different between tarry vs visit

English

Alternative forms

• tarrow (Scotland)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tarien, terien (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirian, tir?an, ter?an (“to worry, exasperate, pain, provoke, excite”), from Proto-Germanic *tergan?, *targijan? (“to pull, tease, irritate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dereg?- (“to pull, tug, irritate”). Cognate with Dutch tergen (“to provoke”), German zergen (“to vex, irritate, provoke”), Norwegian Bokmål terge (“to irritate, provoke”), Russian ??????? (djórgat?, “to pull, yank, jerk, pluck up”). Compare also Walloon tårdjî (“to be late, to be slow, to wait”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ.?i/, enPR: t?r'?
• Rhymes: -æri

Verb

tarry (third-person singular simple present tarries, present participle tarrying, simple past and past participle tarried) (dated)

1. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

   Synonyms: forestall, put off; see also Thesaurus:procrastinate
2. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

   Synonym: abide
3. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.

   Synonyms: hang about, hang around, linger, loiter; see also Thesaurus:tarry
4. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.

   Synonyms: sojourn, stay, stay over, stop, stop over; see also Thesaurus:sojourn
5. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

   Synonyms: await, wait on; see also Thesaurus:wait for

Translations

Noun

tarry (plural tarries)

1. A sojourn.

   Synonyms: stay, stop, stop-over

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English terrie, equivalent to tar +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???i/, enPR: tär'?
• Rhymes: -??ri

Adjective

tarry (comparative tarrier, superlative tarriest)

1. Resembling tar.

   Synonym: pitchy

2. Covered with tar.

   Synonyms: bituminized, pitchy

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tarry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Etymology

From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin v?sit?, frequentative of v?s? (“behold, survey”), from vide? (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon w?s?n (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t
• Hyphenation: vis?it

Verb

visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.]

3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

   • [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.

   • Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.

4. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:

     Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.

5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:

     There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.

6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
   • 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:

     If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.

7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
8. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (go and meet):: call on

Translations

Noun

visit (plural visits)

1. A single act of visiting.
2. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• unvisited
• visitation
• visitor

Latin

Verb

v?sit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of v?s?
2. third-person singular perfect active indicative of v?s?