different between thanks vs upset
thanks
English
Alternative forms
- thx, thanx, 10x
Etymology
From Middle English thanks, thankes, from Old English þancas (“thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þank?s, nominative plural of *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). More at thank.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æ?ks/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æ?ks/
- Rhymes: -æ?ks
Interjection
thanks
- Used to express appreciation or gratitude.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thank you
- ~1595, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, scene 1
- Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!
Derived terms
- thanks a lot
- thanks, but no thanks
- thanks for asking
- thanks for nothing
- thanks for your help
Translations
Noun
thanks
- plural of thank
thanks (uncountable)
- An expression of gratitude.
- After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is all the thanks I get?
- Grateful feelings or thoughts.
Derived terms
- thanks to
Translations
Verb
thanks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thank
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English thanks.
Interjection
thanks
- (informal) thanks
- Synonyms: bedankt, dank je, dank u, dank je wel, dank u wel
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upset
English
Etymology
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- +? set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- enPR: ?p?s?t, IPA(key): /??ps?t/
- Adjective, verb
- enPR: ?ps?t?, IPA(key): /?p?s?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Adjective
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
- (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
- (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
- in a tizzy
Derived terms
- upset price
Translations
Noun
upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- An upset stomach.
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
Synonyms
- (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
- (unexpected victory of a competitor):
Translations
Derived terms
- jet upset
Verb
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
- R. of Brunne
- with sail on mast upset
- R. of Brunne
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Synonyms
- (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
- (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
- (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down
Derived terms
- upset the applecart
- upset the natives
Translations
Anagrams
- TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe
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