different between suggestion vs rec

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)

1. (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.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

4. 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.
5. (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

1. Genitive singular form of suggestio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.??s.tj??/

Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. 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)

1. suggestion; proposal

References

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• Homophones: recc, reck, wreck

Noun

rec (countable and uncountable, plural recs)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreation.

2. (countable, informal) A recreation ground.
3. (countable, informal) A recommendation or suggestion.
   • 2018, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy (page 48)

     “Got any recs?”
     “What are you looking for?”
     “Something angry,” I said.

Alternative forms

• (recommendation): recc

Derived terms

• rec room

Verb

rec (third-person singular simple present recs, present participle reccing or recing or rec'ing, simple past and past participle recced or reced or rec'ed or rec'd)

1. (transitive, informal) To recommend.
2. (transitive, informal) To record.

Alternative forms

• (recommend): recc

Adjective

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreational.

Anagrams

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

Catalan

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?rik- (“furrow”). Compare Occitan rèc (whence French arrèc) and Basque erreka.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?rek/
• Homophone: reg

Noun

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

Derived terms

• reguer

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?ec

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian r?k, Old Saxon r?k, Old Dutch rouc, Old High German rouh, Old Norse reykr. Possibly a loan from the Old Norse instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?k/

Noun

r?c m

1. smoke

Descendants

• Middle English: rek
  • English: reek
  • Scots: reek, reik