different between titular vs seeming

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French titulaire, from Latin titul?ris, from titulus (“title”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?tj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?t??l?/

Adjective

titular (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title.
2. Existing in name only; nominal.
3. Named or referred to in the title.

Translations

Derived terms

• titularly

Noun

titular (plural titulars)

1. One who holds a title.
2. The person from whom a church takes its special name; distinguished from a patron, who must be canonized or an angel.

Translations

See also

• eponym
• eponymous

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ti.tu?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ti.tu?la?/
• Homophone: titulà

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular (masculine and feminine plural titulars)

1. titular

Noun

titular m (plural titulars)

1. titular

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present titulo, past participle titulat)

1. (transitive) to title, entitle

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From título +? -ar, or borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular m or f (plural titulares, comparable)

1. titular, titled

Noun

titular m, f (plural titulares)

1. holder, bearer (of a title, etc.)
2. (sports) starter (a player who plays from the start a game)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present indicative titulo, past participle titulado)

1. to title
2. (chemistry) to titrate
3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of titular
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of titular
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of titular
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of titular

Conjugation

Derived terms

• titulação

Further reading

• “titular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “titular” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “titular” in Dicionário inFormal.

Romanian

Etymology

From French titulaire.

Noun

titular m (plural titulari)

1. holder

Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

From título +? -ar, or borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular (plural titulares)

1. titular

Noun

titular m (plural titulares)

1. headline

Noun

titular m or f (plural titulares)

1. holder (of a position)
2. owner (of a position)
3. (sports) starter (a player who plays from the start a game)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?. Doublet of tildar.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present titulo, first-person singular preterite titulé, past participle titulado)

1. (transitive) to entitle
2. (transitive) to title
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Conjugation

Derived terms

• autotitularse

Related terms

• intitular

Further reading

• “titular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?m??/
• Homophones: seaming, seming
• Rhymes: -i?m??

Verb

seeming

1. present participle of seem

Adjective

seeming (comparative more seeming, superlative most seeming)

1. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).

   Synonyms: apparent, ostensible

   • 1671, Aphra Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband, London: Thomas Dring, Act II, Scene 5, pp. 32-33,^[1]

     I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm,
     And what I have to do, consult the while,
     And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays, London: W. Griffin, Essay 18, p. 150,^[2]

     Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 27,^[3]

     […] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, Chapter 10,^[4]

     […] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.

Derived terms

• seemingly
• seemingness

Translations

Noun

seeming (countable and uncountable, plural seemings)

1. Outward appearance.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 162,^[7]

     I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.

2. (obsolete) Apprehension; judgement.
   • 1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London, Preface, p. 39,^[8]

     Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 736-738,^[9]

     […] in her ears the sound
     Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d
     With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;

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