different between tesla vs ford

English

Etymology

Named after Nikola Tesla; where Nikola means Nicholas, and Tesla is a Serbian surname. In Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ?????

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sl?/

Noun

tesla (plural teslas or tesla) (see usage notes)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T

   • In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.

Usage notes

• The SI brochure (Sec 5.3) notes that [u]nit names are normally printed in upright type and they are treated like ordinary nouns. This includes the normal rules of plural formation.
• The NIST Guide for the Use of SI (Sec. 9.2) states: Plural unit names are used when they are required by the rules of English grammar. They are normally formed regularly, for example, “henries” is the plural of henry. According to Ref. [6], the following plurals are irregular: Singular —lux, hertz, siemens; Plural —lux, hertz, siemens. (See also Sec. 9.7.) There is no special exception for tesla.
• When using the unit name tesla as an adjective, it is normally not pluralized. Compare the following:

1. The nine-volt battery provides a potential difference of nine volts.
2. The two-tesla magnet produces a flux density of two teslas.

• Despite this distinction, the nonstandard plural forms Tesla or tesla are frequently found in scientific and lay literature. (See above quotation.)

Translations

Further reading

Tesla (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas

Catalan

Noun

tesla m (plural tesles)

1. tesla

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?sla]
• Hyphenation: te?s?la

Noun

tesla f

1. (archaic) adze (cutting tool)

   Synonym: teslice

2. tesla (SI unit)

Declension

Further reading

• tesla in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tesla in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Noun

tesla

1. tesla

Declension

Anagrams

• lesta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.sla/

Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

1. tesla

Further reading

• “tesla” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tales

Polish

Etymology

Named after Nikola Tesla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s.la/

Noun

tesla f

1. tesla

Declension

Further reading

• tesla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

1. tesla (unit of measurement of magnetic flux density)

Romanian

Etymology

From French tesla.

Noun

tesla f (uncountable)

1. tesla

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Noun

tesla f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. adze (cutting tool)
2. tesla (SI unit of magnetic flux density)

Swedish

Noun

tesla c

1. tesla

Anagrams

• salte, stela

English

Alternative forms

• foorth (obsolete, [14th century])

Etymology

From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian ???.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

ford (plural fords)

1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
2. A stream; a current.
   • Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)

1. To cross a stream using a ford.
   • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 31-2, [1]

     Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.

   • 1982, Nadine Gordimer, "A Hunting Accident" in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, p. 59,

     Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.

   • 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, [2]

     Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dorf

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”). Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ford/, [for?d]

Noun

ford m

1. ford

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ford, furd, foord
  • English: ford
  • Scots: furde, furd, fuird

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rd/

Noun

ford

1. Soft mutation of bord.

Mutation