different between tidbit vs anecdote
tidbit
English
Alternative forms
- titbit (Commonwealth)
Etymology
From tid (“fond, tender, nice”) +? bit (“morsel”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
tidbit (plural tidbits) (American spelling)
- A tasty morsel (of food).
- (computing, informal) A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).
- (archaic) A short mention of news or gossip.
Translations
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anecdote
English
Alternative forms
- anecdota (only attested in the plural (anecdotae), probably non-standard)
- anecdoton (Grecian)
- anecdotum (rare, Latinate)
Etymology
Late 17th c., from French anecdote, from Ancient Greek ????????? (anékdotos, “accounts unpublished”), from ??- (an-, “not, un-”) + ??????? (ékdotos, “published”), from ???????? (ekdíd?mi, “I publish”), from ??- (ek-, “out”) + ?????? (díd?mi, “I give”).
Virtually identical cognates in other European languages – French anecdote, German Anekdote, Spanish anécdota, among others.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æ.n?k.do?t/
Noun
anecdote (plural anecdotes)
- A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
- An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
- A previously untold secret account of an incident.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- data
Verb
anecdote (third-person singular simple present anecdotes, present participle anecdoting, simple past and past participle anecdoted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).
- 1879, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, That Artful Vicar
- They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]
- 1986, Elliot L. Gilbert, Best Short Stories from the California Quarterly, 1971-1985 (page 101)
- Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.
- 1879, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, That Artful Vicar
Anagrams
- encoated, toe dance, toe-dance, toedance
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.n?k.d?t/
Noun
anecdote f (plural anecdotes)
- anecdote
Descendants
- ? Russian: ???????? (anekdót) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “anecdote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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