different between suitcase vs coffer
suitcase
English
Etymology
From suit +? case.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sutke?s/
- IPA(key): /?sju?tke?s/, /?su?tke?s/
Noun
suitcase (plural suitcases)
- A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ?????? (s??kes)
Translations
Verb
suitcase (third-person singular simple present suitcases, present participle suitcasing, simple past and past participle suitcased)
- To trade using samples in a suitcase.
- (prison slang) To smuggle in one's rectum.
Anagrams
- Escutias, sauciest
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coffer
English
Alternative forms
- copher (obsolete)
- cophre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cofre, coffre, from Old French cofre, coffre, from Latin cophinus (“basket”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kóphinos, “basket”). Doublet of coffin.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?f?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?f?/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?k?f?/
- Homophones: cougher
- Rhymes: -?f?(?)
Noun
coffer (plural coffers)
- A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
- Synonym: strongbox
- (architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
- Synonym: caisson
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:
- Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers.
- A cofferdam.
- A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
- c.1610-1620 (written), 1661 (first published), Francis Bacon, Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham
- He would discharge it without any great burden to the queen's coffers.
- c.1610-1620 (written), 1661 (first published), Francis Bacon, Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham
- A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
Derived terms
- coffered ceiling
Translations
Verb
coffer (third-person singular simple present coffers, present participle coffering, simple past and past participle coffered)
- (transitive) To put money or valuables in a coffer
- (transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
Further reading
- coffer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coffer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- coffer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- coffer at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Noun
coffer
- Alternative form of cofre
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