different between today vs ingratiate

English

Alternative forms

• to-day (archaic)

Etymology

Via Middle English today, from Old English t?dæ?e, t? dæ?e (“on [the] day”), made from t? (“at, on”) + dæ?e, the dative of dæ? (“day”). See to and day. Compare Dutch vandaag (“today”), Middle Low German van dage (“today”), Swedish i dag, idag (“today”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??de?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??de?/, [t???de?], /t??de?/, [t???de?], [t???e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Hyphenation: to?day

Adverb

today (not comparable)

1. On the current day or date.

2. In the current era; nowadays.

Derived terms

• today is a good day to die

Translations

Noun

today (plural todays)

1. A current day or date.

   Synonyms: current day, this day

   The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.
2. (US, meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day.
3. The present time period; nowadays

Usage notes

Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are these days and nowadays.

Translations

See also

• nowadays
• hodiernal
• hodiernally
• yesterday
• tomorrow night
• tonight
• last night
• nudiustertian
• hesternal
• hesternally

Anagrams

• toady

Middle English

Alternative forms

• todæg, todæig, todai, todaie, todæi, todei, tedai, tedei, toda??

Etymology

From Old English t?dæ?, equivalent to to- +? day.

Adverb

today

1. On the current day.
2. On this date in past years.
3. (used substantively) The current day.

Descendants

• English: today

References

• “todai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2018.

English

Etymology

First attested in 1622. From Italian ingraziare or Medieval Latin *ingratiatus, from Latin in gr?tiam (“for the favor of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?.?i.e?t/
• Rhymes: -e??ie?t

Verb

ingratiate (third-person singular simple present ingratiates, present participle ingratiating, simple past and past participle ingratiated)

1. (reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 58:

     [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.

   • 2007 July 9, Brian Bennett, "Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):

     He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.

2. (followed by to) To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
   • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview):

     What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dr. J. Scott to this entry?)

Related terms

• ingratiating (adjective)
• ingratiation (noun)

Translations

References