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system
English
Etymology
From Middle French sisteme, systeme (modern French système (“system”)), or directly from its etymon Late Latin syst?ma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from ???- (sun-, prefix meaning ‘with, together’) + ?????? (híst?mi, “to stand”) (from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”)) + -?? (-ma, suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the result of, a particular instance of, or the object of an action). The English word is cognate with Dutch systema, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?st?m/
- (General American) enPR: s?s?t?m, IPA(key): /?s?st?m/
- Hyphenation: sys?tem
Noun
system (plural systems)
- A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. [from early 17th c.]
- Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
- (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
- (psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple (“the individual with multiple personalities due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder”) who contains them.
- (astronomy) A planetary system; a set of planets orbiting a star or star system
- A method or way of organizing or planning.
Usage notes
In attributive use, especially relating to computer systems, the plural is more common than the singular; one normally speaks of a systems engineer and not a system engineer.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (shisutemu)
Translations
See also
- network
References
Further reading
- system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- stymes
Danish
Etymology
From late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “organised whole, body”), from ??? (sún, “with, together”) + ?????? (híst?mi, “I stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syste?m/, [sy?sd?e??m]
Noun
system n (singular definite systemet, plural indefinite systemer)
- system
Declension
See also
- system on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
References
- “system” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From English system
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sis.t?m/
- Homophone: système
Noun
system m (plural systems)
- Word used in star system.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)
Noun
system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system or systemer, definite plural systema or systemene)
- a system
Derived terms
References
- “system” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)
Noun
system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system, definite plural systema)
- a system
Derived terms
References
- “system” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From French système, from Late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?.st?m/
Noun
system m inan
- system (collection of organized things; whole composed of relationships among its members)
- Synonym: uk?ad
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) systemowy
Related terms
- (noun) systematyczno??
- (adjective) systematyczny
- (adverbs) systematycznie, systemowo
Further reading
- system in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- system in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
system n
- a system, a way or method of organizing items and knowledge
- a computer system (primarily its hardware)
- a system of restricted sales of alcohol, including state-owned monopoly shops
Declension
Derived terms
References
- system in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- mysets
Welsh
Alternative forms
- sustem
Etymology
From English system.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?s??sd?m/, [?s??st?m]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?s?sd?m/, [?s?st?m]
Usage notes
Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in system is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sustem. Nevertheless, system is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, symbol/sumbol, synthesis/sunthesis for similar examples.
Noun
system f (plural systemau, not mutable)
- system
- Synonym: cyfundrefn
Derived terms
- systematig (“systematic”)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “system”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
system From the web:
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construction
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French construction, from Latin c?nstructi?, from c?nstruere, present active infinitive of c?nstru?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?st??k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
construction (countable and uncountable, plural constructions)
- The process of constructing.
- Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The engineer marvelled at his construction.
- The trade of building structures.
- He had worked in construction all his life.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The office was a construction of steel and glass.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
- The manner in which something is built.
- A thing of simple construction.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
- He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
Synonyms
- building
Antonyms
- destruction
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- construction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- construction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- construction at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?nstructi?, c?nstructi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??s.t?yk.sj??/
Noun
construction f (plural constructions)
- construction
Derived terms
- matériau de construction
Related terms
- construire
construction From the web:
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- what construction workers do
- what construction is happening near me
- what construction type is a metal building
- what construction is illustrated above
- what construction type is my house
- what construction type is brick
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