation From the web:
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- what observation is the man in this comic making
- what observation led researchers to propose
- what observation did this geocentric model
- what did charles darwin observe
- what did darwin discover
- what did darwin research
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