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traffic
English
Alternative forms
- traffick
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA(key): /?t?æf?k/
- Rhymes: -æf?k
Noun
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
- Synonym: trade
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Derived terms
- trafficker
- trafficking
Translations
References
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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connection
English
Alternative forms
- connexion (UK, dated), connex. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connect?, an alternative spelling of c?nect? (“I bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nect? (“I bind”)
In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect +? -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??n?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
connection (countable and uncountable, plural connections)
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- the connection between overeating and obesity
- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- computers linked by a network connection
- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
- I have some connections in Lancashire.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- coherence; lack of disjointedness
- (religion) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- sexual intercourse
Translations
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