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tax
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)
- 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
- (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
- A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
- (obsolete) charge; censure
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (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)
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (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
- 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 ????)
- district, neighborhood, quarter
- 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
- a dachshund (dog breed)
Declension
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worry
English
Etymology
From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyry?en (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyr?an, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??- (“bind, squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit ????? (v?hati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver?žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) ?????????? (otverzát?, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??i/, /?w?i/
- (General New Zealand, General Australian, non-standard) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (West Country, nonstandard) IPA(key): /?w???i/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -?ri
Homophone: wurry
Verb
worry (third-person singular simple present worries, present participle worrying, simple past and past participle worried)
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- So what if I wanted to touch my nose to the windshield? Who was it hurting? Why was it that he could repeatedly worry his change and bite his lower lip without the threat of punishment?
- 2002, Masha Hamilton, Staircase of a Thousand Steps, page 272:
- No stories, no arguments. He just worries his prayer beads.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
- We read (Law's Memor. Pref. lix.) that "one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of Fossoquhy, by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643."
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
Synonyms
- (trouble mentally): fret
Derived terms
- beworry
- worried
Translations
Noun
worry (countable and uncountable, plural worries)
- A strong feeling of anxiety.
- An instance or cause of such a feeling.
- A person who causes worry.
Derived terms
- worrisome
- worryful
- worryless
Translations
Scots
Verb
worry
- (transitive) To strangle.
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