different between traffic vs parley

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)

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

2. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
   1. In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
   2. (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.

5. 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)

1. (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

2. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. (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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabol?, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (parabol?), from ???? (pará, “beside”) with ???? (bol?, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??li/, /?p??le?/
• (some non-rhotic accents) IPA^(key): /?p??l?/

Noun

parley (countable and uncountable, plural parleys)

1. A conference, especially one between enemies.
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV

     Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with parlay (“bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward”).

Translations

Verb

parley (third-person singular simple present parleys, present participle parleying, simple past and past participle parleyed)

1. (intransitive) To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     [...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ?hot, fled amaine and left us [...]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with parlay (“to carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers; to increase (an asset, money, etc.) by gambling or investing in a daring manner; to convert (a situation, thing, etc.) into something better”).

Alternative forms

• parlay

Translations

See also

• parle

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “parley”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Player, Rapley, pearly, player, prelay, replay