different between tax vs hector

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?ks, IPA^(key): /tæks/
• Homophone: tacks
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

   Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy

   Antonym: subsidy
2. (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
4. (obsolete) charge; censure

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: takis
  • ? Rotokas: takisi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax? (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).

3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
4. (transitive) To accuse.
5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Derived terms

• taxable
• taxation

Translations

Anagrams

• ATX, xat

Latin

Alternative forms

• tuxtax

Interjection

tax

1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack

References

• tax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??x/

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. district, neighborhood, quarter
2. district, region

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tacks

Noun

tax c

1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hect?r or Ancient Greek ????? (Hékt?r), from ????? (hékt?r, “holding fast”), from ????? (ékhein), present active infinitive of ??? (ékh?, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold; to overpower”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: hec?tor

Noun

hector (plural hectors)

1. Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.

Translations

Verb

hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)

1. (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.

   Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize
2. (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.

   Synonym: huff

Alternative forms

• hectour (obsolete, rare)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• hector in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

See also

• Not to be confused with hectare.

Anagrams

• Troche, orchet, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche